the sheer unfathomable volume of harm being enabled by this technology absolutely eclipses any purported utility it could possibly have. it is the dril drunk driving tweet of technologies
my professional field is collectively enabling a colossal moral crime and I don't have to be even handed about it
Otis the black cat looks moody among a frame of flowers
Sarah, how's the writing going?
Wellll I started taking pictures of my cat as if she was getting married, so, yeah. I mean, great.
Time is so fake, “oh we added more daylight” no you didn’t, daylight is portioned by the cosmos repent of your hubris
…I've said it so many fucking times, now, but I'll say it again, that it's really fucking messed up that all of these conversations seek to apply to fucking LLMs a standard of personhood we still don't consistently and meaningfully apply to other fucking humans.
Hey all, I decided to write up some of my thoughts in more detail about why I don't vibe code, in case it's interesting to any of you
jacobharr.is/personal/i-d...
that's it that's the saying now.
As I get older I'm coming to increasingly radical views like "you have to do things to get good at them" and "you have to think about problems to solve them"
Is being driven insane by AI discourse without actually interacting with a chatbot a subset of AI psychosis
you can and rightly should go into depth about how this is all a stealth attack on queer expression, about how it's a short leap to labeling gay and trans people "pornographic" and how they are not subtle about this being their express intent. But You Can't Get Around Defending Actual Pornography
Tapping the sign
it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays
Horses can get any job they want now, haven't you heard. My dental hygienist is a horse
Windows XP error message that says Success. I made it in REALBasic.
Success
i *know* that there is a good article out there about commercial breaks as a Necessary And Good televised narrative structuring device and ONE OF YOU knows about it and your should give it to me
at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology
Three performers is fantasy garb with a cosmic background, (top left is Loretta Jean with a pirate bodice and rapier hilt on their hip; top right is Helen of Tronna dressed as a faun; bottom is Arra Kiss in fantasy chainmail, squatting with a broad sword).
Nerd Girl Burlesque returns to Buddies in Bad Times on March 20 for Rogues & Reveals, our tribute to fantasy roleplaying games! Our last two shows at Buddies sold out, grab your tickets early! buddiesinbadtimes.com/event/rogues...
heading to a con?
please mask up as much as you can whenever you’re not in your room with the door closed.
covid is not over, it’s not mild, and it’s not something that our current vaccinations/boosters entirely prevent the transmission of on their own, without other layers of protection.
Canadian Tire store in Ottawa. giant red triangles everywhere
in Canada we have a store called "Canadian Tire" and you're probably thinking "a store named after a tire definitely has a circle for a logo" but no, you're wrong. they chose a colossal red triangle
Sharing “genderless burger experience” here for those who haven’t seen it
for what could "live más" mean if not exactly this?
Top: the phrase "there is no ceasefire" in white and red text. Left: Ahmed, a young Palestinian man, sits in his kitchen and speaks. Right: Lily, a young white Canadian woman, listens, with a silver microphone to her face.
New 2️⃣ video:
It's been four months since Israel agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza. I caught up with Ahmed, a 28 year-old Palestinian, who shares what life's been like for him since.
youtu.be/dhgpXjGYRNk
🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
I say this, every time i say it (which is far too fucking often), to myself as much as anyone else.
Like Kaba says, hope is a discipline, a practice. That doesn't mean "don't be sad," but rather using what you can to turn sadness, anger, frustration, even despair into something that drives change.
absolute banger, at once a nostalgic kind of video essay and an unfamiliar one... just like... ohhhh
This is incredible
Look I'm just saying that there are other incredibly transformative things you could do for our species for a billion dollars that we desperately need doing and probably have a more likely payoff?
A 70 foot long and 25 foot high brontosaurus sculpture surrounded by woods.
“People rarely remember things: they remember how they feel about those things. This is usually what makes the difference between learning something or not, and between knowing or forgetting.”
Yes, this is about the love of my life in grad school, who was a brontosaurus.
marhicks.com/blog/?p=489
all the ai bros keep complaining about being compared to nft bros or crypto bros but they all have spent years now lecturing everyone about how maybe if you really understood it you'd be able to fairly critique it, and in the interim nfts completely collapses and crypto 100% turned into crime, so
"When it comes to front-end development, that line is for me to stay as close as I can to raw HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. After all, that’s what users are going to get in their browsers." @adactio.com
adactio.com/journal/22399
Sometimes I get a little upset when I live in a collapsing dystopia for many years
