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Uh, excuse me, neighbor. Uh, yeah, I couldn't help but notice that you bought pretty much all of my books! Can't make an AI model without books! Oh ho, true enough. But, uh, did you have to shred the books so no one could ever read them again? Heh heh heh heh, eh heh, yeah.
Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · last wk.Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...
Liam Neeson: “If you return my plums, that'll be the end of it... But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you….” This summer. Taken: Plums
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
The Rise of Skywalker, hands down. So many maguffins. So many death fake-outs. An awkward and unnecessary romance between the leads. A cavalry charge on top of a star destroyer. "Somehow, Palpatine returned." The list goes on and on.
Defector@defector.com · 3w agoWhat's the worst movie you've ever watched in a theater? defector.com/whats-the-wo...
For what it's worth, this is a fan-made poster. www.reddit.com/r/TheOdyssey...
From the TheOdysseyMovie community on Reddit: Made a poster for The Odyssey
Explore this post and more from the TheOdysseyMovie community
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · 3w agoI am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS
This reminds me of one of my favorite etymological facts: "stool" meaning "poop" comes from the kind of stool you sit on.
Andi Zeisler@andizeisler.bsky.social · 3w ago“Grab a stool” is a definite choice here
Me, reading the headline: this makes no sense Me, reading the byline: oh, this makes sense
Maybe it was a bad idea to let Google become such a monopoly.
Rachel Holliday Smith@rachelholliday.bsky.social · 4w agoI'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.
I'm reviewing changes from a proofreader who suggested capitalizing "to" in the book's subtitle "since it is acting as part of the verb." The subtitle is a construction like "A Proofreader's Guide to Proofreading." (Not the real title, obviously.)
OK sure, great, but I don't that helps much. He's 80 years old, woefully out of shape, and probably doesn't even know the rules.
Tired: AI Wired: Al
Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social · last mo.Weird Al: "I said, ‘Oh well, yeah, sure, I could do that.’ And then a week before we’re supposed to shoot it, I find out this is AI. And I thought, ‘Oh no, I can’t be the poster boy for AI, forget it.’" variety.com/2026/biz/new...
My "No minions worked for Hitler" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
IGN@ign.com · last mo.Minions director Pierre Coffin has confirmed in an interview that no minions have worked with Hitler because they were frozen "in that cave."
Coincidentally, Cockroach Diving Suit is the name of my ska punk band. www.popsci.com/technology/c...
World’s first cockroach diving suit actually works
A cyborg cockroach survived up to three hours underwater with an experimental new oxygen tank.
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“From a caloric perspective, a person turns out to be an average meal." Um, actually, as I learned from this @qwantz.com T-shirt, a person provides something like 110,000 calories. Sounds pretty above average to me! topatoco.com/collections/...
One Amazing Person Shirt
Written in consultation with my Actual Doctor friend, this shirt has fully-accurate information on how amazing you really are. Even more amazing merch from Ryan North can be found at TopatoCo!
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Clare Blackwood@clareblackwood.bsky.social · last mo.uh okay i won't do it then www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...
I'm editing a document and just came across a sentence with a list structured like "A, B, C, and more generally D, E, but also F, G and H, as well as I, J, K and L." I bet we can come up with a few more ways to tack some more things onto it if we really put our minds to it. #AmEditing
I can't find it now, but I once made an image like this that went [top] Why do designers [middle] like this [bottom] think we read
Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · last mo.Graphic design is my passion.
Noticed on this 17th-century map the spelling "mershe" for 'marsh' – this is the older spelling, before the 'ER > AR' sound change that affected 'starboard', 'darling' and the pronunciation of 'sergeant' too. The change obscures the etymology of 'marsh': as literally 'mere-ish', a lake-like thing.
Everyone should read and share this thread. #AI
Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2mo agoAt the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
I accidentally heard part of a YouTube ad for some sort of AI speech-to-text tool, and the guy in the ad said that with this tool, he hasn't typed a full sentence in six months. And that's . . . good?
"The language that surrounds AI tends to describe it as a joyless, inevitable force, one we have no choice but to live under and adjust our work habits around." - @neilserven.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/threat...
Threatening Us With a No-Good Very Bad Time
Tech and the Language of Non-Consent Imagine you live in a Jetsons-like future where you have a robot to manage your home for you. The robot does the dusting, the vacuuming, the laundry, and the cooki...
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