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This is how you handle someone who tries to sell AI slop at a con: remove them, and then clown on them relentlessly
As my wife says, “If you’re going to do wrong, do wrong right.”
THIS.
"I vaccinated my dog and now he's obsessed with editing the Wikipedia page for the Battle of the Milvian Bridge"
At a minimum, it demonstrates profound laziness, in that they don’t care if what they’re saying is true or not, and they have no interest in discussion, as they won’t spend the seconds it takes to write 300 characters. If they can’t be arsed to write it, why should I read it?
Yeah, they’re not even a good troll.
Pull ye the other one, for it has bells upon yt. That shtick was old on Usenet.
I know there's specialized neural nets that are good at spotting patterns the human eye cannot, but they're not going to take a blurry image of Trump and correctly diagnose with him Himplepfeffer's Syndrome or whatever by zooming in a pore.
It involves Alf hog.
[CUE MUSIC: “IN THE ARMS OF AN ANGEL” PLAYING SOFTLY] [FADE IN BACKGROUND SOUND: A solemn voice reads names] Nate Silver. Matthew Yglesias. Megan McArdle. Mark Cuban. [FADE IN: SALLY STRUTHERS sits on a stool in a pool of light on a minimalist set. She looks SAD.] /1
What a writer's tab collection looks like, 75K words in... (I use Edge for writing because my main browser is Firefox, and I shut it down while I'm writing to minimize distractions. It also keeps it from having even MORE open tabs.) @hdwp.com
Tabitha King: I WILL Tabitha King: joe, owen, cover your ears, boys Tabitha King: I WILL MAKE A WIDOW OF YOUR WIFE AND ORPHANS OF YOUR CHILDREN Stephen King: but Stephen King: but Stephen King: but YOU'RE my wife, tabitha! Tabitha King: that's right
If you take a book, and randomly remove words from sentences, then ask the AI to replace them (without knowing the source), it may well get some right from context, but it will also get some wrong. And unless *I* have the source, I'll never know which.
They really don't grasp that "unblurring" a photo just means "making up random, probable pixels", It's not -- it can't -- recreate 'missing' information.
That's way more than I've ever gotten paid for 300 words writing TTRPG material. You take submissions from US people?
The Fairness Doctrine was already becoming irrelevant when the FCC stopped enforcing in 1987. If it were active now, and enforced exactly as it was enforced during its history, you would see almost no difference in any media.
Yes, they were. Yes, Murdoch promoted politics favorable to Reagan. That is, in fact, utterly and completely legal. There are no laws, now or then, against bias or propaganda in media. No, not the Fairness Doctrine. Where's the beef? Where's the criminal or corrupt act in Murdoch's citizenship?
Do you have any evidence of Reagan interfering in the process? A memo, an EO, a record of any comment, anything at all? People just keep repeating this as if it was well-proven, but when I ask for links, I'm ignored, blocked, or sent utterly irrelevant drivel showing they were friends.
Murdoch became a legal permanent resident in 1974. He became a citizen in 1985. Why do you think a rich, white, rich, Christian, rich, male would need any kind of favors or special treatment to become a citizen after 11 years of residency?
Schadenfreude is the world's finest emotion. Let no one tell you otherwise.
No. It is an oxymoron.
The juxtaposition of these varieties of flour is probably funnier to me than it should be
I see what you did there.
Boss Tweed would like to know why you're ignoring him.
Bring back "Strawberry" as an interjection. PS: If you immediately started singing "Shows excitement, or emotion", the good Golden Corral is the one on Exit 12. Don't go to the one on Exit 9.
OK, so I'm familiar with a lot of obscure GA characters -- including the Flaming Eye, Madame Fatal (the first cross-dressing superhero), the Red Bee, and even a *different* Thor, but this guy? New to me!
Conversations in our house: “The cat is not quieting down. The cat is loudening up.”
Glad to be of service!
Lots of people with questions about this The government said there were 76 putative class members (children) loaded on planes yesterday But the putative class covered by the judge’s order isn’t limited to kids that were loaded on planes for imminent deportation That’s why the ~600 estimate
@erinbiba.bsky.social Is this on your “Quirky Distractions” feed?
Watching The Day After in 20 minutes increments over dinner. Seems to be some sort of domestic drama. I assume the title refers to the wedding that will no doubt ensue.
This statement is the first indication Giuliani has a spine that anyone has seen in years and years.
