It’s very understandable how you get that impression but it’s not representative
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It’s very understandable how you get that impression but it’s not representative
I’m not kidding
the sun sets every day
uberdermy?
I mean I half-thought the OP was a joke, but just looking at the hat makes it quite clear the “Enhancement” process fills in details that aren’t in the original
Yea I can’t honestly tell if the OP is making fun of this kind of Enhancement, but whether it’s what we usually mean by “AI” these days or not, a comparison of known things (“USA” and the flag) to the output of the “Enhance” algorithm makes it obvious the algo is “detecting” things that aren’t there
what vile nation’s flag is this, all red and white stripes without the blue field and the stars??
never mind that, why’s he wearing a DSA hat? or is that a D (Trogdor) A hat?
I'm not going to guarantee 100% accuracy here either but Google Lens's OCR seems to have done a better job, and I alphabetized
I guess the OCR or copy-paste missed some things, so doing this again on a PC and alphabetizing
Oh man, something went wrong in the OCR or the copy paste, because it’s in the image but not in the text I pulled and yes… what the hell
It’s especially bizarre because getting rear-ended is pretty much always the other driver’s fault—why would you even need a sweetener for the story if that were true?
It is not, which is decidedly unchoice
Sorry I need to alt text that shizzle because it’s not in alphabetical order and I need to search it to see if “schwing” is in there, and I’m probably not the only one with Questions
I guess this is a better thread to follow up on than the one above Ironically (?) the Stranger Things quote below has been posted here between 6 and 10 times and/but my post below was the last time
I’m not sure if anyone else was annoyed by the pronunciation like I was or if they just misspelled it, but I’ll add that the last 4 “Assimov” posts on here (mine included) are also about Alien:Earth
Following up on the “if you notice something in a popular show, do someone on Bluesky already post about it?” question: Prodigy guy misattributed “Assimov” and Bluesky now has the juice. A ton of juice
I’ll be here all wheat, folks
Which is to say: your prescription is still correct
Mostly agree but can’t shake the sense she helps produce nutjobs. Unfortunately, many such cases on these sites, in these times
sounds like he said fuck letting the cops get it on their own, and chose to deliver it to them
Anyway, this is a pretty trivial example but I’m not a huge fan of how much discussions like the OP seem to build some kind of Bluesky consensus around something counter to the rest of the world’s conventional wisdom, and how little dissent there is. Doesn’t seem right to me!
I assume I washed my hands afterward, as I feel a bit of a compulsion about that when they get dirty in any verifiable way, but it was a long time ago
We’d always have flies when I was working the grill, though. Used to practice catching them, which I’ve always credited as the source of my unusual skill at catching things
Can’t prove a negative and I was never a manager but also I don’t remember ever seeing a mouse or rat in any of the 4 restaurants I worked at Might be different in the upper Midwest, I don’t know But we did have mice at one of my apartments at the time
also of note while I’m lovingly bashing one of the all-time music greats: the alt text on OP is “I can”
I choose to believe Mr. Stipe made this meme himself and wanted us to believe he just found it
proof that at minimum I've been claiming this for almost 3 years
I can
Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears of joy, realizes how much happiness he brings into the dark and uncertain world. "I am Pagliacci. Thank you doctor."
Yeah the bystanders move at odd speeds. But it does look like a stunt man did get hit by something—maybe not a real car—and got flung/flung himself. Wonder if there’s also people/apparatus hidden by the car in the foreground
I would love to know how they did that shot
Excerpt from the aptly named “The Confusion” by Neal Stephenson
what’s driving the jet of blood if the heart went limp, mfer?
pumped to come and see all the destroyers and subs roll down the street
Lincoln really did go hard.
also
I've been down that road
doing this instead as a more productive way to scratch that itch
problem with reading a ton of online when you're trying not to post at all is that a lot of times you see unanswered questions and you accidentally know the answers and it's really really hard not to answer the questions
yeah, the post is ambigous, the missing piece of info is that these wings are in fact garlic parmesan themselves (and I use the present tense because they’re mostly in my fridge)
my sister in law’s an obstetrician in westminster and she says this drives her nuts every time
It’s a complicated timeline a la Primer: 1. Funeral episode airs 2. Windows XP chooses her funeral location as desktop background 3. The XP background gradually becomes synonymous with heaven 4. Tasha is born, grows up in an XPnitarian household 5. Dies, funeral in XP heaven 6. Funeral episode airs
and domino’s chicken wings come in from the top rope with a resounding “no it’s not”
not really the point, but weird choice filming from one of the most picturesque locations in any city in the country
that’s why the square needs to be a bit bigger than the moon. but there’s a lot of those squares!
people think the full moon is hot shit, but a 1° square of empty-ass daytime blue sky would be the brightest thing in night sky by far. put a fat daytime cumulus cloud in the night sky and you’d be able to play baseball
Sear & Roebuck
guess my phone is a midwesterner
UDP jokes are always good, whether people get them or not
disclosure: huge Meta hater here who sees little prospect for them succeeding, but also a hater of bad news summaries and Walter Bloomberg
It's going to be annoying if they mostly stay the course and 3 months from now Bsky reacts with "oh they're going to try AGAIN" when it may be exactly what they planned when they started spending huge to poach talent two months ago
To me it looks more like the kind of layoffs you do as part of a merger. But Meta declined to comment for this story, so that $72B estimate (a huge increase over 2024 spending) might no longer apply. But that's not the impression the full article gives, and Walter Bloomberg isn't a great source.
The Meta AI story is here. Not sure Walter Bloomberg's takeaway of "DOWNSIZING/EXECUTIVES LEAVING" gives the full picture. Sounds like their 2025 staffing and spending will still be way up over 2024, just not as much larger as it would have been without this reorg.
You’re going to have to take that up with the Target corporation
homeownership is about inviting plants into your yard and then spending every other weekend going “no, not like that”, forever
people really underestimate how much of dudes rocking is just about good management of cables, straps, and zip ties
Trump has made no comment. The White House has found the time to post a video of the arrest of that guy who threw a sandwich at a cop, but nothing about a cop killed defending the government's own employees. Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose district includes parts of Atlanta, has also said nothing.
“for many users, all that’s needed to upgrade the motherboard and processor is a new case and a new power supply” “many users can reuse their old RAM and hard drive in their otherwise-new computer”
also he should have 3 different ladders for different purposes but there should be one day a year where he uses all 3
he should also have a bike repair stand that doesn’t fit most of his bikes. he should also have enough bikes to say “most of my bikes”
by the time he reaches 30, a man should have a large jar full of bolts and machine screws that are the wrong size for what he needs to do. by the time he reaches 45, he should have 10 of these jars
maybe the difference is that every possible tech does exist?
given how common it seems to be in other areas, I’m surprised I’ve never found ChatGPT making up a developer tool or a NodeJS library that doesn’t exist… though obviously it couldn’t really ruin my work product if it did—I’d quickly find out it didn’t exist and try something else
I’m going to add “*not a sex joke” after all my posts, just to be safe, even the sex jokes
ah, the third way, very kind, very kind
sorry I don’t mean to imply I like Jolly Ranchers at all—they manage to screw up every flavor that every other candy gets right—but if I had to choose between their cherry and their fruit punch…
I think it had been 2 years since the last time I was blocked, and I can’t overstate the temptation to get blocked the second time in the same thread for aggressively posting correct opinions about collections of multiple shades of red… But I’ll just say #TeamFruitPunch
I don't know about everyone else but I'm pretty sure I have average male color vision and when my eyes have to travel from the legend to the wedges across another color so close to the same, my color perception just resets and I can't even verify they're the same thing. perception works by contrast
sigh, blocked. probably safer for me this way, everyone else watch your backs
I mean at least you can tell they're different colors if you've got all your cones, unlike this monstrosity, but. why
hot pink and two shades of magenta for a chart color scheme is real psychopath %^&%*
my favorite of this is the Grimace Shake, which they never, ever explained the flavor of. Just Grimace
box of spaghetti noodles, chicken bone, half box of bouillon cubes, turn off the spin cycle, baby you got a soup going
To that point tho: 1st time I asked ChatGPT to decode the code, I didn’t give it the context, and it got nowhere—bc it had no hint about potential content. But after I figured it out myself, I thought it might be able to figure it out if it had a screenshot w/the name (and only a screenshot). It did
I mean, I’m mostly trying to semi-politely point out the real capability that so many people around here won’t even consider being possible, because “blueberry”—this was not an especially easy task unless you assume there’s only one possible “alphanumeric code”—but yeah, that’s not inaccurate
I don't see any indication yet that anyone who follows you, or even anyone who quoted you adversarially, got past these issues
ChatGPT did it in about 15 seconds just from reading the subtext of the post the same way I did, despite the nonstandard encoding and the missing 19 after the 12
took me a few minutes to figure out, partly because when I saw a "43" in the 4th pair, I assumed it couldn't be a numeric substitution code, but recognizing 19 and 20 as "ST" in context w/OP brought me back with a hypothesis of what you might be trying to say...
I think you mean 192001140309121921031119 because without leading zeroes it's gibberish
intentional runon comma intentional missing hyphen
they all blend into one for me, the enemy is the behavior and the meme (original sense) behind it
bonus that you're not required to teach, and not bound by associate, bachelors, masters, and doctorate. I'll be giving out degrees like Brownie, Webelo, Ensign, Spouse, Necromancer, and Primarch
I think it’s likely I will neither defeat them nor be destroyed by them, though, so probably the latter
people who think “nemesis” is a straight synonym of “archenemy” are either one or the other to me, and only time will tell
sounds like subsidizing demand to me 😕
but wow, if they make it into a 2-stop from Anchorage, just so they can cross the border with Marine One for a bit... dumb
yeah when I first saw the "cross over" story, I assumed the meeting would be somewhere closer to Russia, but today I saw this... I don't know what all information is available! I'd rather post about how dumb it sounds than research it!
and where's the nearest point in Russia with a runway big enough for AF1? I mean, I guess they probably have a big airbase in the middle of nowhere in Siberia for long range bombers... is that what they're going to do? what are they going to do. what are they thinking
genuinely wonder if Trump thought 1) Moscow is close to "Alaska" 2) Anchorage must be close to somewhere in Russia, right, because it's in Alaska and Alaska is close to Russia "crossing over" into Russia at the nearest point to Anchorage would be a 1-way trip of about 700 miles, same as DC-St Louis
like I am so sick of tracking down methodology behind stories that get attention, I’m not inclined to do it again… might have decent methodology, or it could also be a lizardman. but it’s not corporate-sourced data, as I sort of assumed it was at first
OTOH a single week sales drop of 9% against a backdrop of competitors dropping ~4% is not all that dramatic, and the main reason I’d consider it significant is because it’s in the face of so much free publicity but are we even sure we trust “Pass_by”, the source of that data?
what is up brother
it was… in the kitchen of course
again. my competence with this thing is absolutely staggering. almost convinced myself I’d left it at the office, when it would be basically impossible for me to make it the first 3 miles back without noticing I didn’t have it
everyone knows will's dad was the world's most relentless poster too and will never had to work for the job
