I am convinced that Microsoft is run by people who do not interact with digital devices. Somebody holds up a computer and uses it for Satya Nadella, he just sits and scratches his chin and says “make it do more”

I realize how scary it must be, but remember: Sora 1 has been out for over a year, so has Runway, so has Pika, and so has Veo. They want you to be scared, but they are currently blowing tens or hundreds of millions of dollars shitting out content that will only be useful as “Exhibit A.”

Cue my ‘joke’ that classics is 55% gays and 55% Nazis.

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

It’s doubly embarrassing to be incapable of writing coherently on Watchmen when off your face on drugs given that Alan Moore is, in point of fact, routinely off his face on drugs.

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

Accounting and the end of the business cycle While narratives furnish the rally, it is issues around revenue recognition and the matching principle that mark the downturns.

this sets out very clearly what OpenAI is doing, it's a fairly simple revenue recognition scam - where you book revenue you haven't yet, ah, received.

(Morally if not legally fraud. Yet.)

Trumpeting "$1 trillion" of receivables on $4.3b actual revenue.

marketdepth.substack.com/p/accounting...

How to tell both sides are annoying the judge (the WordPress case)

"Fires the bigotry neuron" is one of the ways that process is described! Engaging in bigoted patterns of thought and speech at inapposite targets genuinely does alter a speaker's patterns of thinking! Or, to put it differently, "ironic" racism incepts people into real racism.

We have decades of evidence that regularly repeating statements that "ironically" borrow from the language of bigotry and apply it to inapposite targets genuinely do alter the taboo threshold at which the speaker both believes in and is willing to express bigotry against actual marginalized groups!

Universities planning cuts to jobs and courses are not cash strapped

Jo Grady highlights hypocrisy of the University of Edinburgh as it plans to make £140 million in cuts when then have £2.7 billion in net assets

Enough is enough

#WeAreTheUniversity

war, war never changes.

> Lol the timing; I work in IT for a large publishing company - and my god the meetings with microsoft sales team is all AI AI AI COPILOT COPILOT COPILOT. > I had to flat out tell their VP we're not buying any fucking copilot - whereupon she revealed that the only thing she is being measured on for Q4 is sales of copilot, so if that's off the table the conversation is not interesting. LMAO

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this place is supposed to be the hub, the proof of concept that other AT Protocol platforms want to connect to, but the people who run the place are such thin-skinned bigots that they're undermining the appeal of their own project

BLUESKY: you can handle moderation yourselves! remember: we protect us!

BLUESKY WHEN TRANS PEOPLE DO THAT: nope. nope nope nope.

jfc that cannot be serious

what am I saying, that's definitely serious.

welcome to the Resistance, psychotically violent fascists who tear gas children

atproto activists act like atproto does *decentralisation* better than mastodon, and that's simply hilariously false

bluesky is a better social network for users than mastodon because it doesn't actually have to think about decentralisation

(except as an excuse)

Like what the hell else do you call this but terrorism. This is right next to an elementary school

What's the next drill tweet you're going for?

Oh god, they actually put in the newspaper that I got mad

Telegram is still on the App Store after being linked to multiple mass shootings.

The 'WAFFLES' thing is even more upsetting when you realise Jesse Singal came into a place where people didn't hate Trans people and he started yelling 'WHY DON'T YOU HATE TRANS PEOPLE' like he's literally the 'WAFFLES' person in the analogy ffs

BlueSky doesn't exist to demonstrate ATProto, ATProto exists to excuse BlueSky.

always was!

"start your own atproto instance for distributed FREEDOM!! no we still have you blocked on the appview that 99.999% of users use, why, is that a problem"

flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 ‪@flere-imsaho.circumstances.run‬ yes, you definitely do not understand that the fact that you *host* some data doesn't mean you *own* it. skittles‬ ‪@alt.kxt.pet‬ how so?

sometimes i feel like it's a cheap shot to keep comparing bsky devs to crypto bros, then understandings like this come along

ironically, the whole Riyadh Comedy Festival has given me a worse opinion of every one of those comedians except Pete Davidson. there's something to be said for without shame demanding, "you guys kinda killed my dad, I'm gonna need $2 million for an hour's work."

There are Morley cigarettes in the film version of Prozac Nation, which i think puts it in the same universe as X-Files.

Delusions of a Protocol On vaporware as an ideological product.

AT Proto has become a sort of ideological vaporware; a way for Jay Graber et al to run a social media platform while claiming they don't run a social media platform. This is just another iteration of the Silicon Valley monoproduct: power without accountability.

azhdarchid.com/delusions-of...