scott dagostino

Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes I didn’t even ask it to take her clothes off.

It is no accident that the early use cases for "genAI" consumer products revolve around the sexual harassment, abuse, and exploitation of women in power. It is no accident that the technology is immediately embraced as a tool of patriarchy and gender-based violence.
www.theverge.com/report/71897...

Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.

We used to have some societal norms against this stuff, and they were getting stronger. Then the editors and investors decided that *actually* the cultural crisis is white men feeling any doubt about themselves whatsoever.

We all know what a ghoul Gretzky has become but it’s sad to see Matthew Tkachuk joining this after being a vocal ally to gay hockey players 😡

A handy guide to the DavidMackiverse ⭐️
As the Brigadier described the Doctor, “Splendid fellows. All of them!”

had Biden randomly wandered on the White House roof shouting at reporters about nuclear weapons, Jake Tapper would drop everything to pitch a new series of books and Hannity would anchor ongoing special coverage until 2029

but when Trump does it it's just Trump being Trump!

Please understand that if you air even a single ICE ad on your program, on your podcast, on your stream, you will never, for the rest of your mortal life, receive another dollar or another second of attention from me, or from millions of others.

I promise you, it is financial suicide.

Sure, on the one hand, this will make people worse off and contribute to climate change, but on the other hand it means higher demand on the energy grid which raises electricity prices for us all! 🥳

Spider-Punk Animated Feature From Daniel Kaluuya & Ajon Singh In Development At Sony A Spider-Punk animated feature from Daniel Kaluuya & Ajon Singh is in development at Sony, Deadline has learned.

“How are you even cooler *under* your mask??”
“I was this cool the whole time.” ❤️💙

Song of the day 🦅

History will remember the cowards who capitulated to maga.

I resent that “artificial intelligence” is constantly the phrase used instead of “computer” now. You had a computer correct your grammar, you used a computer to make a graphic. It’s just a computer, like we’ve had for decades, stop insisting it’s a person 😡

So we’re just straight up doing 19th century gutter racism now? Not even saying it privately, but going on television to advertise a new Chinese Exclusion Act?

Canadians with an X gender marker will now have to select male or female on Nexus travel cards after Trump order Ottawa’s decision to allow policy change raises human-rights concerns for transgender and non-binary people, lawyers say

Yes, Mark Carney showing up at Vancouver Pride is very nice but I also expect his government to stand up for trans people. It’s not about rainbow flags, it’s about PROTECTING QUEER PEOPLE FROM HARM 🎯

Zero Tolerance Five years after the George Floyd protests, many liberals blame “wokeness” for stifling open debate. So why can’t they handle being disagreed with?

I bet that reading Andrea Long Chu on Thomas Chatteron Williams will brighten up my day. www.vulture.com/article/post...

“And as for fortune, and as for fame,
I never invited them in
Though it seemed to the world they were all I desired.
They are illusions, they're not the solutions they promised to be.
The answer was here all the time:
I love you, and hope you love MEEEEEEE”

Brexit has been a resounding disaster. Starmer must find the courage to change course | Ed Davey Poll after poll shows most voters think leaving the EU has been a failure. Closer ties with Europe would bring huge rewards, says Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey

What’s going on with the Guardian today? Like a newborn baby, gazing befuddled at the world.
Starmer’s…courage?? Are you new??

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

Harry Potter Audiobooks Reveals Cast Led By Hugh Laurie, Matthew Macfadyen, Riz Ahmed & Michelle Gomez; Cush Jumbo To Narrate; Release Dates Set Pottermore Publishing and Audible are unveiling the star-studded cast lineup for Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions.

Goddammit, this is a large batch of actors I really like helping JK Rowling make even more money (this is the *third* full run of HP audiobooks, by the way, enough already) 😡

Spider-Man star Tom Holland filming on streets of Glasgow The actor chatted to fans in the city centre while shooting an action sequence for Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

Seems Glasgow has now eclipsed Toronto as Hollywood’s NYC-stand-in-of-choice but it’s nice to see Tom Holland giving time for selfies with young fans 👍🏼

“I think Andry Hernández is still going to be the same Andry as always,” he said. “I’m still the same person who cares deeply about the world of makeup – and about justice, especially when it comes to diversity and the LGBTQ community.”

It’s wild how the media buys the conservative line that liberals are devious and skilled while every piece of evidence before our eyes shows the opposite. I *wish* Democrats were this duplicitous but sadly no!

Driver of white pickup hits and kills child.

Headline fixed.
#Calgary

Canada seems to have suffered the same fate 🫤

Well, I’m gonna insist that you listen to this.

Definition of terms:

“these people” = Latino migrants

“Inner city people” = Black people

“We tried to get them [inner city people] to do it” = slavery & sharecropping

He truly was! ⭐️

If you’re calling to strengthen the police state to crack down on mass protests, then you’re just trying to make it harder to oppose Trump’s authoritarianism.

No Democrat should support that.

Ramis: I can’t tell you how many people have told me, “When I go to the movies, I don’t want to think.” Believer interviewer: Does that offend you as a filmmaker? Ramis: It offends me as a human being. Why wouldn’t you want to think? What does that mean? Why not just shoot yourself in the fucking head?

People plugging their entire skulls into A.I. makes me think of this old Believer interview with Harold Ramis

This has become the most viral thing I’ve ever put on the internet and I think that rules