Calvin and Hobbes panel: Calvin looks up at his dad, who is putting on a bike helmet and about to go on a ride Calvin's dad: "Sure! 'Cyclists have a right to the road, too, you noisy, polluting, inconsiderate maniacs! I hope gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon!'"
His plans are measured in centuries
If you breach copyright to make publicly funded research publicly available they'll come at you with everything. If you turn theft into a business model investors can profit from, they'll change the law for you.
Quote: "Many cities around the world never had motorways built right through them and many others that did have since removed them to improve their cities and citizens' health. It's time that Glasgow took meaningful steps to do this, too" Cllr Christy Mearns, Anderston/City/Yorkhill
Transport Scotland are consulting on options for the M8's Woodside Viaduct - this is a generational chance to reduce the harmful impact of the M8 in the City Centre 💚
Read more from Green Cllr Christy Mearns below 👇
greens.scot/glasgow/news...
i think the "AI for good" label should be banished but if it needs to be kept, it is this type of work that fits the label
cant.stop.laughing
Reading people. Body language. Knowing how to connect with people totally unlike you and with different backgrounds and beliefs. Defusing tense situations. Gaining trust. High endurance, pain tolerance, and work ethic. Reaction time. Prioritizing order of execution. Anticipating people’s needs. Tons
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
So many great shots here, a fantastic mix of news, art and humour. Really worth checking out on a big screen if you can:
Having to be constantly on alert for AI sludge is exhausting.
If you wanted to invent a technology to suck the joy out of as many parts of life as possible you'd struggle to do better than this LLM shite.
This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Time person of the year cover for 2025
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
a billionaire who sees undermining political sovereignty as an alternative to paying a relatively minor fine is a problem that will have to be dealt with eventually
SUNO r/SunoAl Jo 6h ago Join ThrowRA1234567788777 Sick of having to come up with prompts Discussion ... Hey y'all, looking for some tips here. I like what I've made so far with Suno but now I'm kind of hitting a wall with ideas for prompts. Why doesn't Suno also have a feature to write prompts for you? Like just hit a button the says "new prompt" and then hit make song when it comes up with something that sounds interesting! Thoughts?
not beating the “AI art is lazy” allegations
GenAI is a fascist product. Sorry you don’t have the moral fortitude to do your own thinking, but fascists love that
People who adore the LLM-machine, that by design has no concern for truth, must have no concern for truth
What was ChatGPT? Now nearly three years old, we can look at OpenAI's LLM as a product of its time, optimized ever since to its earliest uses. While this period of deep disorientation and social isolation has been obscured from public memory, it remains embedded within the interface.
i love writing about crypto crime because these dudes do this constantly
This is how to respond to an "invitation" to contribute to Extruded Word Product.
Driving an SUV is paying more for the same thing BUT MORE DANGEROUSLY
Paying more to kill more.
That is an awful way to behave.
The public roads are not the hunting grounds for your colonial Safari.
I feel this intensely.
Altman has been quite clear about his strategy.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
Huge milestone, the fact that this happened on the one road with proper infrastructure over a long distance tells you everything.
Re the Making Tax Digital software, set yourself up with FreeAgent, they’re excellent. Not affiliated but been with them 12 years and they’ve never put a foot wrong.
I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
Screengrab of Edinburgh Evening News post on Facebook, linking to an article about new flights from Edinburgh to Ljubljana, featuring an image of the Slovenian capital in summer sunshine.
Highly walkable Ljubljana, with its Old Town, hilltop castle and iconic bridges, banned private vehicles from streets across its city centre in 2007.
It hasn't looked back.
At last! Now they've finally realised what AI is for, perhaps they'll stop trying to foist it on every other aspect of our lives
Female person sitting on a rock looking out to sea. Text says, travel, flying and the climate crisis (Glasgow), a community event about how we can reimagine travel and why we must. 30th October 7pm-8.45pm, Townhead Village Hall, 60 St Mungo Avenue.
Tickets available for our Glasgow event, 'Travel, flying and the climate crisis' on 30th October: www.tickettailor.com/events/fligh...
Come along for an evening of inspiring talks, flight-free travel info and helpful facts about aviation and climate. Free entry, all welcome.
i think the fundamental disconnect here, and i say this as an engineer without much creative talent, is that a lot of people who don't do creative things regularly (or ever) look at creative output (writing, music, whatever) as a product, and consume and experience it like a baby looking at a mobile
