It's never moving anywhere. But sure, keep spending the city's money trying.

Just heard two old ladies talking to someone in the surgery waiting room about their printer not working. One lady turned to someone else next to her and completely serious said, "It's the aliens messing with our printers."

“I used AI to combine the data from two excel lists and then send emails to people who were on one list but not another. Saved me so much time.”

My brother in academia, you just fucking discovered mail merge. Welcome to early nineties computing.

fucked up that polymarket is a dystopian tech company rather than a place you go to buy fresh produce from the local farmer and her three boyfriends

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Excited that InfoWars has switched sides in the infowars

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Screenshot of a Substack note by account 'JoJoFromJerz' that says: 'In a sane administration, the FBI Director doesn’t go on the morning news to prove he’s not a drunk, the Defense Secretary doesn’t quote Tarantino to prove he’s a man of God, and the President doesn’t take multiple cognitive exams to prove he’s not insane.'

None of this is normal.

I hate Al and I refuse to use it Peter, if you don't use Al a bunch of super rich men will lose a lot of money I already said I hated Al Harry, you don't need to sell it to me

If you don't sin today, Michael B. Jordan undied for nothing.

I like them! They look good on you.

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

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I like bluesky because it feels so much like tumblr

1. barely works
2. userbase is annoying (affectionate)(not that affectionate)
3. being queer on here feels like I’m actively participating in ruining some tech company’s investment

"You're just voluntarily complying with this whimsical cosplay" -- holy shit, Tim Kaine is *demolishing* Russ Vought

Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman’s “unconstrained” relationship with the truth The New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow on why it matters that tech leaders say what they mean: “This industry is truly full of people who just do not stand by their convictions.”

Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman’s ‘unconstrained’ relationship with the truth

‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Maker Launches Official Actual-Play Show Amid Growing Popularity of ‘Critical Role,’ ‘Dimension 20’ (EXCLUSIVE) Hasbro's Wizards of the Coast is putting their trademarked D back in DM-ing with the launch of a new "Dungeons & Dragons" actual-play TV series.

Just really cool to see people like @thatbronzegirl.bsky.social who came up through the indie scene getting big opportunities now.

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Poll: Majority of voters say risks of AI outweigh the benefits In new NBC News polling, the only topics that were less popular than AI were the Democratic Party and Iran.

"Just 26% of voters say they have positive feelings about AI, compared with 46% who hold negative views."

This is the technology that energy dudes have, for two years now, been falling all over each other to enable. Congrats, energy dudes.

How exactly does remotely spying on kids practicing gymnastics make them safer? YouTube video by Benn Jordan

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What a title

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The rhetoric from AI labs has to change.

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Precisely

Vast difference between religious freedom and imposing Christian nationalism in the workplace. The Trump admin is doing the latter.

Instead of asking chatgpt, why not ask a librarian? You'll get real answers and they won't tell you to kill yourself.

Diocese Nine Nine

This kind of thing at Substack (including their Nazi problem and trans hate problem) are why my newsletter is at Ghost.org and always has been. Andrew Tate is a spectacularly vile human being accused of numerous violent crimes against women and hugely corrosive for young male minds.

Trump isn’t the anti-Christ. He’s not possessed by a demon. He’s a bad human being who hates anybody who disagrees with him.

All these shocked MAGA bootlickers should know better by now, but here we are.

Runaway to the Stars Alien, trans-species foster Talita has enough to deal with on the scrapworld of Dirtball. And the sly, crimey A.I. Bip isn't helping!

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Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