Zhang Linghe’s face is the real star of Pursuit Of Jade – and that’s the point As viewers tune in for his flawless looks, the actor’s appeal points to a deeper shift in Chinese dramas where male leads are styled, shot and adored like never before.

This article is hilariously on point: "A visual language best described as if a Renaissance painting married a particularly expensive skincare advertisement and got slapped by Meituxiuxiu” 🤣🤣

#Cdrama #PursuitOfJade

a two panel meme panel 1 - geordi signalling 'no' with the text data centres and images of data centres Panel 2 - geordi signalling 'yes' with the text "data centaurs" and a crudely edited image of the character data from star trek pasted on top of a centaur

do you ever wake up at 3am and think "shit that's a good idea, I better write that down so I can share it later on"

The AI rollout is an incredible test case for the power of capital to overrule everything in its way. An overwhelmingly stupid, obscenely polluting, and wildly dangerous set of technologies are being brute-forced into every part of our lives because money says so.

Screenshot: Joseph Fasano ® @Joseph_Fasano_• 15h I do *not* want an Al "summary" of an email, or a book, or a life. I do not want an Al summary of a winter sky, or my father's hands, or the hope in my child's eyes. I do not want an Al summary of the human heart, or the first little shiver of lust, or the long good work of love.

This.

Doe had broken up with the user in 2024, and he used ChatGPT to process the split, according to emails and communications cited in the lawsuit. Rather than push back on his one-sided account, it repeatedly cast him as rational and wronged, and her as manipulative and unstable. He then took these AI-generated conclusions off the screen and into the real world, using them to stalk and harass her. This manifested in several AI-generated, clinical-looking psychological reports that he distributed to her family, friends, and employer.

For months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related tasks, for “therapy.” Before she knew it, she recalled, he was spending hours each day talking with the bot, funneling everything she said or did into the model and propounding on pseudo-psychiatric theories about her mental health and behavior. He started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions and copy-pasted AI-generated text, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language. The bot often laced its so-called analyses with flowery spiritual jargon, accusing the woman of engaging in manipulative “rituals.” Trying to communicate with her fiancé was like walking on “ChatGPT eggshells,” the woman recalled. No matter what she tried, ChatGPT would “twist it.” “He would send [screenshots] to me from ChatGPT, and be like, ‘Why does it say this? Why would it say this about you, if this is not true?'” she recounted. “And it was just awful, awful things.”

Shortly after moving out, the former fiancé began to publish multiple videos and images a day on social media accusing the woman of an array of alleged abuses — the same bizarre ideas he’d fixated on so extensively with ChatGPT. In some videos, he stares into the camera, reading from seemingly AI-generated scripts; others feature ChatGPT-generated text overlaid on spiritual or sci-fi-esque graphics. In multiple posts, he describes stabbing the woman. In another, he discusses surveilling her. (The posts, which we’ve reviewed, are intensely disturbing; we’re not quoting directly from them or the man’s ChatGPT transcripts due to concern for the woman’s privacy and safety.) The ex-fiancé also published revenge porn of the woman on social media, shared her full name and other personal information, and doxxed the names and ages of her teenage children from a previous marriage. He created a new TikTok dedicated to harassing content — complete with its own hashtag — and followed the woman’s family, friends, and neighbors, as well as other teens from her kids’ high school. “I’ve lived in this small town my entire life,” said the woman. “I couldn’t leave my house for months… people were messaging me all over my social media, like, ‘Are you safe? Are your kids safe? What is happening right now?'”

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.)

This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

AI Use Appears to Have a "Boiling Frog" Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns A new study claims to offer the first causal link between AI dependency and cognitive erosion. Researchers warn of long-term implications.

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.

"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”

futurism.com/artificial-i...

This weekend I gave a presentation to a group of mostly college-aged folks and had a little line at the beginning of my slides that described it as an "AI-free presentation made by a human, for humans" and I had to pause for clapping at that part

you love to see it

new communities like...

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women

Shameless Subway product placement. Kdramas are so back!

#PerfectCrown

Government spends $20m on fuel campaign urging Aussies to drive less

So let me get this straight- WFH after the pandemic was somehow going to destroy the economy but now, because oil, WFH is going to save the economy?

Hard not to conclude that personal interests matter more to them than the welfare of people they 'represent'.
www.9news.com.au/national/pet...

I'm now pondering how one would get to Queenscliff (bus?) and Zig Zag seem to be selling tickets from Clarence only and say arrive by private transport. Hmm.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

Bringing back the traditional Easter... when the VR used *everything* that could turn a wheel.

The signwriting is 👌 (and sad)

Fairly famous video of a badger and coyote together using a culvert going under a busy road near the Southern Santa Cruz Mountains, in California.

Video from hours earlier showed them together going in this direction, so this video seems like them going home.

Photo realistic painting of a traditional foil wrapped Easter egg tied with yellow satin bow. The foil has been peeled back a little to reveal the chocolate beneath.

Easter egg (and yes, it is a painting)

Artist: Harry Wingfield from First Picture Book, 1971)

Happy Easter

This is what social media is meant to be about.

the death of continuous feed dot matrix printers stole banners from us

Peter, Jane and Pat the dog go shopping for apples. Jayne is holding a gondola basket and wearing her classic outfit of white frock, yellow cardigan and red shoes.

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things.
The gondola basket (1965)
Artist: Harry Wingfield

australian metric conversion stamps

australian metric conversion stamps

australian metric conversion stamps

australian metric conversion stamps

learning metric conversion via whimsical vintage australian stamps

Toad stands at Frog's door, showing him his list. From "A List" In *Frog and Toad Together*

Toad knocked at the door. “Hello,” said Frog. “Look at my list of things to do,” said Toad. “Oh,” said Frog, “that is very nice.”

Aerial image of the western suburban industrial area with a light map overlay showing main roads and railway lines.

There’s at least 60,000 jobs in Laverton/Truganina industrial area.

It’s barely served by PT. Folks with a 15 min drive to work would face a 75+ min PT journey.

This is a scenario repeated over and over across Melbourne’s suburban industrial areas.

Free PT won’t get these folks out of cars.

This ! This! And this!

I am genuinely sick to death of pretending this is somehow normal or expected. If you use LLMs to do any part of your writing, thinking or synopses (let alone art) you should be embarrassed and out of work.

housing is more expensive now, but also a lot safer. this kind of home was considered cream of the crop in the 1980s

Post from Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com: In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University: Nine majors "sunsetting": • Classical civilization • Classics (Greek and Latin) • Digital humanities • Fine arts • German • Latino-Latin American studies • Middle Eastern studies • Modern Jewish studies • Russian ALT

The First University in the Nation to Build a Center Dedicated to the Creator Economy Syracuse University is creating something that doesn't exist anywhere else in higher education. The Center for the Creator Economy is the first academic center of its kind on a U.S. college campus. Led jointly by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Martin). Whitman School of Management, the center reinforces Syracuse University's commitment to bold, forward-looking academic leadership. By aligning strengths in entrepreneurship, media, communications, athletics and digital infrastructure, the University is charting how higher education can prepare students for the 21st-century economy.

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

The elderly shoemaker scratches his head in bafflement as he looks at a beautiful pair of pink boots made by the elves

‘Elf-made shoes’
The Elves and the Shoemaker, 1965
Artist: Robert Lumley

Article about Typhoid Mary in the New York American newspaper, June 1909 - illustrated with a drawing of a woman dropping skulls into a frying pan

It’s the 119th anniversary of ‘Typhoid Mary’ being arrested in New York – and not without some difficulty... 🧵