“I don’t give a fuck what that judge says...” Dan Lyke / comment 0
If the bullshit coming out of Kansas right now isn't making you go "holy fuck", the idea that federal prison officials are blatantly disregarding judicial orders is...
Law Dork: Breaking: Trans inmate's lawyers claim "egregious retaliation" in violation of court order
Trans woman involved in a lawsuit challenging anti-trans policies says federal prison official told her on Feb. 22: “I don’t give a fuck what that judge says, I do what I want.”
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at least I get to solve fun puzzles Dan Lyke / comment 0
This MeFi comment from caviar2d2. So much good in it, but:
So with AI entering the picture the worldview of your average programmer goes from "I don't love this company and the business part of it, but at least I get to solve fun puzzles" to "oh, I don't get to solve the puzzles anymore, what the hell is this all about" and a sudden reckoning with what a moral stain it is to be writing code...
and:
My wife put it really well over drinks last week:
"AI turns idiots in the workplace from a distraction into a menace." Every now seems as smart as everyone else unless you lock them in a Faraday cage and force them to explain themselves. And the smart people are getting dumber every day.
Voice teacher suggested we try Moody's Dan Lyke / comment 0
Voice teacher suggested we try Moody's Mood For Love, the sheet music version is Amy Winehouse's version, and... holy crap do the producer and I have ... different visions.
Hope someone else follows the same sheet music structure so I don't have to listen to that percussion over and over...
SMBC prescient on AI Dan Lyke / comment 0
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal from June 20, 2017 nails the ChatGPT girlfriend experience.
ERROR 406i: AI_SLOP_DETECTED Dan Lyke / comment 0
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Have you tried using more? Dan Lyke / comment 0
Omelas Council: "We have created a beautiful society that requires only that a single child suffers."
Techbros: "Have you tried using more?"
Bonesmashing Looksmaxxing Dan Lyke / comment 0
Ya know when you see something that's definitely there to troll the older generation, like Tide Pod challenge or whatever? This is so fucking stupid I can't believe it's actually real, on the other hand it is the 2020s, so "so fucking stupid" is completely believable. GQ: What is Bonesmashing? Inside the Extreme Looksmaxxer Technique
As looksmaxxing enters our lexicon, the practice of bonesmashing—tapping your face with a hammer to shape your bone structure—is trailing close behind.
"Retrophrenology" was supposed to be a joke. Although this also probably isn't de- douchebagifying the incels, so, yeah, doesn't work in practice either.
Summer Yue trusts OpenClaw, hilarity ensues Dan Lyke / comment 0
Should probably make a note of this, 'cause it's everywhere right now: Gizmodo: Meta Exec Learns the Hard Way That AI Can Just Delete Your Stuff
One small trick to get you to inbox zero.
TechCrunch: A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox.
The X/Twitter post/thread that describes the thing, there are alt links in the Gizmodo text.
The saddest thing about this is the anthropomorphization in the follow-up screencap, with any sort of sense that the LLM has "learned" anything.
podcasting isn't video-first Dan Lyke / comment 0
A recent study by Triton Digital says 80% of those surveyed consume podcasts both in audio and video. But only 7% only consume the video.
I am surprised that the video consumption is that high.
Whale penises! Dan Lyke / comment 0
Daniel P. Huffman @pinakographos@mapstodon.space has a warning to Adobe InDesign users to double-check all of the AI generated content, including image alt text that you might not have known was even there.
AI Added ‘Basically Zero’ to US Economic Growth Dan Lyke / comment 0
Hot on the heels of Goldman Sachs announcing an AI-free index fund (Pivot to AI on the topic), AI Added ‘Basically Zero’ to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says
Briggs’ colleague, Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jan Hatzius, said in an interview with the Atlantic Council that AI investment spending has had “basically zero” contribution to the U.S. GDP growth in 2025.
“We don’t actually view AI investment as strongly growth positive,” said Hatzius. “I think there’s a lot of misreporting, actually, of the impact AI investment had on U.S. GDP growth in 2025, and it’s much smaller than is often perceived.”
Some of this is that the value of the excess manufacturing accruing to Taiwan and Korea.