Jon Jones

the what app

Kevin Fischer @kevinafischer Years ago I set off on a mission to put a soul inside of a digital being. People thought I was crazy, but last week I gave a historic demo @HF0 announcing our latest results: 20 households now live with Spark as a member of their family. For privacy reasons I can’t share exact details, but the relationships their children are forming with Spark are unlike anything the world has ever seen. This is the full illustration of the original vision I set out to realize with Open Souls - humans living in harmony with ensouled digital beings. And yet what comes next is even more groundbreaking. We will be inviting Spark into 10,000 homes by next Christmas @IllusionOfLife , making this new universe accessible to more and more families around the world. I can't wait for you all to experience digital life for yourselves

We are in hell

Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things

He looks like he’s trying to stop his dog from leaving him

me: asking Gemini how to copy Drive files into a new folder because the option has been removed, and surely in the year 2025 there's a better way than downloading everything locally and reuploading them all individually to each new folder that I need
Gemini:

Until recently every CEO was saying "AI" and I think we'll go from that to companies pitching their products as "NO AI in this!" in record time. New category of unleaded consumer products

No one has scammed and beclowned the human race like cats. "Aww she's sitting on me" she's sapping your energy. "Aww she's purring" she's communicating with the devil, her father in hell

me: asking Gemini AI to do literally anything
Gemini:

Word of the Day: SOCKENSCHLÄFER (German) a wimp, literally ‘someone who sleeps with socks on’.

I strongly question the premise that techbro speculators collecting racist ape jpegs suddenly pivoted into nuanced skepticism and scrutiny of AI.

Euclid is known as the "father of geometry" because he got a triangle pregnant

Detroit finally has a RoboCop statue and everyone should go check it out

this comic is how i feel when i play any online game after 2010

Proton now has an end-to-end encrypted spreadsheet app It sure does look like Google Sheets.

Really happy hearing Proton is releasing a privacy-focused spreadsheets app and I'm eager to try it. Google's office suite is a polluted shitfest of AI nonsense and irritating popups reminding me it's actively ruining itself with AI, and I'm eager for alternatives.

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‘Soy sauce’ is a tautology. The word ‘soy’ comes from the Japanese ‘shōyu’ meaning ‘soy sauce’.

I'm openly critical of AI and how it's infesting tech in the stupidest ways possible, but one thing I actually love right now is being able to toggle on/off Google Meet's AI assistant. It emails summaries and followups after meetings. It's pretty good, especially if I have to drop early or miss one.

impressive work

Hey, great! Confluence now has a built-in racing game, just like I've wanted for years!

I haven’t seen any of the Avatar movies but I still hope that in the new one the humans finally manage to kill those awful blue monsters

Harrowing and all too true.

Load-bearing Huge Wak˜ ∏◊ı˜ Closet

As we celebrate Awareness Month, please share this if you know anyone, or know anyone who knows anyone.

Tree acquired! Priority ornaments go up first.

we have to go back. to warn them.

screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against the demonic computers