The spacing on the lights up top is super weird. AI seems to have a real problem recreating consistent repeated patterns.

“We’re all going to die.”

—Joni Ernst

Anyone who notices something is slightly off about them, like frames where he has extra fingers or nonsense text on the papers on his desk is called a conspiracy theorist, and to shut up and celebrate the Dear Leader’s 170th birthday.

The year is 2117. Either…

A: AI still can’t generate video without a bunch of fucky artifacts.

B: The Trump administration is still using janky AI from the 2020s, even though better options exist.

Both sound plausible.

I thought it was *non-*secret stroking that got you a meeting with HR.

We need a constitutional amendment forbidding members of a president’s immediate family from running for president. No spouses, siblings, or children. We can call it the Dynasties Are Un-American Amendment. If we’d had such a thing, we never would have had George W. Bush or Hillary Clinton as candidates, and I think we would all be better off.

Tell us where the talking llama is and we’ll burn your house to the ground!

Uh, don’t you mean ‘or’?

Ugh! Tell us where the talking llama is or we’ll burn your house to the ground!

It seems to me like there’s a lot of talk in the vein of “AI will never be able to meaningfully replace humans at [Task X],” and not enough talk about what we should do to prepare for the possibility of AI replacing humans at those tasks.

Like, right now, AI can create shitty art and write shitty code, but are we prepared for what happens if and when it can do those things well? We’ve got to acknowledge that human lives have inherent value, and not just because they can do things that machines can’t.

The optimist says we are living in the best of all possible worlds.

The pessimist fears that the optimist is right.

Breaking bread with a fascist is kind of insulting to everyone who has ever been victimized by a previous or current fascist regime.

vaginal resurrection

Also keep an eye out for people complaining about “globalists” and “coastal elites” because you’ll find that the majority of the time, that means Jews.

The page Philosophy loops back to itself via the twelve-article chain of Existence, Reality, Universe, Space, Three-dimensional space, Geometry, Mathematics, Theory, Reason, Consciousness, Awareness, Philosophy.

It’s hard to find the original Daily Show clip, but they show part of it here. It’s the most vile fucking double think imaginable, saying “Hey, I’m not racist, I just want to disenfranchise minority and student voters who HAPPEN to be mostly democrats, and by the way, yeah, I’m actually pretty fucking racist.” I’m just glad that the Daily Show got to interview a guy who was so lacking in self-awareness that he said it all out loud.

ICE Lawyer: He’s out of our custody, there’s nothing that can be done.

Judge: I order you to get the State Department involved and demand his return from El Salvador, or else I will hold you and your boss and your boss’ boss in contempt.

Shouldn’t that be the next step?

Looks like he’s trying to avoid the Helvetica Scenario.

The former Berlin businessman I referred to earlier told me that he blamed his own group, people with the time and the money and the opportunity to know better, for what happened to Germany. “We ignored Hitler,” he said. “We considered him an unimportant fellow, not quite a gentleman, not of our own class. We considered it just a little bit vulgar to bother with him, to bother with politics at all.”

They thought of the government as “They.” The only possible route to a clear conscience in politics is to accept political responsibility, either as an active member of the party in power or as an equally active member of the loyal opposition.

Robert A. Heinlein, Take Back Your Government

Yyyyyawwwwwnnn

I’m out of the loop. Is this ball balancing image a political metaphor with which I’m not familiar, or is this just demonstrating the weird arbitrary limitations put on AI image generators?