I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."
hard to believe when I started Doing Internet Professionally, we'd tell folks we were making educational videos and they'd be like ... "on the thing for pictures of cats and videos of people falling down?" now every app is full to the brim of people trying to explain shit to me.
Osama bin Laden's great hope for the attack was that the US would overreact -- tear itself apart, destabilize the post-war international order, & sacrifice its moral standing. The Republican Party obliged him, beyond his wildest dreams. (And let him get away!)
This is a good example of how you need quite a lot of detail of how these systems *actually* work to understand what the risks are, and how over-indexing on sci-fi can lead you a bit astray on what the future looks like
brasidas@brasidas.bsky.social · 4w agoAnthropic's models run on terabytes of VRAM. It's not going to "just copy itself to other computers."
at America's Largest Humor Website (at the time) Cracked.com, my job for half a decade was to pick images for the articles. Finding relevant stuff in the public domain was a creative task that often inspired me to write more and better jokes. Even using Getty images was more creative than AI.
Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal.bsky.social · last mo.We already had free art for people who are broke or bad at designing things, it's called the PUBLIC DOMAIN
people ask me if i listen to bieber and i smile simply and say simply yes. Then I show them this and they lose their fucking shit
capitalism is simply the most efficient method for distributing resources* *diarrhea
Mainstream media is 24/7 saturation of poor people committing petty crimes. Shoplifting out of control! Venezuelan thugs are stealing your apartment! Meanwhile billionaires are genocidal serial killers and treated like the pillars of our society
Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · 4mo agoListened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation
Oh youre jacking off to the sabrina carpenter sexy dog pic? Boring. Ill instead be jacking off to the album covers of Schubert , and Strauss
google doodle fans are shocked to see that today's one is just a pic of some guys shit. well played sir, april fools is once again Respected
Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes
