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i am always more than willing to believe "the toothpaste cannot be put back in the tube" as they say but you need not take from such circumstances a lesson like "you know, the toothpaste tube smashers actually had some interesting ideas!"

i think lots of people underestimate how badly these “AI” companies want people to be unable to afford computers. they view personal computing as a roadblock to their desire for complete end-to-end centralization. the fact that their tech is putting hardware out of reach is not just a happy accident

Melrose was supposed to undergo a complete streets makeover from Highland to Fairfax that would have installed stormwater gardens to mitigate flooding, among other critical safety improvements. The previous councilmember killed the project

I guess what I'm saying is that crappy "AI" search layers & reference chatbots alienate humans not just from other humans today but also from humans who have produced knowledge in the past.

sorry but you can't make Carnival of Souls. you have to be compared to Stanley Kubrick or else your contribution to culture doesn't matter for some reason.

A badly mocked up image of the game from my dream. David Arquette, as he appears as Dewey in Scream, smiles beside a "Lv. 99" figure and "LEGAL DAVID" at the bottom.

I had a dream where I kept upgrading a character in an RPG until he reached his final form, Legally Distinct David Arquette

But because of character limits, his name displayed on the menu screen as Legal David

You know what this also sounds like?

Moral/religious scrupulosity. A type of OCD that manifests in anxious behaviors seeking to self soothe.

www.healthline.com/health/menta...

Except here, its the Protestant work ethic mixed with capitalism mixed with bootstrapping.

And his padawan Noso Pradeeo.

I'm not unsympathetic to this but if you look at cultural histories of television as a medium, "writing for people who aren't looking at the screen" has been the default since the 1950s. a) because TV writers were drawn from radio, at least in the UK, and b) it's a device impinging on domestic space

A gadget will not save your life. Only knowledge will. A gadget simply makes it easier to store that knowledge in your home on 22TB EXOS drives and access it easily via tailscale.

I know people who will be there, so I'll keep you updated.

There's this recurring question that comes up in RPG spaces among people looking for design inspiration.
"What genre hasn't been done as a RPG?"
And the answer is clear to you when you encounter a game like Alone With the Fucked Up Guy Looking At You.
"Almost all of them."

I think it’s supercool of the authoritarian panopticon doorbell company to name themselves after the demon video that kills you in 7 days; almost as cool as the authoritarian panopticon precrime software company to name themselves after the evil demon orb that puts its users in thrall to Sauron.

A 2 panel sketch disgram of a 1 meter tall pod. in the second panel, an oval section pops off and a demonic little face with short tentacles flies out, crudely drawn.

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

On Tuesday in Minnesota, a lawyer made headlines — including at Law Dork — for her shocking statement in court representing that government that the “system sucks.” On Wednesday, the transcript made clear that it wasn’t just Julie Le — an inexperienced litigator who was on a detail from her job at the Department of Homeland Security to help with the increased caseload resulting from Operation Metro Surge — who said a lot that matters on Tuesday. It is an unfathomable exercise to read lawyers and a federal judge discussing at length the ways in which the rule of law is slipping through our nation’s fingers, but it is an absolutely necessary document to read for anyone who wants to protect the rule of law — and America.

I don't know when I last read something like the transcript out of Minnesota, so I spent the evening putting this together.
www.lawdork.com/p/the-minnes...

been muttering "i'm not gonna talk about GPT, in fact we're not gonna talk about GPT at all" all day

I was introduced to it late, but I really love the Foxfire soundtrack.

Small Soldiers has really interesting mashups/remixes of classic rock.

Brain Candy is basically a late '90s Matador sampler with Kids in the Hall mixed in.

Star Maps has a great selection of mostly Spanish-language music.

An LAPD officer stands on the corner of Temple and Alameda facing Barbara Kruger's iconic mural featuring 9 questions:

“WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO IS FREE TO CHOOSE? WHO DOES TIME? WHO FOLLOWS ORDERS? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO PRAYS LOUDEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST?”

Last night, at least one federal agent shot me multiple times w/ pepper balls in my leg after they dispersed hundreds of protesters away from the MDC driveway on Alameda Street in DTLA. I was covering the protest for @lataco.bsky.social. This is the 2nd time I've been shot by the feds since June.

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

1. The new batch of Epstein documents helps illuminate one contemporary controversy: What is Bari Weiss up to at CBS? I think the answer is she is trying to rehabilate the Epstein network as a bulwark of reactionary centrism. Let me explain.

god forbid someone ask you a question about something you said instead of looking it up and (checks notes) getting the wrong answer because search engines don't work anymore

It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day

Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have

Race as a construct is so powerful that only now are many people saying ‘they are killing us’.

They have been killing us. We have all been us the whole time.

This is going to sound dramatic, but that’s the internet for you. This is probably the most important VHS I ever rented (1991), shaping my sense of humor and cementing the longest, closest friendship of my life. Chris is doing the lord’s work preserving this.

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