KBlaney

KBlaney

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In the 4th episode of The Amazing Digital Circus, the layout of the fake fast food place the group pretends to work at has almost the EXACT floor plan of the McDonalds I worked at at my first job. Actually kinda creepy since I know that it isn't a standard McD's floor plan.

I've caught my 8 year old calling stuff that might be false "AI". It is similar to how we claimed things were "photoshopped" back in the day.

CrevettaVT@5-ish.bsky.social

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You know what would be really funny? Everyone joining the Epic AI Gamejam thing with games that contain no AI content.

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“why wouldn’t the internet archive be using the latest php” probably the same reason my sonos speakers are like a decade old, they get the job done and would expensive and laborious to update and i am not a billion dollar company

Fun fact: Suburban sprawl like what is pictured here typically costs more in public services (water, sewer, garbage collection, etc.) than it collects from property taxes.

Politico@politico.com

“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.

We're all getting on Musk because "why wouldn't she just hit the breaks" but remember, Tesla AI will absolutely drive you directly off a cliff.

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social

is one of those situations “DAMMIT i’m in a michael bay movie again”

I don't think that LLMs represent consciousness, but I do think that people who use abusive language with them or theatening them with deletion are exhibiting red flags for how they treat pople.

This is just literally a plan from a bad guy in an 80's movie where a kid, his best friend and a girl he has a crush on have some sort of adventure.

Khashoggi's Ghost@urocklive1.bsky.social

Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...

Do AI companies have a list of groups that still tolerate genAI and then actively look for ways to antagonize them?

Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social

Mathematician: Who at OpenAI can I contact about you using my results without credit? OpenAI: No one

We're going to find out that a bunch of these places are in breach of their confidentiality agreements with highly regulated industries... aren't we?

I played through Psychonauts again because I realized I never actually played the PS4 version with trophy support. Every time I play this game I feel like I randomly stumble upon some interaction that I'd never seen before. I'm thinking maybe Brutal Legend next for Rocktober?

I know how people listen to music. Special devices called "speakers" vibrate the air around them producing patterns of motion in the air called "sound waves". Those sound waves propagate to the person's ear drum which then sends a signal to the brain that is interpreted as "music".

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In fairness, the sycophantic talking point regurgitation machine would appear to be super intelligent to Republicans these days.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson referring to it as "super intelligence" and to AI companies as "super intelligence providers"

Everyone is getting on Sony for this obviously anti-consumer patent, but it is actually a really good thing they filed for this. Just think, if Sony owns this idea then it will be more expensive and more difficult for other companies to do something like this.

VGC@videogameschronicle.com

Sony has filed a patent for a PlayStation controller that can accept contactless payments from credit cards and phones. vgc.news/news/sony-pa...

Valve wants to add a contactless payment system to the next Steamdeck? Now they have to factor in "negotiation with Sony lawyers" into the budget and may decide it isn't worth it.

Sure Sony themselves might try to do this, but we weren't buying the PS6 anyway thanks to this "no physical games" crap... so let them make stuff more difficult for everyone else while they are at it.

In grad school I had an advisor/collaborator who refused to use gmail because he thought Google would steal his ideas and that his research in cryptography would lead him to having problems traveling to Russia if those emails got leaked. Oh, how he must be laughing right now.

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

Happy Natalie Portman: So more investment into mass transit and bike lane infrastructure? US Energy Sec: ........ Concerned Natalie Portman: More investment into mass transit and bike lane infrastructure, right?

Jay @ the deep dive@thedeepdive.bsky.social

US Energy Secretary says Americans need to drive less to achieve lower gas prices.

Reduce your toxic points penalty by rephasing to be a little more polite. "Greetings. Please fuck off with that. Thank you."

shaunt@shaunvids.bsky.social

you just know that posting "i'm just trying to start a polite conversation about who deserves human rights" will not be marked 'toxic,' but anyone responding 'hey fuck off with that' will earn +5 toxic points

I love this. It puts words to so much stuff I've had to deal with at my work recently. Lots of misplaced effort (and yes panic) about what recent developments in cybersecurity actually mean for us.

Jess Miers 🦝@jmiers230.bsky.social

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

The victims did not complain after we killed them.

WatchYourRepsTN&SC@watchyourrepssc.bsky.social

“We shut down half the hospices in Los Angeles,” Dr. Oz told The Post, “and they didn’t complain.” People in hospice are actively dying. Of course no one complained, they were too busy losing the care that keeps them comfortable at the end of their life. He called that a win.

Fun TTRPG Puzzle whenever your players need to infiltrate a secret underground organization: have the cultists, thieves, gangsters, etc. test them with seemingly nonsense phrases. Later, let them uncover a scrap of paper from someone on the inside with The Magpie Poem on it.

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Tons of cool handouts you can pull from the internet for the poem and it already has an Old World magic to it. You show them the lock before the key to prompt the hint. They can roll any sort of checks they want and you can hint them in the right direction without directly giving them the answer.

And if they *really* don't get it, then you can fall back on the way things usually work in the individual system. (Violence? The answer is usually violence in TTRPGs.)

Fun TTRPG Puzzle whenever your players need to infiltrate a secret underground organization: have the cultists, thieves, gangsters, etc. test them with seemingly nonsense phrases. Later, let them uncover a scrap of paper from someone on the inside with The Magpie Poem on it.

Next time they are tested with something like "The Boy was Joyous for Secret Gold" they can respond with some means of communicating "4, 2, 6, 7". It'll make them feel like geniuses every time.

It won't be able to make my PS4 games look nicer because, as Sony has made abundantly clear, none of the digital PS4 games I've played are actually mine.

Palette Swap@paletteswap.site

The console will still not be able to play discs, though. paletteswap.site/dif...

The two things that can end the existence of a ghost are: 1. Learning enough about it to gain power over it (true name, unfinished business, etc) 2. Forgetting everything about it so it fades into nothing Successful hauntings need to balance these two opposite dangers.

This was actually a major problem with DARE programs. It made a list of drugs as if they were a wine list.

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This is what I've been saying. There is this cool bit of tech that should be opening up vast areas of creativity and dramatically simplify the workloads of lots of people, but business demands that it be sold as "employees will be a thing of the past".

Elizabeth Lopatto@lopatto.bsky.social

I am coming to believe we need a better quality of AI booster www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...