remember that guy who got shot and they made an ai video of him forgiving the guy who killed him at the trial. if i die, please don't make a video saying it's ok the guy shot me
"I thought the victim seemed genuine in the AI generated video made after his death"
Per the last RT this is a v reasonable position to land on, what ends up being a problem is people who cultivate ignorance and then still spend all day on the soapbox getting things wrong. It's important to be a well-informed hater so that you can hate with precision.
rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · yesterdaywith all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life
feels like there is a group of smart and well-intentioned people who long ago made up their minds that AI Is Bad, swore off using it, and now get all their info about AI from each other. not saying they're wrong that ai is bad! but i think they're gradually losing touch with what it is and does
Colin@colin-fraser.net · 3d agoI really wasn’t trying to start a fight with Prof. Bender but now that she has created a long thread subtweeting me and her disciples are all yelling at me, let me just say that this is the crux right here. She seems to respond as though I am describing something a priori impossible.
Can't blame people for trying to make a buck but "artisan" markets filled with identical mass produced crap, half of it AI. Miserable.
Leaving Mexico for the foreseeable tomorrow so I'm having a final ceviche.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... suspect for most people the main benefit of Feeld isn't the kink aspect so much as the successful branding and sex-positive aspect acting as an effective idiot filtration system, which will be lost if it gets much more popular.
Kinky dating app Feeld’s founders share in record £3.8m dividend after sales jump
UK app ‘for the curious’ says users outside the UK account for nearly 90% of its revenues
theguardian.com
someone explained to me that altitude sickness is just caused by your body being tricked into not breathing on autopilot enough. you can just fix it by breathing manually. you just have to think about breathing. idiotic. would rather just perish.
my view on Lichtenstein is that it looks very pleasing. I saw a couple of his at the Guggenheim. also very pleasing when they're big and in-person.
mattie lubchansky@mattielubchansky.com · 2d agoREADING SOMEONE SAYING LICHTENSTEIN WAS A TALENTLESS HACK PIECE OF SHIT: oh yea absolutely READING SOMEONE LAYING OUT IN CONVINCING TERMS WHY HIS WORK IS INTERESTING: oh right forgot about that READING A DIFFERENT PERSON CALLING HIM A HACK: fuck him READING ANOTHER ARGUMENT ABOUT WHY HE'S GOOD: oh y
best song ever written about going to a shit wedding and getting into a fight?
to be fair i don't find it much more insane than what the pope already believes
Parkscope Joe@parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 2d agoThis is insane.
ended up staying in co-working accommodation mostly because of the location and the cost, but I've found to my disgust that I'm quite enjoying going to the "office", having a proper desk and chair rather than working in cafés and pounding back soft drinks, saying good morning to the same people.
interviews have significantly modernised and become less strict and deferent over my working years, as hiring managers have also got younger and less hidebound. now the millennials who have benefited from that have decided that the new status quo is correct and are condescending to Gen Z about it.
Without Pity@withoutpity.bsky.social · 2d agoWho are these two thirds of people that think bringing a coffee into a job interview is unacceptable?
Similarly, the conference "Young Labour " disco , a fun event with the Sugarbabes with DJ sets from Emily Thornberry + Culture Sec Lisa Nandy was funded by TikTok. They pay for access, Nandy is in charge of u16 ban/regulation of TikTok
@solomonhughes.bsky.social · 2d agoA small example of how Labour Conference works- the "Transport Reception " with the Secretary of State isnt held by Transport Unions, its funded by Amey , a privatiser "named and shamed" for breaking minimum wage laws this year. The "shame" doesn't stop Ministers doing their gigs.
in terms of ratio of bad writing to good, I think it would have to be something popular and contemporary which attracts little or no academic attention, so the critical writing is largely folk analysis, tumblr and post-tumblr, fan wikis and so forth. so I don't know Homestuck or something.
Judy Berman@judyberman.bsky.social · 2d agoWhat work of art, in any medium, do you think has generated the largest volume of bad critical writing?
think Amol Rajan might be the only celebrity more obviously 'imposed' on us than Matt Forde. took Progress & the agency 15yrs to make Forde a thing but he did eventually get fans (awful wankers who talk about 'box set politics'). only 2 people on the planet who like Rajan are Rajan & Rupert Murdoch
So it's Eze and....Madueke on the left? Dowman first reserve on the right? To be honest I think Tzolis has been a bit up-and-down and Eze has a higher ceiling than him on that side, I can live with this. And it likely means more minutes for Max if he can handle it. Not panicking yet.
Yossi Gol ⚽️@yossigol.bsky.social · 2d agoTzolis did his hamstring against the Netherlands and left the pitch in tears 🤬
www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-... I like discussing books (obviously) but never really got on with book clubs unless you get a really good crowd who you're friends with anyway. Same with writing and poetry groups. I don't have the tolerance to listen to people talk shit past a certain point.
‘I will see you in the parking lot after this’: when book clubs get dramatic
Book clubs can be fun, fulfilling and interesting – but many members have seen a meeting or group go down in flames
theguardian.com
They've literally announced the outcome and you didn't respect it, dickhead!
Henry Zeffman@hzeffman.bsky.social · 3d agoNEW Downing Street issues fresh statement on Man City case in an attempt to clarify Andy Burnham's comments to Chris Mason yesterday
There is no counterargument that satisfies his followers because his argument is elaborate question-begging and him and his followers don’t know enough about the real world to see this. There is no counterargument to “a malevolent supernatural entity would be very scary and dangerous”. It would!
rich@theresrich.bsky.social · 3d agoI'd think if Yud was wrong about AI being a potential threat, *someone* would be able to construct an actually decent counterargument against him This "what a weirdo", "haha so dumb" shit would obvs exist either way, but there would *also* be, like, somebody who could formulate a coherent rebuttal