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there are people in the comments of this excellent and funny @allisonjo1.bsky.social piece losing their minds and i think it's because Blog Tolerance is at all time lows www.theverge.com/tech/990849/...
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I am coming to believe we need a better quality of AI booster www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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i know there are all sorts of useful implementations of the technology these chatbot companies make. but nothing i have seen has convinced me the mass availability of subsidized chatbots themselves isn't a fucking calamity of the highest order.
NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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because that's how everything works now. If something happens that is inconvenient for your political beliefs, it's fake news, an AI hoax, a false flag, etc. Liberals and leftists do this less often than conservatives, but the gap is closing fast
I don't get why a bunch of people on BlueSky instantly concluded this assassination attempt was fake? I mean, like, I guess it could be, wouldn't be the strangest thing to have happened ever. But probably not, surely? What would even be the point of that? Just - why the weird conspiracy brain stuff?
my favorite kinds of pictures and videos from this whole thing are the ones where you can see the interior of the capsule in the foreground. it is the best way to understand the scale of what you’re seeing.
Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.
i’m a real writer and i fucking hate writing lol
I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.
you either die the round mound or live long enough to see yourself become the role model
"The way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace... I think what’s going on in our country — what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate and it’s really sad." - Charles Barkley on CBS
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Netanyahu sucks, AIPAC sucks, but "we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby" is just code for "blame Jews." Trump wasn't forced to do this. Trump's supporters—like Kent—weren't forced to elect him and embolden him. They're not absolved of any responsibility.
Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigns over Iran war. x.com/joekent16jan...
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I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Photo by me
ICE took the flower man in Echo Park 40 minutes ago. He’s at this corner every day. I’ve bought flowers from the man and woman here for anniversaries and birthdays. Lemmy loves to smell them whenever we walk by in the mornings. I was just at the street corner 15 minutes before it happened. Fuck.
@ jews in the chat w/ me
my Blackest opinion is that the presumption of conflict between "America has a long and deeply rooted history of violence" and "we can and should fight against today's version of that, as did those who came before us" is less a philosophical debate about how to treat the past and more a skill issue
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This is why calling them weird creeps was so effective, not just to damage the leadership psychologically, but to make it extremely socially embarrassing to be a known supporter of them in the general public. The point is to make society at large view them as they are, not the force they wish to be.
New polling data shows that it's getting increasingly embarrassing to identify as a Republican, and some Trump voters are slinking away and pretending it never happened. www.salon.com/2026/01/19/s...
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It's rare for a company to sign a contract with the US military AND get caught generating CSAM in the same two-week period. Grok is just built different
@caseynewton.bsky.social welp the people who said they wanted you to cover Grok on Hard Fork look like they’re gonna get their wish… it’s been an insane few days over there
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Personally, I think one of the enduring qualities of great art is that it resonates in different ways across time, geography, etc. For example—a lot of my favorite 19th century novels (James Wharton etc) wrestle with ideas that are applicable to the questions of today’s social media age.
Or it's an example of people forcing their interests and fixations on material that is deliberately not about that. Sometimes the author misses the subtext they didn't perceive. Other times some in the audience bring their baggage with them, being so focused on it. I'm leaning to the latter here.