Malcolm F. Cross

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

All Landlords Are Bastards, and leaseholding is some outdated Victorian era quasi-extortion racket shit that should be outlawed but this guy is a fuly on cunt. Stay for the kicker of "Yes I'm up in court on a stalking charge but I demand you send me the home address of one of your female reporters."

The best time to stop using Spotify was when people were getting paid in literal fractions of a penny for streams--something that can actually mean artists *lose* money in certain circumstances.

The next best time is now.

The line about 'thought leadership writers' being some of the heaviest users resulted in a very dark chuckle over here.

Just had my first pocket post as I put my phone away. Milestones!

I feel we can very effectively kill the domestic robot business right now by saying "the robot is just a person watching you remotely through a camera... and you have no idea if they're jerking off to you or not."

Original tweet: Biphobic lesbians will be like, "I could never date a bisexual woman, what if she leaves me for a man?" Skill issue. I cannot stress enough how much of a self-own that is. If she wants to go back to men after dating you, turn in your lesbian card, cause you've failed. Street Scrypt's quote tweet: Nah. We be like, "I could never date a Bisexual woman; we don't like compromised fence fuckers that can't decide between the sisterhood and the Gender of Rape."

Radfems are often biphobic as well, especially toward bi women and AFAB.

They see them as... what did Street Scrypt call them? "Compromised fence fuckers that can't decide between the sisterhood and the Gender of Rape?"

Something like that, yeah.🧵

The generation that experienced WW2 knew how bad things could get. The horrors that they had directly experienced in Coventry, on Omaha, at Belsen, Bastogne, Dresden, Nanjing & Tokyo meant that they understood how dangerous THIS was. This is where all that started.

Sketchy drawing of a house. Text in messy lettering reads, “There once was a house”. There is now a small person standing next to the house with his arm raised. Text reads, “And inside lived a man”. The small person now has a question mark above his head. Text reads, “Wait, no that’s not him”. A huge creature the size of the entire house has now lifted the roof and reaches out toward the small person. Text reads, “Ah… there he is”.

There he is

An IKEA instruction sheet for "NOSFERATU" that shows the bald-headed IKEA man telling you you'll need a hammer and a wooden stake for this. The next panel down shows two images. The first has a frowning IKEA man kneeling next to an open coffin while the moon is up. No, IKEA man. Do not do this. The next image is the same, but the sun is up and he's smiling. This is the way, IKEA man. The next panel shows IKEA man struggling to move a coffin on his own. The large black 'X' across this image shows what a terrible idea this is. The adjacent image has the bald-headed IKEA man getting the help of curly-haired IKEA man and moving coffins as a duo is now a doddle. The bottom panel shows a puzzled IKEA man staring into the open coffin while holding the stake and hammer. The last image shows IKEA man being bitten by the swirling figure emerging from the coffin. He's dropped his tools and is looking to curly-haired IKEA man for help, but curly-haired IKEA man has already shit his pants and is giving it legs in a cowardly act of self-preservation. Don't be surprised when bald-headed IKEA man comes tapping at your window in the dead of night, curly-haired IKEA man.

From this day in 2016.
#Halloween

This is perfection, but the alt-text is icing

AI Is Causing a Grim New Twist on the Dunning-Kruger Effect, New Research Finds New research shows how AI tools is making a Dunning-Kruger specimen out of everyone that uses them, no matter how smart.

"We would expect people who are AI literate to not only be a bit better at interacting with AI systems, but also at judging their performance with those systems,” Welsch added, “but this was not the case.” 🤦🤦🤦

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Oh, I just realized I didn't actually render this whole clip. Have the very slightly extended director's cut.

I entirely forgot that I made this anti-ASMR video (Sound warning headphones users)

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

Drawing of a rat standing next to a board, the board has a chat gpt logo with a text saying NO!! next to it, under it is a brain drawing with the word YES!!! next to it. The rat looks angry and is pointing to the board with it's mouth wide open as if he was shouting to the viewer.

Professor Squeako here... If you use gen AI to do tasks for you, what are you doing with your life!!! Say YES to using your brain 🐀🧠

26- Rats against AI!

#rattober #rattober2025

YouTube video by Michael Reeves chatgpt has E-stroke

Just a little reminder that everything you've ever said to a chatbot is, by design, recorded and saved for future reference.

youtube.com/shorts/WP5_X...

Picked up Skyway on Tuesday and it’s a fun steampunk-inspired read - the perfect escapism from the modern world

Don’t Ask If I’m Okay Amazon.com: Don’t Ask If I’m Okay eBook : Kara, Jessica: Kindle Store

Hey hey it looks like "Don't Ask If I'm Okay" is in Kindle Unlimited, so if you've been wanting to read it but you're tight on cash (or don't like libraries ;D ) you can read it for free! You don't need a Kindle, you can download the reader app!
Tell your friends.
www.amazon.com/Dont-Ask-If-...

Screenshot of a social media post that reads: Writing is like being a ballet dancer. Close up, you see the effort; the dancing on broken toes; the pain; the years of practice. All the audience sees is the dance; a seemingly effortless movement. Books are like that: an “easy read” is the result of tremendous effort and skill.

A man I did an Instagram collab with on men’s mental health said “Don’t Ask If I’m Okay” was..(and I quote): “please.. take this the right way. It was easy to read in the best possible way.”
High praise, actually, thank you. If you need some catharsis and some hope, check it out 👆👆

Let’s say you’re feeling good. Or bad. Either way, there’s a decent chance that your mood is just a mirror of the mood of the last person you interacted with. Talk with a cheery customer service rep on the phone, and you start feeling sunny too. Get stuck on a project with a grumpy coworker, and you start feeling down as well. A controversial 2012 study by Facebook even found that showing people more negative social media led people to post more negative posts themselves – without even realizing it. (The reverse was also true.)

From Gaping Void newsletter, an important reminder about behavioral contagion. It's in our DNA!

I dramatically changed my life when I changed my inputs.

Decal on the back of a van or truck window that shows a heart and a bone with words that read, "I my dog". Does the owner love the dog or does the owner bone the dog?

Someone designed this.

Then someone approved it for production.

Then someone printed it.

Then someone bought it and attached it to their car.

... There's scams that start like this, because the scam is designed to look like fanmail, yes.

The writing is a LOT, if legit fanmail. Which can happen, too - people can be very... overwhelmed when trying to reach out to creators they admire, and that has them saying things they didn't intend.

Tech Bros Have Been Accidentally Poisoning Themselves With Severe Brain Toxins for Years Among the worst offenders was meal-replacement company Huel, a long-time favorite among Bay Area builders.

Who had lead and cadmium poisoning in their options...?

4 panel comic Panel 1: A group of people just having a lovely time. Everyone is laughing Panel 2: An absolute Federal Agent appears in the middle of the group laughing like an obnoxious robot Panel 3: The group quickly disperses, leaving the gross creepy agent by himself Panel 4: The agent touches his ear and says “arrest their moms”

the US government has arrived on bluesky

It strikes me that in reality, the product these people are selling is 'how to use an analogue notebook'.

It is training in how to use paper.

... The removal of this sort of skillset from public schooling has clearly opened up a market gap.

Artwork: Doppelganger Doppelganger Malcolm F. Cross Materials and composition Signed by artist on interior in silver sharpie. Recursive neural network encased in monolith-style enclosure, with interface terminal display…

Anyway that was a rant-thread, wasn't it?

Here's the AI I made from research code. sinisbeautiful.com/artwork-dopp...

And you'll burn magnitudes more processing power than if you'd just... fucking... used a calculator.

Because neural networks are a powerful tool. But they are not a tool suited to any of the purposes AI evangelists think, and the tools that would be suitable take good computer science to achieve.