"When we're getting digested by the grey goo and it's alternately filling our sintering neurons with ecstasy and incomprehensible horror, I'll say 'I told you so'."
-discussing multi-agent AI swarms as a development platform.
Breathtaking:
Meanwhile, ask it to create an svg desktop and you get this:
"I said CONSUMMATE V's!"
Qwen 3.6 LLM rendering a breathtakingly realistic SVG pelican, with consummate V's.
Qwen3.6 local: "I can't create images"
Me: "but you can create .svg's... Here's your prompt"
I'm halfway through and I keep waiting for him to look at the camera with gin-scented tears in his eyes and tell us that everything is all right and that he's won the victory over himself.
I hate that I have to clarify that I am using WH40K in its original satirical tone.
I like how the ICE agents are his angelic army. I guess The Emperor Protects, eh?
I feel like the only people who have played Horizon: Zero Dawn and Horizon: Forbidden West are people who
1. Hate AI
..or
2. Work in AI tooling, and are rubbing the easter-eggs in the faces of group 1
Lookin' at you, "Qwen" and AMD "GAIA"
Every Day in the AI Slopocalypse:
The fact that I can't get Gemini to draw a robot wearing an Infinity Gauntlet because that would be a Copyright Violation, but I can get it to draw a mining wombat tells me EVERYTHING I need to know about AI. @tkingfisher.com
From a comic about how Rupert Murdoch Ruins Everything He Touches, during the Wapping Dispute, 40 years ago.
via J Draper London: www.patreon.com/posts/154537...
"oh crap. I shut down the wrong server!" - me
"let he who is without sin cast the first shutdown -h now" - @cthompson.com
But think of the folk who can—by owning only a VERY small tract of land—generate infinite wealth by destroying the world for everyone else! What about THEM Alec!? Have you considered THEIR needs?!
from Discord: "I don't have the emotional capacity to process competence like this anymore; there's no hook to hang the emotion upon; it's been worn away."
Trump —and the people who pull his strings— all clearly HATE America.
If Republicans go along with Trump, then they must hate America, too. Remind them of this before it's too late. Surely enough of them still love their country enough to stop this.
I take issue with the belief that someone uncomfortable with living up to the proscribed presentation of patriarchal gender norms would only be happy by identifying with the binary opposite gender. Its like bi erasure, but for gender instead of sexuality....
"Egg culture" stuff just reinforces the patriarchal performative gender norms by proscribing binary gender, and I will die on this hill.
(I will also push any TERFs I meet down the hill. This is not that hill.)
Andreesen-Horowitz went out of their way to hire a guy who choked a black man on the subway (archive.is/Cwx83), so we can be pretty sure which direction Marc Andreesen swings.
Doesn't he look tired?
I may have conflated George Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell. ...like.... A LOT.
If we can't turn this around, it is my sincere hope that whoever walks "Americans who thought this was no big deal" past the piles of our corpses in the extermination camps, doesn't spare the rifle-butt to the small of the back when ordering people to look at what their indifference has wrought.
I have been against Capital Punishment my whole life, because I know the judicial system can make mistakes, and people can be reformed. But some crimes are so self-proclaimed, so public, and affect so many lives, and are so unrepentantly undertaken, that for the first time, I'm okay with the gibbet.
"I guess I need to unsubscribe from--wait--what the fuck..."
WHY DOES LinkedIn HAVE "Games"?!?!?
A bearded black man in a pinstripe business suit smoking a pipe, using a public airport pay-phone connected to a vintage all-in-one handheld microcomputer and modem to send or receive a message.
Maybe "The Internet" is wrong and we need to go back to this model:
I mean, really, who DOESN'T need an Orangutan Plushie?
I'm waiting for the big reveal where the Canadian Curling Team pulls off their masks to reveal they've been villainous Canadian geese ALL ALONG.
This thread has been a great way to block the accounts of the kind of people who would be happy to be marched off to camps so long as they got to push someone more "centrist" ahead of them in the queue.
Apple's "F1" asks "What if there were such a caricature as a 'Magical Himbo'?"
The Magical Himbo teaches the black folk, uppity women, and latinos the secret wisdom he's acquired as an Unemployed Homeless Boomer on Medicaid. Then they award him a trophy.
A tale for the ages, truly.
