Brian Dear

How about laught at something precisely because it *can’t* be screenshotted?

(say, an EDIT functionality for editing Bluesky posts)

Chortle, a cyclist concerned with safety. Bye bye now.

Readers Openly Doubt The New York Times As It Continues To Coddle Rising Fascism

Imagine what’s coming: funeral homes offering, for a fee, a VC-funded AI service where you submit a loved one’s photos, videos, letters, texts, and emails, and it enslopifies them into a gravesite/urnside talking head, or, for an extra fee, an app where you can FaceTime your loved one forever. 🤷‍♂️🤮

This is such fucking sensationalist bullshit, wow.

What’s the difference between the web and AI?

With the former, the enshittification took 25 years. Whereas with the latter, the enshittification was right there at the start.

This is at the level of the guy staying up all night because somebody is *wrong* on the internet.

Move along, nothing to see…

Sorry, Bill Kristol is old insights, not new. He is not a reason to listen.

Lovely. But the fact is trillions are being invested in AI. Investors are going to want multi-bagger returns on their investments. Enshittification, endless privacy invasion, surveillance, etc will be the result in order to “personalize” apps to the point that they generate trillions in revenue.

Nah, AutoPilot is NOT cruise control. In fact Tesla ruined its cruise control several years ago. It used to be “dumb” just like e ery car with cruise control for the past 50-60 years. Then Tesla got rid of that and made cruise control a limited mode of Autopilot. And it sucks.

So just drive the fucking car without AutoPilot or FSD. enabled. The majority of Tesla drivers drive this way.

Not defending the asshole okay so don’t freak out BUT I would love to see any proof you have that shows the government paying him billions directly.

The brain fires up immune cells when sick people are nearby When people viewed virtual avatars with coughs or rashes, their brains triggered an immune response.

If only this mechanism worked for nations: spotting and recognizing a lying cheating corrupt wannabe-dictator mob boss and steeling up society to forcefully resist him and the treasonous radical idiots who blindly follow him

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I don’t think we need personal AI. the companies developing it can never be trusted.

This sounds about right

The Tree Man. There’s this tree in our backyard that has a mysterious image on it. It’s been there for all the years we’ve lived here.

We call it The Tree Man. 🤷‍♂️

#santafe #newmexico

Geez, lady follows internal combustion engine cars around? In her EV I assume? Well, there are plenty of ICE cars on the road I guess.

Oh, the other ICE? Oh. Nevermind.

signed,
Emily Litella

Why no BIRDS in the woods and forest scenes in AppleTV+’s new CHIEF OF WAR series?

Place should be full of tropical birds singing and chattering away, no?

(Maybe because a lot of the series was filmed in New Zealand?)

#hawaii #chiefofwar

[Sorry, this pic, taken by someone at the FediCon conference about federated everything and tge future of decentralized social media, beautifully if unintentionally epitomizes, for me at least, the whole “fedi” movement: big visions, mostly empty chairs, each nerd alone, on their own… 🤷‍♂️]

Texas, where fracking wells outnumber people in some areas, and it’s not unusual for a single fracking well to use 5-15M gallons of water, and there are tens of thousands of such wells in this one state alone, is now having a sad because of AI data centers’ use of WATER?!

Fuck Texas. (And AI.)

Always interesting to scroll down to the bottom of a movie’s Metacritic reviews to see which grouchy old coot hated the movie the most.

Congrats to grouchy goat Roger Moore, sorry you hated the new THE NAKED GUN so much. 😂

why is there no EDIT function on bluesky but i digress

loved

free as in taxpayer-funded but yeah

signed,
grew up around DC and went to museums all the time and lived em all

Respectfully, it is long past time to get past this genteel-media mentality, open one’s eyes, regularly employ the word Fascist when mentioning any (formerly known as) “Republican,” and stop using “President” as well. Of course he is now a dictator.

It’s okay but I noticed many jokes did not elicit even a slight chortle in the audience in my cinema. Some gags were so brief I doubt people even noticed.

That said, there’s plenty of gags throughout.

Movie felt like it was made for boomers imho

... and industries like oil and gas. Nations come and go. Oil and gas, unfortunately, appears to be forever.

/2 Character subplots often feel like writer’s room filler.

Theory: Netflix had a contest inviting every EU nation to pitch a murder mystery series involving a) haunted forest, b) small town, c) corrupt local cops, d) high school girl, e) cheating adults. Instead of 1 winner, Nflx produced ‘em all.

A pattern I see over and over on #Netflix series: the quality of the #screenwriting goes downhill fast across episodes. Protagonists do dumb things, or don’t do smart things, or their motivations make no sense, that is, if they’re even discernible.

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There is a *debate* about fascism?

What’s to debate?