I’d like to think there’s at least a chance that they meant it in an “actually, this is The Onion” way.

The new platform, W, will require identification and photo validation to ensure that its users are both humans and who they claim to be

Kind of them to get that out of the way in the first sentence. No further reading required.

Somebody, somewhere, is updating their list of all the old pre-fascism movies and TV shows that will need to be erased from the culture.

LLMs don’t know much about any people other than authors and fictional characters. Well, until quite recently at least: The next model will know the most intimate thoughts of millions of AI-obsessed humans.

Yes, that is the novel usage of the word I’m complaining about. It was not common 30 years ago.

Things must be getting pretty desperate in Russia. But I continue to have a suspicion that this trend of calling teenagers “children” in English is unintentionally erasing the whole concept of childhood. That they’re not children doesn’t make 16-year-olds getting pushed by their parents into arranged marriages any less horrifying.

As a joke it probably would’ve been more funny if it weren’t for all the reporting about how they were deporting people for posting JD Vance memes and are now demanding to see everyone’s social media accounts at the border.

Nonsense!? I found Jesus Christ Superstar to be quite theologically sound. My Catholic grandmother agrees.

They may have a point. Not just any form of government has the kind of moral and practical strength it takes to ban the word for ass.

Shouldn’t be a problem, considering that AI is so great that obviously in the future everybody will want to use it for everything they do all the time at any cost.

Apple hardware is typically more difficult to install linux on, and is therefore less useful. I mean you can do it in many cases from what I hear, but I think it’s still not easy on average.

And then Optimus will come around to your house, and it will give everyone free ice cream. Whatever flavor you like! Then Optimus will save all the sick animals and make them better, and fix the ozone layer, and stop crime. Optimus is going to cure cancer, and eliminate traffic jams, and make me the most popular man in the world. A true communist utopia.

The strength of todays “AI” is generating bullshit, isn’t it? Not that it doesn’t take more than that to invent a new religion, I suppose you also need genuine holy divine inspiration and so on, but it sure might be helpful to the process.

No surprise, I always thought 2025 was at sixes and sevens.

Look out! He’s got a whole bag full of ninja throwing triangles!

Hooba-dooba-dooba!

As someone long accustomed to ISP bills that say little more than “you owe us $60 this month for 1 Internet” I’m finding it hard to imagine what is going on over there.

All you need to do is say “AI” enough times.

Imagine using the same streaming service as people who aren’t cis het rich white male Christian conservatives. That’s the bizarre dystopian future the radical woke left wants to force on our children.

I’d have thought the essential oil diffuser should be part of the video card so that it can release different fragrances depending on the colour palette of what’s being displayed.