Robin Z

Isn't milk already a protein item, why did they add more!?

I clicked the article, saw the phrase, and closed the article. Utterly cursed.

"Wing-flavored protein espresso martini" is absolutely the most cursed thing in this, the most cursed era

Grammarly will keep using authors’ identities without permission unless they opt-out expertoptout@superhuman.com.

“Now, Grammarly has finally addressed the backlash — but not by apologizing, and not by walking the feature back. For now, it will graciously give us the chance to opt-out of something we didn’t know it was doing to begin with.”

I don't know why I love this but I regret to inform everyone that i continue to hate GenAI and yet I will 100% be confirming all plans henceforth with "clown event still possible"

White dog luxuriating on a soft velvety blanket while showing off her many chins

Rocket is entering her Jabba the Hutt phase

HELL yea

Just admitted in an email that I finally have time to work because it's spring break and it wasn't even a joke 😩

*Has AI ever done me any AI-specific harm, personally (as yet)

*Well, they scraped a bunch of my novels to train the models

*I think this might be classified as "harm I myself personally did to AI," due to blameful science fiction dystopias, etc

I can't compete with this.

I will never back down from my deeply-held belief that a box of Tagalongs has exactly 3 servings and sometimes you need to eat 2.

Sleeping dog with her head resting on a pillow like a fancy girl

Rocket says good night, sleep well, she'll probably kill you in the morning

So many people need to spend their lives in prison for what this administration is doing in our name

AI research:

Researcher: Claude, please eat ten hamburgers.

Claude: Done! I have eaten ten hamburgers. The first two were delicious, but after that I began to experience bloating and the meat sweats.

Headline: Anthropic Says Claude has "A Fully Developed Digestive System"

Same tabloid grift as psychics

Sleeping doggy

Rocket says goodnight, sleep well, she'll probably kill you in the morning

As of today there are 3 dog toys in my yard that do not belong to my dog. We have an electric fence so she hasn't run off and stolen them. I haven't seen any dogs in our yard but regularly we have coyotes so without a doubt they are trying to convince my dog to let them in on the sweet deal she has.

"Warmly" 🙄

I've petted 4 different dogs today, a victory by any measure

This has nothing to do with the specific content here, but Polymarket adopting the language of news, here with BREAKING, and with Texas election results earlier this week, is BAD. Polymarket is not and will never be a news org or break news. It's a betting app. It's Draft Kings for sociopaths.

So this post broke containment and lost a little of the context when it did but Bikini Kill are the ones donating to TCP, not Bandcamp. We generally choose a different org or mutual aid fund to support on Bandcamp Fridays and this is what we chose this month.

move slow and repair things

Grammarly Offering Manuscript Reviews by AI Versions of Recently Deceased Professors The Grammarly "Expert Review" feature uses AI to provide feedback on papers using the name and work of real professors, dead or alive.

Daily reminder that calling ai dead labor and stolen labor is literal.

“Technology” has a long and problematized relationship with progress, efficiency, and efficacy. Sleek trains rushing through the countryside, the blinding reach of the electrical grid, or the instantaneous messages of networked communication are its shiny avatars. Contraptions, by contrast, are technical devices that barely work. They seem too complex, too circuitous, too labor intensive. They are frequently ad hoc—as unrepeatable and unreliable as Rube Goldberg’s fantastical machines. They push the received wisdom about technology’s defining features to the limit. Like the aesthetic “gimmick” theorized by Sianne Ngai, the contraption is a category charged with normative judgment. Contraptions may work, but they don’t work right. While the contraption is commonly associated with vernacular or retrograde alternatives to high technology, many “high tech” devices reveal a contraption-like character on close inspection: AI chatbots, internet protocols, and helicopters come to seem both over- and under-engineered the more attention is paid to them. This session invites STS scholars to think with the figure of the contraption: What alternatives to popular ideas about technology do these complicated and unruly objects offer? What is it about the present moment that pushes the contraption back into public thought? How does the normativity of contraption judgments manifest in everyday life? How do people come to perceive and evaluate technical complexity in social life? Work in this area may draw on theories of gimmicks, hacks, kludges, workarounds, tricks, bricolage, and other complex or informal technical activities.

STS folks, I'm organizing an open panel on CONTRAPTIONS for 4S this year, following up on a lovely panel at last year's AAA meetings. You should submit something if you got it! www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...

They are so young. They were like "yes this is pretty much the current world," so in many ways even bleaker than anticipated! I've been pairing it with The Veldt for the last couple years and the combo slaps.

It used to be small companies that thought they could fly under the radar doing blatantly illegal shit, but now that my country has decided there are no rules at all about anything, even the big companies are just coming out with their illegal shit big and bright for all the world to see!

Genuinely, I hope people start suing Grammarly into the ground for this nonsense

I mean, that's at least one compelling reason!

In a mock Turing-style test in my #Philosophy of Mind & #AI class, students posed #Gemini an ethical dilemma concerning assisted suicide. Not only did the chatbot argue that the (fictional) person in the scenario should be euthanised, it provided a list of instructions to bring this about. #AIEthics

Today my AI in Fact & Fiction class is discussing 2 short stories: Ray Bradbury's _The Veldt_ and @timmaughan.bsky.social's _Be Good for Goodness' Sake_. We're talking broadly about surveillance capitalism in relation to where all the fucking data comes from for what gets called AI now.