julius caesarhands

I read that as "worm farm" at first and didn't even question it.

Can't we just Truman Show this guy, so he thinks he's doing stuff while the rest of us live our lives?

US Investors sunk $109 billion into AI in 2024.

"The coming AI revolution" ? Genuinely, why is Colbert taking part in an obvious marketing campaign by billion dollar tech companies to hype up their unprofitable product? I've mentioned before it feels like there is a mass gaslighting campaign going on with AI bsky.app/profile/cog....

Yeah and moreover, this guy is 46 and I'm 42, so he was like "I, a whole ass middle age adult, need to help this also whole ass middle age adult by sending them a youtube video targeting insecure inexperienced adolescents!"

I made the mistake of engaging with a coworker in conversation instead of grey rocking like I usually do, and I mentioned was single and his response was to send me a hoemath video, as if 1) being single is a problem and I need help solving it, and 2) the video contained helpful information.

The annoying thing about cable news political pundits is you can't just vote them away like politicians. They're just kinda there forever, no matter how wrong they keep being.

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Wild to me how there are so many people with main character syndrome who actually live incredibly boring lives. I don't remember reading any stories where the main character is just some random dude who plays video games and shitposts all day.

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

I can't believe Microsoft ruined something as simple as notepad. It used to be a great barebones text editor. No unnecessary bloat, just the basics. Now when I accidentally open a text file in notepad it's like "ughh no."

ICE agent pointing a weapon at an unarmed protester, smoke fills the air around them. The ICE agent has a wet patch on his pants because he peed himself.

Little baby nazi showed up to Oakland and already peed his pants 🤭
#ICE #Oakland #BayArea #Alameda #CoastGuard

This is why it drives me nuts when people talk about blue state secession. Fascists are not content to have their own space, they want to dominate their perceived enemies. They're never going to let us just live. History shows you can't run from them, we must confront and defeat them.

I love when I get mail address to me "or current resident". It's just like "yeah we don't actually give a shit who receives this."

the endpoint of chatgpt and other llm chatbot interfaces is a cohort of people who don't really live so much as they are on a sort of guided tour of their own lives, who have more or less totally abdicated agency and responsibility in favor of a step by step template of how to pretend to be a person

You're on to something here. Maybe we could also all share one big, long car.

I got an email once with "tips on finding new ways to drink more water". Oh thanks, that's definitely the problem, the peasants are too stupid to know how to drink water.

It feels like every brand, institution, trusted public figure, basically everything other than the average person, is all in on a massive gaslighting campaign about how amazing AI is. Are they being paid to do this? Or is it a case of out of touch group-think among upper class people?

Pisstopher Columpiss

"If I make a robot that gambles on my behalf, then I don't technically have a gambling addiction!"

Sometimes I see something that makes me feel like we could get rid of at least half the stuff getting made and lose absolutely nothing. It's like we're just making stuff to make stuff now, not because we actually want or need it.

Nobody beats Wolf Blitzer when it comes to the "how cool your name makes you sound" to "how cool you actually are" ratio.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Franchise owners are the worst. All the entitlement without any of the business acumen. Wow you bought your way into a long established successful brand, so impressive!

When I say there shouldn't be billionaires, it's not a moral argument. Even if there was a benevolent billionaire, it still shouldn't be up to the whims of an individual which groups are worthy of receiving endowments for a number of reasons. A single person should not have that level of control.

They probably started getting winded from too much physical activity and had to go rest.

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944

I've been thinking a lot lately about how the worst of technology makes us lonely. Self-checkout, driverless taxis, generative "art", chatbot "therapists", all only exist to eliminate human interaction. Are we really supposed to go through life never speaking to another person? Is that the end goal?