Brian Bird

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Again begging the tech bros to understand that dystopian scifi novels were meant to be cautionary tales and not instruction manuals.

oh my god now there's a "future of prison" startup that says it will use AI and brain implants to plant fake memories into the brains of criminals, "rehabilitating" them in minutes instead of years and I am going to spend the rest of the day screaming now sciencetimes.com/articles/509...

Cognify: Revolutionary Prison Concept Uses AI and Brain Implants to Fast-Track Criminal Rehabilitationsciencetimes.com Discover how AI and brain implants are transforming rehabilitation. Read more on Cognify's innovative prison concept now!

Such a beautiful burn

I have known many CTOs that did not need to replaced by AI because they could have been replaced much more easily with a very short shell script.

If you have a bidet at home and your job forces you to come to the office, they should be legally required to provide you a bidet. This single ply is cruel and unusual punishment.

Someone should investigate why every organization in the country is constantly experiencing higher than normal call volume.

Goddammit.

It’s only a murder of crows if there’s probable caws

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‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says

‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI sayswww.theguardian.com Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...

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I have a question. Well, it’s more of a comment than a question. Well, it’s more of a threat than a comment

I'm sitting at my computer playing dwarf fortress one one monitor, while on my second monitor there's a remote connection to my mini PC I'm setting up as a plex server, where I'm monitoring the progress in MakeMKV as I rip DVDs to my external hard drive, and I am having an absolute blast.

Oohhh gimme the beach ball, I'm feelin' cold, I wanna get sauced And eat rocky rooaad, And drip for days.

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LAY'S: MISERABLE

Carrefour, France’s biggest food retailer, announced it would no longer sell PepsiCo products, which include Lay’s potato chips, because the prices were “unacceptably” high for consumers despite falling inflation.

Major French Retailer Drops PepsiCo Products Over High Priceswww.nytimes.com Carrefour, a supermarket chain, said the maker of Pepsi, Lay’s and 7-Up was keeping its food “unacceptably” expensive despite falling inflation.

Such a shame. All that money was JUST ABOUT to trickle down, but now will never get the chance.

Ur never gonna believe this but apparently taxing the people with all the fucking money can pay for essential public services

$1.5 billion in estimated revenue: A look at the Mass. 'millionaire's tax' first yearwww.wbur.org Advocates promised the new tax would bring in over $1 billion a year in new revenue. And they quickly saw their predictions surpassed: the state Department of Revenue estimates it will generate over $...

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This is why I’m trans.

It's beautiful.

go to inspirobot.me and generate a motivational poster to get you focused for the new year 💪😤 here's mine:

This is a take as hot as the filling in my toasted, frosted, correct pop tart.

my strongest pop-tart opinion is that the best kind is strawberry unfrosted untoasted

I'm gonna start a service that's like masterclass, but it's masters training former convicts in their areas of expertise. I'm gonna call it Pros and Cons.

Calm down. The Torment Nexus won't be that bad.

this is Kathleen Parker erasure… [these are only two I’m aware of. she won’t admit these are fuckups though]

Without downloading any new pics, what's your energy going into 2024?

God Rest Ye! Merry Gentlemen

Buying a really cheap acoustic guitar off Craigslist reminded me that really cheap guitars are just awful to play.

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I'm trying to be less reactive but all of the dumb fucking morons on line make it really hard

I know I'm getting good at powershell cuz it's taking me like 6 hours to write a script that does ridiculous shit and only ends up being like 12 lines of code.

God these "you do you" signs fucking INFURIATED me

In one year, New York City's messaging went from "you do you" to "mask up with an N95." This didn't happen by chance. Advocates & groups like @covidadvocacyny.bsky.social organized to take down the MTA signs & attended every NYC council hearing on COVID to push for better messaging. Advocacy works!

Whoever it is at HP that is in charge of making their printers complete and total flaming piles of shit should be crucified.

It is 4:38pm and it is DARK dark.

me to me when it's dark out at like 4:30pm

NO! WE MUST GO SKINNIER! I SHALL NOT REST UNTIL I AM WEARING A TIE A SINGLE ATOM WIDE!

this is my lawyer dawg i'm going to pay a 9 figure settlement

Technically, I have 83 hours of meetings on my calendar for this coming Wednesday.

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one insight that you get from maye musk’s twitter account is a good understanding of exactly how her son turned out the way he did

we are now officially at the "elon told his mommy to scold the president" stage of whatever the hell is going on

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reboot starship in safe mode

First hockey game in a bajillion years. I think I saw the Ducks play their very first home game and don't think I've been to a game since. Blackhawks v Ducks at united center!