Leaked documents have revealed that Google has been conspiring to hide the names of streets from anyone using Google Maps. “They’ll have to zoom all the way in to see them,” an internal memo reads. Nobody has any idea why
I was so enamoured with computers and the internet in my youth. Absolutely all in on techno-optimism. And now it’s unbearably clear, and clearer by the day, that everyone in the elite tiers of this industry is a fucking idiot
i once thought twitter was the closest form of global consciousness.
now it seems the corporate ai models have become that. they have far more access to public and private thoughts and questions.
oof. Yikes 😬 thanks for letting me know. Im softblocking him right now. Sorry i saw a joke tweet he made a while back and followed. didnt know he led the Fremen to revolt against the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV and subsequently murdered 61 billion people
The two types of DS9 episode are “Faith in Times of Darkness” (Sisko’s grief over losing his wife causes him to commit a war crime) and “Big Shoes” (O’Brien gets new shoes that are too big)
Star Trek TNG episodes are called like 'Explosion' and the episode is about a big explosion. TOS episodes are called 'What yonder soul doth go hence...a brother??' and are about an omnipotent space frog who makes everyone take their clothes off
This cuts both ways. I’ve taught countless women about the works of Hideo Kojima, and they’ve presumably gone on to impress and delight other men with that knowledge. I’ve never been thanked once.
There are a lot of issues with The Cut story, but no one can argue this paragraph isn't true, and it is exactly how I explain why I have no desire to date again.
One thing Twitter honestly nailed is the ranking of replies. Every time I see some inane take from a verified account, the top reply is one of my friends telling them to shut the fuck up, and I think that’s beautiful
Sorry to be all misty-eyed but like. Do you remember when software used to come out every so often with a new thing it could do. And that thing was useful – or failing that, somewhat interesting – rather than Some Bullshit Nobody Asked For
BASHIR: She’s your wife – doesn’t she know your size?
O’BRIEN: Apparently not. But I already said I like them.
BASHIR: *I* know your size.
O’BRIEN: You do?
BASHIR: Of course. EU 43.5.
O’BRIEN: How do you…
BASHIR: …
BASHIR: Well, I’m your d—
O’BRIEN: My doctor, right, of course.
Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace is a show so powerful that it did everything it needed to in the first episode, making all subsequent ones near-redundant. Which sounds exactly like the kind of backhanded compliment the show itself is full of
you can watch an AI overfit in real time by typing random Latin-sounding nonsense into google translate and it absolutely will come up with a translation
There is a “heart eyes emoji” 😍 - we love to look. There is a “heart mouth emoji” 😘 - we love to speak. But there is no “heart ears emoji” - we do not love to listen these days. SHARE if you are always ready to listen!
Something I have to confess is that for the longest time I thought the “don’t email my wife” guy had spray-painted his own house, and I only recently realised that it makes a lot more sense that he spray-painted the house of whoever was emailing his wife
If you’re white and you put more garlic in a dish than the recipe suggests, you’re basically saying you think you know better than the recipe author (who might be a POC)
OPPOSITION MP: Sir, I would like to read you a quote. “I love petards and they love me and would never hoist me in any way”. Do you know who said that?
ME: Um, I think Voltaire, or possibly Dostoyevsky
MARX: Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the-
ME: Hating popular things doesn’t make you an interesting person 💁♂️
Absolutely perverse that you can now:
- say something utterly stupid
- disable replies
- get a ton of quote-tweet responses instead,
- which now count towards your retweet total,
- making it look like all those people agree with you
When I was ~7, I woke up one Saturday morning and decided to make pancakes for all the people I knew on my street. I called them up (at like 8am), pretended I was a business called “Pancake City” and told them I was gonna bring pancakes over, then I did it. That’s the whole story
By adding terrible AI answers to search results, and thereby speeding up the rate at which everyone figures out that LLMs are bullshit generators with barely any real-world applications, Google is practicing the truest form of AI accelerationism