google's ai proving absolutely indispensable in dublin

they're taking over the country and destroying it as revenge for MeToo

IGN@ign.com · 5h ago

Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick is joining David Ellison's board of directors at the newly christened Skydance following Paramount's now-completed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. https://bit.ly/470r7D8

As we enter the Spooky Posting Period, please take a moment to honor the GOAT of all Halloween GOATS

reposting the mishima banger over here is fun but i’m so sad i lost the best part of it which was in the replies: is this yukio mishima? / no a different author who committed seppuku after a failed coup to restore the emperor

377 novel results clearly stolen from mathematicians' chat logs

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what if we build god to cure cancer and god would rather just find counterexamples to glup shitto conjectures

Colin@colin-fraser.net · 8h ago

At long last, we have created the largely inert and harmless AI that doesn't really want anything from the classic sci-fi novel If You Happen To Create A Largely Inert And Harmless AI Without Wants Or Autonomy, Stop! Take A Victory Lap! Don't Give It Wants Or Autonomy! Our work has only just begun.

sorry. unfollowing now. i just wanted to support queer poc authors. i didn't know he committed seppuku after a failed coup to restore the emperor of japan.

Kevin put together a couple of images for me of Saturn's rings as seen from the planet's cloud tops for my "Under Alien Skies" public lecture. He's quite good at this.

Kevin M. Gill@kevinmgill.bsky.social · 11h ago

The rings cross the sky brilliantly, seeming to disappear behind the fiery sunset clouds of Los Angeles yesterday. flic.kr/p/2sEPj5g Original: flic.kr/p/2sEHSJe

Yeah you’re supposed to do a decade or more of them, and then understand that it was a slight trick to get better at them, as no teacher was going to say “you’ll be shit at them for ages then you’ll learn” And then you write something you actually like and it’s exactly what you wanted

Thinking back to a year ago, when Ezra Klein did a podcast with Ross Douthat & said that to be competitive Democrats should run anti-abortion candidates in Ohio & Kansas.

YouGov America@today.yougov.com · 8h ago

New YouGov polls of 7 Senate races TX Talarico 50%, Paxton 44% OH Brown 49%, Husted 45% KS Hamilton 48%, Marshall 45% MI El-Sayed 49%, Rogers 48% NE Osborn 48%, Ricketts 47% NH Pappas 51%, Sununu 43% FL Moody 49%, Nixon 44% (Links in reply)

Colour cycling and hi-res Amiga AGA landscapes: A clip from the Mark Ferrari art slideshow production from 2023.

Very excited to get my hands on this! Hat tip to @zephoria.bsky.social

MEN MEN MEN MEN MEN MEN MEN MEN MEN MEN

How the people's minds just broke because they couldn't comprehend how THEY, the privileged, the untouchable, were being subjugated and dehumanized, because THAT HAPPENS OTHER PLACES, NOT HERE.

this has gotten me thinking about how parts could potentially be sourced for newer reproductions of older consoles without resorting to emulation; if we're just talking CPUs, then you're probably out of luck for stuff like Z80 and MIPS, but 6502, PowerPC, and 68k *might* still be on the table

Aftermath@aftermath.site · yesterday

Luke half-seriously wonders: What if...everyone just re-released old consoles instead of trying to sell $1000+ new ones? aftermath.site/ps2-xbox-re-re...

There should be an antitrust argument against Big AI for this business model: 1. Slurp up the open web 2. Open web gets mad, puts everything behind a paywall and a CAPTCHA 3. Big AI continues training models off data they slurped in step 1 4. No competitor can get the same data for cheap

Though it is not really I agree that one can use open weights model like Qwen/GLM/Kimi/Deepseek that captures most of the pre-training data sufficient for above average local intelligence But the problem is that the data itself is not accessible - one can not *legally* train really good LLM

Ted Underwood@tedunderwood.com · yesterday

Something not sufficiently registered in the convo around AI/IP: the value that was gained from pretraining (on our collective legacy) is now common property. People do pay more for frontier models than open ones — but the differences they're paying for, at this point, come from post-training.

It is crazy that people will defend the cultural revolution, an event that achieved nothing good and deeply immiserated hundreds of millions of people, because they think that it’s a different communist policy that immiserated hundreds of millions but did achieve some good things

We can still create wonders

If you live in the following states, TODAY is the last day to register to vote before the midterm elections: Arizona Arkansas Florida Georgia Indiana Kentucky Mississippi Ohio Tennessee Texas IWillVote.com

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · yesterday

this cycle we might get blue iowa better known as bliowa (gov + sen), blalaska (gov + sen), blexas (gov + sen), blohio (gov + sen), and blansas (sen)

the replies to this contain 100,000 variations of the "sickos" comic with different self-insert fursonas in them and that's beautiful

The Onion@theonion.com · yesterday

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Hiding in Plane Sight https://theonion.com/hiding-in-plane-sight/

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Hiding in Plane Sight https://theonion.com/hiding-in-plane-sight/

I don't know if this is common knowledge within AI, but Claude Sonnet 5.5 can absolutely summarize papers. Using this as an entry point into some pro and anti-AI talking points.

Incredible how the editors at @nytimes.com still don't understand how embarrassing it is to do this, and how it undermines the credibility of the paper and its journalists. It's like a toddler covering their face to play hide and seek. We see you but it's not cute, you look like an asshole.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 3d ago

There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.

My latest McDonald's collecting trip haul is all MAC TONIGHT themed! I drove up to Toy Lair in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and came back with a giant in-store appearance costume and over 30 more Mac-themed pieces like signs, posters, hats and even a Doug Jones auto that references the collection!

The loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic

I think often about how the golden age of WWII media came in the 1990’s and early 2000’s when the vets started to pass away in larger and larger numbers, now that there are a fewer than 30,000 left, it seems like it has become “why should I care”

Bill@bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 2d ago

The loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic

Pro tip for retail interactions: become big and intimidating to win