Vaccines are a more important and impressive technology than AI

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Blue Origin's lunar landing system on top of copper Europa moon with Jupiter in the background.

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Judas Iscariot was paid 30 pieces of silver for turning Jesus Christ in to the Roman authorities. But he made nearly 10 times that amount by placing a Polymarket bet accurately predicting the day of Christ’s death.

My fellow writers might not want to hear this, but AI is a useful tool for certain aspects of the craft, like for instance when you’re engaged in the process of being a talentless shitbag hack who is too lazy to do any fucking writing.

She instantly became a national hero in South Africa

Dune 1: Go White Boy, Go

Dune 2: Oh

Dune 3: Oh White Boy, No

mom can you pick me up at the strait of hormuz, my friends are laughing at me and wont help

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

I wonder how many people die each year as a result of lifeguards running in slow motion

me: you think somewhere there's a taxidermist who uses a stuffed pig as a piggy bank?

wife: we don't actually have to talk about every thought you have

Rubbing shoulders with royalty

yes, the wheels of justice are slow. agonizingly, excruciatingly slow. and oftentimes they miss or go off the tracks entirely. in fact most of the time. but occasionally, very infrequently, that big wheel of justice delivers theoretical remuneration for a handful of vested business interests

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

Science. God's way of telling us he doesn't exist.

Fucking scammers

who called him Jeff Bezos and not Lex Loser

this stuff has really broken me. it's simply astounding that so many people who have been allowed to amass unimaginable wealth are so droolingly stupid, so unmoored from and in fact hostile to any sense of community or social responsibility, and oh by the way they love to constantly rape children

Guys seriously. Is this his actual head size or is everyone photoshopping pics of him just to fuck with me?

i didn't think it was possible to be dumber and less likable than elon musk but we have these fucking nerds trying their best, keep it up losers

Fucking hell.

My socials are being flooded by people jumping on the avatar-slop bandwagon again.

About half if them are by bands(!!) and journalists(!!!)

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A hyena walked into our camp, stole and ate my watch.

My insurance replaced the devoured watch without batting an eyelid. (It was a VERY nice upgrade)

So hyenas rule I guess?

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