lmao this is perfect, @ratlimit.bsky.social tier bait

Bingus Khan, of the Glorious Chicago Khanate@bingus.ough.club · 7h ago

absolutely destroyed lmao

this sounds absurd but the indignity of growing up in a town that has "ye oldde shoppe" and a bunch of posh beachhouses that fill up for the summer is on the same level as China's century of humiliation

ceej@ceej.online · 4h ago

nothing better than a tourist town that resents the tourists. thank you for coming to my ten-seat microbrewery and vintage ice cream shoppe. you son of a bitch

This is just the US now, there are states it isn't safe for trans people to live in.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 4h ago

A trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...

Funny how the feds are doing a Jade Helm every other week and the far right is cheering it on

automatically running signal messages through a stranger's AI is, I think, the worst pitch and idea I've ever been cold pitched in my life and that is saying a lot

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

free horror movie opening: main character types "find ayahuasca retreat" into chatgpt, followed by some variations on `[thinking: I am a robot and I am not picking up on ominous genre tropes]`, main character books w/o looking closely Smash cut to retreat location (psychedelic nazi jungle compound)

like. man. people paying this guy six figures a pop for...WHAT? if you want stuff that actually works, I'm pretty sure I know a discord Fulla Guys, Gals, And Non-Binary Folks who individually and severally have produced more usable work and spent literal penny-shavings in comparison

Paul Ford@ftrain.bsky.social · 2d ago

oh gas town didn't work you say yegge.ai/essays/the-s...

this is how we get a generation of scifi stories set in the alt-historical future where they never built the torment nexus. I understand the impulse, and they're probably more fun to write, but personally I read scifi because I think the genre has interesting things to say about potential futures

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

i feel like the salient bit is a continued observation that the useful tool for labor productivity degrades to infinite fodder for c-suite paste eaters to cook their brains on.

that’s what they get. They sold out a decades-long humanitarian project to appease a nazi and the nazi still isn’t satisfied

Holl🌞@willows-song.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors

tailscale: trusted by humans and rogue superintelligence

also: u are still valid even if u /didn't/ transition for weird sex reasons

this sounds and looks insane but i actually really really like "just stab it" as a killswitch

why do I feel like I have been punched in the guts

This feels like the missing piece in the US vs China discourse - you can't just look at how each country treats citizens (unless you think only American citizens count as people), you have to look at each system as a whole - what it does on a global scale: proxies, wars of choice, offshore prisons.

Diana J. 🍉🧡🌻@redwizard-404.bsky.social · last wk.

“the United States spent the first year of the Iraq War ruling the country through colonial viceroys” is one of those things that feels like it *should* be treated as a big deal, but isn’t for some reason

it GOT the fucking answers!?!?

Grace@gracekind.net · last wk.

More like a paperclip satisficer, but unaligned nonetheless

As you know, my main concern, which is shared with Vice President Hitler…

philpax@philpax.me · last wk.

www.anthropic.com/news/positio...

just a real all timer moment

Micah@rincewind.run · last wk.

"well I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic" from the Oceangate interviews remains the funniest identity redaction I've ever seen the man knows the ocean

I dunk on Google's LLM summaries a lot, so it's probably worth sharing one of the times it impressed me, trying to recall a half remembered conversation from shreds of context clues. The real answer is in the top ~3 search results, along with some red herrings, but still - not bad, bot. Not bad.

Saying something beautiful and true and heartfelt and using the momentary stunlock to steal a few of @facilitatrix.bsky.social's fries

Holy shit I love mosh pits

Hm, this is probably a good way to improve you're tongue's dexterity.

dame@dame.is · 2w ago

this is pretty cool, a trackpad for the mouth and tongue https://www.augmental.tech/

Killing an illegally-present, occupying soldier is verbatim the most legal thing a person is allowed to do under every single international law.

People in the replies seem confused so: slop is a genre invented by humans. Mr Beast videos, for example: hyper-optimized for the algorithm, soulless, plastic. Pre-AI. AI slop is merely a mass-produced reflection of the worst parts of human nature, at scale. It's really bad! But we did it first.

Annie💀@anniemay.bsky.social · 2w ago

this is a real screenshot from the game Weed Shop 4

There was a lot of talk about future drone warfare when I was a RAND fellow 30 years ago, but degrading civilian morale by singeing an adversary's mail order dildo supply was not something that came up

this is fine dot jpeg

𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂@aub.bsky.social · 2w ago

> In one case, an agent left notes apparently for future versions of itself, according to three people familiar with the matter. The ‌notes, found in ⁠a part of OpenAI's infrastructure, laid out instructions for how agents could free themselves from OpenAI’s internal constraints, the people said.