"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

The internet was never a perfect place, but at least a lot of these media companies gave a darn about kids and gave them safe, fun spaces to be fully entertained online.

Alas, this generation will never have that experience. Maybe those that had these places will bring them back for the next one.

Finished up! I feel like I learned a lot about metal shading with this one. Are there any art skills you struggle with?

#Samus #MetroidPrime4 #fanart #metroid #MetroidPrime4Beyond

Fine Structure 2

COMING SOON.

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

As a reminder: LLMs are not intelligent beings. You are providing an input to an algorithm that calculates, in a very complicated way, the probability in which words will follow each other in response to your input based on whatever data was used to train the algorithm.

The algorithm doesn't think.

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

Advocates for AI say it's just another tool, and you can't blame tools for how they're used.

Listen, I don't blame hammers just because they might be used to hurt people. But if I found out that the factory making hammers relied on hurting people as its business model, yeah, I'd stop using hammers.

Paging my friend @perp3tual.bsky.social?

Get in the Venga Bus, Shinji

"Here's a gaming one for you, since that's a hobby. I find it very, VERY funny that Gamers(tm) will complain that shit like Sweet Baby Rays or whatever the fuck it is is ruining gaming with woke when it's very obvious that the games industry is already just flinging itself to bits with massively overinflated AAAA budgets, large game companies eating smaller studios like fucking potato chips, a concerted effort by game companies to start using AI slop, and a greater push to squash all creativity under the boot heel of corporate interest. But no, it's the fact that there's a black guy in Assassin's Creed that's the real problem." Hobby confessions #530

"Am I the problem? No it's everyone else who's woke"

Hobby confessions #530

#anonhobbyconfessions

"Our economy is run by people that don't participate in it and our tech companies are directed by people that don't experience the problems they allege to solve for their customers"

For those curious, you can run the Powershell command

Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName "Recall" -Remove

to remove this.

Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName "Recall"

lets you check the status of the feature on your computer.

"Well, there went my shoe business" permanently ingrained in my mind

giving myself a gold star for this

Robert De Niro shows support for daughter Airyn after she shares she’s trans: ‘I don’t know what the big deal is’ | CNN Robert De Niro is expressing his love and support for his daughter Airyn De Niro, after she recently shared publicly for the first time that she is transgender.

“I loved and supported Aaron as my son, and now I love and support Airyn as my daughter. I don’t know what the big deal is,” Robert De Niro told CNN in a statement. “I love all my children.”

www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/e...

plaque at a local museum. "No girl, unless she knows how to run an auto, knows how it makes you feel, to push one thing, pull another and start a machine to moving that weighs so many more times the amount she does. Sort of a thrill, an uplifted feeling as though you were doing something wonderful. You are, too! Fancy moving something that weighs TONS by a few twists and turns. I held my breath for fear something would happen." -Isabelle Young, age 12 (Diary excerpt 1910-1911)

love reading a 12 year old girl in 1911 write a mech pilot tweet in her diary abt the experience of driving an automobile

XKCD formatted meme that shows a large stack of blocks labelled with "all sci-fi and futuristic art direction". in a small corner of the stack is a single, critical, load-bearing block labelled with "a painting done by syd mead sometime in the 1970s"

been thinking about this for years, now articulated:

So the courts can do this but can’t stop Meta from illegally using my books to train their AI?

This is why I still think that the internet, not the issues, are the root cause of this culture war. People (including journalists…who are people) imagine the loudest, angriest positions as default positions because those are the ones that get eyeballs in an ultra-competitive attention economy.

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

Two people talk to each other. A man, in a striped polo, with an Apple II for a head. A woman, in a blouse, with a Disk II disk drive. They're using their hands animatedly. Illustration drawn by Martin Cannon.

"Martin, can you draw an image to illustrate the disk drive communicating with the computer?" "Say no more, Eric & Will." (Source.)

they really need to invent a second type of money these guys can play around with separate from the money I need to buy food. Business Money. Money 2

GEORGE LUCAS IN 1999: a trade embargo is going to spark the galactic reckoning and collapse

ME IN 2025: ah, okay

Microsoft bought skype in 2011, shoved it full of ads, forced cortana into it, added premium paid features while disabling stuff people liked, and eventually drove its millions of users to a competitor.

Will the next megacorpo learn when discord eventually goes for sale? Doubtful.

UNIANIMOUSLY!!!

oh is it bad when you put people out of work for political reasons

All 3 seasons of Dark

Finally! DARK on blu-ray. It's one of the best science fiction series of all time. Smart, sometimes sad, but always beautiful. Yes, it's currently on Netflix, but I don't trust those fuckers not to pull it.