JD Vance is America’s Liz Truss. She killed the Queen. He killed the Pope and now, metaphorically, Viktor Orbán.

When I was a child my mother bought a hostess trolley. It looked insane in our cramped little house. But she'd spent the cash and insisted we use it all the time, bumping and scratching as we went. It was, in every way, a worse experience than just carrying stuff yourself. This is a post about AI.

just this week:

-- OpenAI killed Sora
-- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI
-- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content

...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

Image of Troy

Macaw parrot

Harrison Ford as Richard Kimble in The Fugitive (1993). He’s wearing a green bowler hat and marching in a St Patrick’s Day parade in Chicago.

happy the fugitive trying to blend into a parade day to all who celebrate

As per Kerry tradition Jessie Buckley will be put on display in a small cage in Killorglin for 3 days upon her arrival back from the Oscars

‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ star Motaz Malhees says he cannot enter the U.S. for the #Oscars this Sunday because of his Palestinian citizenship:

“It hurts. But here is the truth. You can block a passport. You cannot block a voice.”

It's everywhere, and it's so soo ugly! Plus everything looks the same now, just a feed full of undifferentiated slop

The Onion point/counterpoint from 2003 which reads Share on Bluesky Share on X Share on LinkedIn Share on SMS Email this Page Point/Counterpoint This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

Real hits stay relevant.

Lionel Hutz from the simpsons editing a business card which reads "PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST - NO MORE FOREVER WAR" to read "PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST? NO, MORE FOREVER WAR"

poster for the sopranos in the style of disney's "that's so raven". pink velvet background with a scowling tony soprano covering most of it, arms crossed. in the bottom left there is the logo: disney that's SO PRANOS the "so / pranos" is in the sopranos font

this came to me in a dream

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

Sick to death of generative AI being shoved down our throats every single time you open an app or tool now. I want to write my own sentences! Fuck off!

Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

Fuuuuck

I know people say "satire is dead" a lot but if you wrote a sketch where a tech company's solution to an AI creating nonconsensual sexual images was "make it a premium subscription", it would be thrown out for being too on the nose

There's a time for restraint and composure, and then there's the time you simply have to simply burn Musk's entire empire down to its very last atom.

Sweet, man-made horrors beyond my comprehension!

You let the devil in, he brought his pirate friends, they brought a hunger for blood and flesh and bone and skin

call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago

X is run by a Nazi and it's in built LLM generates child sex abuse material and pornographic images of people without their consent, but on the other hand, I am a dopamine addict who craves attention and need the validation of the remaining other addicts. So it's not so simple.

—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter
—Infanta?
—No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly

"There's a billionaire threatening to sue the WI through her proxies if they don't throw out their trans members" makes you sound like a lunatic but that is in fact what's happening. Is that good or bad? I think a simple question.

I hate that this is Ireland now.

a monstrous AI-generated mural

My favourite part of the AI Kingston on Thames christmas mural is the man using a severed dog's paw on a stick to subdue his chimera dogwife

C'est Troy bien!

🤢🤢🤢

Every Epstein email is like "I love that you're a rapist and a pedophile! Signed, a man who personally has more wealth than 20% of the world's population."