"The French don't have a record of...." THE FUCK? That's like saying "The French don't have a record of being horny" or "The French don't have a record of eating snails".
Ben Franklin warned us about the dangers of allowing Germans to immigrate, saying they might someday take over the government. Trump is of German heritage. 'nuff said. teachingamericanhistory.org/document/let...
Which means, if you want an audience, you need to follow people, or at least, search for posts on topics you are interested in, and reply. Not simply with links to your site, but with substantive contributions. Chat. Comment. Tell jokes. Provide relevant anecdotes. Share good posts.
That's the key, though. You have to *engage*. This is a site for conversation, not announcements or advertising. No algorithm will stick you into people's feeds because you're famous. I keep finding creators I didn't know were on here because I see them replying to/interacting with people I follow.
I'll give you a spoiler: The answer to all of them is "No", except the last. (I gotta love your attitude, though. You jump from "Clearly, you don't know what you're talking, as you are not educated, like me", to "You're an intellectual bully, asking such hard questions!")
Blue checkmark accounts with gen AI PFPs arguing over something being “medically impossible” is peak 2025 Nazi bar.
The one where he gives the candy to the orphanage...
The whole finale was heart-tearing.
The ghost of Gregor Mendel weeps. (Yeah, I know he both over-simplified and fudged his results.)
You reference the movie a lot. Have you read the book? (That's not supposed to come off as elitist/snobby. If you have, I'd be interested in your take on the differences, if any. I have read only the middle book of the trilogy, thanks to the SF Book Club. I think I was 13 or so.)
I'm going to have to re-watch that one. :)
Google developer #1: "That's it. Our search engine is simple, efficient, and reliable. It's perfect. We're done." Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"
"If my car says I'm out of gas, but I still have like 1-2 gallons left, then, if a bridge says it's only 10' high, it's probably got a foot or two extra."
Between writing (which I need to get back to, like, now), Rimworld, FF14, and my Saturday TTRPG, I lack time to add another obsession. But I greatly appreciate the offer!
Do they still have Lord of the Pit?
Ask me about Serra Angels or Millstones. Those I know. :)
Gods, if only my M:TG knowledge didn't stop around Mirage... :) I got back into it for a bit around 2005-2007. Sadly, I had to sell my collection for chump change in 2013 when I was unemployed for a long stretch, and my wife was in ICU for several months (and then needed a lot of home care).
Quick quiz: Did it apply to news? Did it require equal time? Did it require differing PoVs to be shown on the same program, or to similar sized audiences? Did it mandate truth or fact-checking? Were the requirements typically met by a talk show early Sunday morning?
Well, if you mention the Fairness Doctrine in a discussion about ownership regs, it’s clear you’re clueless about what it was, what it did (and especially didn’t) do, and likely got you “facts” from a chatbot.
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Breaking News! All culture builds on prior culture! Film at 11.
Yeah, but it has to have a StarWars name, like “Communicator Plank”, or “Flukark Board”.
I get away with it all the time
I am sad she has to stay up so late. I am happy Ensign does.
Is it weird that my favorite character in MASH was Charles Emerson Winchester III, M.D.?
Ah, so I'm not alone in seeing that connection!
It occurs to me in some ways he was a proto-Frasier: Starting as an elitist snob as a foil to the "lowbrow" heroes, but developing into what we now call a "frenemy", and while sometimes the victim, he often manages to hold his own or even out-maneuver the others.
No, no, MASH can't be 50 years old, because that would mean I'm over... Oh, gods.
No. He was a great foil, far better than Frank Burns, because while he was arrogant and pretentious, he was very good at his job, and was capable of giving as good as he got in banter. And over time, he had growth that Frank never could have.
Yes, in rural areas, they can only use very thin cables, just capable of carrying one single cable station.
Well, that wasn't a problem when we had the Fairness Doctrine that made it illegal for newspapers to lie. Or so I'm informed 3-4 times a day. Which kind of proves your point. :)
No one told me when I was born I was signing up for an FFA full-loot PVP server.
The prune book’s speech is protected. That is not in dispute. The book club committed fraud by sending it to me. If not, why not? If I join the Cheese of the Month Club, and they send me a ham, and they claim “We don’t actually control what we ship. Sometimes, it’s cheese.” is that not fraud?
If I join a book club whose ads states “We sell only books containing information about evidence-based medicine, supported by peer-reviewed research in accredited journals”, and they send me a book telling my I can cure cancer, heart disease, and athlete’s foot by eating prunes, is that not fraud?
