The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.
It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.
Can we just, once again, note that the British government should absolutely not be inviting this firm into our democracy?
Good to meet you @eops.bsky.social thank you for the music 🎶
Also, kinda lost
❤️ Amsterdam
It's the new highways through Black neighborhoods: Data centers
When your plans are too authoritarian even for Palantir….
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Happy 40th anniversary to "Thundercats".
Opening animated by Masayuki (who was only 22 years old at the time).
Timpson's cover shoe polish, shoe laces, shoe repairs, watch repairs and key cutting
Murray Bartlett in the white lotus
Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Curious. I saw HMS Queen Elizabeth at Portsmouth docks just 8 hours ago, 8am UK time.
From the stories of tragedy on this quilt to a twice a year shot. Amazing.
Still working through the leftovers
A calculator that costs 1 trillion dollars, but it’s also wrong
“is my calculator horny?“ our tech columnist asks. “i entered 5318008 into it and turned it upside down. what i saw surprised me”
I am watching the movie Heat and I wanted to check if the actress is a young Angelina Jolie so I went to google and-
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?
At the height of the AIDS crisis, the artist Daniel Goldstein became transfixed by the leather that coated the workout equipment at the gay gym he went to in the Castro. He turned them into a haunting tribute to the lives lost.
"Migrate off COBOL" is the Grave of Empires
This is a terrible, truly disgusting situation that reflects what we see in authoritarian regimes around the world and throughout history: the construction of a brutal apparatus that can disappear individuals and then traffic them through labyrinthine structures, all the while no one is accountable.
Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
A list of books that sound rude (but aren’t) for World Erotic Book Day:
7. HARD TIMES (Dickens)
6. THE HUMAN STAIN (Phillip Roth)
5. BE BOLD WITH BANANAS (Unknown)
3. WHAT’S INSIDE OF ME? (Herbert Zim)
2. A WEASEL IN MY MEATSAFE (Phil Drabble)
1. YOUR WOOD CAN LAST FOR CENTURIES (US Forest Service)
A thingamajig (AKA a whatchamacallit) in ten different languages…
10. Chingadera (Mexican Spanish)
9. Zamazingo (Turkish)
8. Habbijabbi (Bengali)
7. Yoke (Hiberno English)
6. Shismoo (Arabic)
5. Haghawagha (Pashto)
4. Trucmuche (French)
3. Burungo (Sheng)
2. Intazinga (Zulu)
1. Dingsbums (German)
That LGB without the T thing isn't working out, bro
The technology brothers have invented “Goons as a Service”
I thought Wes Streeting cared about men’s health?
we’ve replaced all building inspectors with a generative AI model trained on millions of pages of government regulations. it says here that all new construction homes must be 60% corn
