The Inexplicable Being of The Mortuary Assistant Why Even Is This

The Mortuary Assistant is a very bad movie

The Inexplicable Being of The Mortuary Assistant Why Even Is This

Today’s newsletter is the result of me needing to clear my head while working on a larger piece, and the way this stupid movie wormed its way into my brain

The Inexplicable Being of The Mortuary Assistant Why Even Is This

The Mortuary Assistant is a very bad movie

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The Inexplicable Being of The Mortuary Assistant Why Even Is This

Today’s newsletter is the result of me needing to clear my head while working on a larger piece, and the way this stupid movie wormed its way into my brain

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preview of a sticker of a cat in cyan blue colors with blue flowers. the caption reads "generative ai is shit"

✨generative ai is shit✨

get the sticker here: mcapriglione.art

There have been a lot of videos about Beast Games and Mr. Beast, many of them quite good, but no one does it quite like Folding Ideas

Exactly one year ago today:

In case you were wondering what's going on today :V

Goddamnit, are we going to have to do the Al Franken discourse all over again?

Regular reminder that the literal 1st full conversation in ALIEN is a contract negotiation, & that everything that goes wrong throughout those movies happens because the Weyland-Yutani Corporation programmed all of its "AI" systems to put any possibility of profit over & above the lives of the crew.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

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a child is pushing a blue tricycle down a hallway ALT: a child is pushing a blue tricycle down a hallway

The Shining is a film of many intricate layers. On the surface, it seems to be about a man slowly losing his sanity over the course of an isolated winter. But on a deeper level it's really about how it would be fun as all hell to ride your big wheel around a giant empty hotel.

"Magataotao" on Twitter writes: "I am Catholic. This👇is not my Pope." Attached is a video of the Pope saying that we should search for peace and reject war. A community note under their tweet says: "You are not a Catholic if you do not accept the Pope, but rather a schismatic. Canon 751: “Schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff,” ie. the Pope. https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib3-cann747-755_en.html"

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

I vomited out a lot of words over the past week about The Mortuary Assistant that I now need to edit into something coherent.

This is the most inessential thing I’ve ever written, but goddamn did this movie end up living rent free in my head

I once spent almost $1000 on blood work and tests just to find out my cat is a picky eater

Crypt Keeper front and center of TALES FROM THE CRYPT art announcing streaming debut on Shudder

It's a Halfway to Halloween miracle, boils and ghouls.

Shudder has announced that TALES FROM THE CRYPT will make its screaming debut next month!

The first season debuts on May 1, with additional seasons rolling out weekly every Friday through June 12.

The obvious answer here is that the student protest movement was broadly smeared as anti-semitic and aligned with terrorists, and a variety of institutions from government, media and the universities acted as if that smear was true, threatening, suspending, expelling and even deporting students.

To quote Logan Roy, “congratulations on saying the biggest number, you fucking morons”

These effects showed up after ~10 min. What happens after months or years of daily use? We don't know yet, but if the pattern compounds, we risk that lots of people will lose the ability to struggle productively without AI support.

This is especially concerning because persistence is foundational to skill acquisition and one of the *strongest* predictors of long-term learning.

AI conditions you to expect immediate answers, removing the productive struggle that builds real competence.

Although AI improves performance during assisted sessions, performance drops sharply once it's removed. And relative to controls, AI-assisted participants also gave up more frequently on test problems.

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning..

We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance.

And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use!

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“No matter how you feel about AI, it’s important to understand how it can be used to short change children even more, and further funnel resources away from public education toward a private sector that does not care about anyone”

I’m still thinking about this stupid movie and I’m about to make it all of yours problem

THEY TRAINED THE AI ON ACTUAL WRITERS. YOU CANNOT TELL IF SOMETHING IS AI SIMPLY BASED ON IT USING PROPER GRAMMAR. IT STOLE FROM US!!! IT STOLE!!! IT IS A THIEF AND I WILL NOT EVER BE QUIET ABOUT IT!!!!

Once again, the stock market is not "the economy;" it's a mood ring for the plutocracy

I think we’re gonna see a lot of this in the short term. Now that the costs of LLMs are too obvious to hide and obfuscate, instead there’s gonna be a lot of copeium, insistence that it’s actually GOOD that they are burning all this money on slop. They didn’t make a huge mistake, nope, not at all