Ars' example gave me some hope

And if you're not paying to chat with an LLM, you're paying some guy with utter contempt for you https://www.wired.com/story/i-went-undercover-secret-onlyfans-chatter-wasnt-pretty/

The orange site is an easy target, but the lack of solidarity in the comments about the NYT Tech Guild strike fills me with dread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42040795

TIL Paul Graham has never read a book.

These are the same people who want to remove the humanities from education.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/04/garry-tan-is-not-just-a-cryptofascist-hes-a-christofascist/

I'll leave the sneer to jwz, but Jesus Fucking Christ indeed.

https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1779753281960722706

Critiquing an AI startup?

distasteful, almost unethical

Because I feel like picking on him again: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/02/google-podcasts

The only Google services I use are YouTube, Google Search, Gmail, YT Studio, Chrome, and Google Keep. Oh, and the Nest app.

It’s rather glorious living a nearly Google-free digital life.

After fondling ChatGPT to generate naughty things, man has meltdown when he learns no one cares.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/time-bandit-chatgpt-jailbreak-bypasses-safeguards-on-sensitive-topics/

Horror. Dismay. Disbelief. For weeks, it felt like I was physically being crushed to death.

I hurt all the time, every part of my body. The urge to make someone who could do something listen and look at the evidence was so overwhelming.

Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball

https://xcancel.com/SmokeAwayyy/status/1834641370486915417

https://xcancel.com/altryne/status/1872090523420229780#m

The whole thread is terrible; controlling and borderline abusive behavior.

Its former* superfund glory.

*Oh wait https://mastodon.social/@ashleygjovik/112668309100333232/

Honeymoon is over

https://www.wired.com/story/what-if-your-ai-girlfriend-hated-you/

Love how the Sun Times completely fails to explain why residential customers are bearing any of the cost.

The Atlantic is now defending AI. Or maybe they have for a while and I hadn't noticed until this article got my blood pressure up: https://archive.is/qvbJZ

Author is a chud who used to write for The Free Press: https://muckrack.com/elias-wachtel/articles

https://www.theverge.com/news/614883/humane-ai-hp-acquisition-pin-shutdown

lol, lmao

edit: I've ragged on John Gruber in the past, but he's really lighting them up 🔥

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/02/18/hp-buys-humane

This one has anus in the name https://manus.im/

Disappointed this wasn't Beavis & Butt-head/King of the Hill/Office Space/Idiocracy/Silicon Valley Mike Judge

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13981240/nvidia-california-college-of-the-arts-partnership

Clove cigarettes to be replaced with vapes.

Did ABC get AI credits to air this? Are they going to use said AI to justify laying off staff? Then use that money to pay Oprah?

idk what the bluesky equivalent of a tweet is

"Skeet" if only to spite Jay Graber

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky?wprov=sfti1#Features