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[anon33932455]

Great minds think alike. Psychopaths too, though. So there’s that.

[Tamsin_Bailey]

Fools seldom differ, let’s go with that.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Google shows off AI "news article" writer to newspapers, leaving newspapers to wonder who did the fact-finding, investigating and reporting

Jebus Christ, the AI people are astoundingly clueless. It’s one thing to pitch something without fully understanding their business, but it’s something else entirely to just pretend their basic business doesn’t even exist, as if journalism comes into being through spontaneous generation. I have to say, if I had been a journalist hearing that presentation, I’d be moved to (verbal) violence, loudly questioning the basic intelligence of the presenters and strongly suggesting that perhaps their jo…

[Mindysan33]

Trump and his allies plan to make him a dictator, reports NY Times

I think it is safe to say this is a statement no ally of mine would make. We have an openly fascist party, bent on dehumanizing and othering anyone not staight, white, cis, wealthy men, and we have a center-right party which will actually defend the rights of people other than straight, white, cis, wealthy men. Opting out, in the face of no viable alternative, is consigning these folks, folks we cannot and should not (and i will not) to the whims of the fascist extreme right. What is to be g…

[chenille]

For a moment I thought that was a double, but no, just more of docosc being great on that thread.

[mallyboon]

San Diego turns Pride library book protest into a win

Try That In A Small Town

[gero]

OpenBenches is an interactive map of park benches

notably missing: any reference to OSM of the fact you can create an account and add any missing benches you might find in the while. and while you’re at it, add anything else you find

[Sally_Mahoney]

Disney, Netflix aggressively hiring AI Content Scabs amid writer/actor strike

Problem: People are tired of sequels, reboots, rehashes and remakes. Solution: Get rid of all the writers and replace them with a mindless program that’s only capable of taking already-existing material and smashing it together in new configurations. Genius, truly. This can only end well for them.

[euansmith]

Twitter installs giant metal "X" on roof--without the required permit, say officials

“Look, the Twat Signal!”

[smulder]

@Faffenreffer

What remains of the old Republican party hasn’t quite gotten the message that it’s been eaten from the inside out by something younger, dumber, and meaner than itself; it lies where it fell - moribund and bleating little noises of protest while the parasitic wasps that hollowed it out boil incoherently around it

[Sally_Mahoney]

DeSantis gets called out for lying about abortion

Dear Ron, No one wants you in their uterus, bedroom, or library. Please take your daddy knows best fascist sideshow and fall in a deep hole. Sincerely, Everybody PS- Maybe you and Ted Cruz can form a club.

[smulder]

@jaded

Trumpf is like a centrifuge for enriching stupidity. The more he spins, the stupider his remarks get and the more dense his followers become.

[Sally_Mahoney]

DeSantis's laws and policies have Florida educators fleeing the state and the profession

We should just call it what it is- Florida is trying to outlaw education. There’s nothing incidental about any of these effects, this is exactly the goal. Dismantle higher education in an attempt to deny reality through censorship, with the end goal of nurturing an ignorant, white supremacist, Bible-thumping fascist population.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Crappy AI knockoff books are already topping the publishing charts

I wonder if the flood of AI-generated dreck overwhelming modern day search results could bring some kind of silver lining to librarians and archivists. Now that we can’t rely on search engines to separate the good stuff from the bad anymore we may see a newfound appreciation for human experts who actually know how to sort and categorize information. Or not… but one can dream.

[robertmckenna]

I don’t know. This deluge of AI and other content farm clickbait rising to the top, even Markov chain written books flooding Amazon, is not in any sense new. It’s been 20 years of it. And all it has led to is further attempts to outsource the selection of sources to opaque algorithms.

Capitalism is the problem, not technology. Capital disrupts - breaks - that which works but isn’t what it calls “productive”” - ie providing returns to those who own the means of production through capital. It is replaced with something which may or may not work, but is “productive”. And which diminishes the power of labour.

Really that’s all it’s about. Those who own capital at war on those who work.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Smithsonian's collection of human brains was "gathered without consent"

So a bigot gathers up a bunch of brains so he can “prove” how white brains are superior, probably due to having some sort of deep seated insecurities about his own intelligence, but… how exactly did he plan to judge what qualities made a brain superior? Springiness? Wrinkliness? Color? Flavor?

[Sally_Mahoney]

Police request railings and other hostile architecture in cemetery to prevent people from having sex on the tombstones

“Sex on the tombstones” sounds like either a drink or diner slang for a grilled cheese with tomato.

[chenille]

Science figures it out: "social media’s addictive loop compels users to share mindlessly"

Damned right! God creatives are in a bind. Imagine a society where the impulse to create and share with other humans, the instict to build communities around that, is seen as an exploitable psychological defect and a moral failing? Now stop imagining… we’re here. Analysis like this just basically re-affirms that all human creativity is directly under attack. It’s literally being pathologized now and yet how the hell are you supposed to make and share and sell and collaborate while avoiding s…

[DukeTrout]

@TornPaperNapkin is on fire with awesome posts lately!

Nebraska governor signs executive order defining men as "bigger, stronger and faster"

TBH the point of sports ought to be to share joy in the unique extremes of talent that humans develop when doing these EXTREMELY ARBITRARILY VALUED feats designed to showcase various human skillcaps for fun and money… By which I mean to say what we value and how and why is something we can control thus sports can become whatever we want 'em to be.

For elegantly stating an eviscerating argument, you have my applause!

[smulder]

@HMSGoose

Naps are all I have now.