I'm trying to get this week's @explorerswanted.fm episode done, but it's looking increasingly likely it won't come out until early next week. Sorry, all.

I watch this episode at least once a year. So good!

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

It's our podiversary! Six years ago today, we released our first full episode, "A Coven of Contractors". 🎉🎊

This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

I track the popularization of this junk work to Tim Ferris and the 4 hour work week. I remember reading that book and thinking, "Many of these ways of making a living actually seem just as soulless - or more so! - as corporate work... only you don't get benefits."

Heads up GitHub users. You have less than a month left to opt out of "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training".

"On April 24 we'll start using GitHub Copilot interaction data for AI model training unless you opt out." github.com/settings/cop...

sindar-princeling Bilbo barely passed Old Took's record lifespan after having a supernaturally-life-extending ring for 60 years. which begs a question. what the hell did Old Took do mitsuhachiinthehive I have a theory that somewhere back up the line gandalf fucked a took. This sounds like complete crack but hear me out. The tooks are rumored to have "fairy blood" which in LOTR terms means either elves or maia. There is an ancestor who's unusually tall and many of them are noted to live unusually long lives unless they meet with illness or injury, same as the numenorians did. They don't hve extra pointy ears and elves don't have a special interest in the line. But who DOES have a special interest in looking after tooks (and bilbo who is a took on his mother's side/his adopted son frodo)? Gandalf. That dude is ALWAYS fussing over some silly little guy. He regularly brought the old took birthday presents. Back in the day some bold hobbitess decided to climb that old man and ever since then gandalf has been looking after his line of tiny crazy bastards and no one will convince me otherwise.

So my more Tolkien-minded friends how do we feel about this theory? Because I mean it makes a lot of sense…

I made a joke about this yesterday but he really is just blaming all the women lmaoooooo

That moment when Katie recited one of Brennan's monologues. 😂

personsonable me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU miaislying Hey OP? What the FUCK does this mean? personsonable decay exists as an extant form of life miaislying That’s a terrifying answer, have a nice day

Don't know about Twitter, but this is my favorite Tumblr post

Night's Hope dice set in gold color with pink inking is arranged on a mini terrain of a forest.

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Watch Alice in Borderland | Netflix Official Site An aimless gamer and his two friends find themselves in a parallel Tokyo, where they're forced to compete in a series of sadistic games to survive.

This episode's Player Intrusion comes from @andrlik.org who recommends our listeners watch Alice in Borderland!

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#tv #scifi #horror #japanese

Circle of Trust The crew explains their activities to Emory and in turn must decide what level of truth and cooperation to keep with the Fists.

Our latest episode, "Circle of Trust" is now available! The crew explains their activities to Emory and in turn must decide what level of truth and cooperation to keep with the Fists.

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#TTRPG #ActualPlay #Numenera #CypherSystem #podcast

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

no, it simply isnt.
People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.

They do not hear your concerns about AI and and are absolutely going to use this technology to “generate content” aka steal from you. Jay is dollar-store Elon Musk

So, let’s zoom out. Your client is coming apart at the seams. The ChatGPT logs you produced to us paint a clear picture of a man who is plagued by uncertainty, consumed by anxiety, and is increasingly offloading every part of his life to an LLM chatbot. He uses ChatGPT for everything: • for his day job (despite repeated attempts, he does not seem to have figured out how to avoid using his personal ChatGPT license, with its core instructions updated to include information like “DEI is always bad” and “Trans is a mental illness,” for his professional writing, including peer performance reviews and documentation of unreleased product features); • for his influencer gig (more often than not, your client’s “articles” and “scripts” are generated entirely by your client pasting an entire Reddit or Twitter thread into ChatGPT’s context window and saying “Rewrite this as an article, and make it sound original and like I wrote it”); • for his domestic responsibilities (he has ChatGPT write bedtime stories to read to his kids, love notes for his wife, even his daughter’s Girl Scout activity days);

shadow IT LLM usage is never a good idea, if you allow it, it means that confidential information from your company is going into the *personal* accounts of your employees, and is subject to discovery if and when litigation eventuates.

don't mix the context windows. just don't.

lol, overheard someone say that nowadays everyone wants to be part of a village but doesn't want to be a villager. And I can't stop thinking about it.

Bearded white man in sunglasses looks at camera.

While the blossoms are not as open this year, the cherry blossom festival in Philly is still a good time. Currently stuffing our faces with deliciousness in the food court.

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

Watch Brand New Cherry Flavor | Netflix Official Site A filmmaker heads to Hollywood in the early '90s to make her movie but tumbles down a hallucinatory rabbit hole of sex, magic, revenge — and kittens.

I'm back on my bullshit (rewatching _Brand New Cherry Flavor_) www.netflix.com/Title/80233374

‘You couldn’t make that today’ and it’s just a living wage.

What absolute fucking idiots lol. Good for them.

Huge result here - the idea that social platforms can be defective products that cause harm is going to send shockwaves through an industry that has claimed essentially blanket protection from liability by saying everything is speech

Same.

Re: my last reposts

“Do not put money in the pocket of a woman who has sworn publicly to use it to disenfranchise vulnerable populations” is the smallest ask imaginable. It’s not oxygen, it’s not food. It’s television. You can do without. There are thousands of other shows for you to watch.

Bill Cosby found guilty of sexual assault and ordered to pay $19.25m Donna Motsinger alleges she was drugged and raped by Cosby in 1972 after he gave her a glass of wine in his limo

good.

Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra responds to the Grammarly “expert review” controversy, and whether AI is extracting more value than it creates.

This interview is a bloodbath. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...