Evan Engel

I unabashedly love this

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Well, everything. The death of art. [Laughs.] A thing that I’ve been struck by in the last year of tech development around art is that what makes us human is making art, even if you’re not a professional artist. This is kind of corny, but I think about cavemen, right? One of the first things we ever did as a species was put our handprints on a wall, and it’s just this drive that has always been there. It’ll always be there. And I think it’s preposterous that these people are suggesting that they develop this technology, and the first thing they want to eliminate is art, so you have more time to…what, email? I don’t know what they think I’m going to do with my fucking day. Most of the population is not artists, but a lot of the population has artistic hobbies, and if you replace that with a computer doing it for you or whatever, it’s just pointless. I think there’s a death drive in these people, almost, and an actual hatred of artists; they are jealous of people with imagination because they don’t have one, and they almost consciously want to eliminate it.

My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...

some folks on here are like "I would shelter Anne Frank in my attic in the face of fascism" but they can't be bothered to use Signal wtf

The tech bros are making themselves sick Read to the end for a cool bowl

This story is amazing. A VC seems to be increasingly delusional as an AI chatbot feeds him sci-fi from a popular online story collection

www.garbageday.email/p/the-tech-b...

coolest coffee shops near me (air conditioning)

This is another reason why I trust @404media.co

"One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This"

A socialist loses a primary: "Voters don't want radical ideology"

A socialist wins: "It's not the ideology, it's the message"

‎Shell Shock: the unlikely glory of Steve Barron’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at 35 • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine • Letterboxd As Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles turns 35 and prepares for a theatrical re-release, director Steve Barron tells Isaac Feldberg about the challenging production and breathtaking triumph of the 1990 blockbuster that nobody—except Jim Henson—believed in.

“When the AI movies hit, remember this golden age... it’s so cool that you could at one point stick guys into giant animatronic turtle suits, and everyone would be like, ‘Hell yeah, man, this rocks.’ Shame that movies just don’t look like this anymore.”

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I can think of of a couple fervently-anti-Tik-Tok tech journalists who strangely never mention it!

Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to incite fear of China vaccines The covert effort began under Trump and continued into Biden’s presidency, Reuters found. Health experts say it endangered lives for possible geopolitical gain.

Reminder: There is is *more* evidence of the Trump admin colluding w/ social media companies to push political propaganda on a foreign population than there is for anything they say about China.

Yesterday the Pew Research Center released a report based on the internet browsing activity of 900 U.S. adults which found that Google users who encounter an Al summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than use 's who don't encounter an Al summary. To be precise, only [my emphasis] 1 percent of users who encountered an Al summary clicked the link to the page Google is summarizing.

Hey is it bad if google AI search results stop people from leaving google dot com 99% of the time? All our news and information creators can survive just fine with one percent of their previous search traffic right? I’m sure it’s fine. www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...

sorry i didn’t reply to your message i saw you texted and half-knew what it was probably about but didn’t have all the details to respond yet and if I open it I’ll forget i opened it so i can’t open it yet

please know that it is causing me: intense psychic agony

In fact, Trump claims that Murdoch promised to "take care of" the Epstein story, so it's possible that the staff of WSJ is publishing this *against* its owner's wishes.

None of this will be news to anyone who logs onto major tech platforms or follows this stuff, but it is very much worth noting the sheer volume and relentlessness of the push to sell AI features. It suggests, yet again, users do not organically turn to AI or seek it out on their own.

love when a paywall sounds like it’s drawing a gun on you

I'm really hoping that someone will write about the pornification of political debate so I don't have to

And this shouldn't be a surprise, since so many in the TESCREAL lack a basic definition of humanity. There are already *conscious humans* who the TESCREALites refuse to recognize as people. Why the hell would we expect them to define consciousness?

Leaked Documents Show OpenAI Has a Very Clear Definition of ‘AGI’ We finally have a real definition of the elusive "AGI."

Reminder that the people who spend all day, everyday promising/warning of "superintelligence" still can't define it. Open AI's *best* definition is "whatever makes us $100 billion." Such a joke.

gizmodo.com/leaked-docum...

Whenever someone gets mad at me for questioning the net usefulness of AI and says something like “you’re like the people who didn’t want to use the internet”—with love, I was born in 1997, and my life growing up online is all the evidence I need that we should handle AI differently than we are now

Iron Man #1 by Spencer Ackerman

Finally found time to read @attackerman.bsky.social 's Iron Man and it was everything I hoped: cutting, opinionated, inventive. Can't wait to pick up the next one!

LFG

YouTube video by marcbranches Kill Bill vol 2 Superman monologue

And the last clip before we go into the film would HAVE to be...

The Kill Bill Superman monologue

YouTube video by Flashback FM Batman vs Superman [Part 2] | The Dark Knight Returns

Batman clocking Superman in this adaptation of The Dark Knight Returns

(TBH this does not do justice to the original graphic novel)

YouTube video by Flashback FM Hollywoodland - superman was never real

3. Ben Affleck in Hollywoodland, playing George Reeves, the actor who played Superman

(the LAYERS here!)

YouTube video by FilMagicians Nicholas Cage as Superman / Clark Kent

2. Nicholas Cage's Superman audition w/ Tim Burton

YouTube video by jjalc Kevin Smith - Superman lives 2/2

I'm gonna see Superman tonight at one of those Alamo-type theaters where they have a lot of pre-programming. Here's what I would pick if that were my job:

1. Kevin Smith on the Superman movie her turned down

ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study | TIME The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

"as society increasingly relies upon LLMs for immediate convenience, long-term brain development may be sacrificed in the process."

time.com/7295195/ai-c...

The “Male Loneliness Epidemic” Does Not Exist | by Jude Ellison S. Doyle | Medium The media panic around “male loneliness” is driven by cherry-picked statistics and sexism. Now, that’s sad.

This was a great read on that subject

judedoyle.medium.com/the-male-lon...

Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber who no longer works at the company, appeared on All-In to talk with hosts Jason Calacanis and Chamath Palihapitiya about the future of technology. When the topic turned to AI, Kalanick discussed how he uses xAI’s Grok, which went haywire last week, praising Adolf Hitler and advocating for a second Holocaust against Jews. “I’ll go down this thread with [Chat]GPT or Grok and I’ll start to get to the edge of what’s known in quantum physics and then I’m doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it’s vibe physics,” Kalanick explained. “And we’re approaching what’s known. And I’m trying to poke and see if there’s breakthroughs to be had. And I’ve gotten pretty damn close to some interesting breakthroughs just doing that.”

My god these guys are such spectacular morons

gizmodo.com/billionaires...