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The Crowd Has No Coins [283] Hi Crowd! Some rando once said "Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life." You'll hear this repeated all the time from thought leaders and life coaches trying to ...

"I won't get into explaining all the mechanics, but it basically turns every publication into a memecoin, allocating a bunch to the writer and letting them airdrop a bunch to their subscribers...." *etc etc

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*Allow us to spend "your"money on things that we shop for

*Before that becomes mandatory #cashless #agentic #databanked

*I wonder how come science-fictional AIs never had all this fussiness and feature-creep

*So, "Code Red" for the superhuman AI shoggoth is to become way more ingratiating and to say "No" less often

*The Electronic Frontier: always from wilderness to decadence without ever encountering a civilization

Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol unveil Raj and Simran statue at Leicester Square to mark 30 years of 'DDLJ'; say 'We wanted to tell a story about love...' | - The Times of India Bollywood icons Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol unveil a bronze statue of their characters Raj and Simran from 'Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge' at Leicester Square, marking the film's 30th anniversary and its h...

*When movie tie-in memorabilia upgrades to bronze public statuary

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*I blame environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism clippies

*You can escape the Amazon/Walmart-ChatGPT funnel by wearing a Chinese AI-shopping device right on your face

*No more fickle human consumerism. Just Amazon/Walmart/ChatGPT

*I never read stuff like this -- it's just not to my taste -- but it's structure is interesting anyway. #genre #rules #NineteenTwentyEight

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*A wonderful thing, genre

*Whatever happens to musicians will happen to everybody

Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.

*Do they have tasty snacks and cool giveaway swag at that conference

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*Near death in the service of dead media #journalism #war

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"Together, we’ll become digital conservators for an afternoon." #hellonEarth #deadmedia #art

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*Yeah, if you're into genre science fiction and counterculture, you shouldn't overlook Leiber's remarkable and pioneering "space beatnik" yarn

*It's harder to destroy the art world than you would think

*Everybody thinks it's a delicate orchid, when it's more like thorny crabgrass that sometimes spits up some orchids that billionaires might notice

'Unauthorized' Edit to Ukraine's Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket's War Betting It looks like someone invented a fake Russia advance in Ukraine to manipulate online gambling markets.

*People who cheat at gambling will devote fantastic amounts of energy and skill just for the intoxicating thrill of successfully cheating at gambling

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*Fritz Leiber Sr, wow, he was the dad of the science fiction author Fritz Leiber Jr

AlphaFold is five years old — these charts show how it revolutionized science Since it was unveiled in 2020, Google DeepMind’s game-changing AI tool has helped researchers all over the world to predict the 3D structures of hundreds of millions of proteins.

*Opposite of "slop"

*Is it because the thing didn't chat or show pretty jpegs?

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*"Everyday Cyberpunk" is probably a better everyday term than "cyberpunk social realism"

*But, well, one is a term-of-art about writing books, while the other is about being blown to pieces in a jungle by some wicked thing buzzing overhead

*Judeao-Christian techgnosis AI slop. II like it when it doesn't just slop-up some standard Biblical mythology, but also throws in some dazzly high-tech signifiers

*Forgot the Serpent in this one

*If you turn your human-text bamboo into AI-slop styrofoam. it's faster, cheaper, shinier and uses a whole lot of oil, but in terms of persuading the readers, it doesn't make much difference

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*I always like vanished high-tech sublimity of this kind, like "giant electrical windmills, oh come on, in your dreams"

*Are those pre-digital categories of social-media users gonna be allowed to exist? Even "sports nuts" seem imperilled

*Yeah. What an interesting insight. "Greeble-words." Of course

*They convey the verbal impression of thought going on, but they're not load-bearing

*Dang, Sally, those are so intensely Californian that they look like they were generated by an offshored XTwitter AI-user in Bangladesh

*In a similar dynamic, world-health systems are undermined and destroyed because everybody has it figured by now that the next big pandemic will mostly kill distant people they don't much like anyhow

*Grandma's dead of plague -- but didn't she MIGRATE here? Yeah, she did" #ethnonational #antivax

"Devastating-yet-obscure climate-crisis events get closer and closer to you personally. Until you're the guy posting those local on-scene videos, and wondering why the globe doesn't care about your devastation

ChatGPT sparked an AI arms race. 3 years later, nobody's winning ChatGPT changed the world. But when breakthroughs can be matched in months, every advantage is temporary

*After three years, near-miraculous "Large Language Models" are gonna be dead-media pretty soon. It'll be about megaplatform large-multimodal-models where "language" is just-a-feature

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*Slopject superyacht.

*He fired the naval architect and then he stiffed all the contractors