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Blovius Maximus.
Software Developer, Old Car Enthusiast, MMT.
Always prefer a full bottle in front of me to a full frontal lobotomy.

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Just reupping www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s Not ‘Bluffing’: Inside the MAGA Efforts To Make a Second Term Even More Extremewww.rollingstone.com “Yes, we do really want to burn it all down,” says a Republican close to Trump.

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Constitution: People involved in insurrections should not be President. Roberts court:...hmm, no, I don't see it. Constitution:.... Roberts court: but the president should have immunity for crimes

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Periodically, I like to reread my favorite Scottish poem: Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence.

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Okay so to be clear we are destroying power grids, the livelihoods of actual humans beings, and communication/research infrastructure for the sake of an algorithm that converts stolen data into unreliable stolen data and consistently loses millions of dollars. Just to be clear

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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation

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we live in an age in which we have near limitless storage for data. unfortunately at this time we must erase all works of culture to make room for the infinite sea of machine slop

I'm sure this is nothing to be concerned about.

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Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton's week: SUNDAY: The government ignored concerns from the community about offshore windfarms THURSDAY: We would override local concerns about putting nuclear reactors in their community.

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Rs: We gotta put biblical rules in schools Me: Holy shit! Like a debt jubilee every 7 years? Rs: Haha, no, not that one Me: like "you shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt"? Rs: Hahaha not that one either Me: so, uh, which rules exactly? Rs: Oh, you know the ones

Google image search results are turning up AI-generated images of celebrities and leading users to sites that host AI-generated nudes celebrities made to look like children. www.404media.co/google-image...

AI Images in Google Search Results Have Opened a Portal to Hellwww.404media.co Google image search results are turning up AI-generated images of celebrities and leading users to sites that host AI-generated nudes celebrities made to look like children.

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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekX X (so glad I no longer belong)

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A cross-section of thousands of years under the A303 highway in England

Reskeet how old you are, using a vague proxy. We had a System-80 (Australian licensed clone of the TRS-80 with a built in cassette drive and fake wood grain finish), and I taught myself programming by typing in many pages of Basic (and later Assembly) code from Byte magazine.

Reskeet how old you are, using a vague proxy. When I first went to school as a kid here in Iceland, Thursday was “no TV” day because there was only one channel and it took that day off.

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Programmers: "We have invented a confident bullshit machine" Tech CEO's: "Finally, something I can relate to"

"Your plastic pal who's fun to be with". Douglas Adams was a true visionary.

Who would want such a thing? Is there a hitherto untapped market for virtual vaguely disapproving old people? JFC.

Researchers at MIT “built an AI-powered chatbot that simulates a user’s older self and dishes out observations and pearls of wisdom. The aim is to encourage people to give more thought today to the person they want to be tomorrow.” ht @bluberrymorning.bsky.social

AI researchers build ‘future self’ chatbot to inspire wise life choiceswww.theguardian.com Exclusive: Scientists at MIT hope talking to 60-year-old self will shift thinking on health, money and work

But hear me out. What if we just made some shit up? /s

I see synthetic data hailed as an exciting solution for a multitude of problems and I find its introduction into complex social systems the most troublesome. 1/

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“How it feels to get an AI email from a friend” mrgan.com/ai-email-fro... > The email felt like getting a form letter, one of many thousands sent out by a large agency; except it was sent to me by, you know, a friend.

How it feels to get an AI email from a friendmrgan.com Recently I received an AI-written email from a friend. I'm trying to understand why I had the reaction to it that I did.

The one I've got keeps me quite busy enough, thanks.

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[doing a Google search in 2012] having instant and reliable access to relevant websites is fine, but I’d really prefer to have all my questions answered by a deranged version of Microsoft Clippy that tells me to eat glue

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Tech companies scraping the web for content and using their generative bullshit to kill off the sites they stole from until there's nothing left to scrape and it all starts to consume itself in an ouroboros of putrid, decaying pixels and code is the internet's "not with a bang but with a whimper"

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This is what they drive in the Money For Nothing video

They look even dumber in red

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we have to let this robot take a shit in the data supply, its good for the economy

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It is scary to feel AI is going to take your job, but beyond that, it’s exhausting and infuriating to see the quality of work AI generates and to then see that people think so little of your work as to think that it could be a valid replacement.

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Google! I have used your weapons against you! Feel the wrath of The Smiling Man!

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