Yeah, when I miss a phone call at work, I say “Oh, looks like Teams shut down and I didn’t notice.” (It helps Teams really *does* spontaneously shut down and you only notice if you pay attention to the icon in the toolbar.)
Westeros is Chivalry & Sorcery. Essos is Arduin.
From their asses, mostly. These are the same people who think Kentucky Fried Chicken was renamed to KFC because the FDA ruled they used genetically modified animals that weren’t “chickens”.
Is “order to show cause” a threat of contempt?
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didn’t file the report in time — and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
Ensign is, of course, lying. The government knows full well their actions are not lawful. What they *believe* is they are not obliged to follow the law, and will suffer no penalty for not doing so.
"This doesn't quite line up" is a polite way to say "You are lying." As the conflicting depositions were entered under oath, should they turn out to be false*, will those who entered them be charged with perjury or at least held in contempt? (Spoiler:No.) *Should the sun rise in the East.
As always, @annabower.bsky.social is doing sterling and vital work reporting, real-time, on the many trials, and all too few tribulations, of the Trump administration.
Narrator: In fact, he was not happy, and wasn't going to try very hard.
Sooknanan: "How does that factual discrepancy get resolved?" Ensign: "We just repeat the same lie over and over until you give up."
Nor should anyone.
Shut up and take my money!
The Kzinti Lesson. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...
Already bought the PDF and the hard copy, sorry. I will say, if you've ever looked at GURPS Space or Traveller Grand Survey/Census, and thought, "These are OK, I *guess*, but they need a lot more physics," then, this is the product for you!
Congress *and* 3/4 of state legislatures, which can be a sticking point.
Only with 2/3rds of both houses, and that's extremely rare. Yes, Congress can pass laws, and overturn executive orders, but only by a supermajority we aren't likely to see. I don't even think it's a matter of "not caring". At least 1/3rd, or more, in each house actively support Trump.
So, TIL there was an entire alternate #Transformers universe with show bible and concept art, in "competition" with the Marvel Studios version that ultimately prevailed. I also learned CBS and Hasbro had a strict "No Gurlz Allowed" policy. In a better universe, Starscream was a woman. :)
We got 3 back fairly soon, but the fourth took a few days, and all I could do was keep wandering around outside, looking for her.
Fuck. I was basically useless for 3 days when we realized one of our cats was "smart" enough to slide back one door, and turn the latch on another, leaving our "airlock" keeping them out of the garage (and then beyond) useless.
A good litmus test is to dig up the people who were Big Mad (and rightfully so!) when the Clinton govt. pulled this bullshit, but who are 100% on-board with the Trump government doing things 1000x worse WRT demanding a compliant media. www.columnblog.com/p/in-the-90s...
Everyone who’s Terminally Online needs a spouse who isn’t, to remind you to walk in the light.
Lankford: We all want Daddy Trump to come spank us harder.
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
For various reasons relating to her psychology and my schedule, this is very rare and I am thus very happy. (She's now on the printer, cleansing her fur of the human taint.)
I wish to note that Madame Curie, formerly a yard stray, now an indoor cat for ~3 years, wandered into my office on her own, looked around, then decided she wanted lovin' and spent 10 minutes rather painfully kneading my shoulder and purring while I held and petted her.
If "The Hobbit", but in space, worked (well, I liked it, at least), why not LOTR, but in space? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_a...
"Where you stand depends on where you sit." (Heinlein) If the Guardian sits at the table with OpenAI, that explains where they stand on the issues.
Which is funny, because one of the big conspiracy bugaboos of the Usual Suspects is that the (((global elites))) want to reduce world population for some conspiratorial reason.
It probably is. I'm sure it was done "ironically". See Popehat's Rule of Goats.
I would feel safer being treated by Zoidberg. :)
I mean, FFS, it was a genuine scandal when it came out the government offered tax rebates to networks if they *voluntarily* included anti-drug messages in their programming, and that's not a tenth as bad as what you propose. www.columnblog.com/p/in-the-90s...
If you think it would have been constitutional for the government to tell a broadcaster "You MUST treat this event in thus-and-such a manner, using this framing and emphasizing these points" you have been lied to. If you think it would be good in the future if it DID, you're an idiot.
Nor did is specify how the news should be framed or presented. The FCC, in 1983, said: "The Commission is neither the national arbiter of the "truth" of a news event nor the judge of the wisdom, accuracy or adequacy with which it may have been handled on the air. "