Laurie Rwites

All this to say, can someone just please make an old-school spell checker made with data that was PAID FOR and doesn't do anything but point out you still can't spell necessary???

Please!

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Fucking hell, I hate that now there's no differentiation between AI and "Generative AI"

It isn't just terminology anymore, either. All the benign shit that was normal to use is now being loaded up with toxic crud I don't want to touch.

It's a really nice sunset. I'm easily entertained.

Last-minute change in plans had me travelling home from Inverness between 6-8pm.

I felt very happy with this change of plans; the entertainment was top-notch.

Travelling on the train is the best!

YouTube video by The Critterz 匚尺丨ㄒㄒ乇尺乙 -- An animated short created with AI

There's been a proof of concept trailer online for over two years for that animated AI movie, and it's exactly what you expect - the same slow pan/zoom shot with a single character just standing there, over and over and over.

This was the second Tchaikovsky book I ever read, and was instantly hooked. Could not imagine a book that was more designed to appeal to my brain.
Love the Bioforms series too, but this novel might be one of my absolute, top of the list, favouritest novels, ever.

Correcting an unforgivable oversight on my part and reading Bank's Culture series.

On advice, I'm starting with The Player of Games. Barely started and I already hate this fucking guy.

The character, not the writer.

www.tumblr.com/lauriewrites...

Google search for "all you can eat buffet near me" with an "ai overview" of the results saying that you can use Google to search "all you can eat buffet near me" to find a buffet.

We are on the cusp of AGI, definitely for real

A tweet from pervocracy noting difficulty in maintaining mental health as many coping strategies are based in the idea your anxiety is unwarranted and right now needs extremely warranted but you still gotta water the plants or you'll have fascism AND dead plants

Peter B Parker introducing ADHD to you xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo Peter: They can DO THINGS exceptionally well and inhumanely fast! Watch this ADHD: I can't do it on command Peter: They can't do it on command

Just make it exist first. You can make it worse with each new pass while getting increasingly frustrated later.

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My husband looks at me like I'm a monster, and he's thinking of calling the police Vol #507:

Me, joking: "What the Severance people did wrong is they didn't include any sort of compliance assurance in their end design."

Mini comic in two parts. 1: "Just make it exist first" - crude drawing of a red circle, not very accurate. 2: "You can make it bear later" - the circle is now a bear's head after adding a bunch more lines to it. "Bear" on the caption is handwritten over a previous text. By Joabaldwin based on the comic by Growthbyvisuals

just make it exist first
you can make it bear later

Social media toxicity can't be fixed by changing the algorithms Experiments involving AI chatbots interacting on a simulated social media platform suggest efforts to design out antagonistic user behaviour will not succeed

And that's why you just plain block accounts the moment they start being a dick in your mentions

www.newscientist.com/article/2492...

Watchmen

What we need is the world's greatest scientists and artists to come together and design a teleporting space octopus to drop on to the Trump/Putin meeting.

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Working on a specific piece that I've been putting off cause it's something I find difficult.

Clip Studio decided to crash, and to suddenly have the autosave/recover function not work.

TLDR: I lost 4 hours of work last night.

Moral of the story? Keep procrastinating when things are difficult.

In science fiction, so much of what is "classic" was essentially written for one man: John W. Campbell, the editor of the pre-eminent US SF magazine. Even the stuff published elsewhere, because it was often sent to him first. Think on what it means to have a whole genre filtered through one dude.

2 images from hackers as characters converse. "I've got a record. I was Zero Cool." "Zero Cool crashed 1.507 systems in one day, biggest crash in history. Front page New York Times August 10, 1988"

Never forget today, when, on this day in 1988, Zero Cool crashed 1,507 systems in one day.

A happy book says: I'm so proud you chose me as your holiday read! I can't wait to start entertaining you! A smiling drink says: And I'm right here! Ready to keep you cool and refreshed while you read! A gleeful phone adds: Yay! So great! How about we kick things off with a load of the same old rubbish you always look at, plus some gloomy news and mavbe a few emails from work!! Hours later... The drink and book lie untouched. The phone is out of view but a bubble reads: Scroll Scroll Scroll Scroll Scroll The book says “I hate that guy.”

My cartoons for this week’s @theguardian.com books
#holiday #vacation #reading

Old friend of mine was a talent agent. One time, heading out, he warned me not to mention his job, because people would immediately try to network at him or get access to celebrities.
Me: "WTF? Who does that?!"
Him: "This is why we're friends."

I can imagine being the actual celebrity is worse.

mRNA research has already made massive strides towards potentially curing HIV, preventing/treating numerous Cancers, and all but eliminating Multiple Sclerosis.

Fuck you nepo-worm-cunt.
And your boss, the nepo-pedo-cunt.

You are the absence of anything worthy.

The relentless centring of racist fantasy grievances in media coverage of both the anniversary of last year's racist riots and this year's racist hotel harassment is just grotesque. We know what they think from their banners and chants, maybe ask hotel residents what they think and want instead?

The BBC have already done this with trans people.

The fact that @bsky.app ”did not respond to a request for comment” is not surprising considering how they have also refused to respond to any of their users making these same complaints to @moderation.bsky.app and being ignored.

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

The crux of their argument is that if they're found liable, then the consequences of their own actions that no one forced them to take could ruin them and the rest of their industry that undertakes similar practices.

To which I say motherfucker did you never hear about Napster

PBS needs you, y'all. Become a member. Get Passport. mainline documentaries until your eyes bulge cuz your brain is too stuffed.

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Not me getting into random internet arguments defending fan-fiction as a legitimate writing practice.

I don't write it, but that doesn't mean I won't die on this hill.

Awww, the memories. ❤️