Gabi

Which one of you is buying a swingset along with THREE different trampolines??

Because they aren’t.

It’s never about the beauty of art

It’s about contempt

Of being able to do with stolen work what other people do with sweat

About possibly stealing audience ( attention) from folks who are “dumb” enough to work

It’s about getting over on others

The Utter Flimsiness of xAI’s Processes xAI's was happy to put "white genocide" stuff back into Grok's system prompt without second thought.

Short write-up about how I got xAI to briefly add "white genocide" stuff back into Grok's system prompt.
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People who think this is a good idea tend to be deeply stupid.

This might sound paranoid, and it’s still hypothetical. It’s a truism someone is always watching on the internet, but the worst thing that comes of it for many people is some unwanted targeted ads. Right now in the US, though, we’re watching the impending collision of two alarming trends. In one, tech executives are encouraging people to reveal ever more intimate details to AI tools, soliciting things users wouldn’t put on social media and may not even tell their closest friends. In the other, the government is obsessed with obtaining a nearly unprecedented level of surveillance and control over residents’ minds: their gender identities, their possible neurodivergence, their opinions on racism and genocide.

Exactly this. www.theverge.com/policy/66568...

Genuinely helps my mental health to not think of them as a political party but as a jobs program for political consultants

Me, reading Spider-Man to my 5.5yo: “And with great power comes great…?”

Him: “Candy!”

Closed captions on a live baseball game making a strange triangle shape obscuring the whole screen and saying something about pizza.

Charlie Kirk and assorted knuckleheads: Just use closed captions! You don't need an interpreter!

The live captions:

This is premised on so many flawed assumptions including that:

1.) sign languages are wild human gesticulations as opposed to fully developed languages

2.) sign languages and close captions are mutually intelligible

3.) there couldn’t possibly be Deaf individuals at the actual press conference

Is Justin Herbertlinger a thing?

Ok I finished it once I got home and I stand by this original post. I don’t think I’ve ever hated every protagonist in a movie like this.

CEOs love genAI because they think they can use it to fire human workers, but I think they also love it for the same reason toddlers are fascinated by photos of themselves.
CEOs recognize themselves in the mediocre, soulless drivel genAI churns out.

Merry Christmas to all

Started Challengers on my first flight but didn’t have time to finish it. Doesn’t seem like it’s on my second flight but maybe this is it?

Not what I signed up for!

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

(Shit, they got me)

AI 'godfather' Geoffrey Hinton says AI will one day unite nations against a common existential threat Geoffrey Hinton said countries will one day be incentivized to work together to prevent a super-intelligent AI from taking power.

I guess this makes Altman Ozymandias. 🤦🏿‍♂️

@jaz.bsky.social are you able to update the Dog Pics feed to keep posts about DOGE out of it?

a meme of what seems to be a classic wikihow image of a man about to stab another man. the man doing the stabbing has a green duck head for a head and the man who is about to be stabbed is labeled ‘typing “fuck” on my phone’.

one would expect that by now tim apple would know that I use the words fuck and shit, and variations thereof, very very often

Eugenics.

Headline: Ford government promises to support universities as report warns of space crunch

From the article: A spokesperson for Colleges and Universities Minister Nolan Quinn said in a statement that "funding for post-secondary institutions is higher than it's ever been. Earlier this year, our government invested $1.3 billion to stabilize the sector — the single biggest investment increase in over a decade."

From the article: But overall, Ontario's universities receive the lowest per-student funding in the country. A report by the Ford government's own blue-ribbon expert panel, released a year ago, recommended an immediate 10 per cent increase in base funding, as well as allowing schools to raise tuition by five per cent. The government cut tuition by 10 per cent in 2019, and has frozen it since. Colleges and universities had expected some $2.5 billion over three years based on the panel recommendations; the province added about $1.3 billion. On Friday, the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance called the government's actions to date "disappointing."

The Toronto Star’s gross negligence in publishing this headline is surpassed only by the Ford government’s deliberate erosion of Ontario universities.

Aphorism 125: “Have you ever heard of the madman who on a bright morning lighted a lantern and ran to the market-place calling out unceasingly:

Greg Fleming writes, with poor punctuation: “Better Than Ezra saw you guys at thr grand opening of th HardRock Cafe in Atlantic City ,they were amazing ! Mid 90's”

Siri, show me the most GenX TikTok comment ever.

A bandage used to tie a door open.

Ontario hospitals lookin great.

I think she needs to pump the brakes is what I think.

Gretchen Wilson is a “behind-the-scenes supporter.” Remember, friends: don’t have heroes.

Absolutely disgusting and disheartening to see how our *Democratic* lawmakers have brushed aside climate obligations at the first whiff of tech money

No I think you should stick to the first one. Way more fun.

Interestingly, the 2006 ballot initiative that imposed the 60% support requirement for amendments did not itself get 60%. ballotpedia.org/Florida_Amen...