Computer Funeral

“For sale: baby shoes, never worn” but instead of being sad it’s just a weird way to accurately describe every baby shoe at the Babies R Us

Reflect Orbital Sunlight after dark

@raaleh.bsky.social A startup that wants to launch giant mirrors into space so they can reflect the sun to paying customers on the dark side of the world when rich people want a little more daylight

www.reflectorbital.com

How much of Ezra Klein’s success and influence is directly attributable to sounding like he’s doing an Ira Glass impersonation at all times

Pretty sure they’re just announcing a forthcoming ad-free podcast feed and not actually soliciting design feedback here bub

Unbelievably niche and incredibly accurate

Lost the battle, won the war

Look dog I’m not saying that it’s not real, just that it’s not verifiable unless you saw it early and maybe being aware of what’s possible with the software is a good thing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Getting the sense that a lot of people don’t realize the protocol Bluesky runs on technically lets you backdate posts

“No way to prevent this,” says only nation where this regularly happens

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Greg you need to find a new adjective I mean jfc

Normal

The moral position is to point and laugh at this loser

My dudes

I know there are bills to pay but gotta say that transitioning directly from making fun of Alex Jones into a lengthy ad read for Brain Pills™ kinda strains credibility

Go pound bongos, let them have fun

Do you guys think the guy from Decembrists has ever just popped a cold one with his boys or is he stuck in-character spilling ale from the cistern and whatnot

He’s having too much fun with this

On my bingo card for this big address
- no audience
- looking straight down the camera
- right eye significantly bigger than left as he tries to read the prompter
- awkward pause as he prepares to try to pronounce the name of a strike site
- “beautiful” re: American bombs
- ad-libbed threats

Chat is it good when the sitting president is reposting from OSINT accounts

Couldn’t actually tell you if this vid is 100%-for-sure AI slop, because the only moral option was to never find out, based on vibes. Hell world!

Look I know clickbait has been an unsolved problem for 15+ years and sometimes truly great people are forced into pumping out all-caps mouth-open neon-background thumbnails just to survive but I do hope we can all learn to clock and skip obvious AI slop. Don’t give these freaks a reason.

I think it’s so cool that someone in the pentagon is having a deadly serious emergency meeting right now about what impacts the mean tweets could have on military readiness 😌

Don’t worry they’re ready to seize the zeitgeist by deploying decade-old cultural references with memes that are older still

Anyway here’s one of the big consultants on the Harris/Walz campaign falling for a parody account

Anyway if things /do/ continue apace we’re going to hit the socialism-or-barbarism event horizon much faster than anyone wants, and my moneys on barbarism

Personally I think the “adapt or die”grift will be relatively short-lived, since “prompt engineering” is itself easily, obviously replaceable by a well-tuned LLM. If we lose our jobs doing the work ourselves, they’ll lose their jobs asking the computer to do the work for them too.

The ghouls who want to tell you how to automate your small business marketing because people who don’t learn AI tools will be left behind are all soulless freaks who would be equally happy selling you nootropics, and it sucks that their dogshit personalities don’t actually mean that they’re wrong.

It’s hard to get a sense of the future impacts of AI because on one hand it really is a “transformative” (derogatory) technology and on the other hand all the people who boost it are uniformly the least personally curious, most cynical, snake-oil-salesman-ass individuals our sick society can create.

I also don’t know what purpose these changes serve, other than Craig gets to play with his toys and write everyone so he personally would like them better as people? At least until The Plot takes over and they have to Do Atrocities because at the end of the day he /is/ on rails here

It’s pretty wild how consistently Craig Mazin’s changes to TLOU undermine the characters. It’s like he wants to be writing a different show but he’s still bound to hit the major story beats from the game, and the result is a lot of muddled relationships and confusing motives