Maria Beirne

this technology that i cant even get my own employees to use without literally threatening them is definitely going to be profitable one day

My personal autism chow is Mac and cheese, and if you’re not in respiratory distress, you don’t have enough white pepper on it.

My dad developed an allergy in his 40s. Unsatisfied to just take the doctors’ word for it that he has a shellfish allergy, and armed with epi-pens, he experimented until he deduced that he’s allergic to crustaceans but not molluscs. Madlad.

Futurism Perfect Customer | Jun 10, 10:10 AM EDT by Maggie Harrison Dupré People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions "What these bots are saying is worsening delusions, and it's causing enormous harm."

NEW: We investigated several stories of people who spiraled into severe, life-altering mental health crises after developing all-consuming obsessions with ChatGPT.

Screenshots we reviewed show the AI directly engaging with and supporting user delusions + conspiracies.

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Using genAI to make pictures of trump in a nappy or whatever is still loser behaviour. You’re using the master’s tools!

University is not a business, education is not a product.

the point is very important and it's always worth remembering that Jon Stone is among the realest out there

Thank you, that’s not weird at all to say, it’s a statement of fact 🤪 everyone thinks their own baby is special and different, but of course, mine really are ☺️🤣 I’m so looking forward to a much better experience this time around ❤️

Why does Braco wish to deny me this?!

I’m desperate to know what will happen if I, at almost 9 months pregnant, am gazed upon.

Ready for a gaze from Braco?

I’m desperate to know what will happen if I, at almost 9 months pregnant, am gazed upon.

200-year-old condom displayed in Amsterdam museum The sheath is part of an exhibition on 19th Century prostitution and sexuality.

My cousin @pixelpoot.bsky.social sent this to me - which says a lot about both her & me.

"An almost 200-year-old condom has just gone on display at an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
It features an explicit print representing a nun and three clergymen."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I bought an umbrella hat and genuinely wore it in public - devastated to report it didn’t work, the slight breeze generated by my own locomotion blew it straight off my head every time.

Omg lolcry

On the left picture the red dot, on the right one a fingerprint. Multi-spectrum analysis led to the identification of a fingerprint from the red dot

Amazing new discovery: Oldest full human fingerprint discovered. A Neanderthal is believed to have dipped a finger in red pigment to paint a nose on a pebble around 43,000 years ago. The rock was discovered in the San Lázaro rock shelter in Segovia, Spain

www.bbc.com/news/article...

My phone is on silent “do not disturb” between 8pm and 8am. I will not be picking up. Whatever happens in those hours is between you and Jesus.

And this is one of the underestimated effects of increasing AI use.

What ChatGPT spews out is mangled out of actual sources, but without any understanding or clarity.

At the same time, it stuffs access to that material because the servers are overburdened.

Nick Clegg: Artists' demands over copyright are unworkable The former Meta executive claims that a law requiring tech companies to ask permission to train Al on copyrighted work would 'kill' the industry

“I agree with Nick.”

Kill the industry, you say? That sounds tough for that industry. Which industry was that again?

Oh. The stealing industry? Maybe killing that industry wouldn’t be such a bad thing? Considering it’s kind of a bad industry. Unlike the other one, which it’s currently killing.

Why Medieval Europeans Were Bad at Swimming - Medievalists.net Medieval Europeans weren’t known for their swimming skills—and there’s a surprising amount of evidence to show just how bad they were at it. From river shoves to tactical advice from Christine de…

Why Medieval Europeans Were Bad at Swimming www.medievalists.net/2025/05/medi... #swimming

A while ago, someone on here (I think @scottbot.bsky.social?) compared the way a lot of people treat GenAI now to the way people treated radium in the 1920s and 30s (ooh, let's put it in a health tonic! toothpaste! haemorrhoid cream!). I think about that a lot.

Early cat: ok guys check this out, I simply pretend to be its baby. *Makes a plaintive crying sound*

Early cat's friend: c'mon man this is humiliating, you don't have to- *Caveman obediently tosses a chunk of cooked meat over* holy shit I'll be damned

a man and woman sitting in a crazily 1970s living room with a piano in the background and a transistor radio on the fireplace. He’s sitting on the hearth and she’s on the floor.

Growing up in 80s England, my parents listened to a BBC radio show called Your Hundred Best Tunes every Sunday. It was an easy-bits-of-classical-music show, and is indelibly associated for me with the special Sunday night dread you have when you’re 13 and you have Home Economics on Monday 🧵 1/6

I can picture him in glorious technicolour

Pride month is coming up so just a reminder that cishets are not allowed in public during June.

This is disturbing… a single ChatGPT query uses 10x more energy than using a search engine. One 100-word email drafted by ChatGPT-4 uses about a water bottle’s worth of H2O, and enough electricity to power 14 LED lightbulbs for an hour.

Is it normal for it to be so cool at night in May?

Oh brilliant 😂😂 I’m just not that quick 😂

I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing