mr. sardonicus

Could the AirPods Pro 3 Mean the End of Subtitles? Apple’s newest headphones boast an instantaneous translation app. Let’s put them to the test in a movie theater.

For @theringer.com.web.brid.gy I attempted to use Apple’s new AirPods and translation app to watch foreign language films. Could they make subtitles obsolete? Well…

idk but i’d guess they asked for payment up front or some kind of collateral to be handed over on check-in

by the by, this is the personal life section of lee greenwood’s wikipedia page. real inspiring role model stuff here

probably true, but I also feel like this is him advocating for nationally televised memory care for our sundowning president

YouTube video by Austin Lounge Lizards - Topic Put The Oak Ridge Boys In The Slammer

youtu.be/LUYoAYXYqpw?...

let’s get up with people out of mothballs while we’re at it

lee greenwood is an 82 year old piece of shit

i’m just some guy, but it seems to me if the AI people are now thinking they need to rely on ad revenue, this shit is cooked

ANTHROPIC: “artificial superintelligence will certainly cause the end of the human species, which is we must build it before OpenAI does so we can have some chance of inscribing human moral values on the post-human future”

OPENAI: “what if we put ads in ChatGPT?”

Yeah I basically think Sora is poison and the people who made it are evil people.

Counterpoint: The armor of contempt is a survival skill in this age.

RETVRN

The age of search engines is over

The time of the webring has come

This is what people have been saying they want, feast, feast from the garbage trough

we speak truth to power, but only when we’re absolutely sure it’s not going to get us in trouble with the regime or our shithead plutocrat bosses

washington press are pond scum

god I hope they threaten you personally

I’m on record saying “she will never publicly confirm this” so I got this one wrong I guess.

programmers when they realise web dev means making a UI/UX

such an unbelievably stupid self own, but I wonder if we’re going to see a glut of fancy brown liquor formerly intended for export back on domestic shelves

It's open enrollment time so here's a convenient peg to hang a little tutorial about how to choose your health insurance.

Most of the advice you get is bad. Most of your instincts are bad. I however used to work for a health insurance company and I do arithmetic for a living so I can help.

MONDAY.
SPITE AS FUEL.

Comedians being recast as great truth tellers with some piercing insight into society is a neat piece of self-serving rhetoric that we’ve obligingly swallowed since Carlin. Unfortunately, some of the worst people you’ll ever meet in your life are good at getting a laugh- it’s not a mark of virtue.

have you ever read “for want of a nail”?

when I worked for the state of maryland, my name and salary were printed in the newspaper every year, fuck these guys

my most millennial internet complaint is that I find it contemptible when people post deliberately provocative shit and then get upset when people are provoked. back in my day being a troll used to mean something goddamnit. you didn't do this "whoooaa hey just a joke" shit, you accepted the risk

Fallout (1997)

let’s mail out another big check with trump’s signature on it to the dumbest people in america because that worked out gangbusters last time

how about fuck no