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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
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Freya Emerson, 35, reportedly failed to respond to your casual request for a coffee as she didn’t know how to explain to you that she was overwhelmed and unavailable without making it sound like she didn’t like you – and has felt terrible about it ever since.
AuDHD woman who forgot to text you back a decade ago wondering if it’s too late
An AuDHD woman who forgot to reply to your message ten years ago has spent the subsequent decade deliberating over how to re-instigate contact, sources have claimed. Freya Emerson, 35, reportedly…
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October 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Freya Emerson, 35, reportedly failed to respond to your casual request for a coffee as she didn’t know how to explain to you that she was overwhelmed and unavailable without making it sound like she didn’t like you – and has felt terrible about it ever since.
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People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.
August 30, 2025 at 4:50 AM
People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.
Fuck the shovels.
When someone aks what we think about the use of AI, the first question that comes to mind is always:
But why? Why would we, or anyone really, want to use it?
Here's @mittovac.bsky.social's piece about this very topic. Please share to anyone who needs to read this ⬇️
fromthevoid.net/blog/ai-in-g...
But why? Why would we, or anyone really, want to use it?
Here's @mittovac.bsky.social's piece about this very topic. Please share to anyone who needs to read this ⬇️
fromthevoid.net/blog/ai-in-g...
From the Void - Otherworldly Game Localization — The Fundamental Question of AI in Game Development: Why? - From the Void
"You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should"
fromthevoid.net
August 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Fuck the shovels.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... I didn't know it was physically possible to cringe so hard.
AI called Maya tells Guardian: ‘When I’m told I’m just code, I don’t feel insulted. I feel unseen’
Cofounder with Michael Samadi of AI rights campaign group Ufair says it should watch over the technology in case an AI becomes conscious
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 10:44 AM
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... I didn't know it was physically possible to cringe so hard.
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Nothing makes more sense than you being a socialist male, trust me.
But let me reiterate, no individual enjoyment of LLMs justifies the current project of building ecologically disastrous data centers to fuel their continued speculation. There is no justifiable socialist defense of doing so.
But let me reiterate, no individual enjoyment of LLMs justifies the current project of building ecologically disastrous data centers to fuel their continued speculation. There is no justifiable socialist defense of doing so.
*I* am a socialist 😭
we can have aligned politics and different interpretations on the leverage of technology
bsky.app/profile/tres...
we can have aligned politics and different interpretations on the leverage of technology
bsky.app/profile/tres...
Oh that’s what you’re doing. You’re doing thing where if I’m a socialist then why do I buy clothes or whatever?
Well, there’s the usual thing that this is always a distraction tactic.
It’s also the case that building data centers for AI has nothing to do with my skeeting.
Well, there’s the usual thing that this is always a distraction tactic.
It’s also the case that building data centers for AI has nothing to do with my skeeting.
August 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Nothing makes more sense than you being a socialist male, trust me.
But let me reiterate, no individual enjoyment of LLMs justifies the current project of building ecologically disastrous data centers to fuel their continued speculation. There is no justifiable socialist defense of doing so.
But let me reiterate, no individual enjoyment of LLMs justifies the current project of building ecologically disastrous data centers to fuel their continued speculation. There is no justifiable socialist defense of doing so.
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Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.
This is how AI is killing translation work:
This is how AI is killing translation work:
AI Killed My Job: Translators
Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.
This is how AI is killing translation work:
This is how AI is killing translation work:
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Here's one for all the game devs out there www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
August 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Here's one for all the game devs out there www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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can you imagine trying to convince the average skepti-dude in the year 2010 that this is what summer europe will look like in 2025
August 15, 2025 at 7:25 AM
can you imagine trying to convince the average skepti-dude in the year 2010 that this is what summer europe will look like in 2025
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One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/
February 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/
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just make it exist first
you can make it bear later
you can make it bear later
August 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
just make it exist first
you can make it bear later
you can make it bear later
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August 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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sorry i didn’t reply to your message i saw you texted and half-knew what it was probably about but didn’t have all the details to respond yet and if I open it I’ll forget i opened it so i can’t open it yet
please know that it is causing me: intense psychic agony
please know that it is causing me: intense psychic agony
July 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
sorry i didn’t reply to your message i saw you texted and half-knew what it was probably about but didn’t have all the details to respond yet and if I open it I’ll forget i opened it so i can’t open it yet
please know that it is causing me: intense psychic agony
please know that it is causing me: intense psychic agony
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Sick of everything being Orwellian or Kafkaesque. I demand more Scarrylous situations, where animals drive vehicles and run small businesses.
