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Been trying to watch Scott's Napoleon but it's so DREARY.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

The next issue of Church Climbing has been literally years in the making, but I finally collected the last bit of content that I need, and I'm desperately working to get it out for you ready for Sunday (I'd hoped to get it out today but I just couldn't get access to take the final pictures I needed)

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Still waiting for the article that’s like “these right wing militia members are in a bubble and it would be healthier if they exposed themselves to left wing ideas”

submitted 10 hours ago • 134 comments

One the protest starts we have to be real & recognize that what we're seeing is a police riot.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

"He is looking to deploy troops to the cities" he...he is doing it. That's the whole thing. Stop describing the things he is already doing as though they are in fact not done until the people are "provoked".

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Anecdotal, but I'm definitely noticing an uptick in advocacy for violence here. About which I'll say only this: Promoting violence on social media is the work of trolls and fools, those eager to bait others into implicating themselves in the age of surveillance or fools rushing to the gulag.

submitted 84 days ago • 481 comments

Don’t call for violence. Don’t be stupid.

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

anyway vance is currently tweeting about how this is all part of the great replacement or something and foreign nationals are currently occupying los angeles and that's why we're deploying the guard

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

What happens to this vision when OpenAI either folds or increases their prices by a factor of 10 to cover actual cost?

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Helpful resource to those who want to write good alt text! Walkthroughs like this are really helpful because sometimes I over think, am I alt texting right? Am I being thorough enough? Over-describing things that aren’t helpful?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

the fun version of this is when you’re posting about some nerd shit and someone pops up in the comments like “actually I am a world renowned expert in this field and here’s how this works” easily the best thing that happens on social media

submitted 2 days ago • 96 comments

For many years, US Air Force officers have been told that UFOs exist as part of a hazing ritual.

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One thing I’d say about ranked choice voting in NYC is that you don’t have to do complex calculations of viability. You should rank in order of who you want to be mayor and if you don’t want someone to be mayor, you shouldn’t rank them!

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Pinocchio on Mars

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

It's infamously difficult to get solid numbers on "AI"-segment revenue & expenditures but at the same time I suspect Ed's not pulling these numbers out of his ass. With adjustments for accounting fuckery it's probably at least this bad.

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Ok NOW I can believe it's not kayfabe: Trump tolerates a lot of shitty stuff, but if he parses someone as drug-dependent it'll often flip him into total contempt.

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Sometimes there’s not enough vomit in the world.

submitted 2 days ago • 170 comments

Some tarantulas keep frogs as 'pets'. The frogs eat ants & other small bugs that might attack the eggs or young spiderlings of the tarantula & the tarantula provides shelter in their burrows. What's more: the tarantula will attack predators that might threaten the frog. (📷: Emanuele Biggi)

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

I doubt many people here do not know this but: it is a machine for writing things that are pleasing to the interlocutor, and conform to their expectations ie are plausible. It doesn’t know it’s lying so it can’t stop. This is a good example: open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

Did they define "powerful" anywhere in the piece? Because 'more powerful but with more hallucinations' strikes me as a contradiction when considering the alleged purpose of the system. And I do VERY MUCH mean 'alleged.'

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

If 'Jeffries' is one's answer to 'who's effective?', you should not be wasting valuable oxygen in the same room as other candidates. (Props to Blake though for just putting himself out there.😆)

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

If I created an investment fund and promised 300% returns but instead spent your money buying yachts, I'd go to jail. Yet there are so many dudebros telling me that when ChatGPT spouts total bullshit the problem isn't OpenAI marketing it as a knowledge engine, it's the users who believe it.

submitted 5 days ago • 46 comments

This. Was. Predicted. & we were dismissed as hysterical. (I don't remember specifically but TBC I'm pretty sure Katelyn would have been one of the people predicting it & getting dismissed.)

Been trying to watch Scott's Napoleon but it's so DREARY.

The next issue of Church Climbing has been literally years in the making, but I finally collected the last bit of content that I need, and I'm desperately working to get it out for you ready for Sunday (I'd hoped to get it out today but I just couldn't get access to take the final pictures I needed)

Still waiting for the article that’s like “these right wing militia members are in a bubble and it would be healthier if they exposed themselves to left wing ideas”

One the protest starts we have to be real & recognize that what we're seeing is a police riot.

"He is looking to deploy troops to the cities" he...he is doing it. That's the whole thing. Stop describing the things he is already doing as though they are in fact not done until the people are "provoked".

Anecdotal, but I'm definitely noticing an uptick in advocacy for violence here. About which I'll say only this: Promoting violence on social media is the work of trolls and fools, those eager to bait others into implicating themselves in the age of surveillance or fools rushing to the gulag.

Don’t call for violence. Don’t be stupid.

anyway vance is currently tweeting about how this is all part of the great replacement or something and foreign nationals are currently occupying los angeles and that's why we're deploying the guard

What happens to this vision when OpenAI either folds or increases their prices by a factor of 10 to cover actual cost?

Helpful resource to those who want to write good alt text! Walkthroughs like this are really helpful because sometimes I over think, am I alt texting right? Am I being thorough enough? Over-describing things that aren’t helpful?

the fun version of this is when you’re posting about some nerd shit and someone pops up in the comments like “actually I am a world renowned expert in this field and here’s how this works” easily the best thing that happens on social media

For many years, US Air Force officers have been told that UFOs exist as part of a hazing ritual.

One thing I’d say about ranked choice voting in NYC is that you don’t have to do complex calculations of viability. You should rank in order of who you want to be mayor and if you don’t want someone to be mayor, you shouldn’t rank them!

Pinocchio on Mars

It's infamously difficult to get solid numbers on "AI"-segment revenue & expenditures but at the same time I suspect Ed's not pulling these numbers out of his ass. With adjustments for accounting fuckery it's probably at least this bad.

Ok NOW I can believe it's not kayfabe: Trump tolerates a lot of shitty stuff, but if he parses someone as drug-dependent it'll often flip him into total contempt.

Sometimes there’s not enough vomit in the world.

Some tarantulas keep frogs as 'pets'. The frogs eat ants & other small bugs that might attack the eggs or young spiderlings of the tarantula & the tarantula provides shelter in their burrows. What's more: the tarantula will attack predators that might threaten the frog. (📷: Emanuele Biggi)

I doubt many people here do not know this but: it is a machine for writing things that are pleasing to the interlocutor, and conform to their expectations ie are plausible. It doesn’t know it’s lying so it can’t stop. This is a good example: open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...

As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.

Did they define "powerful" anywhere in the piece? Because 'more powerful but with more hallucinations' strikes me as a contradiction when considering the alleged purpose of the system. And I do VERY MUCH mean 'alleged.'

If 'Jeffries' is one's answer to 'who's effective?', you should not be wasting valuable oxygen in the same room as other candidates. (Props to Blake though for just putting himself out there.😆)

If I created an investment fund and promised 300% returns but instead spent your money buying yachts, I'd go to jail. Yet there are so many dudebros telling me that when ChatGPT spouts total bullshit the problem isn't OpenAI marketing it as a knowledge engine, it's the users who believe it.

This. Was. Predicted. & we were dismissed as hysterical. (I don't remember specifically but TBC I'm pretty sure Katelyn would have been one of the people predicting it & getting dismissed.)

so yeah I’m looking for a new publisher, putting that out there

John Landis has a lot to answer for.