James Hollingshead

I actually got my other half one of those after her surgery. Her mother wasn't amused. She, on the other hand, thought it was hilarious because I even put it in a giant jar 🤣

(0:13) "Congress does not have a constitutional role in the declaration of war"

[Klein quotes the text of the Constitution saying Congress has the power to declare war]

[long pause]

(0:50) "So, constitutionally, the Constitution says Congress has the power to declare war ..."

This is one of the most idiotic things I've heard in a while

Companies that want to market to people paying to get feedback from things that aren't people

I loaded up one of my own drafts into Grammarly, and once again clicked the “expert review” button. As before, Grammarly seemed to be looking for “inspiration” from the experts who would be certain to hate this feature the most. There were tips from a phony Timnit Gebru, the prominent AI ethicist who is among the world’s most vocal critics of how AI has been developed and deployed; and from Julia Angwin, the New York Times opinion writer who has overseen numerous investigations into how tech systems degrade privacy. I had hoped to find myself among the suggested reviewers, but in my tests today Grammarly spared me that indignity. You can’t choose a specific reviewer in the product; instead, you can refine your suggestions by clicking automatically generated topic tags. Once when I did this, Grammarly offered to show me hallucinated experts in “media ethics,” and the force of the irony was sufficient that I had to briefly lay down.

100% the inclusion of @timnitgebru.bsky.social in Grammarly's fake "expert review" feature was a bit of slimy, acidic trolling from some juvenile AI dudebro. Just unbelievably nasty

Reminds me how Altman picked Miyazaki's aesthetic for a viral trend as revenge

www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

I can't stand that asshole

See also Andruil or anything else named after something in Tolkien's books

I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you.

Okay, not that shocked.

Stop 👏 having 👏 unrealistic 👏 body 👏 standards 👏 for 👏 camels 👏

1 Samuel 15:3-23 (ICB) - Now go, attack the Amalekites. Dest | YouVersion Now go, attack the Amalekites. Destroy everything that belongs to them as an offering to the Lord. Don’t let anything live. Put to death men and women, children and small babies. Kill the cattle and s

1 Samuel 15...

Destroy everything that belongs to them as an offering to the Lord. Don’t let anything live. Put to death men and women, children and small babies. Kill the cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

When he didn't kill all, he was shunned by his god
www.bible.com/bible/1359/1...

Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but wars are MUCH harder to back out of than tariffs are...

Just when you think they couldn't get any dumber.

There are reasons that we don't do a draft anymore.

Never trust any of these people.

That are all, at BEST, con men. At worst, well, you can use your imagination and still probably not go far enough...

We love the uneducated

And all for something that doesn't actually work. If you had people who were confidently wrong 40% of the time, deleted production, encouraged people to literally self delete, etc etc etc you wouldn't keep them around.

And this is roughly the /best/ that this tech is going to get

Just saw Newsom tell Katie Couric he can’t be anti-trans because he has a trans godson. Last time I checked, using a vulnerable minority member as a prop is generally not a great sign.

a man with long hair is making a funny face and saying `` i was there gandalf i was there 3000 years ago ... '' ALT: a man with long hair is making a funny face and saying `` i was there gandalf i was there 3000 years ago ... ''

Also, it's the 40th anniversary of Castlevania

Honestly, at this point, I question the "technical smarts" portion too.

And with so many people going "I don't even write code anymore. LLMs do it for me", technical smarts isn't even going to be debatable.

You can't outsource critical thinking and still be able to think critically.

Barreling headlong into Idiocracy

So he's saying that Iran bombed their own school full of kids because they can't aim?

Seriously?

I got a scammy looking offer in the mail and googled "is X a scam?" and because the website for X has "X is not a scam" on their main page, Gemini said no despite lots of reddit posts about being scammed.

Sadly it pretty much always was.

I have a container of it in the kitchen =]

They aren't replacing people with LLMs. As is the case with a lot of companies, they are using the "We're investing in AI" excuse to cut headcount and try to save costs without looking like they're trying to save themselves

Georgia Tech researchers reverse-engineered Life360 / Tile's protocol and found it broadcasts your location in plaintext, uses a MAC address that never changes, and the company changed their privacy policy to admit they sell your precise location data 🔓📡

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

Another $5.6 million from ICE to Palantir, in part for its continued work on ELITE (Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement), which we revealed in January to be the Palantir tool ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid

www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

Image from Twitter

Radio 4 has changed a bit.

A trucker and a farmer

Well, Windows was nice while it lasted