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Mary fuckin Shelley would like a word, dipshit.

Life hack: paint thousands of portraits of minis on the fence until it is entirely covered in paint :D

Okay I was kinda perversely ready for a reading of Star Trek as demonstrating conservative Republican values, but it's whole argument is "Most Trekkies are men" (Citation fucking needed) and "Most Men are Conservative" (In fairness, it had a graph for that).
Disappointing.

How Trump Is Using Fake Imagery to Attack Enemies and Rouse Supporters The president has posted A.I.-generated images and videos dozens of times on social media, in some cases misleading viewers and amplifying political divisions.

"Mr. Trump has posted A.I.-generated images or videos at least 62 times on his Truth Social account since late 2022"

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Thank you! I will tell him this :)

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Maybe we are the monster ;)

My son spontaneously did an excellent cg animation project at home during his half term break (which turned out then to be suitable to hand in for his tech homework when he got back to school :) I'm so proud!

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

It shouldn't take an FOI request to see grant success rates. UKRI has a duty of care to researchers to supply this from the outset. We are judged, compared, promoted (or not) according to unbelievably bad odds.

One day I won't prepare too many slides for my lecture, but it is not this day!

Elon Musk says Optimus will be an 'incredible surgeon' Musk said Optimus could become an"infinite money glitch" capable of driving Tesla's profits to new heights.

if your story on Elon musk's robots doesn't mention the very real possibility that thus is all stock fluffing vaporware somewhere in the first four paragraphs you are not doing journalism

That'll be the exploitation I meant :)

I'd like to pretend I timed it with Halloween, but I didn't lol

This week is:

Teaching on King and religion next week and I might bring this up with my students just to dunk on it...

I want you to imagine what you would have said in 2005 if someone told you a company would do this and not only get away with it, but evade wide public outrage

But they just laughed at me for not having updated the decorations since Easter... I wonder who actually works for who?

I'm showing my robot army this quote so they know how much worse they could have it under a different leader!!

I love videogames, I really do. But life/society is not actually a videogame/simulation where you can exploit your way to the final level. Although, there is a lot of a kind of exploitation that would be involved here...

Not really my area (not enough actual robots ;), but super interesting!

I don’t know if there’s a more perfect illustration of the utter fucking nonsense that creative pollution by AI will produce than this choice to illustrate the power of Paramount’s new “localization” and “customization” technology by face-swapping Brad Pitt into the lead role of GET OUT

Flamingos on Jupiter, confirmed.

Als AI-wetenschappers zich verzetten tegen AI in het hoger onderwijs Deze wetenschappers en filosofen roepen op tot kritisch denken over AI.

> Among the signatories is Luc Steels, "the father of AI in Belgium." And he's not the only Belgian scientist supporting the resistance to "so-called 'AI' technologies." Apache spoke with Steels and co. "Universities encouraging students to use ChatGPT? I'm stunned"

apache.be/2025/10/23/a...

the ghost of liberace is all "whew tone it down gurl"

An iconic piece of revolution art that's sprung up since the Portland protests that brought us the FROG - it depicts said Frog (wearing a DAPPER blue scarf) facing down a line of cos in riot gear, guns drawn. It has a black border, and in the top area, in the same shade of green as the Frog, is RAGE AGAINST, and in the bottom area, THE MACHINE. Couldn't be a more appropriate band to make a t-shirt out of this image for. I wonder how many people HAVE stopped thinking of Pepe the Frog when they see this frog and now think of our nationwide protests against Trumpian fascism...

The best part about that Portland Frog & the subsequent PLAGUE OF FROGS we've spread across the land at protests is that we've APPROPRIATED that frog from those Pepe shits.

When I see that frog now, I think Portland & Protests, not Pepe.

And thus it will be till the day I die.

SUCK ON THAT, BRO.

ANOTHER new soldier for the robot army (you wait around for ages and then two come at once...) I respectfully request you don't judge them for their slightly squishy body. Remember, the first roboti were squishy too!!

kermit the frog is holding his hand to his mouth and looking surprised . ALT: kermit the frog is holding his hand to his mouth and looking surprised .

Unlike his other WAGs, he might not leave this one...
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