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If you send me a 3000 word essay based on a 20 word prompt you are transferring information in an incredibly inefficient way. I'm going to have no idea what you actually wanted to convey. Just send me the prompt. I promise the outcome will be better.

If you're going to send me something written by an LLM then save us all time and resources and just send me your prompt instead. I'll value a text that says "Heartfelt condolence message with reference to a list of events" more, because this way I at least actually know what you were thinking

Tyrone Faulkner
Guilt-Ridden Therapist
he/him
tragus piercing
smells of peach and lemon balm
bad liar

Apple Weeks
Uncanny Infiltrator
she/her
makes homemade mead
has a tattoo of a otter

Would You Rather: (for one month)

A.) have a cynical MFA-wielding poet follow you around as "research" taking notes and occasionally chuckling to himself

B.) have a mariachi band follow you around, doing their best to assist you in everyday tasks, the only way they know how: through mariachi music

Yesterday morning I was driving my son to his last footy match of the season, and he was playing music from his phone playlist, and put on a new song he had added, and asked if I knew it. It was Wonderwall. I said Maybe. True story.

so, perhaps I should try a more direct sell:

Universal Donor is a story in which the rich gain psychic abilities by drinking the blood of genetically modified, heavily groomed "donors" who are treated as an expendable third-sexed subhumans, in many cases denied even real names

that's you

have fun

if it sweetens the pot for anyone, it also provides the most compelling answer to date to the question: "what happens when you forcefem someone who is already a woman"

and, no. it's not "bimbofication"

Figure AI’s BotQ humanoid robot is an investor demo, not a product Figure AI is a humanoid robot startup. It’s also got an AI operating system called Helix. The future is amazing! [Figure] Figure talks a huge game. They’re going to have 200,000 robots on ass…

Figure AI’s BotQ humanoid robot is an investor demo, not a product

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look it's only the poors, it's not like they *matter*

UK ‘AI Action Plan for Justice’ — a magic infallible AI pre-crime detector! The UK government programme to force AI into everything has reached the Ministry of Justice, with the ‘AI Action Plan for Justice’! If they can bodge something with AI, they’re going to. [Ministry …

UK ‘AI Action Plan for Justice’ — a magic infallible AI pre-crime detector!

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Google Veo fails week 4: the final faildown When you’ve read this post, go watch the worked examples on YouTube. [YouTube] Our intrepid friend Aron Peterson, a.k.a. Shokunin Studio, is a media production guy. He follows the AI image generato…

"It can’t follow a script, it can’t follow direction, it can’t give consistent characters, the training data keeps leaking through, the sound effects are inept."
From pivot-to-ai.com

This is concerning and baffling for several reasons.

1. People believing the AI Overview as-is. It’s absolute dogshit in many cases.
2. Who wil buy ads from Google or promoted search results? You’re not getting the clicks anymore.
3. So what is going to be the earning model here, exactly?

Late to this, but HA www.thewrap.com/south-park-h...

“Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semen” pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/28/m...

CSIRO posts AI-fake climate article with made-up quotes Cosmos is — or was — a popular science magazine published by the CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. David Ho is an oceanographer at the University of Hawai’i. Cosmos posted an articl…

Gee, who could possibly have seen this happening?

Everybody. The answer is every single person who saw the announcement about CSIRO taking the Cosmos magazine online and using AI authors. EVERYONE said it would ruin Cosmos & CSIRO's names.

And it has.

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El Salvador Ends Term Limits, Letting Bukele Seek Re-Election Indefinitely

Officialist lawmakers abolished presidential term limits, paving the way for Nayib Bukele —who has aided Trump’s deportation policy and whose government has jailed tens of thousands in its crackdown on gangs and civil rights groups— to run for re-election indefinitely
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the bot will make up a third, even cooler, name for you

I need whoever is responsible for dealing with my obituary to know that if they use AI to write the obituary I will have explicit instructions in my will to have them murdered.

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?

New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg

Generative AI runs on gambling addiction — just one more prompt, bro! You’ll have noticed how previously normal people start acting like addicts to their favourite generative AI and shout at you like you’re trying to take their cocaine away. Matthias Döpm…

"Cocaine doesn’t make you a business genius — it just makes you think you’re a business genius. Same for AI."

Well said @davidgerard.co.uk
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this is a Proton employee who is paid to roleplay on Bluesky as a cat to promote Proton's new AI chatbot

see: pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/02/p...

Piratewires ran that fuckin dumb interview last year with Jack Dorsey where he opined that Bluesky's error was having moderation at all

i wrote it up a bit davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2...

also the bit where Piratewires is a straight up tech nazi outlet

Seeing a lot less talk about this, and we need to still be talking and calling.

Me: What kind of food do you like?
Dershowitz: Tamales I guess
[six months later]
Me in new food truck: Get your fresh tamales!
Dershowitz: I'll take two please
Me: No

I wish on Wes Streeting that he gets to feel no safer than any trans woman in this country

in case you missed it: Terence Tao calls for pre-registration of methodology for AI mathematical ability tests, and offers an excellent breakdown of why ability even on a single given task is not a binary variable

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