AI is cooked

Daily #1782 - Negative Armor Cat

There’s a thing in games where people want skill to matter in a very specific way - they want it to be possible for them to beat better player, but impossible for a less good player to beat them.

I feel like the same folks can only imagine a past where they are as well or better off than they are.

Go fuck yourselves.

I, Talia Bhatt, have never touched a doctor-prescribed hormone, because the particularities of my circumstances and the hostility of the regimes I suffered under made it impossible. My community saved me.

Do not abandon your sisters, you fucking cowards.

"Repost this if Trans people should have Samus Arm Cannons" Trans folks with Samus Arm Cannons, and a big one on a trans flag banner.

Yeah this is conversion therapy abuse for autistic kids.

scrolling down the massive unfinished rules document, finding a section on "philosophy of enforcement" and realizing I left it with one bulletpoint 3 years ago that just says "Society is"

Wow, it's amazing all the different kinds of files they can produce when they want to

Yves Saint Lauren sketching dresses on a chalkboard.

But to me, it's absolutely true that various historical trajectories have made straight American men uncomfortable with openly sharing an interest in dress or interior decor, if they develop such an interest at all. It's not that gay men have a knack for these things; straight men just shun them.

A tweet from Matt Walsh reads: "Dudes like this were already gay. I’ve been married for 14 years and have never been home decor shopping, or even had an opinion on the subject, except for the one time when I had a painting custom made depicting me meeting a group of space aliens. It’s now hanging above a fireplace in our home." He is reacting to a video, where a man and a woman are shopping for home decor. The original poster writes: "when will people finally acknowledge the epidemic of men marrying women and being turned gay"

For a while, it was believed that women and gay men are born with a natural sense for aesthetics. In reality, straight men, particularly American male Protestants, have simply barred themselves from taking an interest in aesthetics because they think this makes them noble.

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Visa and Mastercard have killed more art than every studio combined and most people don't even know about it

Aerial view of the White House with multiple red map pointer icons above it.

Organizing RPG PDFs is a lot like sorting Lego. There are a ton of different ways to do it and they all eventually become wrong.

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

To be honest, I haven’t trusted Stephen Colbert ever since he conveniently abandoned all his right wing views as soon as he got hired to host a network talk show

NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital.

CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one

PELOSI: Take the shot

AI evangelists are archetypal "Ideas Guys". The ones who are convinced they've come up with the best movie/comic/game concept ever, but just need actual talented people to make it for them. The inevitable lack of interest from creatives is, in their mind, the reason they've never succeeded.

When I read people say PDF versions of TTRPGs should be free or only $5 because "you don't have to pay for paper or ink, so there's no cost," what they are saying is, they don't think they should have to compensate writers, artists, layout people, graphic designers, etc for their work.

I feel like Musk and GenAi are permanently entangled, since both are reportedly geniuses about topics I don’t know much about but mysteriously get much stupider when they talk about things I have even passing knowledge of.

Someone on Twitter writes: "I've been thinking a lot of the left-wing valorisation of personal ugliness. It's partly ordinary social rebellion ("looking nice" is conformist; think of punks and skinheads and other groups who make themselves look offensive for its shock value). It's hard to give examples because I don't like singling people out for their looks. But the more cultish trans activists seem to believe that the uglier a man when wearing women's clothes, make-up etc. the better. (Accepting the ugly is a sign of commitment to the cause.) And partly, I think, it's about victimhood culture. The uglier you are, the more you are to be pitied and that's a currency you can use. Hence the celebration of obesity (though I think Ozempic will end this eventually) and of all kinds of defiant unsexiness."

It's true that progressives valorize "ugliness." But I think this person doesn't interrogate this position enough and thus lands at the wrong conclusion.

Let me give you my perspective on ugliness. 🧵

I will be very clear once again because this is a social media platform:

I'm not saying your support as a fellow creator isn't important. I'm saying we can't keep passing the same $20 around and expect it to feed everyone.

Assuming you're not intentionally a transphobe, please just ditch Harry Potter. There's plenty of much, MUCH better-written fantasy made by authors who aren't absolute shit.

And if you ARE intentionally a transphobe, kindly either fuck off or educate yourself, whichever you're capable of.

openai’s new ghibli “generator” is explicitly an intentional attempt at humiliation of a prominent objector

openai is culturally fascist as well as functionally fascist

it’s not an accident

apropos of nothing but "they made the trains run on time" was a sarcastic joke at the time because the trains sucked before the fascists, then they were worse under the fascists.

Every safety regulation was written in blood, frequently with a body count higher than one, and it’s not political to put the blame on people who want to “move fast and break things” when they start breaking human lives.

Anyway as they pull bodies out of the Potomac bear in mind that the guiding ethos of Trumpism is that the TSA, NTSB, and FAA should be radically downsized and run by dudes whose main qualifications are loyalty are a willingness to say “cunt” a lot

I knew the concentration camps were coming.

But I am surprised that we got here this quickly.

If you voted for this, or even if you just stayed home on election day when you could have voted against it, eternal shame on you. You have a lifetime of atonement for the evil you have done.