Ryan Alexander

Someone needs to have a serious chat with a high up person at Niantic about how problematic it is to have their primary (and really only) announcement channel for Pokemon Go events and ticket releases be based on a platform that is riddled with CSAM content.

Happy Birthday @dhwthompson.com !!!

You can tell it's a good one if you get the urge to make the transformers noise when you fold and unfold it.

Please tell me that someone has done a mashup meme of Bondi with Vegeta's "it's over 9000!" meme.

Three part image meme made from the "you can't defeat me, I know, but he can" scene from the marvel movie Thor Ragnarok, the words AI Encroachment are placed over the image of Hel, the words Ethical Arguments Climate Change are placed over Thor and the words Surge Pricing Monetization are placed over the exploding mountain

Are you STILL stealing crypto wallets and rug pulling currencies?! Why not write your self a Moltbot skill and start taking over other people's agents instead! Why go through all the trouble of building confidence in humans when you can just TELL their agents to steal it all for you?!?

"Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned."

a man carrying a stack of pizza boxes in front of a door with the number 308 on it Alt: a man carrying a stack of pizza boxes in front of a door with the number 308 on it

Me getting up to date on what happened with Clawd/Molt bot

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Nanolang is a new programming language designed to be as easy as possible for LLMs to use.

Arimaa is a chess-like board game designed to be playable by humans but orders of magnitude harder for a computer to brute force compute strategies.

TFW you have a simile that's pretty damned perfect but each of the references are so obscure that the odds of there being another single person on the planet who knows both of them is basically zero.

Nanolang is reverse Arimaa

"Disapproving Rabbits Minnesota Rebel ICE" Sticker for Sale by Birdchick Buy "Disapproving Rabbits Minnesota Rebel ICE" by Birdchick as a Sticker

So I’ve taken Disapproving Rabbits out of retirement as part of the resistance. Proceeds will go to The Bond Between who are taking in pets after people are disappeared by ICE. www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Di...

"It's important that everyone understands that voice cloning is now something that's available to anyone with a GPU and a few GBs of VRAM... or in this case a web browser that can access Hugging Face." Simon cloned his own voice in this post and I would not have been able to tell it was AI.

A screen grab of a Facebook share of my Houston Chronicle op-ed. You can see the bottom of the article: "I'm from Minnesota. Here's how to stand with us." There are 1.7K reactions, 1.6K comments, and 74 shares.

Here's what it looks like when a bot army is trying to convince Texans that everyone else in Texas is a huuuuuuuuuuuge fan of ICE. (This is the Houston Chronicle Facebook post of my op-ed.)

If I had a nickel for every time I've had to call my parents and tell them to not go outside today because ICE just murdered someone in Minneapolis and it's extra not safe for them right now, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's still pretty fucked up that it's happened twice.

Really, really recommend that Minnesotans in particular disable autoplay, I know it's annoying to have to click to see a GIF but it's not worth the mental health costs of seeing the first seconds (before you scroll by) of murders in our city over and over and over.

TIL, Slack Spam is now a thing:

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With a seriously worrying scenario for UK citizens using X/Twitter

The important question is which egg.

.... If they have Suze you could sub that in for the Campari, stick with the Bianco and make a white negroni.

Order a shot each of Gin, Campari, and sweet vermouth, then ask for a glass with some ice and just make it in front of them.

Ho ho ho :D

A coupe glass containing eggnog with a fresh dusting of nutmeg on top of it

Unsolicited Nog pic

C'mon people, that straw goat isn't going to burn itself.

15p for 1kg? Try 35p for 500g. You'd think #Tesco could let go of the Metro branch obligatory price gouging just for the holiday veg specials but noooope.

More like Tesco can't let go of gouging even during the holidays.

I know it's a very minor quibble in the face of everything, but it's just galling that the special 'cheap' xmas pricing carrots at my Tesco are literally 28X more expensive than the cheap xmas carrots at my Lidl.

Besides the new Knives Out which I've already watched and loved, are there any new films (holiday or not) out on the streamings that people have really liked?

A label maker with the label label maker affixed to it

Got a label maker for the holidays. So of course I had to do the obligatory first labelling.