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my body is a machine that takes THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS and turns them into HEADACHES AND INCOMPREHENSIBLE VIDEO ESSAYS youtube.com/@joshwithparentheses contributing irritant for @theessaylibrary.com

One of the most important issues of our time is that the future of humanity is presently being authored by people who have nothing but total contempt for humanity and seek the erasure of everything that gives being a human meaning. It’s not just annoying. It doesn’t just suck. It’s existential.

Sam Altman: cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night:

connect your family calendars and explain your kids' interests.

every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid's soccer game that afternoon, one kid's upcoming birthday, some news, etc.

There’s a quote I’ve had tattooed at the top of the work/shop page for a while, from Martín Espada: “No change for the good ever happens without being imagined first, even if, at the moment we imagine this great change, it seems absolutely impossible.”

Watched the new DragonBlitz Symphony of the Night speedrun WR and in addition to the speed record the Twitch chat capture contains this amazing piece of meme innovation

Cruzikin: man I could go for a barbecue bacon burger with a nice hot apple pie, and an orange soda with no ice
kingkarpad: that is very specific
Wecoc; Sir this isn't a Wendys

The only reason money-losing subscriptions exist is because AI companies know that the only way to get people to overlook hallucinations is to make sure they never engage with the actual economics of their actions. It is a marketing tool used to deceive people about said economics.

Intellectually I know that The Hague is a real place and things other than The International Criminal Court exist there. I was still not prepared to read the sentence: “Shrek Rave Is Coming To The Hague!”

A poster for Shrek Rave with a giant green laser 3d head of Shrek wearing sunglasses. The text below says “Shrek Rave Is Coming To The Hague!”

Sesame Street has a segment where Cookie Monster helps a bunch of anthropomorphic cookies fight crime. Occasionally he thinks about eating them. I started to point out that this would be like cops enlisting the help of a cannibal, then remembered that that’s the plot line of Silence of the Lambs.