The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds.
Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.
BLUESKY IS A WEBSITE THAT TURNS (post by jay.bsky.team claiming that bluesky is made with AI) INTO (picture of bluesky not working)
About Me: Video Games Favorite Game: The Longest Journey Best Story: Planescape Torment Favorite Art Style: Persona 5 Biggest Personal Impact: Diablo 2 Best Combat: Bushido Blade Overhated: Mass Effect Underrated: Subspace Overrated: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Needs a Remake: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Criminally Overlooked: Phantasy Star Favorite Protagonist: Baldur's Gate III Favorite Antagonist: Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers Best Soundtrack: Castlevania Symphony of the Night Best Multiplayer: Dynasty Warriors 2 Not Usually My Thing, But...: Warframe Turn My Brain Off: Saints Row The Third Best With Friends: World of Warcraft Best Retro Game: Master of Magic Nostalgic Childhood Game: Herzog Zwei Game Everyone Should Play: Nethack
it looks like the vgdb they're drawing from doesn't have a lot of titles from the 4 bit era, but that only really impacts one square.
that aside, every box on this grid is worthy of deeper conversations, or multiple picks so... Video Game Grid, have at you!
By the late 1800s, 'pontificate' was also being used derisively for lay individuals who spoke as if they had the authority of a member of the clergy.
One might consider this sense of 'pontificate' to be the spiritual forerunner of 'mansplain.'
OSV was right next door so a more common one for us.
take seller, i need your hottest takes
The periodic table of elements, defined by lickability the categories are; Sure go for it Maybe not the best idea Please don't do that See you on the other side
G'nights peeps.
DOG AT THE OLYMPICS
FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS
Any regulator that doesn't do everything it can to burn X/xAI to the ground over Grok creating CSAM puts itself in a poor position to regulate future AI harms.
X/xAI's likely acted with reckless disregard in the model's release and certainly did so its failure to act when harms were known.
* creating technical debt at scale
* plagiarism with extra steps
* whatever the opposite of therapy is
* bad search with extra steps
* chatbots, but still hated
* analytics as a fiction genre
* help rephrasing things
ok that last one seems legit but probably not enough to float the industry on.
IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE. SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS. THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.
the Black Panthers were right
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
if you’ve spent so much time throwing dildos in the ocean that you can’t stop now, that’s a sunk cost phallus sea
a brown wire-haired pup stands on a wooden deck in a grassy yard. he looks at us with golden eyes and his right ear flipped inside out. he has a pipe-shaped stick in his mouth, giving him the appearance of a sophisticated and dapper gentleman. just give him a deerstalker cap and a cloak, and he'd give Sherlock Holmes a run for his money.
This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10
are you trying to get ratioed or does it just come naturally?
Google with AI buttons
Google without AI buttons
I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more
github.com/Stevoisiak/S...
Not in the Epstein files:
- trans people
- migrants and asylum seekers
- people who arrive in small boats
- benefits claimants
In the Epstein files:
- rich white guys who tell you (or pay people to tell you) to hate the people above
Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction
Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction
upsetting to realize after all these years that the narrative which most accurately captures both a) the insipid, painfully obvious nature of true evil and b) the way your average decent person tends to be bamboozled by it... is scooby fucking doo
‘February’ is the ‘Wednesday’ of months.
The Dems are a feeding Mid laner.
Or you could stop funding them.
4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1 with ponytail: The inspection revealed a few problems. Looks like your planet needs an alignment. PERSON 2: Oh? (2) PERSON 1: Yeah, your magnetic axis is 400 miles off-center from your rotational one. PERSON 2: Is that bad? (3) PERSON 1: The unbalanced magnetic field could cause radiation anomalies over the South Atlantic. Have you noticed any spacecraft equipment failures in that area? PERSON 2: There *have* been a few, actually. (4) PERSON 1: We can give you a loaner planet while yours is in the shop. Is a gas giant OK? PERSON 2: I’d *really* prefer a solid surface. PERSON 1: Sorry, it’s all we have. But it’ll just be for a few days.
Planetary Alignment
xkcd.com/3192/
In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
I'd blame the exclusive contracts with the leagues killing off the competition, but then I watched Turismo absolutely lose the plot over the same timespan.
a combination urgent care and taco bell
I'm at the combination
they really gave it the Beanes
