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THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

to me it rocks that this company that has never come within light-years of making money and has a bad product with zero practical use cases is the pivot point of the global economy because a bunch of embarrassing Burning Man dorks just decided it should be

I hope it's I Like Fucking.

Julie Christie and Massimo Serrato in Don't Look Now

Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)

The eponymous Pumpkinhead from the film Pumpkinhead

Pumpkinhead (Stan Winston, 1988)

I mean, it's not *all* bad.

Various eighties "teen" babes in The Slumber Party Massacre, just hanging and chilling while wearing no bras, the usual

The Slumber Party Massacre (Amy Jones, 1982)

This motherfucker would run away from two teens armed with skateboards and colourful language.

*as originally posted in the Warthunder subreddit by user <<xXxDarkSerphirorth42069xXx>>, received twelve million downvotes

My Pomeranian Crunchwrap with eyebrows added onto her (with nontoxic black eyeshadow)

did you know? you can just put eyebrows on a dog if you want

Dude literally grew up in an apartment building that was federally subsidized to support artists!

The Bride! would be an excellent double feature with Alex Ross Perry's Her Smell, and would be a good excuse to rerelease Her Smell with a different title so it's no longer called Her Smell.

Krusty saying BUT LOOK AT MY RANGE.

Krusty's headshots

Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check

Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check

At today's prices? No fear

I have smoked one cigarette in the past five minutes. At this current run rate, I expect to go through… fourteen packs a day.

I am two degrees of separation from Hollywood legend Robert Mitchum

know I’m AI-posting a lot today, but holy shit read the linked lawsuit for this. this is probably the worst of these so far, by far (contingent on the brief being accurate, which isn’t guaranteed). the other ones were people with existing ideation not being stopped, this actively pushed him.

I wanna say that was a real "we have affirmed in writing that OpenAI is willing to take $100b, if we decide to give it to them, at some indeterminate point in future, by the way this is definitely NOT a binding contract" kind of thing.

It's war-ISH, you have to admit.

Before anyone jumps in, yes, I know AI can write better than YOU can.

And I am saying it's shit.

Get it?

AI is good for coding and still can't write for shit. Makes you think about who the most highly skilled workers in the economy really were, doesn't it?

Given I've never used it aside from some brief dicking around three years ago, this is one of my easier boycott efforts.

I didn't expect the "then they came for..." to hit me QUITE so specifically, but lesson learned.

i'm taking a brave stance that may get me canceled: there is no reason for the pervert glasses to exist

if you think the greatest threat to effeminate gay boys is the trans movement and not the cis straight men who overwhelmingly exclude and brutalize them then you should walk into the ocean immediately

You been to the Botanic Gardens? Just a whole-ass area for butterflies to fly around you. www.chicagobotanic.org/butterflies

Now, I'm about to give you another quote about autonomous weapons, and I really want you to pay attention to where I emphasize certain things for a subtle clue about Anthropic's ethics: Anthropic had not argued that such weapons should not exist. To the contrary, the company had offered to work directly with the Pentagon to improve their reliability. Just as self-driving cars are now in some cases safer than those driven by humans, killer drones may some day be more accurate than a human operator, and less likely to kill bystanders during an attack. But for now, Anthropic's leaders believe that their Al hasn't yet reached that threshold. They worry that the models could lead the machines to fire indiscriminately or inaccurately, or otherwise endanger civilians or even American troops themselves. So, let's be clear: Anthropic wants to help the military make more accurate kill drones, and in fact loves them. One might take this to be somewhat altruistic - Dario Amodei doesn't want the US military to hit civilians - but remember: Anthropic is totally fine with the US military using Claude for anything else, even though hallucinations are an inevitable result of using a Large Language Model. Any dithering around the accuracy of a drone exists only to obfuscate that Anthropic sells software that helps militaries hand over the messy ethical decisions to a chatbot that exists specifically to tell you what you want to hear.

You still don't gotta hand it to Anthropic (via @edzitron.com)