Ben Can't

TIRED: Teaching the sand to think was a mistake.

WIRED: Convincing people that we taught the sand to think was a mistake.

My dad drove us in a loaner Tesla this morning where Grok AI:
Turned itself on
Would not turn off
Instructed how to tell it to stop (did not stop)
Instructed how to tell it to play music (did not music)

After setting the volume to 0 and sitting in silence, an advertisement forced the volume back on

antiwoke guy who wants to change the recycle bin on his computer back to the trash can

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Um.

Just um. Yeah.

This is a problem.

Is bluesky safe?

“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities. In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all. This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account. These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

Any trans person who begins their transition today is exhibiting more courage than most people will in their entire lives.

Begging everyone to get rid of Spotify not just because of this but because they actively hate musicians to an extent even other streamers do not

Bari Weiss, CBS News, 1965

- New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
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I was blocked by a member of Bluesky's staff for asking if a comment made in official capacity as a Bluesky staffer represents the company, which implied that a trans woman would have been harassed by the entire team.

An illustration of Godzilla sitting on the edge of a cliff looking off into the distance looking somewhat solem.

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

We shall retvrn to cartoons where all races of children (black, white, Asian, and wheelchair) save the rec center from being torn down by a greedy developer and get medals from a President who is obviously based on but not explicitly stated to be Bill Clinton.

When I first started doing conventions I noticed Vic Mignogna and Todd Haberkorn would make content/interact in a way that intentionally encouraged fans to ship them

When I said “oh they must be having fun” I learned from actors “no they hate each other, they just see a business opportunity here.”

4 panel comic Panel 1: A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop. Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform. Panel 2: Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself Panel 3: Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but… Panel 4: Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

Silent Hill? Umm have you *been* around Bobby? That boy won’t shut up!

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

This is the Bread & Puppet Circus! I had the pleasure of seeing this in Baltimore a couple of weeks ago. They are still on tour and you should see them if they're stopping near you breadandpuppet.org/tour

I miss Commander, the White House dog who hated cops, but I’m glad they named the Washington football team after him.

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

Also causes ridiculous amounts of brain damage. And pros start playing when they're children 😬

The shift in pastime from a sport where a lone soul bravely steps up with his sword to face 9 men by himself in a desperate and usually futile attempt to free his compatriots to a sport where regimented armies vie to conquer continental territory with tanks and planes is the story of America itself.

the thing about the big tent is we can debate its merits and successes as an electoral strategy, but it has been an abject failure as a governance strategy, and frankly what you do with power is more important than how often you win it. we are living through precisely why that’s so

Doing God's work 🫡

oh fuck yes now we are cooking

Someone on another social media site posted (paraphrasing here) “turn your phone speakers off in public” and someone else replied “why? It’s a public space”

And man it explains a LOT that (some) people think that way about public space

the grinch with a smug grin and a caption reading GETTING ON JURY DUTY WHEN YOU ARE A SUPPORTER OF JURY NULLIFICATION

been seeing stuff like this popping up from time time and all I’ll say is you do not want a post like this coming up *after* you’ve been selected for a jury, the judge will not think it’s funny, they will not care you got a dozen likes and 1 reskeet bc of it, you will not enjoy the consequences