Great Joe

The Simpsons. Krusty the Clown. “They drove a dump truck full of money to my house.”

Whenever an actor signed to a Harry Potter project issues a statement

i think the credulity, the sheer idiocy that seems obvious on its face, of people who buy whole-heartedly into ai hype, letting it write all their emails and powerpoints and dictate their relationships, is better understood if you consider the dawn of telecommunications and the rise of spiritualism.

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16) Stole this one from a recent skeet I saw:

If generative AI could REALLY make the next GTA in 6 months with 10 staff, or write the next bestseller, or produce 10 blockbusters a day? They wouldn't be trying to sell it to YOU. They would keep it for themselves and guard it from you ferociously.

Selaco is getting REMOTE BOMBS!

AKA the weapon that makes me feel like a child.

Did you know the famous quotation "IF THE ZOO BANS ME FOR HOLLERING AT THE ANIMALS I WILL FACE GOD AND WALK BACKWARDS INTO HELL" is not actually found in the Bible?

It is actually a line from William Shakespeare's play Two Gentlemen of Verona.

the thing that trans people ask of the world is so tiny, really. just to be able to exist as the person they are, without the rest of us being weird or cruel about it. it's a deep shame on our society that we are unable to deliver on so small a thing.

I thought it was about being a robot ninja shooting guns at bugs.

AH

Jomi✨ ‪@jofig92.bsky.social‬ Follow I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you're on instagram, turn off your location settings. The new feature being rolled out shows your exact location on map. I just learned where a *lot* of people live and work 👀 August 7, 2025 at 10:56 AM Some people can reply 14 reposts 6 quotes 42 likes 2 20 ‪🏳️‍🌈Queen Beryl’s Nail Tech🏳️‍🌈‬ ‪@porterpizzazz.bsky.social‬ · 1h How do you turn it off? 1 ‪✨Jomi✨‬ ‪@jofig92.bsky.social‬ · 53m Settings and Activities > Story, live, and location > Location sharing. The feature is being slowly rolled out, so you may or may not see a location sharing option. I also got a popup when I opened up the messages tab about it.

It’s a fortune cookie fortune that says “Your heart’s desire is now within reach,” held between Abi’s burgundy acrylic nails

My fortune cookie was scarily accurate last night! 👻 Fortune cookie technology has become SCARILY powerful; we may even be approaching General Cookie Intelligence! We should add fortune cookies to every industry and government service to improve efficiency

I'll be honest, I'm really excited for Blacksky to become a thing. A real proof that you can just run an AT proto instance with genuine moderation.

Well, that explains a lot.

"but joe, where's adventure?"
adventure is a fake genre invented the year after dnd came out, it's really just sparkling rpg

pretend i posted this but replaced "menus" with "rpg" and "parkour" with "action"

Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.

Illinois is the first state to ban AI therapists Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed a bill banning AI therapists into law, the first in the nation.

Illinois has banned AI therapy, making it the first state to regulate the use of AI in mental health services.

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doing my part

Blacksky Algorithms will have this in Alpha in the next month or so.

A Chrome browser error page displays the familiar “Aw, Snap!” message, indicating that something went wrong while loading a webpage. A pixelated frowning file icon with Xs for eyes appears at the top left. Below, the error code reads “Out of Memory,” suggesting the browser ran out of system resources. The page includes a “Reload” button in blue on the bottom right

behold the "HTML bomb"

It's a counterattack for AI companies that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to

when a scraper grabs it, it becomes a 10-gig HTML page and 💣 goes the scraper

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the brain from pinky and the brain voice: yes, always

"DEPLOY THE EMERGENCY BABY" I scream microseconds before every cell in my body is implosively goopified

dare to dream big, y'know?

what if universal basic income included a big cowboygirl hat

I feel like it transcends boundaries because it's just so very That Guy coded. You know. The guy who says "leverage" instead of "use", or "challenge" instead of "problem", or "content" instead of "art".

But the initial focus of the system was the West Bank, where an estimated 3 million Palestinians live under Israeli military occupation. Unit 8200 sources said the information stored in Azure amounted to a rich repository of intelligence about its population that some in the unit claimed had been used to blackmail people, place them in detention, or even justify their killing after the fact. “When they need to arrest someone and there isn’t a good enough reason to do so, that’s where they find the excuse,” one said, referring to the information stored in the cloud.

However, Unit 8200 sources said intelligence drawn from the enormous repositories of phone calls held in Azure had been used to research and identify bombing targets in Gaza. One of the sources said that when planning an airstrike on an individual located within densely populated areas where high numbers of civilians are present, officers would use the cloud-based system to examine calls made by people in the immediate vicinity. The sources also said use of the system had increased during the campaign in Gaza, which has killed more than 60,000 people in the territory, the majority of whom are civilians, including over 18,000 children.

It's a direct line. First, Microsoft's Azure enabled the mass surveillance of a civilian population living in apartheid conditions on the West bank. Then, that same technology was deployed in Gaza to support airstrikes into "densely populated" civillian areas.

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So please, do not move forward as normal. This isn't normal.

It's imperative to put pressure on Microsoft to end this. Whether that's by canceling Game Pass, refusing to cover their games with your normal cadence on your platforms, or to pressure them internally as employees.

Now is the time.