I think LLMs have real potential in particular applications, but there is some absolutely dystopian stuff being sold as "AI" or used to train machines, in many cases for absolutely unnecessary purposes
somehow this is the exact guy you would figure to have lost old doctor who eps
Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.
Just remembered which countries are keeping the live smallpox virus samples
The "where is my husband" song except in response to with a detective turning up at the door and the singer dressed in a rich widow robe
Ok but I am writing it in the form of a horror novel
So weird that I'm the only person in this city who knows proper bus etiquette
Frankly that's just never going to catch on
As a morbid small child I of course knew all about ancient Egyptian burial rites, and the associated gods. So when at school we started learning about this other god I was like ok
Then he said he was the ONE god. You're putting SOME GUY up against Anubis, the jackal headed god of the underworld!?
Really reinforcing the stereotypes of Americans can't read AND Americans are incapable of caring about anyone other than themselves
But what if: new jacket
Optimism, nice
Hm instead of getting depressed this winter, perhaps I will instead get hot 😎
(I'll get depressed)
I would like to once again direct your attention to the Pizza Hut Oral History
Allegedly US military personnel are sabotaging the sewerage systems of aircraft carriers to prevent deployment - creating a literal shit show to avoid the metaphorical one
The decent thing to do would be to offer them asylum #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
This is what microSD cards should actually look like
Learning about psychology can be so beneficial,- for instance I have learnt that instead of saying "I can tell you didn't suffer enough as a child" one can instead say "perhaps you would benefit from expanding your distress tolerance"
rapid onset dark ages
there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true
threads is wire mother and bluesky is cloth mother no i won't be elaborating
It sucks because a heads-up display would be useful in many scenarios, but it's not worth a world where everyone is a walking surveillance tool, whether they have ill intent or not
I have seen several women saying they have been covertly filmed by men in public or clubs, whilst they try their pickup artist shenanigans, and the footage is posted online
I regret letting my cat try the $4 a tin premium cat food and discovering that she fucking loves it
You may have thought giving the AIs the personality of Enron employees would be one of the more evil things one could do, but someone is almost certainly feeding the Epstein emails into an AI as training material right now
They had to walk by this sign, which says "if you've spent more than three hours trying to climb to this point, TURN BACK BECAUSE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT."
For gross negligent manslaughter Thomas Plamberger has been given a 5 month suspended sentence (so no jail time if he can avoid abandoning women on mountains for the next couple of years I guess) and a €9600 fine
On a climb with a previous girlfriend, conditions had become unsafe and she was pushing for taking a shorter route back. He abruptly disappeared, leaving her crying, in the dark, with her head torch dying
(why do the batteries of his partners torches keep going out well before the climbs are over?)
