Ben Gifford 🌹

Ever fucking green

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

100% this and proud to have @lydiakauppi.bsky.social on our team.

I don't doom scroll, I hope scroll, hoping to see BREAKING: U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP DIES IN OFFICE AT 80

it took four hours and emails across three agencies to determine if a simple, polite email invitation was legitimate, in case you're wondering whether AI has improved efficiency in my field

Why are so many adults going no contact with their parents?

#OtD 14 Oct 1977 anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant was "pied" by Thom Higgins, a gay rights activist. She then began praying and burst into tears. Following a boycott, she lost her job as brand ambassador for Florida orange juice. More LGBT+ history here: workingclasshistory.com/tag/lgbtq/

Wow, this guy has no juice at all. No one likes a crybaby whiner!

Wait, did Roseanne shorten her last name from Bar-Mitzvah?

This is fucking insane

It’s absolutely fucking WILD that this was committed to writing, given that every Muslim and pro-Palestinian who appeared in the media from late 2023 onwards was asked whether they supported Hamas and required to renounce terrorism.

End the death penalty

Pour one out for our warfighters 😢

I've heard The Bear really fell off. Haven't watched past S2, but even when it was good, a character stabbed another character while they were feuding, and even though it was accidental, she never apologized and the two characters just somehow became cool with each other.

I'll just preemptively say fuck Rahm Emanuel regardless of whether he runs or not.

You can tell Control Resonant wasn't made in America by the way there are billboards all across Manhattan promoting awareness about climate change, unionization, and suing your employer for wrongful termination.

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

when mom says we're out of toaster strudels and I have to eat a pop tart instead

American politics is just putting a picture of the current president on a gas pump.

Jill Valentine needs her own new mainline Resident Evil game.

Disappointed in Danny Boyle

Honestly, one of the worst Dems in Congress

We need Medicare for all

Here's Ed Sheeran being apolitical and not taking sides

This is amazing solidarity

I swear they made Mike Johnson in a lab. He might even be AI himself.

The thing is, Ed Sheeran did pick a side, and it was the wrong one. Fuck Ed Sheeran.

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Hitler just gives him a head nod and keeps walking

I find the current state of AI depressing as hell.

I hope he takes it for a test drive

Can't think of a better example of the @doctorow.pluralistic.net "Reverse Centaur" argument of tech than paying a human to be constantly alert in case a machine screws up, rather than paying a human to drive and having a machine be alert in case they screw up.

Free newsletter: The AI bubble bears remarkable similarities to the great financial crisis - AI startups are the NINJA borrowers, and Anthropic and OpenAI's $1.3tn in compute commitments are the adjustable-rate mortgages set to explode starting in 2027. www.wheresyoured.at/concentration-risk/

How do you go from making First Reformed, an excellent climate alarm movie, to saying extremely-bad-for-the-environment AI slop is inevitable and using it to make your shitty script into a shitty movie?

Hoping something cool happens today on my birthday

It’s think for yourself thursday

Yes, a lot of people, including myself, hate that we're funding a colonial project currently engaged in a genocide and hate the ideology behind it.

Last night, Seth Moulton became the latest anti-trans Democrat to fall. There is good evidence that his anti-trans positions directly impacted the election - 67% of voters said those positions made them less likely to vote for him. Markey wins in a landslide. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I thought the new HP series was at least telling new side stories or heading into the future or the past. This really is just remaking the movies. If you REALLY need a nostalgia fix, just get the books or movies out from the library. I want this brand poisonous/dead while the TERF is profiting.

Steam wins the console wars

I think I'm 5 or so.