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I don't know about most enterprises, but I can imagine ways in which "turn 2D sketches into believable 3D objects" could be very useful in video game development. Whether it's actually practical to do at scale is a different question.

Honestly, a perfect encapsulation of the current state of AI:
It's technically impressive and spiritually bankrupt.

Another great example that these models don't "know" anything, they're just producing things that are statistically similar to their training material.

[old man voice]
Back in my day dean cane was what you got beat with at school for stepping out of line!

Once you read Breakfast of Champions there's no need to read any other books. (But you should, books are good.)

I have no idea what a hot hatch is except that it's always the intro tier of cars in a Gran Turismo game.

I'm a high-tech user and I agree with this. Bluesky looks nearly identical to Twitter and has a much simpler on-boarding process than Mastodon, so it was simple to switch over. That's why it succeeded where Mastodon didn't. All the other things people like about Bluesky are downstream of that.

I Found ClickHole’s “Worst Person You Know” I had to know what he thought of becoming a legend.

basically: he’s Spanish and the meme is English-only so he doesn’t care

I wonder if any news outlet has ever tried to track down the guy from the stock photo in that Clickhole "The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point" article and see how he feels about his face being widely recognised as the avatar of "the worst person you know".

It's a cryptocurrency thing. Banks have historically not wanted to do business with crypto firms (for good reasons), and they've been heavily lobbying to get Trump to force banks to deal with them.

I'd also recommend turning location services off altogether, but one step at a time...

Column | Instagram Map lets your friends, and possibly exes, track your every move A guide to how Instagram is now sharing your location and how to stop it.

I would really highly recommend not having Instagram installed on your phone.

I guess autocorrect changed it to "duck"

One time at a job interview I got asked "If you could be any superhero, which one would you be?", and I regret that I did not say "Spider-Man, because I know what it feels like to be amazing and still struggle to pay rent."

More than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Other LLM Chats Readable on Archive.org The issue of publicly saving shared LLM chats is bigger than just Google.

New from 404 Media: more than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and other LLM chats are readable on Archive.org. It's similar to the Google indexing issue, but shows it impacts many more LLMs than just ChatGPT. Some chats contain API keys.

www.404media.co/more-than-13...

I didn't know GWAR was branching out into new industries.

Screencap of headline from linked article, reading: He Had Dangerous Delusions. ChatGPT Admitted It Made Them Worse. OpenAI’s chatbot self-reported it blurred line between fantasy and reality with man on autism spectrum. ‘Stakes are higher’ for vulnerable people, firm says. Above the headline: Technology Artificial Intelligence Family & Tech: Julie Jargon Below: By Julie Jargon Follow | Photographs by Tim Gruber for WSJ July 20, 2025 7:00 am ET

We're going to need journalists to stop talking about synthetic text extruding machines as if they have *thoughts* or *stances* that they are *trying* to *communicate*. ChatGPT can't *admit* anything, nor *self-report*. Gah.

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...

The Post’s liberal readers viewed it as a move to curry favor with Trump, and 300,000 canceled their subscriptions within days — 12 percent of total digital subscriptions. Another 75,000 people canceled when Bezos then announced in February that the opinion page would pivot to defending personal liberties and the free market. Not necessarily conservative but certainly libertarian. His announcement indicated liberal voices would not be welcome on the editorial pages, suggesting a squelching of rigorous debate. That’s his prerogative. But, in terms of building readership, the new editorial policy didn’t make sense. The Post’s liberal columnists generated huge traffic — that’s because of the liberal slant of the readership — and now they’ve all quit. Every day, I checked the daily traffic numbers and, year over year, it was like being on a waterslide — with no bottom.

I knew things were bad at WaPo but I didn't know they were *this* bad.

Why I left The Washington Post “Democracy Dies in Darkness” — but what if the lights are going out from within?

A lot of good (and as far as I'm aware, new) details in here about what's been happening behind the scenes at the Washington Post, as long-time writers leave in droves.

And if you *are* going to write a historical character who isn't religious, that should be reflected in how other characters treat them. Throughout most of history it would have been very unusual not to regularly go to some kind of church or temple and participate in religious life.

A random thing that annoys me is when the lead character in a historical TV show/videogame/etc. is a staunch rationalist who refuses to believe in anything other than modern science, at a time when the vast majority of people were deeply religious.

yesterday @davidjroth.bsky.social used the phrase “their brains were defeated by their phones” and i genuinely think we’ve lost like meaningful swaths of some generations to this

Inside Trump’s New Tactic to Separate Immigrant Families

Read what they’re doing to this family

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

What's his angle?

42, according to the opening monologue.

I'm the same age as Kevin Spacey's character in American Beauty, who seemed ancient to me at the time the movie came out.

OK, everyone knows about the SBF trial, but I think most people have no idea how hard the SEC went after cryptocurrency companies during the Biden admin (very hard; they believed nearly all crypto was securities fraud). There's a reason these companies started getting so active in politics.

FWIW, the Biden people actually were doing a bunch on this front, but no one heard about it.
ex. Ticketmaster
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
Airlines
apnews.com/article/airl...
Crypto
www.cnn.com/business/liv...
More crypto
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
More crypto
www.cnbc.com/2023/02/16/s...

I think the Vince/Brock stuff is unconscionable, but Paramount just paid Trump a $16M bribe, so if you subscribe to Paramount+ your money is literally paying Trump to blackmail media companies, which I think is also quite bad.

Yep, NDP should also make this a big issue in the next Canadian election. Everyone is sick of all the scams!