Arran

Oh GOD, Cuomo is going to start using a cunty little nickname for Mamdani that Trump will suggest isn't he. Moneybags Zohran. Dollars Zohran. Uganda Mamdani (every syllable pronounced wrong). And Cuomo just does NOT have the Trump riz. It's going to be EXCRUCIATING.

The countdown to his saying something just straight-up explicitly racist is on.

Cuomo trying to be all working-class tough guy with Zohran is genuinely hilarious. It's like the defeated Denzel at the end of Training Day claiming he's putting cases on ALL your asses, except absolutely shit.

a tweet from mike fossey, 6/19/14 Check this shit out motherfucker [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do]

cuomo intimidating mamdani:

Fuckin' Amy Madigan, man.

Oh, I know her. Matriarchal character actor.

No, wait, that's Margo Martindale. She's such a chameleon.

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Said costume

Extreme closeup of the head

Andrew Cuomo tweet: In case you forgot, I’m Andrew Cuomo, son of Mario, grandson of Andrea. Welcome to the heavyweight bout, @ZohranKMamdani This is a two man race. You look tired already. It’s just the second round.

What if there were already some sort of contest where people were able to choose between them, I wonder how that would go

Yes

YouTube video by pthiso LBJ Orders Pants

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I would probably say the single most annoying thing about LLMs is that "okily-dokily doo, I goofed when I gave you that ludicrous answer, it's my bad that I said cheese comes from cats, I'll do better next time, would you like to know what sort of cat it comes from?" tone when it gets stuff wrong.

The Melancholy of OpenAI I’m struggling to find articles about it, but I swear, for the last few years, people have been acting like GPT-5 would be some sort of industry-changing event, tantamount to the original iPhone. Instead, GPT-5 feels like the last Valentine’s Day before a breakup. I’m serious, there’s a genuine sadness to everything going on in AI — a kind of pained, feigned excitement for a new model that doesn’t really sound like a new model, and even Simon Willison, a well-intentioned, well-versed LLM-knower, can only muster the limp praise of “verdict: it’s just good at stuff.” How utterly melancholy! How deeply sad! We sit at what amounts to the end of, at the very least, the end of the GPT era, of the period of S development in generative AI when there were things to look forward to and when there was hope that OpenAI would create something impressive. This was, in many ways, the last real reason for anyone to take OpenAI seriously. After this, what exactly is there to wait for from this company? Its next model that becomes the top of some sort of obscure LLM benchmark for a week or two before Google or Anthropic does nearly the exact same thing? What, exactly, are we building all these data centers for? Why are we doing this? To what end? What necessitates the environmentally and societally destructive sprawl of generative AI?

Not that I ever believed that OpenAI would actually impress me, but is this really the best that Sam Altman has to offer? Is this why OpenAI has incinerated ten billion dollars since June? Is this what necessitated raising another $8.3 billion, with plans to raise another $22.5 billion to follow? Why are we acting as if there is not, on some level, a cashout happening at OpenAI right now? It’s trying to set up an employee share sale at a valuation that would make it worth more than Netflix at $500 billion. What, exactly, is it about OpenAI that makes this company worth $300 billion (Salesforce, as of writing this sentence, has a market capitalization of $243 billion), let alone $500 billion? What about GPT-5 justifies this company’s existence? Are these tools truly innovative? Are they truly useful? How is this company making a billion dollars a month, and what is it about its product that makes 20 million people pay $20-a-month for it? Are any of the 5 million business customers the ones that OpenAI has offered a month of ChatGPT Team to for a dollar? What’s it’s churn? How much money does OpenAI actually make? Investors plowing more money into OpenAI are not simply wasting their money, but enabling the reckless and erratic sprawl of Sam Altman. Nothing about this company is innovative, there is nothing impressive happening, and it is shameful that this has been allowed to go this far. This company is set to burn at least $8 billion this year according to The Information — but I think it’s going to burn far more, based on the fact it raised $10 billion in June, then $8.3 billion in August, and plans to raise another $20 billion or more by the end of the year.

What’s next? Will Anthropic end up doing exactly the same thing, then also raise a lot of money, then also have an employee share sale, then also release the newest, most powerful model of all time? I can’t wait! Really though, does anybody feel excited about what’s happening? Is anybody having fun? Is anybody truly hopeful for the future based on the launch of GPT-5? Or are they just going through the motions until somebody finally cracks and admits that things aren’t going to work out?

GPT-5 was meant to be OpenAI's iPhone moment. Instead, it felt like the last Valentine's Day before a breakup. This underwhelming launch feels like the end of the GPT era, and the last trick in Clammy Sam Altman's arsenal.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittification-of-generative-ai/

He's getting so old, soon he'll be… playing the blues.

[heavy breathing, laboured footsteps] You'll… be…

[music sting]

SWELL!
YOU'LL BE GREAT!

Marc Maron is absolutely right here

Much safer to see Panda Bear. Just throw some bamboo at the stage.

THE FUTURE, CONAN?

once again, it is a core belief of people on the american right that it should be illegal for you not to like them or want to be around them or work with them

Lord no, all the "AMC advertising itself" shit didn't go anywhere. Just fewer trailers.

Weirdly, Weapons had half as many trailers as the AMC usual when I saw it today. What bliss to only wait… twenty minutes for the movie to start.

Remember, if you see an axe murderer, run up and feed his ass a few slices of kiwi. Problem solved and whatnot.

HE certainly has a gut-brain connection, in that he has shit for brains.

The terrible Caught Stealing trailer has reached Argylle levels of "Oh fuck, this shit again."

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From this month's edition of The Onion.

Mine's in my avatar.

I feel like I have to run to see Weapons before everyone starts talking about it too much.

Oh, you know the teens, always dabbling in drugs, sex, libertarianism, white supremacy…

It's some bullshit that they named it "The Golden Bachelor" instead of "Statin Island" and whatnot.