Amazon has now auto-enabled Alexa Shopping AI chatbot and it is so fucking annoying. It takes up a third of the screen. There is no way to turn it off, I just have to keep clicking the close button every time I search something. It is so fucking obtrusive and totally unnecessary.

It never fails. At my base, if you don't stay on top of mowing your back yard you get a note saying you have 48 hours to correct it or they notify your First Sergeant. For some reason they never ever send these notes out on Fridays, but always early in the week when everyone works during the day.

Hell, I'm pretty sure that by most socially-accepted standards, I'm considered a pretty decent guy and I know for a fact there are folks who have spoken ill of me already. I promise not to be mad if they want to keep talking shit after I've become past-tense.

KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · 2d ago

It is my hope that when I die, the world doesn't say a loud "good riddance bitch." I am trying to avoid that fate by *not* being a spectacularly awful person. However, if I do become awful, have at it. aka: Consequences.

"You should never speak ill of the dead!" Historians:

Wayne's World: I Was Not Aware Of That

Alt: Wayne's World: I Was Not Aware Of That

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Kate Watson@loreandordure.com · 3y ago

Once again for those at the back: ‘Don’t speak ill of the dead’ is about your great aunt Elsie, who liked a long gin with a short tonic at elevenses, and blew your inheritance money betting on the horses. Speaking ill of absolute monsters is a moral obligation, actually.

"Bluesky is a political echo chamber" okay but I'm mostly here to chat with fun internet people and post art and make jokes, I cannot stress how much I don't care

Apropos of nothing, the best argument in favor of BCE/CE over BC/AD is that it is based on a single language and not a confusing mix of English and Latin.

A single piece of confetti is called a ‘confetto.’ spaghetti = spaghetto graffiti = graffito

forcing myself to not respond to the person who quote-tweeted this to say i'm discounting poor and marginalized people who need to use AI as a free research tool. does it matter if the research tool is free if it's also often completely inaccurate? how is that benefiting the poor & marginalized?

Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈@midimyers.com · 5d ago

it's actually sad as hell to use AI for research when research is the fun part. you can just email people and call them on the phone and ask them questions about the thing that they have expertise in. you can read documents & learn cool shit. ok now i'm just talking about how being a reporter is fun

You will never guess the context for this 😂

“Olive Garden. When you’re here, you’ll need ID.”@schoolbus5.bsky.social · 2d ago

So now we are gatekeeping how one obtains dopamine? The big takeaway from posts like yours and the rest comes down to: Questioning his claim because it is not your experience, so therefore something is amiss.

Ben Shapiro visited England and Wales this summer

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 2d ago

England and Wales both experienced the "driest July on record," the UK Met Office weather agency said, based on provisional figures. 📸 Justin Tallis

This reminds me of the half-joke about how computer geeks don't really trust technology as far as they can throw it because they know better.

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

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

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

I think it also revealed just how quickly a bunch of otherwise very hard problems can be to solve with global collective action. The fuckin Ganga was running clear water for the only time in my lifetime because for 2 weeks nobody threw garbage in it. The canals in Venice had fish.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

lmao

Isekai as a genre is exploding in popularity because it appeals to a universal desire to get hit by a truck rather than live in the 21st century.

Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.

This is beautiful Charlie 💋👌 this is going to mess with their heads so badly 😂

I've apparently made an "AI" forum on Reddit very angry www.reddit.com/r/accelerate...

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suuuuuuure wasn’t mine either but imagine actually talking to us to learn our experiences before just… unilaterally and incorrectly declaring what our childhoods were like

Winter@kernowshark.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Trans women who like girls didn't get homophobic abuse when they were children because they were perceived as straight boys" I can see how a person would think that, but it sure wasn't my experience.

Nobody does a better job of arguing against the use of AI than the companies pushing AI on us.

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · last wk.

This is fucked up. Newsmax is worse than Fox.

OH MY GOD THIS THIS IS WHAT I KEEP TRYING TO PUT INTO WORDS it’s not that absurdly bizarre stuff happens in my vicinity! it’s that i notice stuff happening that other people blank out

Neon Genesis Ewangelion@ewacat.bsky.social · last wk.

ii told this to my manager before we had a Meeting and he was delighted. he asked "how is your street the one where everything happens?" and i had to explain the thing about my type of ADHD is the world being like a kaleidoscope of input with no filter, therefore i notice more weird shit

I’m not saying you shouldn’t learn how to make clothing. I’m saying repairing clothing is actually what’s going to save you money. Hi, I’m Anna, I have gotten quoted out of context (again), and I used to make historical garments and costume pieces. I sewed a lot.

I have an idea: Everyone with a net worth of more than a million dollars should be conscripted for military service where they will specifically be required to work rear-area support jobs like logistics, maintenance, etc.

Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · last wk.

Once you have a lot of money it becomes easier to get more money by doing nothing, which disincentivizes work. This is why all our billionaires post insane bullshit all day. If they had to work they'd be too busy to act like this, doubly benefiting society

If I forgot to say so on here, Supergirl is, in my not so humble opinion, a great film. The protagonists are hurting and messy and as a result the whole film takes on an entirely different tone than Superman did the previous year.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · last wk.

Hey so also: it’s available on streaming, and I really think you should watch Supergirl, which is about women healing from trauma and beating the shit out of sex trafficking incels. news.chanda.science/archive/you-...

On this note, one of these days I'm going to have to watch a Christopher Nolan film that doesn't have Batman in it. Given my usual tastes it's honestly weird that I haven't seen any of his other stuff.

Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They)@gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · last wk.

Having finally read Emily Wilson's review of Nolan's The Odyssey that has Nolan's fans so up in arms, that's an entirely fair (and excellently crafted) critique. Even without having seen The Odyssey, the failings Wilson cites are what constantly plague his films, and she is not being ungenerous. ->

I have encountered a mildly annoying bug in IMDB's search engine. One time in however many searches, instead of pulling up search results, it sends me to a login page. Running the search again clears this out but it's still a weird thing for it to do.

I was enjoying this historical romance, but her nipples just “pouted” and I don’t know what to do with that. Have my tits smiled and I just never knew?