Aaron Jacobs

A New Wharton Study on AI Warns of a Growing Problem: Cognitive Surrender Casual users should pay special attention

This is a mental war that we have to win. It's not about being a luddite, it's about destroying or retaining the ability to think. It's about how insidious this becomes in a situation where generative AI is adopted and then subverted intentionally.

www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/a-new-whar...

Been replaying FFT bit by a bit as I get chunks of free time, and oh boy is there anything as nostalgic as getting annihilated during my first attempt at Golgollada Gallows, squeaking through Lionel Gates and then completely forgetting Cúchulainn's petrify attacks and almost getting wiped on turn 2.

YouTube video by Nekrogoblikon Nekrogoblikon feat. Reel Big Fish - Secret Elephant [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

this has no right to go as hard as it does

A freshly cleaned family mausoleum in Karazad, with an honorary feast prepared for the dead...

didn't know this was a spicemaxxing account

A network of artists, trans people, sex workers, and broke stoners have done more to help the people of Gaza than the entire democratic party.

A woman in bladed armour hovers over a strange cityscape, captioned "man I hate living in Sigil"

I don't know why this made me laugh so hard

star trek is saved

Carved in the likeness of the One True God, it was blessed with a mouth to give blessings to the people

Cover art for Worm's Necropalace. Dracula sits on a gothic throne floating in a red and black swirling void while staring down a strange bat-winged snake monster

I know we're not supposed to judge things by their cover, but you ever see some album art and without even having heard a single song off it, go "yeah that's for me"

Your regular reminder that Palantir started out as a way to expose sex workers to police violence, then expanded to allow cops to spy on anyone they pointed at while barfing out the word "gang".

Fascists *created* Palantir, but useful idiots approved of everything done to grow it.

The problem is if you answer Dare To Be Stupid you out yourself as a wretched music nerd but you are also correct

I've blessedly avoiding hearing anything about Clavicular before, so watching him on the Friedland show - is his gimmick literally just that he's an even more overtly psychopathic Dennis Reynolds who reshapes his own bones with a hammer

I feel bad when I read people who say they hate writing, especially to the extent they’d let an LLM do it. Writing was the path to making me feel human and the emotional journey of doing it all the time fills me full of purpose. I refuse to believe I’m the only person who feels like this!

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

YouTube video by Noah Caldwell-Gervais Exploring Eora: Pillars of Eternity 1, 2, and Avowed

I was actually feeling like playing one of the Torment games lately, but now there's a 5 hour NCG deep dive on the Pillars games and I want to spin up my billionth run on that.

Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch On YouTube | Cord Cutters News In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun uploading full episodes of the iconic series Babylon 5 to YouTube, providing free access to the show just...

If y'all want to get your sci-fi groove on without having to buy into a streaming service...

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Even the Dersh looking at Glinner for five seconds and being like "get this freak away from me" is very funny

I think a handy rebuttal to "why are disabilities allowed to exist with magical Star Trek tech" is "in a truly utopian future where we can all be our best selves, we'll stop thinking of people with disabilities as lesser for having them," but maybe I'm just a soppy child of the TNG/DS9 era.

Good magazine. Good stories. Good people.

Also a good opportunity to fill out your backlog; one of the options basically nets you a bulk discount for the upcoming stuff plus all the previous issues.

Things are going great here in Sydney.

Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, somet...

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

i am trying not to joke about the Epstein stuff because it's so horrible but there's also this ridiculous element where it's like... discovering Dracula is real, he's taken over human society at the highest levels, he's involved in tons of evil and also he's a huge dipshit

A strange looking artillery style device made of steel tubes mounted on a cement plinth in the middle of the woods

fun fact: I've been to the Wilhelm Reich museum in Rangeley, Maine, and actually got to sit in one of the cloudbusters, a giant cannon that was meant to harness orgasmic power to create thunderstorms and torrential downpours

I had a weird childhood

'Explosive' New Book: Bernie Once Made Himself An 'Orgasm Machine' 'Bernie's bedroom secrets'

A spicy new literary take on Vermont's famous imported socialist takes a prurient peek behind the curtains into Bernie's bedroom. The upcoming book “Bernie for Burlington,” says Bernie Sanders once built himself a device so he could achieve "cosmos-shattering orgasms.” The racy take on Vermont’s Brooklyn-born senior senator is authored by Dan Chiasson, a poet and journalist who is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and who grew up in Burlington. Sanders, a follower of the 'Father of Free Love' in his youth, was heavily influenced by the controversial sex therapist Wilhelm Reich, according to Chaisson.

god forbid a man give himself a summer project,

I wish I still lived in NYC so I could have the chance to bump into Michael Rapaport taking pictures of dirty snow and screaming about how before Zohran Mamdani, all snow was pure and clean.

Efrim Menuck feels like cheating but

Sisters! Brothers! Small Boats Of Fire Are Falling From The Sky! (Silver Mt Zion)

Strung Like Lights at Thee Printemps Erable (GY!BE)

There is an actual argument that this curse actually worked.