my sister says:

🎵 When a trace on a dart
Paralyses your heart
That's curare

When the Greeks used to use
Massive jars to store booze
That's amphorae 🎵

🎵 When there's plates of dried plants
So it smells like your aunt's
That's pot pourray

Palantir release clarifying statement: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ypX...

Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans By Noel Coward YouTube video by 78 RPM Record Collection

Palantir release clarifying statement www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xaQ...

Luddite was first used "differently", i.e. wilfully misleadingly, *about the Luddites themselves*. They didn't hate looms, they wanted everyone to share the benefit of looms.

The analogy breaks down shortly after that, though, because looms actually work.

I did not

Once again I am begging you to read a whole encyclopedia entry about the Luddites

That's why marketing shitty imitative neural networks as "AI" is part of the crime. I worked in game AI for five years and now I can't tell anyone that without a disclaimer.

Even "generative AI" is a misnomer, we've had that since Rogue at least

I believe this is the first time I've ever lost at wordle. I wasn't even playing on hard mode, just cocky :-(
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and don't get me started on the dinosaurs. Can't walk down the street without at least five of them destroying houses with their laser breath. My mate in Pilrig got ate by a stegosaurus the other day and nobody has the baws to do anything about it. Them when you inevitably take matters into your own hands the polis will arrest you for animal endangerment

lost my patience with one of those boomer "kids have no respect and there's dog shit and people watching videos on phones" posts on another website, tried to be creative about it

There's always hope

There can be only none

oh god I had this Beano Book. (I think this is from a "Grandpa" strip)

"JK Rowling, the author who has become a lightning rod for the ire of the trans community"

she's the thundercloud, friendo

Their WEALTH is up. He HAS $250 billion. They ain't "worth" shit.

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

(By all means, take their money AND put them in jail.)

And if "the next fascist" can take them out of jail, he can give them their money back. I think that's unnecessarily doomy, but even if it's true, I'd rather they spent a year or two in jail than a year or two in sweatpants.

I don't think much of this, tbh. Taking away their money is a reduction in status to the same as the rest of us.

Unless you don't count broke people as "us" and think that being broke is a punishment in itself, in which case you're already on their side.

maybe it's written for an American audience, for PR purposes for fundraising from the US right?

or y'know, maybe they're just thick as mince

but it's RIGHT THERE!!!!

Captain Picard is Wesley's father

🎶 Things are looking up
Except me

I don't know what this is about but TV Tropes calls it "Remember The New Guy", and Clone High parodied it brilliantly with Ponce de Leon in the very special episode about littering ("Oh Poncie, you're a regular character!")

Also, magpies don't actually do that

ai vibecoding is gonna take down the whole internet isn't it

Good point, I guess it can only apply to jobs where the CEOs don't care about sackihg those people.

(And note I said it can *take* the jobs. It can't *do* them)

It can take jobs that don't matter because they're bullshit, or it can take jobs that do matter and fuck them up

There's no 'hallucinating', or to put it another way, it's 'hallucinating' all the time. Its output just happens to be closer to reality at some times than at other times.