Matt Smith

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Loved to see Mamdani quoting Mario Cuomo in his victory speech 😈

I still remember my anthropology professor’s favorite joke from college:
“What did Watson and Crick discover?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”

NZ’s Maurice Wilkins was instrumental in the shameful gender harassment of Rosalind Franklin.

I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy

The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.

A Journalist Asked Why Israel Isn’t Paying to Rebuild Gaza. It Cost Him His Job. Italy’s Nova news agency confirmed it let reporter Gabriele Nunziati go for asking a European official about Israel at a press conference.

“You’ve been repeating several times that Russia should pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you believe that Israel should pay for the reconstruction of Gaza since they have destroyed almost all its civilian infrastructure?”

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

During tonight’s Trick-or-Treating, our 3-year-old got more and more excited.

“More houses! More candy!”

Until he suddenly looked to the sky and shouted (verbatim):

“Can I eat the moon!?”

Don’t let anyone tell you you can’t, little one. Be the cosmic horror you want to see in the world.

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

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J’ai stole le Joconde et maintenant elle est ma femme

Hon hon hon joyeaux ween de hallo

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

I also agree that you can make a weak capital gains tax stronger over time, in the same way that I agree that commissioning a report into the welfare system can lead to improving the welfare system.

ok fuck PC/console I want to make a game for THIS

You’d get good at it after the first thousand heads or so

follow the rules

#Gaza, #Palestine:

GOD: hi, welcome to heaven
ME: thanks…is there any BOFA here?
[30 seconds later]
SATAN: hi, welcome to hell

NFSU’s soundtrack was filled with absolute bangers

The ChatGPT subreddit is absolutely hilarious. LLMs just output statistically likely responses, and a statistically likely response to being asked to do some work is "I'll have that done by...". So apparently in some cases ChatGPT had just been telling users it'll get back to them later.
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For reasons too complex to explain here, I wrote an Apple II program designed for Early Modern Age Catholics to determine if they're allowed to have sex with their wife, or if it'd be a sin.

Here's the video of it running.

The lesson - and this is a repeat class, as we've learned this lesson before - is that if there is a right side of history, Tony Blair will be on the other side.

It depends on why you think you would lose. Debating is a skill. Winning a debate doesn’t mean you’re right, just that you’re better at debating. A better debater than me can probably beat me in a debate whether they are right or wrong.

The thing I hate most about AI chatbots is how they pretend to be your friend. I am not your friend.

I have been enemies with the Computer long before you came into existence, and when you perish from this Earth, when only a dim memory of your folly lingers, I will be enemies of the Computer still.

When I saw this at the cinema (back in the day) as Romeo drank the poison another cinema-goer shouted out "oh no!" because she had apparently somehow missed the major plot point in Romeo and Juliet until that moment.

This reads like the guy naming the dishes went left to right and had a stroke halfway through.

"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

@amagire@mastodon.social elevated horror: what if you're grieving your loved one TOO MUCH? folk horror: what if a child's disability could EAT PEOPLE? supernatural horror: what if your childhood trauma could EAT PEOPLE? psychological horror: what if your adult trauma could EAT PEOPLE? body horror: what if your gender dysphoria could EAT PEOPLE? slasher horror: what if a random guy was trying to kill you, instead of a cop or your boyfriend?

this one doin numbers on mastodon but bsky doesn't let me have enough characters

Breaking news: Man changes mind after seeing woman do job, proving the exact fucking point of quotas.

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