just heard Steve Appleton, founder of LA River Kayak Safari, passed away. we've taken the tour w/ Steve twice and planned to again LARKS was fun but Steve was also clearly passionate about the environment, the city, and how they're both actually one thing. RIP gofund.me/a31ae9a3e

Donate to In Loving Memory of Steve Appleton, organized by Julia Meltzer

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Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

thenerve.news

incredible that Disney is doing this, honestly www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbmA...

The X-Files: I Want to Believe - Vrach Frankenshteyn | Official Trailer | Hulu

YouTube video by Hulu

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porn on main

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 20h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

to look upon the face of JD power is to feel the wrath of his associates

Andy-Life Equation@andymichaelart.bsky.social · 2d ago

Even now I can feel the JD power coursing through my associates

The Drama is so good, how was everyone so lukewarm on it

legit touching to find a typo in any corporate communication now and confirm someone actually took a second to think about what to say to you

Even now I can feel the JD power coursing through my associates

i remain team sheepstealer

damn need this as a sticker or something

old roadside pics@roadside.xor.blue · 3d ago

freezo ice cream sign, knoxville, tennessee, 1984

my favorite part of spider-man brand new day is when peter invents nazi technology

You know ai is the future because every time a popular creator gets caught using it they have to make big dramatic statements and beg their viewers for forgiveness

At the risk of making generalizations I really think men, particularly, need to be concerned about this. The kind of attention they are socialized to want is exactly what’s being exploited here, and other men are going to need to yank their bros out of this.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 5d ago

YouTuber Hank Green Admits He Has Unhealthy Relationship With AI After Facing Backlash Over Recent Video 'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Green

if i had a job i could disappear from for 47 days, id wanna keep it too

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 5d ago

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell appears to have "signed" a letter despite being in rehab for mobility issues. He has not been seen publicly for 47 days.

probably fine

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 7d ago

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

remembering this finding for some reason today www.businessinsider.com/analysis-tru...

Damning analysis of Trump's pandemic response suggested 40% of US COVID-19 deaths could have been avoided

A medical journal compared the number of US COVID-19 deaths — the highest in the world — with the deaths in similarly wealthy countries.

businessinsider.com

It's genuinely insane that it's a mainstream belief that the problem with COVID was that we did *too much* to address it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Rep. Ogles: "Look, I don't want to play down the effects of the virus, but at the end of the day it had a roughly 1 percent mortality rate. We coulda gotten through this."

hot cyclopean summer (counting sheep, flailing at annoyances, shrieking alone in the dark)

peace out, SDCC ✌🏻

SDCC friends: in one hour, i'm manning the @odysseycomics.bsky.social table and signing copies of me and @hvon.bsky.social's Slight Return, come say hi! aisle 900, table H-10 📌

the fact that so few businesses come to these clear-eyed and pretty obvious conclusions gives you a picture of the people running most companies

Daniel Fedor@dcfedor.bsky.social · 2w ago

Blue Bottle Games, as a policy, does not use generative AI. It's something we've discussed as a team, weighing the pros and cons, and ultimately, we decided it was not for us. Recently, while chatting with a colleague, she mentioned it was useful hearing our reasoning. So: Sharing time! 1/12

televise the eisners

the odyssey reminded me of that old reagan quote

okay SDCC is officially here, so here's my stuff this wknd: 💥 Saturday, 5pm (room 11): our "Level Up" creating comics panel w/ @zombietardis.bsky.social and others ✍🏻 Sunday, 2pm (table H-10) i'm signing copies of Slight Return at the @odysseycomics.bsky.social table see you there! #comics 4eva!

a.) lol no he didn't b.) but these ppl def would if they could c.) i have a sci-fi thriller spec about this very thing, netflix or whoever plz call me www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Biohacker Bryan Johnson says he’s ‘cloned himself as a baby’ to harvest its organs

‘This technology gives us a path to reverse aging,’ says 48-year-old tech entrepreneur

independent.co.uk

"it's not just safe, it's 40% safe!"

Chris Vannini@chrisvannini.com · 2w ago

What's a Futurama line that lives forever in your head? Mine is, "Oh, a lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm My Own Grandpa."

imagine being a u.s. soldier dying for this particular war

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to hang out in the middle east while he starts the same war every day. when a missile blasts you into pieces he'll say your last words were "we must build a new ballroom in the white house" before your body is even cold. good luck soldier

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump on fallen US troops: "All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.'"