Wicked witch of the test

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...

This man's crow videos are fucking spectacular

What if #SpookySeason is pretty? 🪶

1/ People keep saying AI is inevitable. History disagrees. Plenty of technologies were called unstoppable, and societies stopped them or shrank them down to a niche. A thread 🧵

12/ Some version of AI may be here to stay. How fast it spreads and what it's used for are still ours to decide. Calling it inevitable is a way of taking that decision away from the public.

You know you want to, Cornwall

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. www.wired.com/story/one-of...

Hey @fnv.bsky.social, ik wou een afspraak maken voor jullie loopbaanspreekuur om te kijken of ik nog wel softwaretester wil zijn of dat ik eens wat anders kon gaan doen, maar ik geloof dat universum voor me besloten heeft 😅 Bugfinder general it is.

Again, woke 1 was not silly. None of the things that Black people asked for were inappropriate or unnecessary. Y'all just stopped listening to Black people, and started talking amongst yourselves about what you thought woke was. Then you called that silly. You listen to nazis over Black people.🤷🏿‍♂️

Weeee (Not trying to flaunt my wealth, just trying to show I did something and possibly convincing someone else to also do that)

@marcusdusautoy.bsky.social yo! I'm reading The Music of the Primes and holy f, is it good!! I hated maths in school and I was shit at it. But you don't need to understand maths to enjoy the book, that's the impressive part. I came and found you on bsky just to say this book is amazing, I love it ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

girls if they had a time machine

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

I'm a capable tech manager with a great deal of experience and a cynical view of LLMs that would rather plan a strategic roll out of useful features vs risking the whole business on a faulty trend. If you're looking for that, please reach out.

Banger cormorant eye footage today 🪶

It’s the Government’s duty to protect all communities - including trans people. They’re failing to do that. Trans people deserve safety and dignity. www.attitude.co.uk/news/zack-po...

Really proud to be the LGBT+ Trailblazer of the year. And so proud of the real trailblazers - like my boyfriend - who works in palliative care. Our NHS workers, our teachers, our cleaners. The people who keep our country running. And LGBT+ History month matters. Representation matters. 🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Addresses of new offices within, searchable database about halfway down the page.

I went to the vagina museum for the first time last December. It was great! I tend to think I'm fairly educated on the female anatomy and then I learned I had always called uterine tubes ovaries. This place is great and important and it needs cash to exist. Throw in a penny if you can.

Andrew suffered and live commented on the experience so that we don't have to. Thank you, Andrew.

Finally, some good news

A 14th century parable about agentic AI transformation

First post of the year, new paper out today: we present possibly the biggest case of systematic Measurement Schmeasurement in tech use. It seems that most studies on gaming (videogame) addiction/disorder haven't measured gaming after all. This research took years, so long 🧵 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

It's not designed to help us, but to make us unable to think for ourselves and question things. You can't have a democracy without informed citizens. It's time we acknowledge that the people pushing this have no interest in democracy. I feel we're beyond the point where this is conspiracy thinking

I have just been alerted to this and it has really brightened my day. "This wasn’t crowd control. This was panic control. This was the federal government throwing tear gas at a punchline because they couldn’t arrest a joke." www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-...

I need to remind myself that for every fascist pos wanker, there's three absolute champions out there. People are fucking amazing. A lot of people deeply suck but we can't let that bring us down, stay strong Minneapolis you're doing fucking brilliant

Whoever could have predicted this?! Oh, right, absolutely fucking everyone. People just didn't give a shit because they could suddenly get their own face in rip off Ghibli style for free and who doesn't want that

The hypocrisy is mind-numbing!!!!!!!!

I think Africa's top museums should acquire all treasures from the Louvre, its clear European institutes like this just aren't up to safeguarding European art www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"You collectively fucking hate this thing. But what if we told you just one more time, without any new arguments, that you should actually like it?"

Starting rumours that AI technology is "female coded" to slowly let the air out of the AI tech bubble

Hear me out. This, but for housing

"Reducing immigration will not necessarily increase the number of jobs available for British people as some employers are responding to tightening immigration rules by increasing outsourcing." Hey chat I'm starting to think the capitalists in charge never even cared about reducing unemployment

Hot take - even as a joke, I don't really like the idea of ppl blaming interns for taking down production Even on the chance it happened to be true (and there are definitely cases where it wasn't an intern), if an intern was able to do that, that's a problem with the processes and systems in place

What a fucking surprise

I have been ruined by living in the 21st century because I read this as Dream Theater releasing two sex bots

@volkskrant.nl I rest my godvermaledijde case

Hai @volkskrant.nl , deze man is een vermoede pedo die vrienden was met (onder andere) een bevestigde pedo, kunnen jullie uitleggen wat er tragisch is aan zijn 'val' en voor wie?

A great way to fight back against AI taking away work from creatives is to buy art by actual humans. (Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form). www.worldofmoose.com

that’s just a job. nobody gets to speak freely at a job. you’re selling your time and freedom. it’s called decorum.