ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

I HAVE BEEN SUBSIDIZING WALMART AND AMAZON STARVING THEIR EMPLOYEES FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Even Pokopia has 3 blood shower rave orgies, it's an essential part of any story involving farming

"I don't understand why you, a fantasy writer, don't appreciate the value of making bargains with the fae."

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

Gotta post my favorite Wikipedia excerpt again

SCP@10-5.bsky.social · 3d ago

Absolutely unrelated to anything important here, but this is one of the funniest Wikipedia entries I’ve read

Worship in the (not yet realized) powers of AI has become a mania that has infected the powerful and wealthy of the world. It will go down in history next to other manias, like dancing, tulips, the Satanic Panic, Slenderman, etc.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d ago

Suresh describes this as a literal religious mania. In the 500+ employee businesses Suresh studied, the only people who were promoted - or even spared from being fired - were people who professed "religious declarations of faith" about "the transformative power of AI." 23/

there are definitely downsides to the nuclear block but the reason I keep coming back to it as necessary and good is that it completely ruined the whole MAGA engagement model to the point that they prefer to mock us from the nazi bar rather than come here to troll us directly

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

I genuinely hate when kpop companies say Rosemont instead of Chicago, or Duluth instead of Atlanta, or (lesser known Texas city). We all know it's not in the actual huge city. Just tell us the nearest huge city so we know which airport to plan for, ffs!!

Anna@springchives.bsky.social · 2d ago

what I love about these US shows is that I have no idea where the fuck they are. East Rutherford sounds like a place you ended up at for missing a turn, like where the hell are you, are you okay, do you need me to come get you

A new page of Dead Winter is ready to read! deadwinter.cc/page/686 Old business is old business, and new business is new business, and we can't start new business until we've settled the old business. There are only fourteen pages left to draw until the end of the comic. Feels like it's so soon!

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this should be sufficient evidence to put Mario Lopez in jail for life imo

Rich Bradley@richbradley.org · 3d ago

Regrettably his prompt is also visible

being an uncle means you can just ramble about whatever and kids will just Listen. my favorite nephew followed me out for a cig and we proceeded to talk about the black death, the soviet union, the evolution of the english language and how sturgeons are basically prehistoric

Welcoming Street Fighter's Yasmine to the small but notable clique of Filipino Fighting Game women. #streetfighter #tekken #soulcalibur #deadoralive

We had a tattooist open up in the village recently, and all of her signage and ads are AI. Like! I'm not trusting you to permanently mark my body!

Tidal recently updated theirs to include an AI policy: all genai music will be tagged, impersonating an artist using AI gets you banned, no monetisation for ai music. And there is a setting to exclude all AI music. I'm pretty happy with those changes

dude turn on the news. any channel

you should really read these books, especially if: - you like speculative fiction that is doing something really, really different - you like your magic to have rules but also need a kind of strict poesis - you think skeletons are cool

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i completely missed it the first time but Yeri also kills this guy lol

Yeri coming in with the crossbow but she didnt miss this time 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

I think this is fundamentally wrong but in an interesting way I will need to write about sometime. The key is a) consumers do not choose what is produced, or how, they choose between what is produced. This is a crucial difference

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d ago

I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.

I really hate this trend in horror novels to go Trigger Warning: this book is NASTY and SCARY and NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED. If you're not ready BACK AWAY NOW. idk man maybe a trigger warning should warn people about triggers instead of stroking your ego

This is the best description I think of the guiding principle of *any* adaptation.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 5d ago

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EA’s CEO got an $8 million raise thanks to how well Battlefield 6 performed — four months after the devs responsible for making the game got laid off. https://t.co/KZKhVBOL6O

researchers: every unit of currency we put into this welfare service not only makes the user's life materially better, but returns about 150% of the spending in how it benefits society more broadly. right wing: ok but what if too many people use it though? also "too many" is "more than zero" here

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

I’ve started referring to them as language models again. Somehow suggesting a language model is conscious seems weirder to people than saying an “AI” is; it escapes this particular coin trick.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2d ago

"Predicting what you'll say through an understanding based on a theory of your mind" and "predicting what you'll say based on a statistical analysis of your utterances" might produce the same *outputs*, but they are *not* the same trick. You can tell by what happens when the trick fails. 14/

It’s a little known fact but the Himalaya were the first mountain range to use a pronoun.