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I'm sure other people have long since fought this battle, and hopefully won, but that was my first hard encounter with Copilot and it is utter shit. If Microsoft is going to count me among Copilot users just because 365 comes with it that is a bald faced lie to investors.
sometimes people are talking about the muppets and then other people join in and start talking about the Sesame Street muppets. major faux pas. in muppet culture this is rude. Kermit is the only crossover muppet.
fin
everybody should have known rowling was batshit crazy when she posted that update about how wizards and witches would just use the bathroom wherever they were standing and then use magic to make it go away before toilets were invented
Maintaining the legitimacy of the institution, preserving its dignity and authority, etc would be threatened by taking any serious action against the court being packed full of law perverts and actual perverts. "The cost of upholding those good vibes is some bad decisions we can fundraise off of"
Who steps up to the plate? And can you even be counterculture if you're centering white voices? You can if you embrace queer culture, and I kind of hope that's what we're getting. Frankly, I would hope that Vertigo stops being Anglophilic too, but even though I have faith, I don't have THAT much.
Returning to Gaiman is an absolute NO. For SO many damn reasons. And while I would love for someone to just hand Alan Moore a wad of cash and an imprint and set him off to find some protĂŠgĂŠs, I don't think that man would say yes. Not to DC, anyway.
If Milestone was hip hop, then Vertigo was new wave with a little splash of punk. One voice was silenced, the other became the industry mainstream. You can't fight The Man when you've become him and have been handed the keys to the industry.
sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this
Biden has repeatedly, strongly, rejected every single proposal for court reform. Even when in the same breath promising things that can only happen if the court is *not* packed full of rapists who take yearly $500,000 bribes from like the Sons of Helter Skelter PAC or such
frankenstein pushing a bolt on his neck in, waiting for it to pop back out, and then using it to light a cigarette
I was genuinely not prepared for the level of learned helplessness that would come with wider adoption of "GenAI"
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Itâs crazy how sports journalism disintegrated so drastically that dudes like Pablo Torre are basically unicorns.
billionaires forgot to buy him out and now they are paying for slipping
The sheer havoc one connected SI calibre writer is getting up to...
My wife was like, "Damn, buddy paying ALL the bills, because how you not feel that."
it is hard to accurately describe how incompetent and scummy i think a company is when they push the 'ai' angle
how to communicate to food service workers there is literally nothing they could do to me short of shooting me in the face that would upset me from a customer service perspective
We're being run by pathological liars and journalism is seemingly incapable of calling anything a leaders says a lie no matter how blatantly counterfactual it is. Journalism is one broken fucking jalopy when its guidelines serve to distort, not clarify, the truth.
someone made an observation that americans deeply love slop and will almost always choose it when given a chance
Throughout this whole rampage it's been periodically striking that nobody involved is actually any good at what they're doing and the reason for that is that they have zero reason to be
they have forgotten any sense of decency and can't even remember which parts are supposed to be shameful anymore
It's neat how an environment of total moral hazard results in less and less effort being wasted on trying to cover anything up
The OpenAI employee share sale at the BS $500bn number is now up to $10.3 billion. This is a cashout. This is the thing you do when you do not see a future for the company. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/03/o...
quality of life is increasingly going to be determined by the willingness and ability of state and local governments to maintain infrastructure and services in the face of federal retrenchment. there will be no floor, and over time there will be greater and greater variation across the country
all I know is that if I killed 11 people and was working out the reason why it was totally legal to do so a day later, nobody would have any trouble calling that precisely what it was
I saw a web developer saying, "So, all my client needs to be able to replace me with AI is to be able to clearly and concisely write down exactly what he needs? OK then I don't need to worry."
No one is ever going to dream of growing up to be a âperson grudgingly employed by a corporation to touch-up AI-created content.â Are we going to just submissively accept this glorious future for human labor?
Venezuela says the US and Erik Prince have plans to stage an attack on an ExxonMobil off-shore platform as a pretext to invade itâŚand normally that would be an insane claim but⌠www.latintimes.com/venezuela-sa...
The number of times Iâve been told I need to start a task yesterday but no one knows yet what the task is and weâll have a meeting in a week to discuss the definition of âtaskââŚ.
The internet being an auxiliary way of interacting is how we shoulda kept it. Capitalism in general, and Mark Zuckerberg in particular, ruined everything.
am now wanting an anime film around the fight for ny game www.theguardian.com/games/articl...
I'd rather see a movie about the early Def Jam era in general than one that's just focused on LL.
having phones and web pages be one of the primary ways of interacting with the world is kind of not great
Guy who recommends Linux regardless of the circumstances. His friend, bleeding out on the ground after being mauled by a sudden feral hog. "Dude you should switch to Linux this kind of stuff doesn't happen in linux"
You plug this into your phone and it immediately sends nudes to your mom and opens a Turkish bank account while blasting Sweet Caroline at full volume
man is like a small, inbred terrier with a neurotic obsession
THIS THIS THIS
one of the most problematic things is her husband's hands-off, "i'm just happy the crazy is focused on someone else" attitude, which is repeated in so many places across this country
we are just pets and appliances in a certain type of person's mind
It turns out that the VCâs OTHER surrogate also experienced a placental complication that caused significant blood loss & nearly killed her. Placental issues arise from the genetics of the biological parents - not the surrogate - but their family medical histories werenât shared with the surrogates.
Her husband blames the hospital and not the surrogate but âstays outâ of the legal stuff because âthe litigation is her grieving process.â The litigation is not a grieving process - itâs rich people trying to ruin the life of a woman who nearly died trying to help them have a baby.
Why is this article - written as a result of the VC sending a journalist confidential information - trying to explain her actions. She didnât âpiece[] together her version of events.â She just decided with no basis that the surrogate had âlots of unsafe sexâ & intentionally tried to give birth early
After the surrogate nearly died from the placental abruption that resulted in a miscarriage, the VC *consulted psychics* who blamed the surrogate and claimed that she must have been having rough sex or secretly hated the baby.
This is a thread on how we really really need to talk about womenâs entitlement and racism and how it shapes tech
Seems bad that the gulf between the reality you can go outside and see and experience yourself, and the one the political press describes, is widening very rapidly
When the canary in the coal mine kicks, you donât shrug, keep working, and put in an order on Amazon Prime for more vulnerable birds. You get the fuck out of the mine, and work on fixing whatever the issue so that itâs safe for canaries.
Someone who is writing right now and doesnât mention race Is failing you . They just are
It is also a clear-cut war crime.
This is another just enraging part of dealing with abusers and narcissists Is ⌠they lie a LOT about proximity to people They claim to be close to people who have only me them once They claim to not know people who they were super close with
not sure why someone left honeycomb at the Thoreau family graves today, but the aesthetic was undeniably excellent
I feel like being a junior engineer rn must be harrowing; I had a PR fail CI, so the company's AI tooling hallucinated that the failure was due to a totally unrelated test and auto-generated a PR that fixed it by *removing* said test. imagine if you didn't know what was going on and just merged it?
donât love shooting a missile at a boat that appears to be just chugging along harming nobody (and, if it contained drugs, couldâve easily been interdicted). really donât love posting satellite snuff footage of it on social media.
Multiple normies at work asking about Linux. I think Copilot might go down as the worst move by a business that basically had mailbox money for life lol
A student who has a new laptop and keeps accidentally hitting the Copilot KEY that is now installed in the bottom row. And it stops whatever you're doing to beg you to use it. You have to change registry values to remap it. It's one of the most insanely intrusive Dark Patterns I've ever seen.
I dunno, this sounds like extralegal murder of civilians?
buying any piece of technology these days means dedicating two hours to stripping out all the bullshit, discovering all the bullshit you can't strip, and wondering what motherfucker needs AI to summarize a text history of "yeah" "Will do" and "See you there 5PM" all these techlords gotta die quick.
Listen. Reality, I really donât have time for this shit right now.
I wonder if llm's are affecting nominative determinism. Like if your last name is Hamburger and you apply for a job at a burger place, odds are the llm scanning your application is gonna pick up on some statistical correlations with the words.
the man is living out one of his own scripts
Glinner stopped by airport security: Funny Glinner getting so mad he nearly had a heart attack: hilarious Glinner arrested: phenomenal Glinner given bail condition meaning he *legally* can't post: transcendent
Evergreen
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
Siri, what do we call it when a state sends unwanted troops into another state without permission in order to seize and hold territory? Is there a word for that?!
I think people forget that a huge chunk of iconic 70s and 80s horror is the result of a combination of disaffected vietnam veterans teaming up with people angry at the violence that underlied the post war conformity.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
This is a sobering--and depressing statistic. Sizable layoffs in the federal government are likely contributing to the increase in unemployment among Black college graduates. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
The MSM is actively cheering an invasion of Chicago.
an ideal social media site would probably hide all engagement from you until a week after each post or something like that. something serious about thoughtful communication. none of these endeavors are noble. That would be bad business!
personally, i consider being able to get things done quickly and efficiently to be far more impressive than grinding yourself to death
going to make a kung fu movie about this
kickflipping your penis into a different dimension
vin diesel really did the world a disservice by casting the rock in the fast and furious movies we could have been free by now
the rock's best movies are the one's where he is not trying to be a star
Genuinely so funny that Glinner is going to give himself a stroke and die because he can't stop obsessing about the genitals of strangers because one time someone criticised a single episode of his hugely popular sitcom.
Tattooing the word GIGO on the forehead of ai slop dipshits would be a good first step in allowing them to reintegrate into society
I hate everything about the current moment in time except for the fact that everything the White House posts to convince us Trump is alive makes him seem more extremely dead
the thing about mark wahlberg is that i do not find it entertaining to watch someone who committed hate crimes in their youth try to act
my modest proposal is that any ai company has to publish the results of `git shortlog -s -n` any time one of their products nudges someone towards harming themselves or others
Looking at this collection of words and wondering how this company still exists.
There are more women academicsâthen and nowâwho go through this than I realized at the start of my career. Most donât talk about it openly because theyâre ashamed they werenât able to beat the system, even though it was rigged against them.
Some of the brightest lights Iâve known have been forced to eat shit repeatedly in their careers. And they were the âluckyâ onesâin that they were able to stay in the game. Many more just got completely pushed out and we never know about them except as faceless statistics.
âIn the late 1960s, Dr. Rossiter was working on her Ph.D. at Yale, when a comment from one of her male professors puzzled her. Who, she had asked, were the women in science? There were none, he said. Another professor mumbled something about Marie Curie being the exception.âđ
Accurate.
a society that wants to keep functioning has to disincentivize baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
willy wonka and the chocolate gary
gary of tomorrow
eight heads in a gary
enter the gary
Ruin a movie by making it about Gary. Gary's List.
one of the nice things about bluesky is when you see Nate Silver trending you know it's because 5000 people are calling him a shitass
it is sad how much time we have spend pondering whether our elected officials were actually still alive and functioning over the last few years
"really need some kind of a code word for that giant brown angry guy that shows up to maul me every time i say his name"
walking around the neighborhood and learning all my most mid-ass neighbors went to burning man
burning man is just a bunch of project managers being really weird in the desert
When I play survival games, I don't want a massive procedurally generated open world. I want a world that's a fraction of that size, with dense, interesting interactions, subsystems, and nuggets of tantalizing lore and discovery. I want every dozen steps to potentially encounter new surprises.
I've been gradually working on finding a way of condensing the complex data about open world games into a kind of metal score akin to academic journal indices. Basically it'd be a ratio representing "interactive density" and allow two games to be compared based on how empty/repetitive they are.