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Very funny for one of the first big ai workshop sessions at work this week to be full on "actually maybe don't use this to make marketing materials because the ones we did use it for got everyone yelling at us and our shitty photoshops got much more positive response"

guess i should contextualize this a little in the comics, after bonding with the symbiote, peter's spider-sense is completely desensitized to it due to venom adapting to cancel it out, so since symbiotes don't trigger it in-universe, spider-man's 623X doesn't work on carnage

Kaius ⛔@kaius.bsky.social · yesterday

Spider-Man's 623X doesn't work on Carnage and twitter is mad about having this attention to detail in gameplay and i'm just here thinking about how ArcSys made Souther immune to an entire super move in HnK because of his mirrored internal organs and nodding my head approvingly

Related thought: a major weakness of this kinda guy, that AI reinforces, is that saying some bullshit that sounds plausible is seen as preferential to admitting "I don't know", which is in fact always much more helpful

Having a special interest or two is really handy because you learn to spot not just bullshit but also the ways people who are bullshitting talk, which is then useful for spotting them in subjects you don't know as much about too. This is, of course, extra useful in the age of the tech bro

This is the same old "you can't solve weightlifting with a forklift" thing that happens again and again with current consumer uses of AI: the point of reading a book is not to finish the book easily, it's to READ the book, especially if the book asks you to do something that feels difficult

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d ago

Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

Axios: AI has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.

Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books — a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane — makes it easy to lose the thread. AI can help you pick it back up without starting over.
📖 I really got into using AI while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:

"I'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."