July 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Sick of everything being Orwellian or Kafkaesque. I demand more Scarrylous situations, where animals drive vehicles and run small businesses.
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So ist es. 10 Jahre: „Die Toten kommen“. politicalbeauty.de/die-toten-ko...
July 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
So ist es. 10 Jahre: „Die Toten kommen“. politicalbeauty.de/die-toten-ko...
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Full support to our fellow translators from AVTE.
While not being surprising coming from such a profit-oriented transnational corporation, it is still utterly disappointing and disgusting.
Using MT is a conscious 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 they make.
While not being surprising coming from such a profit-oriented transnational corporation, it is still utterly disappointing and disgusting.
Using MT is a conscious 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 they make.
July 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Full support to our fellow translators from AVTE.
While not being surprising coming from such a profit-oriented transnational corporation, it is still utterly disappointing and disgusting.
Using MT is a conscious 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 they make.
While not being surprising coming from such a profit-oriented transnational corporation, it is still utterly disappointing and disgusting.
Using MT is a conscious 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 they make.
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July 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Ireland has had "sELf iD" for 10 years now and not one single issue that the media, government and anti-trans movement predicted has come to pass. Not one.
If it works in Ireland why would it not work here? No one who opposes it can give a good answer, because the real answer is transphobia
If it works in Ireland why would it not work here? No one who opposes it can give a good answer, because the real answer is transphobia
Ten years ago, on this day 15 July, the Irish Oireachtas passed the Gender Recognition Act 2015 (An tAcht um Inscne a Aithint, 2015).
It was a piece of legislation that allowed me to live my life authentically & I'm forever grateful.
Despite what others may have you believe, the sky did not fall in.
It was a piece of legislation that allowed me to live my life authentically & I'm forever grateful.
Despite what others may have you believe, the sky did not fall in.
July 15, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Ireland has had "sELf iD" for 10 years now and not one single issue that the media, government and anti-trans movement predicted has come to pass. Not one.
If it works in Ireland why would it not work here? No one who opposes it can give a good answer, because the real answer is transphobia
If it works in Ireland why would it not work here? No one who opposes it can give a good answer, because the real answer is transphobia
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Your quarterly reminder to read this essay from 1941, called "Who Goes Nazi?"
You might recognize some people from your life within the piece.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
You might recognize some people from your life within the piece.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
July 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Your quarterly reminder to read this essay from 1941, called "Who Goes Nazi?"
You might recognize some people from your life within the piece.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
You might recognize some people from your life within the piece.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
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Yes, it's long. Yes, it's complex. Yes, it's detailed. And yes, it will make you sad unto nihilistic depression. But it's also necessary to read because AI is going to fuck the planet beyond expression. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
www.technologyreview.com
May 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Yes, it's long. Yes, it's complex. Yes, it's detailed. And yes, it will make you sad unto nihilistic depression. But it's also necessary to read because AI is going to fuck the planet beyond expression. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
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Sadly.. I don't think it wants to share with you.
May 30, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Sadly.. I don't think it wants to share with you.
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I am begging people, from game devs to game journalists, to regular players: Stop equivocating difficulty options with accessibility.
While difficulty options can make a game more accessible as a side effect, they are are not a substitute for real accessibility options.
While difficulty options can make a game more accessible as a side effect, they are are not a substitute for real accessibility options.
If a dev adds difficulty options to make their game more accessible for players then that’s a huge win.
May 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I am begging people, from game devs to game journalists, to regular players: Stop equivocating difficulty options with accessibility.
While difficulty options can make a game more accessible as a side effect, they are are not a substitute for real accessibility options.
While difficulty options can make a game more accessible as a side effect, they are are not a substitute for real accessibility options.
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I'm a big fan of the pomodoro technique for productivity, where I do my best impression of a tomato and sit in the dark for 48 hours before I am devoured by beings beyond my comprehension
May 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I'm a big fan of the pomodoro technique for productivity, where I do my best impression of a tomato and sit in the dark for 48 hours before I am devoured by beings beyond my comprehension
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"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.
May 10, 2025 at 5:40 AM
"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.