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If you are still paying for Disney+ do note you are paying for your children and family to get shown shitty AI-generated videos
As part of this three-year licensing agreement, Sora will be able to generate short, user-prompted social videos that can be viewed and shared by fans, drawing on more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters. Agreement will make a selection of these fan-inspired Sora short form videos available to stream on Disney+. Disney and OpenAI affirm a shared commitment to responsible use of AI that protects the safety of users and the rights of creators. Alongside the licensing agreement, Disney will become a major customer of OpenAI, using its APIs to build new products, tools, and experiences, including for Disney+, and deploying ChatGPT for its employees. As part of the agreement, Disney will make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI, and receive warrants to purchase additional equity.
December 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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"It will keep getting better"
what you are seeing today is the product of a hundred of years of research into gen AI. Back in 1906 a Russian guy wanted to analyze the works of a Poet. As time passes methods and algorithms can improve, but as you have seen between 2022 and 2025, three years of improvements is a very small gap for the improvements to even be noticeable. Also, it's actually a fallacy to assume tech has no ceiling. And even if there was no ceiling, it's completely possible to reach the point of diminishing returns. We are currently building thousands of data centers and collapsing our RAM availability, and for what? Raising the length of useable Sora footage by 0.1 seconds?
December 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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WSJ Headline: "A MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study - Then it All Fell Apart" Picture of the student has been replaced with Chicken Boo from Animaniacs.
November 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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The way AI art is pushed is so bizare if you think about it. Imagine if in 1997 Coca Cola were like "The Clip Art Genie is out of the bottle, from now on these will be our advertisements, it saves us a lot of money. like it or not"
A clip art of a bean person and a snowman with 3D text saying Coca Cola on top
November 4, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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A comment I just posted in response to Lemmino's latest video: Why even worry about the threat of the Aliens being hostile and finding us? Really. Just cause "we are bad" ? We are bad. We already suffer. We already kill and murder and enslave each other. So if the Aliens come and enslave us. Would that be really a big change? I think this mentality can only come from a first worlder. Someone who's atop the Pyramid and really worried that if Aliens find out about us, we would become part of a much taller pyramid. What if they are nothing like us? What if all that happens is a space pod arrives to earth and leaves a message with us that it takes us millenia to decipher but at least we would know for sure that we are not alone? It's just so silly that In a world of billions of possibilities, our biggest fear is a mirror.
October 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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I can say I tried upscaling a similar Sub-zero picture using only nearest and I am not happy with the result. Some sort of filtering would be necessary IMO
Mortal Kombat 2 Subzero upscaled using nearest neighbor
October 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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In the spirit of media preservation and also because I agree with you, but also because I really despise cropped aspect ratio but also because I like showing off my classic simpsons library
October 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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On Friday some weird blog that advertises AI shit declared that AWS fired 40% of the devops team and replaced them with AI last Monday. But it looks highly speculative, and some of the descriptions of the supposed new tools sound like adverts. archive.fo/b6aUD
AWS Just Fired 40% of Its DevOps Team — Then Let AI Take Their Jobs! Leaked internal tools show how Amazon’s cloud is now self-healing, self-scaling, and self-negotiating — no humans required.
October 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Headline 1: AWS CEO: " AI now pushing 75% of our production code" Headline 2: Massive AWS outage takes down Venmo, Reddit, etc
October 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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The "article" in question is literally 3 paragraphs-long
October 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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They leak this stuff to the press so that the media report it and makes it look like a warning about Billionaires. But it is in fact an advertisement for OpenAI. Pushing nonsensical claims that it is ever going to develop "AGI" and about how powerful it will be.
“We’re definitely going to build a bunker before we release AGI,” Sutskever reportedly once told the OpenAI team, according to the journalist Karen Hao’s book Empire of AI.
October 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Xexizy on twitter: "This is too perfect an encapsulation of the upcoming era of AI surveillance. Tech giants and governments are gonna auto-search through everything you've ever posted to construct your profile, and also the model is occasionally gonna hallucinate and ruin your life for no reason." It links to another post which is a screenshot of Discord moderation banning an user because they posted "im 9" in 2019, which is "a violation of their age requirements"
October 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Words don't mean anything anymore, huh?
October 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Most of the time I assume this AI-pushing is something companies are doing so that they can show investors that "We do AI too!"

But there's times it really does feel like they are sadists. Like their true calling was to be Jig Saw but they've settled as UX designers?
October 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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I don't really buy emulation handhelds thinking of things like Wii Emulation. The Retroid Pocket 5 really surprised me here. Super Mario Galaxy can run at 1080p (The emulator can enhance the rendering resolution). It's basically a remaster. Let's be honest, this 1080p OLED screen tops the Switch 2's
September 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Nintendo kept saying I should play Super Mario Galaxy 2 on my new portable console.
A picture of a Retroid Pocket 5 playing Super Mario Galaxy 2 at 2x resolution
September 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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You thought this was a joke
September 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Imagine if in any other period of history, you released a piece of software that made constant mistakes and your "fix" to the issue was to add a warning label to it.
August 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Independent Thought Alarm screenshot from a Simpsons episode.
August 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Retro Handhelds Hobby as classic Tweets
A fake version of Pixelated Boat tweet: The whole internet loves the Retroid Flip 2, a Clamshell Handheld that plays up to PS2 with an OLED screen! * 5 seconds later * We regret to inform you the Hinge breaks.
August 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Microsoft have dropped a list of the 40 professions most threatened by AI. Your first instinct should be to dismiss it due to their mountains of interests in convincing the world that AI is more than horribly inept at most jobs

