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When you don't get how memes work
Mars for the rich in the style of Mamdani"s political advertising
November 9, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Microsoft still not making it possible to buy the classic office on subscription without Copilot and their Copilot enabled Store Assistant is also drawing a blank.

Hello LibreOffice I guess
Screenshot of live chat with Microsoft's store assistant where is has no information about Microsoft 365 Family Classic
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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screenshot of the Simpsons : "First Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence"
November 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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transmetropolitanr.bsky.social
lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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win98tech.bsky.social
Jesus goddamn fucking christ is there anything ai hasn't fucked up completely
October 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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garrettgilchrist.bsky.social
Screencap from Taito NES video game Bubble Bobble. Text reads: "The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born! Now is the time of monsters! Good luck!"
September 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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September 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Our First Invada Films
Feature Trailer
For “GAME”
Is out Today

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZbC...
GAME - Official Trailer
YouTube video by InvadaFilmsOfficial
www.youtube.com
September 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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post a perfect album from the
90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam
Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains
September 8, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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"We can and should reject that AI output is ‘good enough,’ not only because it is not good, but also because there is inherent value in thinking for ourselves."
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Opening of the latest Adam Curtis series has Jimmy Savile introducing a group of kids to Margaret Thatcher, what a double jump scare
August 30, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Truth
August 26, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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buying into AI
3 panel comic Panel 1: Blue Guy and Pink Guy. Pink Guy: Ai will change EVERYTHING. Just give me a Shitload of money Blue Guy: okey Panel 2: Blue Guy hands over a massive stack of cash and says “How will it change everything?” Panel 3: Pink Guy is running away as fast as he can with the money. He says “It’s a secret”
August 19, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions

www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
Microsoft Excel adds Copilot Al to help ... theverge.com The Verget-4.1-mini Al model | 5 successor to the LABS.GENERATIVEAI function Microsoft started experimenting with in 2023. Microsoft notes that you can combine its new Al function with other Excel functions, including IF, SWITCH, LAMBDA, or WRAPROWS. The company adds that information sent through Excel's COPILOT function is "never" used for AI training, as "the input remains confidential and is used solely to generate your requested output." The COPILOT function comes with a couple of limitations, as it can't access information outside your spreadsheet, and you can only use it to calculate 100 functions every 10 minutes. Microsoft also warns against using the AI function for numerical calculations or in “high-stakes scenarios” with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as COPILOT "can give incorrect responses." Copy Share Select all Web search Dictionary ...
August 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
A transcription of a conversation between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and podcast host Theo Von on Von's podcast, in an excerpt from the Atlantic article "AI is a mass-delusion event" by Charlie Warzel: "Sam Altman: I do guess that a lot of the world gets covered in data centers over time. Theo Von: Do you really? Altman: But I don’t know, because maybe we put them in space. Like, maybe we build a big Dyson sphere around the solar system and say, “Hey, it actually makes no sense to put these on Earth.” Von: Yeah. Altman: I wish I had, like, more concrete answers for you, but, like, we’re stumbling through this."
August 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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At a conference for B2B e-commerce.

Out to put it another way, I am in hell for my sins
August 19, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic
A decorative illustration of flowers with the caption “I don’t use ai I’m not a fucking loser” with a severed hand with too many fingers
August 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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“If you need to let out a long anguished exhale, please mute your mic” —actual meeting kickoff note
August 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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The old world is dying, and the new world is so fucking stupid dude
August 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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dril.bsky.social
watching you dildo brain cock suckers play w/ AI shit is like watching a dog paw at one of those puzzle boxes that you put treats inside of
July 31, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Labor’s unelected Anti-Semitism Overlord recently shat out a 20-page document demanding sweeping oversight of pretty much all areas of government to stamp out dissent against her beloved murder colony overseas which is starving kids to death daily. Here’s a snapshot of her sterling analytical powers
Australia's lead advisor on fighting antisemitism has singled out X for successfully using artificial intelligence to "root out hate", just days after the Elon Musk-owned company apologised for its Al chatbot spewing antisemitic comments and calling itself "MechaHitler"
July 11, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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State of IT jobs is fucked if you think AI is a huge bubble that is all hype. Maybe this is hubris for getting salaries well above their real value for so long.

You can still get them but you have to agree the magical autocomplete machines are the future.
June 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Kurt Vonnegut man
Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."
April 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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King Gizz on the same night as Aunty Donna, dammit
May 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM