Also, a lot of the shock factor doesn't come from offensiveness, but "I can't believe anyone would say something so stupid."
A lot of these supposed threats to free speech are just people who've won the argument.
I really hate the - honestly very right wing - framing that it is somehow good to constantly be shocked and offended. This is simply not how the real world works *or should be expected to work*
"She’s built like a steakhouse but handles like a bistro."
Mervyn Peake’s illustration of tower in front of castle, landscape.
‘This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.’ ~
Mervyn Peake. #BookWormSat
Why was I invited to Beast Studios?
youtu.be/0dwagg5wYY4
Also, the problems don't stem from having fewer resources than the enemy. They stem from not being able to conceive of winning military objectives by any means other than pure brute force.
whoever this is, they are amazing
The billionaire sex pests pushing generative AI keep spinning up badly remembered science fiction scenarios of apocalypse, as both advertisement ("we are literally creating a god... it might be too powerful!") and as a way of shifting the conversation from its actual real world harms it already does
ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
Robocop. Not because I was disturbed by the violence, but because I had no idea there was anything satirical about it.
I don't even think it was deliberately cruel. It seemed like an invitation to share the joke, delivered to someone who has no concept of laughing *with* someone.
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto
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Can never get over how tawdry the modern Right's view of Western Civilization is; nothing to build, nothing to aspire to, nothing even really to destroy or wage war against, just sullen resentment of their own children and seething hatred of the cities whose economics subsidies their regimes.
I wonder how many days the war had gone on before anyone in the Trump administration thought to Google "what is the Strait of Hormuz?"
Sometimes I wonder if I should have been a successful man of business, and then I remember I dreamt I opened a doughnut shop and called it Admiral Karl Dönutz.
Imagine the career Tom Baker could have had if he were capable of performing anything other than Tom Baker.
We thought we were living in a cyberpunk dystopia but this is actually straight from Warhammer 40K. The machine spirit must be appeased using the proper rituals. Blessings affixed with purity seals will keep the cogitator functioning.
What's wrong with doing it because it's symbolic? Do it anyway and force the Republicans to vote it down.
I might be misremembering but I'm pretty sure women spies in WWII were told not to ask for information directly - they should just say something deliberately factually wrong and wait to be corrected.
2 panel comic Panel 1 is titled “Client Feedback (2012) Red Guy sits at his desk typing on his laptop. There is a bubble on the right hand side of the panel showing his screen. A small text panel says “and the”. There is an arrow pointing to the bottom of the words with a correction box that reads: “Text is slightly misaligned. Please fix” Panel 2 is titled “Client feedback (2026) Red Guy is slouched on chair typing into his phone. His phone screen shows a panel of text that is complete gibberish. This time the correction reads “not alphabet but who give a fuck”
client feedback in the GenAI era
What's the name of Pink Floyd's iconic flying pig? A) Algie B) Porky C) Roger Waters D) Bacon
One of those crappy YouTube quizzes actually made me laugh.
I mean, that's assuming there's a military objective more sophisticated than creating badass-looking social media content.
Goes round the bedrooms of young women in floaty nightdresses and closes their windows.
The comparison I always think of is the guy in the pub who gets angry when someone else isn't drinking.
Just make sure you're looking after your pension.
There's a distinction between knowing words and having seen them.
It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.
Imagine how quickly it would have died if it were still centred on NFTs.
