dot.

Yeah, and Dario Amodei, Anthropic's CEO, was previously vice president of research at OpenAI.
Different grifters, same grift.

I would say this footsie-with-selfhood thing surrounding AI is about the "dumbest" use of philosophy I have seen in my lifetime, but that would be letting it off the hook. It's actually an inexcusable corruption of philosophical language in the service of ethically laundering exploitation.

...and as for reproducing it: you should have a look at the PnP corners of BGG - there's nothing too tricky for our crafty bunch! We are armed with 3d printers and corner rounders, we hoard old game components, we are up the challenge!

That would be wonderful, especially for those of us outside of USA who might have a hard time getting our mitts on it. 🫶

A 2 panel sketch disgram of a 1 meter tall pod. in the second panel, an oval section pops off and a demonic little face with short tentacles flies out, crudely drawn.

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

would you consider offering it for purchase as PnP files?

Posting a chat gpt caricature of yourself feels like flashing me the std rash you got on purpose

🔥🔥🔥

Instant wishlist! 🫶

Good, free resources from a great publisher

This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

A banner with a stripey textured effect, with a collage of three photos of a Palestinian family: two group photos outside of the family looking really happy, and a selfie of Seraj in front of rubble. Title: Keep Seraj’s family housed!. Text: Our friend Seraj is a 21 year old student and the sole provider for his family of 8, including a baby. After devastating displacement, they finally have some shelter, which is truly life-sustaining in these harsh, deadly winter months. Click “monthly” to sustain this lifeline! tiny.cc/serajrent

FINAL 2 HOURS!

- Rent another month for a family of eight: DONE
- A winter blanket for their baby sis: DONE
- A second winter blanket for the fam: DONE
- The third & last blanket they need: just 57 to go!!

Anything helps—click "monthly"! Family vetted by Palestine Asdiqa. 760/817 tiny.cc/SerajRent

Reads: What is trans-exclusionary data activism? And the logo for the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab.

New research maps the campaign to erase trans people from UK data 🔢

This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID.

doi.org/10.1080/0958...

A girl is seated on a pile of rubble over flooded sand floor. She looks frustrated, resting her head on her hand. She doesn’t have winter clothes. Wet blankets on the background.

Little Shahd cannot sleep.
She trembles from the cold on a mattress soaked with rain, and our tent has turned into a pool of water.
Our children only ask for a little warmth, but we don’t even have a roof to protect us.
We need a tent before the winter slowly kills us.💔
chuffed.org/project/mahm...

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

This is a fantastic article with a lot of simple explanations in it of everyday counterintuitive bullshit, just as you’d expect from Cory Doctorow.

Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Gaza
is not a breaking news headline,
nor just a statistic in the evening bulletin.

Gaza
is an open window despite the rubble,
a voice insisting on life
when the world thinks silence is easier.

Gaza does not ask for pity,
but for recognition:
that life here
still loves,
and is still worth living.

Yeah, I feel that Train was less a board game and more an illustration of how easily we get entangled in systems perpetrating violence (in this case in the extreme form of holocaust).
This famine game on the other hand uses the tragedy as a mere plot device, it teaches nothing, has nothing to say.

Absolutely!

A screenshot of BGG page for the The Great Hunger game, listing "hot potato" among the mechanisms of the game.

Oh wow, let me also point out that the game has a "hot potato" listed as a mechanism on BGG 🤦

Remember that when they try to claim they take the topic seriously...

I was showing this appalling attempt at a historical game to my Irish partner just yesterday: we both found it offensive and tasteless at best. Pitching families against each other in a contest of which one is "best at surviving" a genocide is just mind boggling as a premise for a game...

Ah, the joy of the neurodivergent issue of having urgent things to do, but not being able to start them until the new notebook ordered specifically for them arrives.

The cover of Omar El Akkad's book, "One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This"

This one, and it shouldn't be read just once.

The Guardian opinion piece by Adrian Chiles titled "For the first time in 35 years, I'm having to use a pen and paper. Help!" and the intro: "to think, until nearly the end of the last century, everyone had to write like this"

The Guardian opinion piece by Adrian Chiles titled "Do I really look like Ukraine's top general? I have a much nicer forehead" and the intro: "Valerii Zaluzhnyi and I both have deeply furrowed brows. Should one or both of us be thinking about Botox?"

Ah, Adrian Chiles, whom Stewart Lee once likened to a "speaking Toby jug filled to the brim with hot piss", and it's just a perfect description imo.

So, so true.

The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.

I'd recommend switching to a different search engine, but in the meantime this link will give you Google search results without the ai overview: udm14.com?ref=allthing...

I both want to know what reasonable alternatives she proposes, and can't be bothered to check, and the very high likelihood of the answer being "none" might be the reason why...