Brad Proctor

AI rant of the day. My library is using a new ebook platform for Leon Litwack's book "Trouble in Mind." You can no longer see page numbers or footnotes. And there is a running AI summary of the book next to the text. It's USELESS now.

This is one of the funniest images humanity has ever crafted.

Its amazing that reporters at the NYT are too obtuse (purposefully or otherwise) to realize that "superfluous tax that ordinary people are paying but dont have to" is actually the exact opposite of "hard to quit"

Microplastics are here to stay; that's why we need to eat them responsibly in the classroom

I love Davis Byrne so much!

Sigourney Weaver eating a hot dog in Los Angeles, 1983.

Photograph by Douglas Kirkland.

“How does the computer know something happened if no one tells the computer about it” is the easy-reader way to explain why we still need human reporters and data-collectors

And I also find it genuinely alarming that even some people on this website don’t seem to grasp this

Check out the colossal array of great Murphs in the replies.

Very fun. Much neat.

They legit think we are being boomers when we ask them where they keep the cups or if there is a dressing room…because they don’t realize that expertise used to be pretty common, even in the most front line casual retail interactions.

That’s how bad it is.

And my printing just was not collated because that makes sense

I find the "odd pages only/even pages only" choice that Chrome displays for printing just about the least useful printing choice imaginable. Like how often is that ever a thing?

Microsoft released a study assessing jobs' vulnerability to being replaced by AI based on whether AI is currently being used for that work, how successfully it does so and how much of that occupation's work is accounted for by AI. Most vulnerable: 1. Interpreters and translators (Score: 0.49, Number employed: 51,560) 2. Historians (0.48, 3,040) (Axios)

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I don’t know much about it because there’s not a ton of details, but I fundamentally don’t like media owning sports in general. I find it rarely goes well and often cheapens the product.

ernie from sesame street is wearing a striped shirt and orange gloves Alt: ernie from sesame street is shaking his head in dismay.

WhatsApp, in its ads: "Nobody, not even WhatsApp, can hear or read your private chats."
WhatsApp, in its app: "Meta AI is reading this conversation. Tap here for a summary."

Absolutely shameless, pitiful assholes

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Random pictures for July

I will only ever vote for Democrats who say they will fix this. Impeachment proceedings and judicial reform NOW.

Took the day off and have watched The Mission and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves because I was in the mood for problematic/mediocre films that feature some of the greatest scores of all time.

the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic

I will only ever vote for Democrats who say they will fix this. Impeachment proceedings and judicial reform NOW.

Truly, it’s the racism.

This, but for everything.

Screenshot from DS9. Nog says "Maybe the soulless minions of orthodoxy finally caught up with him."

My mutuals if I ever stop posting

When we say “generative AI is the future,” we mean “we just bought into it on everyone’s behalf.” When we say “generative AI is a useful tool,” we mean “you had better find a use for it.”

In case you need to hear it.

People really believe there's some Secret Unelected Democracy SWAT Team that has to come fix this eventually if you post hard enough.

This shit is insane. The most prominent anti-trans quislings in the party are straightforwardly secular (Gavin Newsom believes in one thing and it's himself), and one of the most prominent trans rights defenders (Andy Beshear) does so in expressly religious terms!