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I had a Dumbest Dystopia thread over on the old hellsite, so let's start another one A couple of dumb "AIs" taking down a site with no apparent human interaction certainly qualifies

Unreliable narrator stories are fun until you live through a global-economy tanking war between two sets of relentless liars both trying to influence a stock market full of investors who don't actually care what's true.

Yes prices have gone up so we're spending more We're also buying less This is generally thought of as a bad thing for a consumption based economy, which Hasset has always been a big proponent of

People as things, that's where it starts

“We must … avoid … the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance”. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

i cant believe tom steyer is the first dem politician (that ive seen) to proudly and forcefully make this correct and obvious counter argument to the bigotry but im glad he did

One of the many sources cited in the new papal encyclical is... Gandalf

THE POPE IS QUOTING GANDALF!!!

In this encyclical Pope Leo not only condemns slavery, praises the social sciences, and considers ethical treatment of computer intelligences but also compares truth to “a multifaceted polyhedron” blessed in its diversity. I believe the long-rum first D&D Pope theory just got a shoutout.

Actually understanding that high school sports is almost entirely about giving kids a place to grow as human beings and not "winning at all costs" immediately deflated the anti-trans discourse around trans athletes

My phone reminded me of this old meme I posted 4 years ago

“OpenAI user numbers go flat — just in time for the IPO – Pivot to AI” https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/22/openai-user-numbers-go-flat-just-in-time-for-the-ipo/ > But “operating income margin” was not great

This is the funniest shit I've seen in a bit

Agents! #GodsTeeth and #ImpossibleLandscapes, two of the most acclaimed campaigns for #TTRPGs and THIRTY-TWO other DG books are available now in the @fanatical.com bundle for only $14.99. That’s YEARS of gameplay for under $15! Get in there and (or) spread the word!

Is this the clown equivalent of when media write stuff like "Comic books aren't just thwack, pow, biff any more", like are clowns reading this and getting really angry

That's not what Colossal are doing, that's not what they did. I'm begging you to not fall for the latest bullshit from publicity-hungry techbros that'll have actual scientists facepalm AGAIN.

LLM’s are, in a sense, genre-identifying machines. The literary terms ‘genre’ names something potentially statistically-identifiable - a basin or attractor in the field. The LLM’s success at pastiching a certain kind of postcolonial Caribbean prose shows that it’s become generic

too soon

Vuelve el bundle de Delta Green, por si alguno aun no se lo ha pillado. Gracias a @ozarmidrashim.bsky.social por el aviso. www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/de...

Since the announcement of our union, Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro have hired Fisher Phillips (a union avoidance firm), and chosen to engage in a daily union-avoidance campaign by sending emails to the Arena team that is spreading misinformation and sowing fear among our colleagues. #uwotc-cwa

Microsoft cocaine chief gives it 18 months - for all white-collar work to be automated by cocaine bsky.app/profile/davi...

Nary a peep of protest from the MAHA crowd. The annual budget of WIC costs less than a week of the Iran war.

Today, miniatures are nearly always seen as gray plastic, but scholars postulate that they were originally meant to be covered in bright, vivid paint. Using sophisticated imaging techniques, researchers can reveal how these figures were possibly intended to appear:

Not only does telling a chatbot ‘do not hallucinate’ misunderstand how LLMs works, the idea that they are capable of following instructions is an illusion. At best, this just adds text to the context that may cause them to go down one path rather than another. But they don’t literally obey commands.

Yes. bsky.app/profile/theo...

These people are such irredeemable freaks.

I used to feel a little bad that The Onion is about to surpass WaPo in print subs and stopped promoting the membership as a direct foil until today they came out with “Do POOR BABIES deserve DIAPERS???” so therefore

There’s a glaring historical inaccuracy in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film of The Odyssey: they didn’t have cameras back then. Theatres should have a blank screen and an old man reading out the script

The CFO of Spindrift is complaining on LinkedIn about Anthropic's customer service. He recommends OpenAI because it allows you to "work with a human sales person." Unfortunately there's simply no broader lesson that a c-suite officer of a successful CPG brand might extrapolate from this preference.

System Mastery Live: We'll be covering Marvel Heroic RPG (that's the Margaret Weis Productions Cortex one), and James will be there just like everyone enjoys so much. It's the only Marvel RPG we haven't covered yet, as far as I'm aware. www.gencon.com/events/308718

Quantum Dallas: As far as I can tell, this is the only game of SPI's Dallas being run at the show. Only we're running three tables at once and each table is a different alternate universe of Dallas and YES you can cross dimensions and form multiversal Ewing alliances! www.gencon.com/events/308723

At first you think "this is all he knows about China and its relationship to the US" and it's dumb enough Then it dawns on you that he's reading prepared remarks and a speechwriter wrote this for him and it gets worse