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some personal news
guardian of the coffee
some of you were zoning out in american history class and it shows
[to the tune of that chainsmokers song] "elect me two times over / in the cleveland of my grover"
also PLEASE let this guy make more movies, Barbarian was incredible and this was even better!!
finally saw Weapons and it's absolutely crazy that they made an entire horror movie about doing the Naruto Run
[seeing someone vomit aggressively on the subway while their friend holds back their hair]: "ah, the nostalgia"
feeling attacked by this tree
just realized i have a bank account i'd completely forgotten about that's been earning one penny in interest every month since 2023... spiking my savings from a pitiful $2.83 up to a sumptuous $3.09
Understand that OpenAI *knows* the effect its platform can have on people, because ONE OF THEIR OWN INVESTORS has become detached from reality by overusing the product — that’s why they made GPT5 less obsequious. But users are so hooked on the emotional manipulation that they demanded GPT4 back.
New suicide by cop feature just dropped on chatgpt. futurism.com/openai-scann...
america's geriatric elected officials
kinda wanna get a letterbox'd just so i can rant about how The Matrix is like basically the perfect movie
i found him on social, messaged, no response
it's out of state, zero chance of me going out there
unclear, small zip of white poweder
trashing into the garage or into my blood stream
found in the gutter :((
similar name, not exact
i wanna send back the cash, it's chump change <$100
i dug deep, found almost certainly their account, messaged, got no reply
i have no context/contact though
hazarding a guess based on the data, I bet it's their parents' place
it's out of state, registered to old people with similar names
objectively yes, subjectively i wanna take a lil taste
honestly i feel like that's the move
no phone number, messaged on social but got no reply
been there, found him, messaged on several platforms, no reaponse
the pragmatist angle... i love it
the intuitive response, i love it
moral dilemma -- you find some guy's wallet, it's got all his cards and a little cash in it, plus a small baggie of ambiguous drugs. address not current. what's the ethical next move?
i love this gutter-tier moral code. aspirational
i also searched super hard, messaged him on two platforms, never heard back -- if relevant
it's just that like... what if his parents are anti-drug zealots and i'm causing mega problems in their relationship
so the problem is that the address i have is *maybe* current, but if so clearly his parents' place. so I'm thinking send the wallet, cards, cash, but no drugs (it's a tiny zip of white powder, no idea what)
moral dilemma -- you find some guy's wallet, it's got all his cards and a little cash in it, plus a small baggie of ambiguous drugs. address not current. what's the ethical next move?
not saying yes or no but the scene's changed like crazy, things on the market now that were unimaginable back then
love some pleasantly aggressive background sound that doesn't distract me from working
i have never felt a post more deeply in my bones
I'm sorry, but I'm just still stuck on "AI is going to replace your job and cure cancer, but it can't reliably detect if a person is obviously suffering from paranoid psychosis"
there you have it!
Thou Shalt Not Eat Oil That Cometh From a Seed, For It Shall Cause Nebulous and Hard-to-Verify Health Issues
sounds like AI's water usage is pretty bad after all www.bbc.com/news/article...
When OpenAI admitted this week that it was now calling the police on troubled users, I wondered if a horrible new story was about to drop. Looks like it just did: futurism.com/man-chatgpt-...
also my rent was $408/month 😭
all this "having a job" stuff is fine but honestly i miss being in a punk band and feeding myself mainly via food stamps and dumpster diving
this is why millennials still can't buy a house
i'm the guy who invented the spike traps that pop out of temple walls. i hate my job. every day my boss says "why haven't we killed any archeologists" and i say "they haven't invented that yet." they pay me in tomb juice. i hate tomb juice. honestly i might just start working on my big boulder idea
also to circle back to your original point i thought the cast was great! they just gave them a dirt-tier script and a trilogy that made no sense. wasted potential
god you guys are digging up all this star wars trauma i'd almost managed to forget about
yeah it had me all charged up for the final one, but it turned out to be so bad i almost walked out of the theater. idk, a bizarre franchise!
like the throne room light saber battle with the plasticky bad guys has to be one of my favorites in the whole series. it's so brutal and vivid. but then they just [spoiler] and we never get any resolution. bizarre movie
i feel like it's somehow one of the best star wars movies while also in other ways being one of the worst
if anything, it sounds straight up nasty!!
how do you know what i think it is, usa today
i don't know for sure! but the way it's written, and even just the fact that they're quietly acknowledging it, feels very present tense to me. we reached out to learn more but they haven't responded (yet)
ah yes involve the police. that’ll surely help
"this should calm everyone down!"
Overnight, this extremely well-funded tech company run by a billionaire has gone from “There’s no way we can possibly stop our plagiarism machine from convincing children to kill themselves” to “If you type anything we don’t like, we’re calling the cops.” Either way, they take zero responsibility.
Honey I Shrinkflationed The Kids
So surveillance is their solution? How big tech of them.
we live in a world defined by replacing human labor (employees) with machines which then need human babysitting (independent contractors on slave wages)*
NEW: After numerous tragedies, OpenAI says it's scanning users' conversations, escalating to human readers, and contacting law enforcement where necessary futurism.com/openai-scann...
incredible!!! an epic photo
are you the person with the raccoon above!?
i wonder if they're friends 😳
mamdantory
pics that go hard
link me to the debunking?
you will live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension, carlton futurism.com/will-smith-a...
what are we doing here
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
because i will venmo you for our half PREEMPTIVELY!!!
absolutely bonkers
amazing all around. no notes
you know what google... sure
An absolutely harrowing and important story -- ChatGPT and other chatbots are becoming deeply enmeshed in many people's personal and social lives to an incredible degree, and the consequences can be devastating.
every interview i read with these two makes me less sure that they're typical tech founder nihilists and more suspicious that they're actually doing something else
yeah i’m very sure that will happen!!!
anyway here's me
did they just nationalize Intel newsroom.intel.com/corporate/in...
on their way to spread misinformation about their last meal
I'm sorry but this is absolutely egregious futurism.com/instagram-hi...
You know what never gets old? People in inflatable t-rex suits visiting t-rex skeletons in museums
"hmmm a nice man named Isaac Chotiner wants to interview me. i bet it will be a puff piece"
hold on, i gotta go to the skathroom
the chips are just overall such a hilarious and ambiguous detail -- why sour cream & onion specifically!?
nothing on earth can prepare you for the bizarre details of this story
i see we're being nostalgic for Cracker Barrel today
What you got to understand is you must only be putting fully natural organic things into your body. All natural. Basically all natural things are good for your body that come from nature Except for GOD’S sake don’t put any oils that comes from seeds because it’s gonna kill you. Seeds aren’t natural
a great read
[me as a realtor] "and here we have the liminal space"
genuinely ghoulish application of "preexisting conditions" type thinking
I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.
