Steven Christoforou

The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.

It gets even crazier

It’s likely that our brains have melted beyond hope of recovery.

Under Trump administration, ICE scraps paperwork officers once had to do before immigration arrests For years, officers were required to fill out "homework” before operations. But, one source noted, “it’s hard to fill out a worksheet that just says, ‘Meet in the Home Depot parking lot.’”

This isn’t at all surprising, given that it’s essentially been publicly reported that Stephen Miller ordered ICE to arrest first and ask questions later, but it’s still worth noting. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

They are not even pretending that they know anything about someone before arrest.

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This is what happens when you order delivery in DC right now.

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

🧵Here's a question I've been thinking about.

I remember, starting in the 90s/early 2000s, when it seemed like we were in a tech golden age. We got mp3 players & digital cameras & cell phones, & then all of them combined! Order stuff online; reserve seats a movie theaters; bittorrent; Uber; etc.

"We've spent a lot of money on the military and now they have nothing to do so we might as well let the president use it domestically to satisfy his own petty grudges" is precisely why the Founders feared a standing army.

I mean, it's pretty much fucking verbatim.

I am struck that LLMs keep pushing for things they are hot garbage at - high-quality writing text, diagrams, research with extremely low error tolerance, classroom use.

But I know folks that use LLMs to help generate material (maps, monsters, character art) for their RPG campaigns and does that OK.

Someone on Twitter realizing ChatGPT is bad then begging Elon Musk to save her

People will forget how to swallow and ingest food without asking a computer or a billionaire by 2032.

Me, a visionary: Computer, who should I vote for?

MechaHitler: I’m glad you asked…

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Mel Gibson should call his "Passion of the Christ" sequel "I Know What You Did Last Supper"

“Millionaire by the time I’m 40” is a very Michael Scott thing to say.

It was a gift that the arts are uniquely positioned to offer. I’m grateful for an old friend made wonderfully new. 4/4

I’ve enjoyed a lot of superhero movies over the years: exciting action, compelling characters, engaging stories. Yet rarely have I felt such a pure, hopeful joy. It was unmistakably childlike while also far more than nostalgia. 3/

I saw a character that was earnest and good hearted, mighty yet vulnerable, confident yet not cocky: everything I hoped I could grow up to be.

A character who sees beauty in every person he encounters, and thereby participates in the gift of our shared humanity. 2/

A Superman worthy of the name.

For the first time in a long time, I saw the character that inspired me as a child (and prompted me to mimic that distinctive curl every time I combed my hair in the morning).

A character that shaped my sense of the world and my place in it. 1/

The Doctor may be a fictional character, but there’s much about him that’s true—and much about us that’s false. 4/4

It’s an ethos dedicated to breaking rather than building, to hurting rather than helping, to approaching others with contempt rather than curiosity.

Again, it’s profoundly anti-human (and, by extension, anti the God whose image and likeness we humans bear). 3/

He avoids violence, loves people, and has a contagious sense of awe and wonder.

The Doctor offers a sharp contrast to the decidedly anti-human ethos that’s come to dominate our culture. 2/

I’m very late to the party, but I finally got into “Dr Who.”

Watching it has been such a joy!

The self-described “maintenance man of the universe,” the Doctor zooms through space (and time) to right wrongs and help where he can. 1/

It feels like the foreign policy story of our time is one group after another finding out why the fellows who fought WWII and muddled through the Cold War set up the system they did.

A lot of "I don't like that column there"

"Yeah, but that's load-bearing. They're all load-bearing."

May we have their prayers!

I’ve very little to say that’s clever or helpful!

The Simpsons Planet of the Apes musical

One of my strongest beliefs is if they actually put this on Broadway it would absolutely destroy at the award shows and run for 20 years

Today’s feast is a throwback to a time before the influencer economy—a time when the Church grew with the preaching of apostles, the example of saints, and the offering of martyrs.

Lord, help and deliver us!

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us!

Thanks!