Ben Bradley

YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer George Santos pardon 🤯🤯🤯

The George Santos commute thing is about as bad as it can be.
www.youtube.com/shorts/dve8e...

Speaking of "exploits our natural sense of empathy," I'm remembering the robot stories in "The Mind's I.' The freaky part is I bought the hardback when it was new in a mall bookstore, it can't have been THAT long ago ...

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz Why People Are Roleplaying Robot Racism

This video may make you sad:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBtb...

I so much need to stop using the former bird site, but I liked a tweet by a science author and commented on his blog, and now he's one of maybe three or four "famous" people following ME ...

YouTube video by Naomi Wu Why Do I Look Like...This? The SexyCyborg Origin Story

I'd expect there's millions of men like that in China (longish vid but includes discussion of one-child-per-family policy).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9vW...

I thought I'd never see the day! I have many or most of the first 11 editions (as well as several AH and a two-volume OED, ahem, "Compact Edition").

When was the 11th edition first published? It seems like it's been decades.

@flyswatter1959.bsky.social Must-see, lol

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

There's so much money in AI and its applications like this that there's bound to be a court ruling that "in the public eye" means "in the public domain."

I'm so out of it, I had to look her up. "...starring as Eleanor Shellstrop" OMG I so loved The Good Place, I don't watch much commercial TV [I had to be force fed the first episode] but that was the best show in decades. Dunno how/if that reflects on the actress, but whatever.

I watch a lot of Youtube but don't think I've ever seen an ICE recruitment ad. But then going by the pill ads I see, Youtube surely knows my age, and I wouldn't be a good match for ICE.

A de-icing boot on an airplane wing

Proof that "Anti-ICE" is a real thing!

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman seeks as much as $7 trillion for new AI chip project: Report OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to overhaul the global semiconductor industry with trillions of dollars in investment, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Do you mean he didn't get the 7 trillion dollars he was asking for last year?
www.cnbc.com/2024/02/09/o...

I need to carve out eight hours to watch "Get Back" one more time.

I dedicate this to ABC/Disney+, CBS, those bigass law firms, and I forget whoall else. Here's hoping they all they all go bankrupt.

I'm not Kash Patel, head of the FBI, I'm just a random average news follower, but when I hear the name Dylan Roof I remember exactly who he is, what he did, and what his motivation was. Perhaps I should be head of the FBI, as I have all the information I need.

Worry about the tyrant, not so much the algo. I'd not be surprised if going with that title would get Youtube a notice from a Federal org, much like the FCC sent a Friendly Note (indirectly but directly from Trump) to ABC about some merger, and now Kimmel's on sabbatical.
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"Happy New Year's, you LLM you!"

"Oolcay itay."

I'm late seeing this, that "camp" is apparently closed now, but those who were held there are still being held elsewhere under similar conditions, and more are arrested daily. This MUST stop, and those held given fair hearings ASAP, or if that's not possible, release them now.

I'm thinking of the Indian brand of motorcycles, but I don't think that's one.

Artificial intelligence web crawlers are running amok Artificial intelligence tech companies are refusing to abide by internet protocol when it comes to scraping data. Their ravenous scavenging behavior is upending the basic rules of the internet.

Would an AI web crawler ignoring robots.txt stop on a classic car forum where they regularly use a slang shortcut for transmission? I wonder about science fiction swear words, tanj it.
// This code and text not to be used for en-shit-tification.
www.npr.org/2024/07/05/n...

There was demand from three people: "Me, myself, and I."

Latest AI now gives arithmetic answers accurate to within 10 percent.

This isn't the only unconscionable action Facebook has done, far from it. Social media should be going on about the imminent death of Facebook and Twitter/X among other things.

Where were the detainees taken? I can't help but think they're just being treated like shit somewhere else.

I'm reminded of this: "I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic book writer ..."
www.imdb.com/name/nm04982...

YouTube video by Benn Jordan Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras

We should be living a life of Cute Overload, but no, it's Enshittification Overload.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9M...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RM0...

YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without telling users or asking permission. As AI quietly mediates our world, what happens to our shared connections with real life?

Even the BBC is covering it!
www.bbc.com/future/artic...

@flyswatter1959.bsky.social‬

Even REAL videos (or just Shorts) look like AI now!
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