BlueMonday1984 @ BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems

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hymns to the benefits of global supply chains

We did it, we discovered awful's equivalent to Nostalgia Critic's The Wall

Fresh(?) off the PUBG Bridge

This is going to be grounds for an appeal which might reduce the sentence.

If that appeal succeeds, I suspect "AI victim testimonies" will become seen as a major legal liability, and the problem will (mostly) solve itself.

Also there already is a bsky user with the username leoxiv, who makes from what I can tell final fantasy poses, some nsfw. Lol.

Being a bit more specific, its Final Fantasy XIV, which you've probably heard about from people using its free trial as meme material. Its also a better example of the metaverse than any actual metaverse out there, but that's a given for literally any MMO that has popped up for the last twenty fucking years.

Also:

Counterpoint:

Found a sneer in the wild, made in response to another piece of Deportee Slop™:

Searching through the quotes, I also found someone openly accusing AI of contributing to fascism:

shouting slurs at your esteemed fellow gamers

They're called "heated gaming moments" /j

Found a rando making a very safe prediction on Bluesky:

And by "very safe", I mean "its technically already happened". Personally, I expect marketing things as AI-Free™ will explode after the bubble bursts - the hype will die alongside the bubble, but the hatred will live on for quite a while, and hate is real easy to exploit.

No, it didn't.

I gotta say, this does look like an interesting little rabbit-hole to go down.

Possible upside of the AI bubble: getting high school English teachers the barest amount of respect from Administration.

And, arguably, the humanities as a whole getting some begrudging respect - even if only because STEM is looking unimaginably stupid by comparison right now.

Y'know, beef tallow fries could've probably done well at steakhouses without the stench of Eau de Fascism turning people off of it.

You're already going there to have some meat, might as well infuse the fries with some extra beefy flavour.

It didn't hit me until now, but "fully automatic sexual harassment" acronymises to "FASH", and that is pretty fitting for something like this

New 404 Media article: Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On X

So we can add "fully automatic sexual harassment" to the list of reasons Twitter can die in a fire

New piece from Soatok/Dhole Moments: Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI

If you've heard of him before, its likely from that attempt to derail an NFT project with porn back in 2021.

ETA: Baldur Bjarnason has also commented on it:

This is honestly a pretty sensible take on this all. That it comes from somebody with a "fursona" shouldn't surprise anybody who has been paying attention.

Hot take: If you voted Labour, this is on you.

The predecessor to Luigi Mangione

Without going into too much detail (because I am not well read on this and am likely to be wrong about a lot of it), one of the many issues that Abe addressed during his leadership was Japan’s declining birthrate.

Presumably, he didn't address it by dealing with how Japanese work life makes starting a family damn-nigh impossible.

To a capitalist, the greatest sin is paying the worker their fair due.

Quick update on the ongoing copyright suit against OpenAI: The federal judge has publicly sneered at Facebook's fair use argument:

"You have companies using copyright-protected material to create a product that is capable of producing an infinite number of competing products," said Chhabria to Meta's attorneys in a San Francisco court last Thursday.

"You are dramatically changing, you might even say obliterating, the market for that person's work, and you're saying that you don't even have to pay a license to that person… I just don't understand how that can be fair use."

The judge itself does seem unconvinced about the material cost of Facebook's actions, however:

"It seems like you're asking me to speculate that the market for Sarah Silverman's memoir will be affected by the billions of things that Llama [Meta's AI model] will ultimately be capable of producing," said Chhabria.