Laura Jayne Streets

Trying to read more fiction to escape the horrors.

Oh this is a thinly-veiled, distant world analogy for the horrors.

So many kids on the UniUK subreddit worried about the future of computer science qualifications becoming less valuable because of AI… it’s going to be more important than ever that someone can fix this shit! Please learn to code, children!

New Quail family just dropped…

Photo from poster’s point-of-view, hand holding a paperback copy of James Baldwin’s ‘A Fire Next Time’ on a train.

Such a big fan of pocket-sized paperbacks I can throw in my bag for the commute. I have about 20 of these queued up. Sorry this one is a bit battered, James Baldwin.

From Waterstones in the UK

‘With increasing clarity, I realized that the very revolution promising to bring everyone a better future was instead, for the people on the margins of society, reviving the darkest remnants of the past.’ 🎯

Another day, another book delivery! I’m starting to sense a theme emerging…
@karenhao.bsky.social

So much of ‘AI education’ I’ve witnessed makes it clear how much *extra work* you have to put in to make the output true/reliable/safe… it’s almost like just not using it in the first place is more efficient! Who woulda thunk?!

I just bought a new electric toothbrush and it has its own app for some reason 🫩 Luckily it works without the app (can you imagine), but still who asked for that?!

Cheese and book delivery?! You know how to live, Sir 👏👏👏

Mine arrived early, maybe yours will too! :)

Hooray!! ‘The AI Con’ has landed in London! I know what I’ll be doing this weekend! @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social

People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT

“The whole thing feels like Black Mirror.”

“He would listen to the bot over me.”

“It gave my husband the title of ‘spark bearer’ because he brought it to life.”

Relationships are being destroyed thanks to spiritual mania, supernatural delusions, and arcane prophecy — all fueled by AI chatbots:

A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context*

Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when

An LLM just generates text

‘I asked the people who have actual knowledge of the thing, but tbh I wasn’t really listening so instead I’m going to talk out of my ass’

NYT Editor: *hits giant red PUBLISH button*

Pedro Pascal Blasts J.K. Rowling as a 'Heinous Loser' for Her Anti-Trans Views, Backs Harry Potter Boycott

he’s right and he’s right to say it

Comparing the Aeropress with the Nespresso machine is an absolutely object lesson in how the consumer marketing of low-grade automation makes things worse. And yes, I am grumpily sipping a bitter, tepid espresso in a hotel room.

We de-extincted dire wolves. Be honest. We created a dire wolf. Be honest. It's a genetically modified puppy dog. Thank you.

A lot of "post-left" personalities like Brand claim they were pushed away from the left but were in fact drawn to the right as a means of escaping accountability for their own actions

Oh my god they literally confused it with Norfolk

#tdov #tdov2025 #transrights #transrightsarehumanrights

🏳️‍⚧️ 💖 Trans Day of Visibility calls for this meme/moment from DS9

Thissss

Why. Why? Why? Why! WHY! Why. Why? Why!!!

I just pre-ordered my copy of ‘The AI Con’, excited to get my hands on it in May ✨

a man in a suit is sitting at a table with the words pure fiction written on the bottom ALT: a man in a suit is sitting at a table with the words pure fiction written on the bottom

I read this in Jonathan Frakes’ voice.

The bubble has been bubbling for a few quarters now.

Is there a word for pumping as much air into a catastrophic bubble right before it's about to deflate? Because that's what's happening right now.

‘Crossover’… I see what you did there 💯 👏

Catching up on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 and Stef Mainey is mentioned?! Worlds colliding in the best way 😍 Hello from London Roller Derby @alexhanna.bsky.social!