This is your periodic reminder that Democrats introduced legislation in 2021 to ban gerrymandering nationwide and every republican voted against it except two who were absent.

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

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

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

キミに託すよ

Really want to ask my mostly Catholic family if they’re going to break up with the Pope for the Orange Man.

I'm so tired of reading AI text everywhere. Tweets, YouTube scripts, even basic emails! The shameless ChatGPT-style stuff is bad enough, but I might hate the people trying to mask it even more. I'm not a luddite - there are some interesting applications of AI - but the mass adoption is all laziness.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

もうゆるさないぞ

Thousands of people have needlessly been killed but this guy's like

Whatever skills I have as a translator came from the million+ words I translated down the translation mines. If all the unglamorous grunt work disappears there won't be anywhere to learn

剣がお好み？

It's interesting how internet connectivity has basically ruined the experience of using older consoles to some degree. Booted up an Xbox One S today and it's so darn slow - just insanely bad. Up to date 360s and PS3s are slow too. Yet, you boot a PS2 or a GCN? Feels as snappy as ever.

OMG HOLY CRAP ARE YOU TELLING ME TARIFFS MADE THINGS MORE EXPENSIVE IT'S ALMOST AS IF WE SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO ECONOMISTS OH WELL

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

It's open season for refusing AI There's been a wave of successful efforts to ban, reject and shut down AI.

Movements to shut down or ban data centers are amassing power and notching victories. Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content in articles. Publishers and entertainment studios are being pushed to reject AI-produced content outright.

In other words: It's open season for refusing AI.

冒険

@vegettoex.bsky.social Congrats on finally opening the @kanzenshuu.com wiki—I love how it's literally keeping Toriyama alive, haha! I know you said no ads, but here's an ad for the launch:

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Directly translating removes the original intent of the text and can easily result in mistranslations. Localization by experienced and professional translators and editors results in better translations.

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

If there's one thing I've learned from working for a corporation it's don't kill yourself for them.

Do an amazing job, but don't do unpaid labour, don't work weekends, don't do overtime late into the night, don't work sick. I will not hurt myself for a company I know doesn't care about me.

I'm sorry but if you have 4,000 employees and your revenue is 6 billion, you make 1.5 million per employee and if you can't make a profit margin there, you are simply embezzling it.

If your demon in SMT forgets their healing skill, that's lost Media.

I don't want gen AI in my browser
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life

r/marketing u/Objective-Feed7250 Gen Z can spot lazy AI images and it’s hurting conversion rates Discussion New consumer trust report came out. 78% of Gen Z can identify AI generated images and will scroll past them. Been running ads for an apparel brand targeting 18 to 25 year olds. Our CTR dropped 40% after we switched to AI generated lifestyle shots. The images looked fine to me. Models wearing the clothes, decent lighting, no obvious errors. But apparently Gen Z can tell. Went back to real product photos and performance recovered. Not fully but better than the AI stuff. The report mentioned things like lighting inconsistencies and unnatural shadows. Stuff that’s not obvious unless you’re looking for it. AI images probably work for some audiences but not others. Older demographics might not notice or care as much. Edit: for graphics and layouts i use X-Design since you control the inputs. But for photography targeting younger audiences, real still wins.

I find this completely believable.

I’m on the top end of gen-Z but I find people in my age group and younger spot AI imagery instantly and it’s often taken as an indicator of corporate insincerity.

Meanwhile a lot of older people I know can’t tell the difference and workplace management pushes it.

Imagine being the most popular guy at the party but then just suddenly punching everyone in the gut and spitting in their faces. That’s the United States the last couple years.

Bottom line: This $110B "megadeal" is a desperate defensive crouch against Netflix and Apple. We’re trading a century of film history for a debt-ridden monopoly that’s more interested in spreadsheets than storytelling. RIP to the "Golden Age." 🪦🎬

primary use cases for AI, an ongoing list:
- pornslop
- academic fraud
- eroding our collective sense of truth
- cyberpsychosis
- dementia acceleration
- fucking a jagged hole through the arts
- search engine enshittification
- fascist panopticon
- anti-intellectualism
- war crimes