But on a second look, it's worse than that. Historians? Mathematicians?
I am sorry, but it's an image of a table. That's how it is being published.
July 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Third, a more negative-slanted: "Why is Flamepierce in Path of Exile 2 underpowered?"
It appears you're asking about the perceived underperformance of "Flamepierce" in Path of Exile 2. While specific meta shifts and player feedback can evolve rapidly in live service games, here's a summary of why Flamepierce, and fire skills in general, might be seen as underpowered based on recent community discussions and mechanics in the Path of Exile 2 beta: 1. Anti-Synergy and Lack of Creativity in Fire Skills: Forced Combos: Many fire skills in PoE 2 seem to have hard-coded combos (e.g., Flameblast with Solar Orb) rather than allowing for flexible build creativity. This can feel restrictive and limit diverse playstyles. Ignite Mechanics: There's a notable issue with how ignite works. You can't stack ignites, and ignite-spending skills often don't scale with the level of the burn. This can make various ignite-focused fire skills feel less impactful, as they struggle to compete with simply landing big hits for ignition. Redundant Roles: Some fire skills appear to have overlapping or redundant roles, with certain skills being objectively better at igniting (like Ember Fusillade or Fireball) than others (like Firewall/Solar Orb) that are designed for it. The latter may only be "good" for their secondary effects, which might not be strong enough. Poor Skill Tree Design: The fire elemental tree, in particular, has been criticized for skills that don't combo well or synergize effectively due to the way fire mechanics are implemented. In summary, Flamepierce's underperformance likely stems from a combination of its own restrictive mechanics (disabling ignite, requiring pre-ignited enemies) and broader issues with the synergy and balance of fire skills within Path of Exile 2's current beta state. The community has expressed a desire for more creative and impactful fire skill interactions, which could indirectly benefit Flamepierce if the underlying fire mechanics are improved. It's important to remember that Path of Exile 2 is still in beta, and game balance is subject to change based on player feedback and ongoing development. What is considered "underpowered" today might be buffed or reworked in future updates.
July 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Second, a more positive-sounding question: "What makes Flamepierce useful in Path of Exile 2?"
Flamepierce is a Support Gem in Path of Exile 2 that significantly enhances projectile-based Fire builds, particularly those that focus on Ignites. Here's what makes it useful: Guaranteed Pierce for Ignited Enemies: The primary utility of Flamepierce is that the initial projectile created by Supported Skills will always pierce Ignited enemies. This is incredibly powerful for clearing groups of monsters, as your projectiles won't stop at the first enemy they hit, but will continue to travel through multiple Ignited foes, dealing damage to each. Synergy with Ignite: This support gem is designed to work hand-in-hand with Ignite mechanics. While Supported Skills themselves cannot inflict Ignite, Flamepierce allows you to leverage existing Ignites on enemies to gain the pierce effect. This means you'll want to pair it with skills or other sources that reliably apply Ignite. Increased Area of Effect/Coverage: By ensuring projectiles pierce, Flamepierce effectively increases the area of effect or coverage of your projectile skills. Instead of hitting just one target, your projectiles can potentially hit many in a line, leading to faster clear speeds and more efficient damage application in dense packs. Enabling Unique Interactions: Pierce is particularly potent when combined with projectile skills that trigger an explosion or similar effect when striking an enemy. If a skill explodes on hit and also pierces, it can theoretically explode multiple times as it passes through a line of enemies, leading
July 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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I am going to share 3 instances of me asking Gemini about a Support Gem in Path of Exile 2. Just for example's sake.

First, a neutral: "What's the Flamepierce gem in path of exile 2?"
Gemini answer: The Flamepierce gem in Path of Exile 2 is a Support Gem that modifies skills which can fire projectiles. Here's how it works: Initial Projectile Always Pierces Ignited Enemies: When linked to a projectile skill, the first projectile created by that skill will always pierce enemies who are ignited. This means it will pass through them and continue to hit targets behind them. Cannot Inflict Ignite: The significant drawback of Flamepierce is that supported skills cannot inflict Ignite themselves. This means you'll need another source to apply Ignite to enemies for the pierce effect to activate. Essentially, Flamepierce is a utility support gem designed to enhance projectile clear by allowing your projectiles to hit multiple ignited targets, but it requires a separate method of applying the Ignite status effect.
July 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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This is the crux of the article, and it could have happened. Or maybe it's just Anthropic planting a story so that you can help them spread just how powerful the new version of Claude is.
Meanwhile, ChatGPT-creator OpenAI’s o1 tried to download itself onto external servers and denied it when caught red-handed.
July 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM