Megalomaniac

Ah, yes, Fish and Chips, famously 100% British and nothing at all to do with immigration. 🤔

Evergreen

4 panel comic Panel 1: A group of people just having a lovely time. Everyone is laughing Panel 2: An absolute Federal Agent appears in the middle of the group laughing like an obnoxious robot Panel 3: The group quickly disperses, leaving the gross creepy agent by himself Panel 4: The agent touches his ear and says “arrest their moms”

the US government has arrived on bluesky

HELL YES SCARY GERMAN SUPERMARKET BREAD SLICER

Microsoft hates computers AND everyone who uses them, whereas Apple only hates computers, and Linux only hates the people who use them. In this essay I will

Great stuff. Just fucking great. Actual adult creators are drowning under censorship but the robot is allowed to give you bullshit no-ethics, no-soul erotica. Why not.

I’d mirror that bet, but venture it’s true regardless of whether AI was involved or not 😂

PANEL 1: a pigeon sitting up in bed in a dark room. they have a yellow striped sleeping cap on. their bedsheets are light green with a leaf pattern. an alarm clock reading '07:30' is next to them. they say "ah, pitch black when i wake up...my worst enemy..." PANEL 2: the pigeon walks along the sidewalk happily in a yellow scarf as leaves blow. there is grass, a blue sky, and a tree behind them. they say "ah, a crisp breeze, and clear, bright sky...my favourite." PANEL 3: the same frame as panel 2, except it's now dark. the pigeon walks in the other direction, eyes narrowed, saying "ah, pitch black at 5 PM...my worst enemy..."

the autumnal cycle 🍂🍃

me:

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Loved the band’s first album back in the day, but oh my god this dude turned out to be one of the biggest pieces of shit ever. Nobody is going to be sad about his demise.

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive) Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
people.com/diane-keaton...

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

If my faithful old printer finally dies and the only ones you can buy have AI “features” I might just give up and buy a typewriter or something 😂

They made printers that work, good ones that lasted, workhorses that would reliably and cheaply print year after year. It’s a solved problem. But I guess they didn’t provide enough shareholder value or something, so they added “features” like subscriptions, DRM, and duplexers that jam constantly.

This means if you're in the UK and haven't signed this yet, please do. At 100k signatures they have to discuss it again.

Literally the least you can do!!

I would laugh heartily at all the AI pushing fuckwits losing their shirts if I didn’t know it’s almost certainly not those guys that’ll suffer, it’s everyone else.

Well, I guess that’s Framework scratched off my shopping list.

Zelda Williams on IG, part 1/2: Please, just stop sending me Al videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, its a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough', just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a liffle thumbs up and like it. Gross.

Part 2/2: And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future'. AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Zelda Williams on AI slop is 💯 correct

“The Human Centipede of Content” 🔥🔥🔥

Beans on toast is good though.

The Empire killed millions through starvation alone, loved to use concentration camps and massacred indigenous people, what exactly should the rest of the world be grateful for?

Quite a take. There is almost no modern geopolitical issue that can’t ultimately be traced back to something the British Empire f**ked up. Hell, it even caused chaos by leaving places. One of the largest refugee crises in recorded history was caused by the Empire packing up and going home…

screenshot reads: Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (30th Anniversary Edition)

haha 30th what now

“Why don’t you just verify your ID? Just send them your passport/face scan/credit card, what could go wrong? It’s perfectly safe you’re just paranoid” etc etc etc

The Online Safety Act sure has made being online more dangerous.

I realized I’ve been sort of mourning the internet lately. It’s odd. This ‘place’ that used to contain a wealth of actually valuable information, and introduced me to many people I now call friends, and which paved the way for my career, has almost completely rotted away. It’s not coming back.

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

being a cat person is so crazy bc you live with someone who is undeniably annoying and you're always thinking "maybe i should get another cat"