They have no concept of how the AI slop is harmful as long as they can pretend that they are being productive. I’d noted the display banner in the background when VOCM first used this photo, but thought it was a useful thing to take a screenshot of when it popped up again just week or so ago.

The amount of shady looks I get for wearing respirators with patients, for providing N95s to patients and cleaning the air from colleagues. I have an evidence based practice. This is what the evidence shows. Public health has shifted to what is popular. Imagine if we had done that with seatbelts.

I read through the NYT article about it and now I’m just so fucking mad at all of this. At every turn, AI is just making the world worse. These humanity-crushing slop factories need a “This is not a place of honour…” type message flashed in front of anyone who makes the mistake of trying them.

And finally the best evidence that AI is truly a revolutionary general purpose technology isn’t its midness but it’s politics. It is very good at undercutting, demoralizing and casualizing labor across a variety of fields, known & as-yet known.

I wouldn’t dismiss that. “Mid” is a political tactic.

I point this out for clarity. I also have a long-term interest in how my crafting of ideas is sometimes confused for the very serious idea being crafted. So to be clear: AI is political attack on labor with few limited cases for social value and an absolute ecological disaster.

Best to just think of it like that mushroom meme and accept that if you have pets in your home then everything you own now belongs to the fur. This is a freshly laundered sock.

The best part is that this particular belly is not a trap, unless by trap you mean that you’ll have to stay there rubbing a belly for an extended duration, until your scritching muscles start to cramp. In which case, yup, totally a trap.

a rejection of AI will not be so sectoral as that. we either categorically reject it, and we make anyone who works on advancing this stuff a pariah, or we tolerate these things in our day to day forever.

Submitted as evidence for softest cat in the world qualifying round.

Red Delicious are the Times New Roman of apples—popular only due to ubiquity, and ubiquitous mainly because they look nice at first glance, but have been designed for appearance and shelf life, not flavour. The throw pillow of apples. A flashcard fruit for children being taught the primary colours.

7. You don't need cops to investigate the horrors in a horror story. Humans are naturally curious and seldom mind their own business. Have some self-respect and cast a librarian.

We are gonna have charts for AI slop exposure by generation like we do lead

Being a weirdly absorbent sponge for visual media means I really can’t do a lot of horror/gory films, and yet I have a strange fondness for Event Horizon, a film somewhat notorious for its inclusion of footage that the filmmakers describe as a “blood orgy”.