falling for her so hard she made me goofy yell

you're fucking joking. there's no fucking way.

it's almost like the idea of online age verification is idiotic, unworkable and technologically illiterate and the politicians who support it do so because they cynically believe public support for protecting children online is equivalent to putting millions at risk of exploitation and blackmail

Unhappy to report the phishing one is quickly becoming a real problem now. Why go to the trouble of social engineering when people will just give up their ID, financial info, biometrics, etc. to an AV portal? There's no standards so how can you differentiate a fake one from a real one?

calling your car a little slut when you release the handbrake

epic trick for turning 30: have a nice time with friends and do cool things

God. I missed that because my room was a fucking tip and I wanted to sort it out before my birthday. Ended up having a meltdown. And today I'm in a nice tidy room. I regret not going.

kezia dugdale should fucking resign immediately. she might as well have praised Adolf Hitler

literally just drive-bying drones in midair

de jeh kew - de jewish kvestion

i love that he would make videos in front of his bookshelf that consisted mostly of fantasy novels and very little political theory

absolute peak partridge

this jevil bores me. bringeth me out the pomni

Great example of how the "Green NIMBY" stereotype is sometimes more like "Hey, let's not turn green spaces into large moneymaking opportunities for private enterprise capital"

it is done.

yes, i agree. i think these things have been disingenuously sold to the public, downplaying their inbuilt and irresolvable problems as "creases to be ironed out (with enough computing power)". if they'd been sold as like, really good guessing machines, I feel like AI psychosis wouldn't be an issue

parents' money? crypto? feet pics?

the issue here i think is using AI as cognitive outsourcing and collective magical thinking about AI. we should never have called it AI. it's a mathematically complex data sorting algorithm and nothing more

that is, using AI to track details humans might miss and flag them up to decision makers. computers should NEVER make decisions.

oh undoubtedly. I'm not calling for people to put absolute trust in AI or for it to replace doctors. I'm saying that AI could do something like notice a rash of hospital admissions for similar symptoms and preemptively alert authorities that there's been a potential outbreak of such and such disease

okay, and like i said, the web had obvious and organic use cases that genAI doesn't. don't be persnickety.

The thing is, I think the technology marketed as "AI" *does* have obvious use cases, such as pattern detection and making it easier to algorithmically sort information, which can help with disease prevention etc. - but it's sold to people as literal magic that can do anything.

The Web wasn't sold to people as like "Learn to use this or you won't have a job." Many workplaces didn't get online until it saw that widespread adoption. GenAI is trying to do what the Web did but with no obvious use case, so its proponents have to resort to threats to make people use it.

The World Wide Web had natural, intuitive organic use cases. GenAI started literally as a gimmick (remember DALL-E and AI-generated 4chan greentexts?)

Now it's being pushed as "the future" and a technology we all "have to learn to use" or else risk long-term unemployment.

Wow. That's the dumbest take I read today, and I already had the misfortune of meeting Keir Starmer's fan base

how dare a bunch of trannies and their inconvenient “medical needs” get in the way of our fantasies about the Woke Pope

Julius Streicher - Wikipedia

No alt text because it's a screenshot of this section of the Wikipedia article:

Reading this section of the Wikipedia article on Julius Streicher and sighing dreamily

um well technically they didn't die at the grand national, that some horses died at this event where horses don't need to be makes no odds

Some people have misunderstood this.

We literally saw how Claude itself, coded by Claude, turns one API call into a DOS of thousands upon thousands of API calls done in the sloppiest fucking way possible.

This postmortem shows Bluesky vibecoded a function to DOS itself, in a similarly stupid way.