if it was a guard rails problem it would be one of those "we're thinking about taking the concrete barriers between the driving lane and the bike lane out because drivers keep crashing into them" ones

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 40m ago

It’s not a guardrails problem but rather a fascism problem.

went to DQ in garibaldi right as they opened and have to kill 5 min waiting for grill to warm up. shooting shit with worker. he says fair this weekend. i said with the pig thing? he says yeah one year i took 3rd. i said is there a trick to it? he says with pigs? you just grab 'em n go

for those who celebrate: it is the 20th anniversary of a funny dog eat a pepsi.

Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

Analysts estimate that 70%+ of Microsoft, Google and Amazon's present and future AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI's compute spend and model sales. Outside of two unsustainable AI labs, demand barely exists, and they've massively overbuilt capacity. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-deman...

The AI Demand Bubble

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But what does Emily Wilson think of the 1982 Arcade game JOUST?

Nancy 8/1/26

Justice for Gwen Pepperoni

Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.

The “best” thing about genAI (the quotes are doing heavy work here) is that it’s really lowered the bar on getting into hand-made art. Literally anything you make is better than ai. There’s never been a better time to throw away your fear and start learning that craft you’ve always wanted to learn.

Whatever you do don’t take me to The Island from The Prisoner! I’d hate to live in a cool rent free apartment full of bold late 60s modern furniture haha noooo a bubble don’t chase me haha

I have strong critical thinking skills: ⚪️ strongly disagree ⚪️ disagree ⚪️ neutral ⚪️ agree 🔘 strongly agree I often stand up quickly and bang my head into the upper cabinet door I just opened so hard I see stars: ⚪️ strongly disagree ⚪️ disagree ⚪️ neutral ⚪️ agree 🔘 strongly agree

The problem with using an LLM for some narrow use case where you think it’s actually appropriate is that you’re using it in the context of a UX system designed to make you expand your usage and change your views of what is “appropriate”

GRASS IS LIKE HUMAN BEINGS

bought candy at the pool for a 13yo and she tried to give me cash. i was like nahh it's nbd, and she goes "girl i have seen your car." 13yo girls remain undefeated. you think you're talking to a child but you're actually talking to whatever gods used to send to punish mortals for their hubris

when my child misbehaves i make him go stare at the old Hardee’s fry statue

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

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A bar sign in Japan

This is the part where I say something like "we're 6 months from having ADHD desisters" and one of you is going to immediately send me an article from a British news site about ADHD desisters.

mcc@dryad.technology · 7d ago

It was never going to stop at trans people.

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

the more llm use you endorse the less i am willing or able to trust you the privileged myopia necessary for you to forgive or approve of the pillaging by and impact of hyperscaling cannot possibly be limited to a single domain, which makes you a missing stair

say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please

minnesota was the first state to pass a ban on AI nudification technology. it passed unanimously in the senate and 132-1 in the evenly-divided house, and is set take effect beginning Aug. 1.

fuck off, you

part of why I don't like AI is bc it's so often the antithesis of caring for the little things, the appreciation of the mundane, of seeing beauty where others haven't yet been able to, and seeking genuine fundamental understanding all in the name of "get product faster" I find it so disheartening

At first I read this as a sign about the band TOOL and it was much funnier that way

I wrote a whole book about this! And it wasn’t hard to find people to include; it was hard to narrow the list down from *OVER A HUNDRED* early gamedevs

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many of the early and most successful game designers and developers were women most people don't remember their names today, or recall that video game history started before the Boys Toys era funny that many of the games I grew up loving most were designed by women and I never knew til years later

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns