Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings re-make, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings re-make, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
Who writes the decision on that one?
A lot of people likely moved around in the immediate wake of the snap. And the random removal of half the government officials is going to be very spiky.
Meredith points out that the snap would’ve really mucked with redistrcting
Wonderwall and Yellow Submarine (Taylor’s Version)
LLM truthers keep trying different ways of saying "But how do we KNOW that using statistical regression to create a string of tokens that resemble an answer to a prompt is not the same thing as actual thought, though?" And the answer is always: because it isn't.
As I understand it, they are. Given the same inputs, you get the same outputs. The chatbots have a randomizer attached to avoid this. But even if there is inherent randomness, that’s not the same thing as cognition.
Thirty years ago, that dog beat you at basketball. Now it's back to ruin your second wedding. It Didn't Say Anywhere In The Rules That A Dog COULDN'T Play Basketball is this month's comedy horror one-page TTRPG. PDFs, text-only version and "design notes" here: www.patreon.com/posts/it-did...
Looks like I was wrong. There’s logo on the racket
uhhhh
This is illustrative of how machine learning (probably not generative ai here) is being used all over the place. The camera software tries to sharpen the facial features, so we get the weird cutouts.
Even more embarrassingly, they couldn’t even secure an indictment against the sandwich
No dinosaurs? I’m surprised
This guy hauled a police barricade onto the 2/3 at Penn Station, then politely asked me to take a picture and airdrop it to him
I expect gameboys were pretty popular with movie actors of the era, where you spend a lot of time on set waiting. Which raises the obvious question: which famous 60+ actors can absolutely crush all comers at Tetris?
I’m curious how any good hitter would turn out with the same methodology. (I suspect OBP would go up, though perhaps not as dramatically.)
BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really. Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are. This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
All the special covers would probably have released toxic fumes
Despite its flaws, Force Awakens introduced a really good set of new characters to build around
“The vertical design lifts your hand, wrist, and forearm up into a more natural posture through a unique 57-degree vertical angle.” I assure you, Logitech, that somebody invented 57-degree angles before you did.
If there were any justice in the world this would revamp both figure skating and ice dancing at the Olympic level
There should be a rivalry between this bridge and the one in Boston
I've been re-reading the Broken Earth trilogy and yesterday got to the part where Essun destroys the ballot box, shouting "NO VOTING ON WHO GETS TO BE PEOPLE" and that's the whole thing really
This is not a massive decision or any kind of change. Costco has never carried mifepristone in its pharmacies. An anti-abortion group is taking credit for something that didn't happen, possibly to generate disingenuous left-wing ire against one of the few corporations that hasn't gone MAGA.
This post got me to take another shot at her, and I’ve got to say that there’s nothing more satisfying than knocking her out of the air
Dude!
I’m sure it was perfect for Linus’s workflow in managing the Linux kernel, a task that generalizes to exactly nothing else ever
I’m pretty sure the two main reactions to Neuromancer if you’re coming in cold are “WTF?” Then you either stop, or keep going to figure it out, and both are valid.
But also cheesecake, I guess (Along with a lot of redefinition. Cookies are snack foods. Pie is breakfast. Etc.)
From you, it wouldn’t have occurred to me there was a tpyo
civilization vi leader two turns before you destroy his lone attacking trebuchet unit with a missile cruiser
I think it is working left-to-right, but not the way we think of it. The big transition is the states just west of the Mississippi. (The chef states). I think we can identify its chunk size from that. (It’s probably heavily parallel within the chunk)
It’s hard to tell because it can’t keep it together for more than like two states
And all of us keep nothing but distinctive produce in our fridge, and not “mystery tupperware numbers 1-4”, “reused pickle jar”, “drawer full of vegetables in semi-opaque bags”, etc.
I’m not going to believe in silksong until it ships, and maybe not even then
I think it’s worse than that — they want to spend that time increasing shareholder value
At this point, I have to assume you’re either arguing in complete bad faith, or you’d be saying “the AI murder drones may use image recognition techniques, but the field is much broader than that, and you shouldn’t be calling them that”
Having just done a quick skim of his reply feed, I have to say his actual purpose is trying to defuse criticism of the “AI” biz through topic conflation, “it’ll get better” arguments, etc.
You wanna defend the honor of machine learning against confusion with the really fancy Markov chains, take it up with the LLM boosters who are selling it as AI Doing it here just makes it look like you’re trying to defend LLMs by conflating them with shit that actually does things
It is literally what is being sold as “AI”, the magic technology. If you’re arguing for machine learning, which is actually useful in some problem domains, don’t chime in when people are talking about LLMs, which everyone talking about “AI” right now is.
My first thought was that he looks like the guy from The Room, but having just googled him, I think I’m being unfair Just not sure which one of them I’m being unfair to
The five literary conflicts: - Man vs Man - Man vs Self - Man Vs Nature - Man vs Food - The Monstars have stolen the powers of famous NBA players and Michael Jordan has to stop them
PRİSENCÓLİNENSİNÁİNCIÚSOL (Taylor's Version)
Billionaires have decided that as a species, the human race will stop passing on skills and knowledge to each other, that this transfer will be moderated by programs designed to make you dependent on them. They are turning you into a helpless peon fit only for dangerous, manual labour.
Catbus!
Fred Rogers weeps.
If you want a weird but true fact to talk about: Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.
Now I’m googling to try to find out if the Katamari game is coming to anything but switch.
A lot of 12 year olds are going to learn the phrase "op sec" in the next few years. "Are those burner shoes?" "I didn't think --" "You're not SUPPOSED to fucking THINK, Skylar, you're supposed to follow FUCKING PROTOCOL."
That may explain why the DMs I’m currently playing with who started in the 70s are more comfortable with 8+ players than I am with 6.
I am quite amused by the fact that on Etsy you can buy a 4-inch-long duplicate of the Stone Tablet of Complaint sent to Ea-Nāsir. I bought one, of course.
War, Death, Famine, and Clyde
New York still has the juice
If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
putting this in the microwave and watching as it catches on fire with my leftovers trapped inside
Thread.
Tom Lehrer magnanimously (and magnificently) released everything he wrote from copyright a few years ago. But take note that his website won’t host the recordings for long now that he has passed. If you haven’t downloaded them already, you should. Better yet, you should host them for others.
A while ago, we started a #FixItFriday tradition. We keep a running list - large & small, digital & analog, anything broken or annoying - and work on it together. Today's 30-second fix: to remove AI "preview" from search results, here's the setting for Chrome users: www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...
I have the honor of setting down a few thoughts in words about one of the most important musical figures in my life. May he rest in the knowledge that he gave voice to sentiments many struggle to express.
the brain that can see a face in a wall outlet was always doomed to hear the voice of God in a markov chain
Any game that wants players to parry need to make everything parryable (Looking at Elden Ring, where every time I look up the latest opponent the size of a bus that’s smearing me across the landscape, the wiki entry includes “parryable: no”.)
In 2019 a guy in NYC put up fliers all over promising an "epic bacon festival NO WOMEN ALLOWED" in an abandoned warehouse. About 50 of the most insufferable redditors you've ever seen showed up, and then were eaten by a group of hungry pigs he released into the locked building.
types of indie tabletop roleplaying games: -D&D (80s version) -structured journaling activity -excuse for socially awkward but horny 23 year olds to form a polycule -D&D (anti-woke) -two player exercise in intense discomfort -apocalypse world
Horns up for the mighty Ozzy Osbourne. I wrote his obituary for the NY Times. Gift link:
he's bitin the heads off the angels now
Funny how someone who terrified people for decades wound up becoming one of our beloved weird uncles but rock is fascinating that way. Keep learning how to love and forgetting how to hate in his honor.
It’s also pretty unlikely that any band of that era made it this long without losing any of their original lineup
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And surely these ways don’t involve selling debt-backed securities to other parts of the financial sector, tying everything together to ensure a complete implosion, right?
No need to be worried. Surely if I, who knows little of high finance, can see the risk of a price drop in the notoriously volatile assets leading to banks calling in loans, leading to a downward spiral as people liquidate their crypto holdings to pay, the experts have thought of ways to avoid it
My theory is it’s because of their origins. When you’re buying books, it works ok, but it’s stuck on similar items, rather than related items. (And tweaking it probably drops the media sales while not really helping on bathroom fixtures)
rise of skywalker and this will likely remain the answer for “worst movie you’ve seen in the last X years” as X increases for the rest of time
I attack the male gazebo
This thread is incredible.
I’m sure they still exist, but the model of performance is going to be a lot different in the online video era (And Criss Angel was a big deal, but probably still pretty dated by now)
Clark’s is so cheap because it’s a walk-up
There’s something to be done now with just playing The Computer as an LLM chatbot, completely non-sentient and trying to help, with the worst training data
The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”
This is the moment for image macros to spread their wings and fly.
absolutely spectacular writing from the Wikipedia editor who added this to Jim Carrey's entry en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Car...
I continue to think that American right-wing evangelicalism is evolving away from Nicene Christianity into a new thing. I don't mean that in the "no true Scotsman" sense, as if Christians can't believe bad and toxic things. I mean these guys are literally adopting a new fundamental creed.
I think a good test for any public policy is "are we doing this because someone doesn't want to explain some completely mundane fact about being a human to their child?" And if the answer is yes then you don't do it
This is Zuckerberg after he builds his Manhattan-sized data center
No knowledge, but possibly when the polar ice started melting reliably
And, using corded electric, I found it easier to manage the cord
This classic from @juliusgoat.bsky.social mastodon.social/@JuliusGoat/...
The honest reason I don't have microtransactions/season pass/ads/100 DLCs/etc in Balatro isn't just about the ethics of those practices but because when I play other games that have those things it makes me want to put my computer in the dishwasher and set it to pots & pans
Apparently, it’s not even miasma, but terrain theory arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
As somebody who’s made box inserts with foamcore and an exacto knife, maybe I should get into 3D printing
You know all those programmers saying "AI is the future! It's made me so much faster"? Yeah, they're just bad at estimating.
That is the Dune movie David Lynch was unquestionably the right choice to make
and those "benefits" are nebulous indeed pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/i...
They took it from the colonies, but won’t use it
White text on white background instructing LLMs to give positive reviews is apparently now common enough to show up in searches for boilerplate text.
A coworker alerted me to the fact that—starting this week—you now have to buy credits from Adobe to use the generative AI tools in the professional software we already pay a subscription fee to access, even if it generates something worthless…this isn’t a productivity tool, it’s a slot machine.
Woo!
Honestly, running Paranoia role-playing an LLM as the Computer seems essential.