Saw an AI bro complaining about the "anti-AI extremists" here. 😹

petition to rename Spotify Top of the Slops

@kriegundfreitag 🖤

random poll, do you talk to yourself out loud? like when you are alone?
boost to distract me!

@airshipper except they're also doing it to rare books where there's also something special about the object itself.

i think that *most* people would forgive destructive book digitisation if the results were made freely available for the benefit of everyone

it's not the physical objects we object to, it's the enclosure for exploitation

the same was true for publishers pulping unsold copies (except no one was trying to exploit that)

When I send my friends funny posts from Mastodon, they don't click it because they think they need an account.

The walled gardens have done some massive damage to the foundations of how people interact with the internet.

Weird how nobody's AI has gone rogue, broken containment, and become profitable.

It's fascinating how people on social media are always trying to gaslight me.

"North America isn't as bad as you say!"
"Canada is improving quickly!"
"Things have gotten a lot better over the past few years!"
"You're being too negative!"

The best part about going to Canada every summer is reminding myself that these people are full of shit.

It's been two weeks and I can't wait to get back to Europe! Take me home! 😂

“Whoops, our AI escaped its sandbox and stole most of the world’s billionaires money and redistributed it to good causes. It also wiped your debt.”

That would be the absolute winner

I'm tired of the saying that people get more conservative as they get older.
Reality check: people get more conservative as they get more wealthy. The people saying "people get more conservative as they get older" are white people living in a privileged bubble in which, in the generations since WW2, people like them typically amassed more wealth as they aged.
#politics #economics #collapse #racism
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I’m curious: Do you own or work at a small business?
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If you walk into somebody, YOU walked into them.
If you hit a pedestrian with your bike, YOU hit the pedestrian.
If a driver hits you with their car, THEY hit you.

So why is it we talk about people getting hit by cars? They are being hit by DRIVERS.

"Man arrested after car collides with multiple pedestrians"
sounds different than
"Man arrested after severely injuring multiple pedestrians with his car"

Anti-Car sticker spotted in Buxton, UK

#eattheRich

1 ISS, 3 star links - one of them burning up, all even though I forgot my glasses

You heard it here first:

https://www.grumpygamer.com/twp2_announce/

Anthropic spent billions of dollars to slice the spines off millions of books, including very rare ones.

AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books and scanning their contents to train LLMs. They then turn the originals to pulp.

The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded. Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently.

Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.

#AI #Books #Culture #Civilization #Tech #LLMs