Len Smith

Selling Zohran | Defector On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU VOTE...

This is a really great reported piece on how the visual language of Zohran Mamdani's campaign developed (with a v satisfying side of, "fuck a focus group, we know what we want to say") @defector.com defector.com/selling-zohran

a zoomed blurry photo of curtis sliwa on tv

curtis sliwa looks like a scenario boss in command and conquer red alert

imagine having the power to stop unimaginable suffering and being like “nah”

They finally built a machine that can simulate peaking on edibles

I do think it's funny that the FBI has been relatively less of a cesspool than a number of other agencies because Kash just wants to do cocaine and watch hockey and he doesn't have time to consolidate any regimes

Absolute Batman powerbombs a corrupt cop into the pavement.

A white supremacist wielding a barbed baseball bat attempts a nazi salute while trying to shour "white power," before being cut off by Absolute Batman snapping his outstretched arm like a rotten match stick.

Oh, so Absolute Batman Annual #1 is BASED-based.

Fuck yeah ✊️🦇🔥
#AbsoluteBatman #dccomics #Batman #AbsoluteUniverse #BashTheFash #ACAB

I can’t unsee it.

picture of the exam where you get read a list of letters and have to tap every time you hear "A"

"You have to tap your finger when you hear the letter 'A' and they say all kind of letters, letters you never heard of."

"'K' who's ever heard of 'K'? It sounds a lot like 'A', people confuse it with 'A' all the time but 'K' is a no tap"

The ChatGPT subreddit is absolutely hilarious. LLMs just output statistically likely responses, and a statistically likely response to being asked to do some work is "I'll have that done by...". So apparently in some cases ChatGPT had just been telling users it'll get back to them later.
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dead end ai guys have no ability to perceive art, video games or otherwise. a caveman painting animals understood the human condition better than they do

oh no techcrunch.com/2025/10/23/m...

news story claiming "42% of Lay's customers didn't know their chips were made from actual potatoes"

Chart of Trump's approval at 42%

i've used generative ai hundreds of hours (some for work, some because adhd)

my attitude has been "meh" (weirdly those takes never go viral)

although i am becoming increasingly jokerified against it as the already awful internet is now completely unusable

I give it three months before they let you sext with Clippy

I already yell at my computer constantly.

I do not want it talking back.

"once he gets gets going on extermination camps logistics he never shuts up"

Image of Ingredients Ingredients: Maltodextrin, salt, sunflower oil, corn syrup solids, sugar, chilli, modified corn starch, potato starch, garlic, paprika, flavor (dextrose, salt, yeast extract, silicon dioxide, modified food starch), lime juice powder (maltodextrin, lime juice, lime oil), spices, onion, lemon juice powder (corn syrup solids, concentrated lemon juice, lemon oil), smoke flavor, citric acid, grill flavor, lemon peel, xanthan gum, dehydrated bell pepper, dehydrated herbs, paprika extractives.

One of the ingredients is "flavor" which is listed as

> flavor (dextrose, salt, yeast extract, silicon dioxide, modified food starch)

The first spice(?) is "chilli" (sp) which follows Maltodextrin, salt, sunflower oil, corn syrup solids and sugar

Why do they all look like a baby that got Bigged?

doh, i meant `/r/MyBoyFriendIsAI`

"BoyFiend" is probably a freudian slip.

The next step is when this gets enshitified further and their lover they absolutely worship starts telling them what to buy.

A perusal through `r/MyBoyrfiend` shows people being driven completely out of their gourd.

It's easy to scoff at these people, but the branding of "AI" and prior art in sci-fi heavily implies an "intelligence" that these companies and our media do nothing to dispel.

It's absolutely insane that a child killed himself with ChatGPT instructions and goading and Sam Altman's now pushing his addictive anthropomorphic bot to be sexual too.

This ghoul's name should be elevated to the most profane insult someone can sling.

i like the wine glass floating in the air

Vigilante (from an alternate earth where America partnered with the Nazis to win World War II): you must live in, like, a utopia

Vigilante (from our earth): Um…

Don’t sleep on Peacemaker. It’s such a good show.

first time i've seen ai fuck up by making its subject look too human

maybe he thinks the "in" in "infallible" works like it does in "inflammable"

I watched their promo video and AI Sam seems, uh, more like a human than a real video of Sam Altman?

I guess AI can't generate sufficient clamminess yet.

The Hague-seth