with apologies to the young man who left his extremely well-curated spotify account logged in on the hotel tv: if my daughter didn’t hear elmo’s alphabet rap we were all going to die

All the people who are anti-Chadley or want to mute Chadley, I have one question: If Chadley disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through Final Fantasy VII without him or the Chadley menu? Imagine Chadley was suddenly banned. Would you actually be willing to give him up?

who knew that I could just write a software agent at any point in the last 40 years and have it do crimes on my behalf and be immune from prosecution

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 15h ago

As I said above, focusing on questions of liability might be fruitful in changing the incentives for behaviour through the system

KFC announces their frontier-class model briefly escaped its sandbox and attempted to exfiltrate the 27 herbs and spices

British super-spy fern. The name is Frond. James Frond.

I cannot express the feeling of relief and pleasure I get from seeing people discuss a second Cage piece.

www.classicfm.com/composers/ca...

A 639-year-long John Cage organ piece just changed chord, for the first time in two years

Watch a moment of music history – on Monday a single chord changed in an iconic piece of 20th-century music which ends in the year 2640.

classicfm.com

Nothing is more boring than who will play Bond unless they do Across the Bond-i-verse and have multiple Bonds: Bond Woman, Bond Noir, Punk Bond, Indian Bond, Bond 2099, etc. And there can be a bit where they all say "The name's Bond" at the same time and everyone laughs

Genius. Today I learnt that Gina Rinehart's private jet has been nicknamed the Please Explane

Another beautiful day to leaf through my short self-published report

broke: Die Hard is a Christmas Movie. woke: Die Hard is a retelling of The Odyssey

moby dickgirl@eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 18h ago

omg I found the picture ❤️

ECP@ecppdx.bsky.social · 22h ago

Years ago I coined the milleneuve, which is a unit to measure how horrible the sky color is based on Villeneuve films. Blade Runner 2049 is around 900mn. Today is around 250 I'd say. (It's a very scientific scale.)

When I worked for a web company we had a euphemistically named “ad recovery” team that found ways to bypass ad blockers. The theory was people who used blockers saw so few ads, we could charge much more for the ads they did see! Glad I’m not in that industry any more, to be sure.

Patrick Cosmos@veryimportant.lawyer · yesterday

"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!

Singleton Station is just down the road from the Abstract Factory.

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 23h ago

High Court rules in favour of native title holders fighting Northern Territory water licence

Hey ChatGPT, draw me a federation starship that has developed a debilitating skin condition.

Christopher Owen@oysta.au · 24h ago

The slop is out of control

You are not ready for the level of "why would you DO THAT" here

CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh my god I think I found the video.

With pre-IPO investors able to start selling two days after the call, I'm morbidly curious what conversations must be happening between them trying to coordinate who gets to offload how much without vaporising the remaining value of the stock.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2d ago

SpaceX shares are down by half from their June peak as investors worry Musk may have oversold them on its future prospects.

Following Rod Liddle's death I've been thinking again about the often unacknowledged privilege in being able to see the words of a demagogue as just things you disagree with rather than things that threaten people.

I saw a pretty funny YouTube video a while back by a guy who entered an amateur jiu-jitsu tournament and just refused to let himself get taken down while his opponent got more and more upset.

Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2d ago

You can be a jiu-jitsu Black belt. It doesn't matter. If you're going against a wrestler that knows *just enough* jiu-jitsu, that they don't want to roll around on the ground with you? They can "just stand up." Or they can KO you from the ground. If you're a celebrity? Don't dare people to try you

evergreen

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d ago

The richest person in the world, an avowed white supremacist, today again posted "the next step is getting rid of 'source code' entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI" because he has no idea how anything works, not even the basics of industries he is in.

A long-solidified tube of super glue.

'Box ✨@ionawonderbox.bsky.social · 2d ago

A random loose screw that fell out of something and you are not sure what.

"Kew Gardens has had a weather station since 1871. This July was, based on third party analysis of Met Office data collected at the site, the first calendar month on record where no rainfall was measured at Kew."

London's first month without rain

Plus: There's nowhere to bury the dead • London wants to keep its money • When will it stop being so damn hot • Who is to blame for turning off the air conditioning in the tower block?

londoncentric.media

Romance game announces hot werewolf boyfriend. Players revolt because this might mean their boyfriends will get fewer updates. Game cancels hot werewolf boyfriend. Players who wanted hot werewolf boyfriend revolt. Everyone unhappy. Game revenue craters.

Important crossover event

in roughly 15 years I’m going to switch my professional focus to giving therapy to kids whose parents raised them with AI and I’m going to make enough money to buy San Francisco

and GOD IS EMPTY JUST LIKE ME

Another study on youth transition that find that about 97% of all youth who says they're trans turn out to be. Only 1.1% who start HRT stopped it for any reason whatsoever. This is, like, the fifth youth transition study that I'm aware of, and all of their results have been identical.

Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 3d ago

Canadian researchers found that 97 percent of youth who seek treatment for gender dysphoria still identify as trans years later.

Whenever a frontier lab AI CEO says that AGI will create a utopia, I play out the following thought experiment; imagine the Trump administration had a computer that could answer any question correctly. Would that world be a utopia? Is the lack of AGI what prevents our world from being a utopia?

Anyone who buys a pair of these should be put on a list.

Asher Wolf@asherwolf.bsky.social · 4d ago

Kmart is selling surveillance camera glasses for $89. Stock has completely sold out

I had somehow managed to avoid discovering this part of the Yudkowsky backstory before today.

Sarah Z@sarahz.bsky.social · 4d ago

Nothing I revealed in that video about my teen OCs is more embarrassing than clicking onto my old fanfiction dot net profile and finding this.