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This post made me remember a interview from 11 years ago: www.rockpapershotgun.com/peter-molyne...

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I’m losing it over here

The Bus Is Coming. It Is Nearly Here. You Cannot Resist The Bus. It Will Subsume You.

Australia is saved! (Don’t tell the CFC manufactures they’ll want to rip open the hole in the ozone layer again)

Me at university, when group projects were assigned and there needed to be a project leader.

This was a tweet from Michael Hobbes a while back and I’ve seen nothing to contradict it yet: “I think we'll look back on the last decade as a time when social media gave previously marginalized groups the ability to speak directly to elites and, as a result, elites lost their minds.”

Ms Rachel from the top ropes

Also there’s thousands of older games that are all incredible.

when this shit inevitably craters and the customers don't show up for the datacenter capacity they've built, the coal and gas power plants will wind up being fed into the regular grid at cheapo rates. Which will forestall any further major investment in renewables, further crippling the planet.

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My brother took me to watch Critters as a small child. I didn’t think it was a good idea. I didn’t enjoy it.

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

But remember, these people also want everyone to use these alleged 'possibly-future-consciousness' things to be their email agent.

Advertising ruins *everything*.

Data centres in the Netherlands used 4.6% of all electricity in 2024, and transmission system operator TenneT expects this to double or triple to 10-15% by 2030! That means that the next 6-11 TWh/year of renewables that will be completed, will go straight to the growth of data centres.

taps sign again

Read another article where OpenAI put out a press release to the extent of, "whoopsie, we hacked into government computers by accident this time, we're exploring how to prevent that in the future," and everyone treats this as part of doing business instead of a literal admission of a crime.

really hope that the message people take away from all the EA sex parties stuff is "don't import inherently coercive real life employer/employee or mentor/mentee dynamics into your edgeplay kink spaces" and not "THEY DO THE IMMORAL KIND OF SEX DISGUSTING"

Feels more likely they’ll just pretend that it failed solely because trump and hegseth was involved

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

"Hey, get back here, we aren't done yelling at you about how you destroyed another arbitrary industry we made too expensive for you to enjoy, you damn millennials!"

All of the broader things that we're losing thanks to AI—from being able to trust others to cheap GPUs—are a much bigger issue but what really gets to me personally is just losing respect for people I used to like. Ah it turns out that a shiny toy and flattery overrides your moral compass. Okay.

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

it is easier to imagine death by autocomplete than death by capitalism

Ironically, people who apply for green cards in the US have to get their titers tested and boosted as needed. But that process comes after years of being present in the US as a work permit visa holder 🫠

when ai leaves u behind

The truth was that if United Health had an AI that was accepting a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate, United Health would stop using the AI in about 0.2 seconds.

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

As much as I try to avoid games with AI I know I have and am playing games made with AI for this very reason unfortunately.

Same with its use in any job. Anyone saying they’re getting huge savings from LLM output is really just offloading a significant amount of verification burden onto someone else. Either colleagues, or customers.

skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here

And they certainly aren't asking for regulation to stop this 🙄

So while you're thinking about a super human, super "intelligent" alien being killing you, here's what's really happening. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...