I watched someone crow about using an LLM to create a chart, then when everyone asked clarifying questions about said chart admitted an LLM produced it and it was inaccurate. The data was taken from an Excel spreadsheet. There's literally a button and your chart will be accurate. What are we doing?!
This debate is apparently still going on, with AI boosters demanding to know how an average person could traverse the obstacle course that is mail merge without the aid of chatgpt, to which my thoughts are 1) mail merge isn't that hard to figure out, and 2) just click the help button.
ADOBE: welcome to photoshop. what would you like to do. here is an AI tool
ME: i would like to draw a rectangle. i am selecting the rectangle tool
ADOBE: did you say AI?
ME: rectangle please
ADOBE: sorry but i can only do that in an insane way now. here is a new layer and a vector for some reason
“It’s clear that AI companies’ initial promise to America — that first it would take their job, and eventually it might kill them — has not inspired a groundswell of public support.”
Capitolhunters: Can we all please recognize: throughout history, fascism is only ever defeated with a left-center alliance. Everyone has to suck it up and hang with people they might not like.
Hey real quick what happened to the left after they trusted those centrists
It's easy to succumb to outrage fatigue. But this was four days ago. 2,000 killed. 1.2 million displaced. Entire villages demolished. A 40km 'buffer zone' (10% of Lebanon's territory) annexed. It's barely raised a resigned shrug, but it meets the criteria for war crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
They literally had to go through several iterations of test design before they successfully invented one where women didn’t persistently outperform men.
Screaming hot take:
It’s entirely possible that Somalis test out on standard IQ tests with a lower mean than western people (100), because IQ is meaningless racist, sexist, colonial, eugenicist bullshit designed to produce exactly such a result.
IQ is bollocks. Utter, total bollocks.
I reckon we'll see a prominent UK politician use the term "calling balls and strikes" within 6 months. My money's on Farage or Badenoch but wouldn't be surprised to hear it from Starmer or Streeting either. USA politico brainrot here is very real
I hate Al and I refuse to use it Peter, if you don't use Al a bunch of super rich men will lose a lot of money I already said I hated Al Harry, you don't need to sell it to me
People love to quote Mike Tyson saying everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face, but sometimes they don't, some people never have a plan and they deserve representation too
There is now nearly five decades of evidence of Israel trying to destroy the land on the Lebanese side of the border as part of its attempt to create a so-called buffer zone. Lebanese researchers have been documenting this since the 1978 invasion.
www.aljazeera.com/features/lon...
"Human Is Music" by Cacoy
Watching Palantir do Sephiroth posting about multiculturalism and I would like to remind everyone that they were doing corporate fake woke shit just like every other company.
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
Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)
"The world is an increasingly dangerous place and I am a sensible, forensic manager who is constantly lied to and bamboozled by my underlings" is a powerful message for the local elections
there's not a lot to like about Labour but I will admit I'm a huge fan of them cosplaying as Serious Adults who make tough decisions based on evidence and data while simultaneously being incredibly unobservant and incurious to anything going on in their own offices
HOW ARE THEY GOING TO MAKE NEW JOBS, LIZ? DID YOU ASK THEM THAT? DID ANYONE ASK THAT?
Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection.
So forgive me if I smell a rat.
You were right that was excellent!
The fact that "being taxed on a wealth that would take most people dozens of generations to gather" is "the scariest thing she's ever seen" means the world isn't scaring millionaires and billionaires nearly enough yet.
"bsky users blame every problem on vibe coding"
yeah, dude. if you got a dog to code this website i wouldn't be wasting time asking which of you was the source of each new bug
hahahahahahahahah
I do wish it had a backlit keyboard but I understand why it doesn't. Guess it doesn't really matter in most situations anyway
Ok that's just bullshit misogyny then. Both of them were releasing music and gaining popularity well before they hit mainstream success
For sure that's where it comes from, but people only point it out when the machine becomes too obvious. Like I remember bands who were all over magazine covers, billboards and radio interviews a year before they even released an album. It just reads as shameless, like at least try to hide it better?
Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.