“My 'I'm not friends with Hitler' t-shirt has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my shirt. ;-)

ChatGPT firm reveals AI model that is ‘good at creative writing’ As tech firms battle creative industries over copyright, OpenAI chief Sam Altman says he was ‘really struck’ by product’s output

why are you soulless little brunchlords trying to hack and shortcut fun things like creative writing?

go make yourselves actually productive and fix airline customer service or doing your taxes

I used to think that when global warming truly began to bite, deniers would face reality & we could act. Now I think it's more likely it will lead to a kind of fascism that will respond to global warming by, like, executing everyone who says global warming is real.

Just saying the same thing here. I wondered if Slot's decision was influenced by off-pitch considerations. Either way, it seemed like an out-of-character error.

How it started/how it’s going

pigeon taking a strip of paper from a poster with his beak, phone number on the strip. the poster has clip art of a pigeon on it and text that reads “tired of being a bird?”

My daughter bought a new mirror for her student house. I said “that’s a really nice mirror. I could see myself using that” I laughed and she just rolled her eyes in disgust.

[noticing a group of people having a nice time at the park] enjoy your echo chamber

It also misses that for most of us this is a hobby, and Twitter stopped being fun. I don't have some kind of moral obligation to broaden the debate/ communicate for my team/ whatever. It's my phone, it's my time, and they're my thumbs, if I prefer Bluesky its no-ones business but mine.

Check out this 4 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove 4 bedroom detached house for sale in Mansion Gardens, Potterspury, NN12 for £825,000. Marketed by Howkins and Harrison LLP, Towcester

Picture 10, everyone. You can thank me later.

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Remarkable how people treat election victories as if they amount to the settlement of a political argument on the merits. Particularly marked in the case of net zero, as if the planet is just going to shrug and say, "well, that's that then, I'm going to stop getting hotter".

I wouldn't say this is the best paragraph ever committed to print. But only because I haven't read *all* of them.

A piece of paper upon which is written "Woooo" several times with increasingly desperate use of caps

OK, that's the last bloody time I hire a ghostwriter.

#halloween 🎃👻 #science 🧪🔬 #statistics - the REAL scary thing 🧮

A photo of a Japanese bar’s sign in which a cheerful bottle is kicking a brain in its nuts

Maybe the best logo I’ve ever seen

Twitter post: someone suggests that Vincent Van Gogh could have AI-generated The Starry Night and it would still be his art. A far smarter person points out that entering that prompt would NOT generate The Starry Night, "because the original wouldn't exist for the machine to fucking copy".

Automating pet care, child care, art, music, film. Automating everything we all actually want more time for. Robots should be designed for picking up the dogshit, not walking the dogs. Get them cleaning rivers, repairing roads. Going down pipes to unclog them. Sorting recycling. Replacing sweatshops

If you're posting pictures of the Northern lights, do please remember that some primitive cultures, such as my local Facebook group, believe that they indicate that the sun is broken, so please use a content warning.

(Jordan Peterson, after having won Popmaster)
Ken Bruce: Jordan, is there anyone you'd like to say hello to?
JP: Thank you, Ken, yes, I'd like to send a message to the Jews

screenshot of someone’s spotify playlist titled “marvin gaye’s clueless ass.” songs include “what’s going on,” “what’s happening brother,” “when did you stop loving me,” “where are we going,” “i don’t know why,” and “why did i choose you”

“marvin gaye’s clueless ass”

YouTube video by Simon & Schuster Books Fredrik Backman on Creative Anxiety and Procrastination

Brilliant and hilarious

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSuS...

Despite the time I caused a leak in the helium factory, they still speak highly of me there

The 5 Stages of Butter Substitute Grief:

1. I can't believe it's not butter
2. I AM FURIOUS THIS ISN'T BUTTER!
3. What can I give you to make this butter?
4. The fact that this isn't butter really bums me out
5. I believe it's not butter