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Great article on why nazis love AI Art. No longer do memes and communicating agenda require nazis to have a single creative worker in their corner willing to sign off on a hideous vision of society, AI offers direct brain-worms-to-audience communication newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
newsocialist.org.uk
March 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Great article on why nazis love AI Art. No longer do memes and communicating agenda require nazis to have a single creative worker in their corner willing to sign off on a hideous vision of society, AI offers direct brain-worms-to-audience communication newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
March 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
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The excerpts in this article from the AI-generated "literary metafictional short story" are like something a caricature intellectual poet in a black turtleneck would be reading at a book signing on Bojack Horseman or Simpsons.
ChatGPT firm reveals AI model that is ‘good at creative writing’
ChatGPT firm reveals AI model that is ‘good at creative writing’
As tech firms battle creative industries over copyright, OpenAI chief Sam Altman says he was ‘really struck’ by product’s output
The company behind ChatGPT has revealed it has developed an artificial intelligence model that is “good at creative writing”,…
www.theguardian.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The excerpts in this article from the AI-generated "literary metafictional short story" are like something a caricature intellectual poet in a black turtleneck would be reading at a book signing on Bojack Horseman or Simpsons.
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Even aside from Google's wave of dipshittery -- "Gulf of America" added to Maps, Black History Month removed from its calendars *during Black History Month* -- DuckDuckGo is just a better search engine.
No ads. No bullshit AI. Just an actually useful search engine, like Google before it was evil.
No ads. No bullshit AI. Just an actually useful search engine, like Google before it was evil.
February 12, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Even aside from Google's wave of dipshittery -- "Gulf of America" added to Maps, Black History Month removed from its calendars *during Black History Month* -- DuckDuckGo is just a better search engine.
No ads. No bullshit AI. Just an actually useful search engine, like Google before it was evil.
No ads. No bullshit AI. Just an actually useful search engine, like Google before it was evil.
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Buckle up because we're banging into the new year with my annual retrospective of the last year in databases! Highlights include license change blowback, Databricks vs. Snowflake gangwar, @duckdb.org's shotgun weddings, and buying a quarterback to impress your lover: www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/...
Databases in 2024: A Year in Review
Andy rises from the ashes of his dead startup and discusses what happened in 2024 in the database game.
www.cs.cmu.edu
January 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Buckle up because we're banging into the new year with my annual retrospective of the last year in databases! Highlights include license change blowback, Databricks vs. Snowflake gangwar, @duckdb.org's shotgun weddings, and buying a quarterback to impress your lover: www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/...
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This deep dive on Netflix purposely turning movies into barely distinguishable forgettable slop is so insightful, researched & brutally hilarious. A must read if you want to really know what’s happening to the business AND culture of movies.
Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer...
www.nplusonemag.com
December 28, 2024 at 8:44 PM
This deep dive on Netflix purposely turning movies into barely distinguishable forgettable slop is so insightful, researched & brutally hilarious. A must read if you want to really know what’s happening to the business AND culture of movies.
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They built a platform which could connect the world, then made it unusable, now they need to populate it with digital ghosts to appease shareholders.
December 27, 2024 at 7:49 AM
They built a platform which could connect the world, then made it unusable, now they need to populate it with digital ghosts to appease shareholders.
20 minutes of trying to work out why my containers weren’t showing up in docker desktop, all resolved by restarting it. Why didn’t I try that first?????
December 16, 2024 at 1:52 PM
20 minutes of trying to work out why my containers weren’t showing up in docker desktop, all resolved by restarting it. Why didn’t I try that first?????
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incredible plot summary
December 13, 2024 at 10:55 AM
incredible plot summary
Watched Demolition Man (1993) and The Secret Garden (1993) this week. Quite the uh.. tonal difference.
Not a recommended double bill
Not a recommended double bill
December 5, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Watched Demolition Man (1993) and The Secret Garden (1993) this week. Quite the uh.. tonal difference.
Not a recommended double bill
Not a recommended double bill