I don’t understand this one, in what way is the gen-AI’d version supposed to be better?
I mean, I think using the tool is bad for ethical reasons but it also isn’t an improvement (?)
a skeet about how Trump's illegal warmongering is setting us back re: global nuclear non-proliferation
MY BABY COULDN'T DO THE CHA CHA CHA
So I dunno if it's ADHD or what but I have that thing where I get EXTREMELY LOUD earworms at all times and I need you all to understand that I am trying to process all this WW3 stuff to the soundtrack of "Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha" by Sam Cooke at 100 decibels on a loop.
It's also impossible to overstate how useful I have found my undergrad Intro to Philosophy course to be in my daily life, it's probably the single most universally-applicable class I have ever taken.
This is a wonderful thread of quotes from Mary Everest Boole, a pioneering mathematician and (I'd argue) developmental psychologist. She beautifully describes the power of mathematics for seeing beyond appearances and, especially, for providing tools to define exactly what we do not know. 🧪
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” - James Baldwin
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
I have historically thought of myself as sort of a sullen embarrassment of a person, but lately it’s been nice to discover that at least I’m not in the set of like 30% of white guys that deserve to be punched off the top of a skyscraper by Robocop
Every picture of Sam Altman and Jensen Huang they look like they can see the It Follows monster just off camera
Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.
Pomegranate juice bottle that says POM
ONE CUT OF THE DEAD (2017)
I’ve always said that the logical endpoint of Facebook is a website full of dead people wishing each other a happy birthday
The boring part of Monopoly where the winner is determined and you just have to wait for everyone else to go bankrupt and die
Cory Doctorow's term for this is "reverse centaur.": doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
The joke is on them because being an AI teetotaler while they're offloading critical thinking skills to the sycophantic, planet-burning, plagiarizing algorithm only makes me smugger. My smugness could power an entire data center and only needs 64 ounces of water a day.
I looked, they do repost on YouTube for us non-IG users: www.youtube.com/@tastebuds_n...
It probably goes without saying(?) but it's very possible that downloading these would result in possessing material that is illegal to possess.
“Real.”
episode 053
Maybe because some of us, when we put a big fuckin’ statue in the harbor of our biggest city that says “Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free” on it, we mean it.
because they kick fuckin ass next question
I’ve seen this film thirty times since the 80s but my kids noped out of it after 20 minutes.
Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds
Reddit’s iOS icon is some kind of 2026 NYE party logo
uh, read the room, iOS Reddit app
We’re articulating our approach to generative AI so musicians can keep making music and fans can trust the music they find on Bandcamp.
To paraphrase @charalanahzard.bsky.social : the more you know about a topic, the more AI tends to get it wrong, so you should only ask it about things you know nothing about
selling baby’s shoes, babies can’t walk
David Lynch in the filming set speaking in the megaphone. He says “Okay, let's try that again, but this time good.”
Here’s to 2026
If George Lucas had had genai instead of having Ralph McQuarrie we'd be in a completely different and dumber world right now.
