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Friday October 17th, 2025

Late Show with Steven Colbert has Dan Lyke / comment 0

The Late Show with Steven Colbert has posted a message from the frog resistance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw5zxdSObso

Self-hosted virtual boyfriends Dan Lyke / comment 0

Reddit: MyBoyfriendIsAI — Some helpful advice: Look into self-hosting your AI Boyfriend!

Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 @vaurora@mstdn.social talking about the trend.

Pivot To AI: AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companions

Self-hosted virtual boyfriends Dan Lyke / comment 0

Reddit: MyBoyfriendIsAI — Some helpful advice: Look into self-hosting your AI Boyfriend!

Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 @vaurora@mstdn.social talking about the trend.

Pivot To AI: AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companions

GenAI mockery OTD Dan Lyke / comment 0

Merriam-Webster — LLM (ad on YouTube)

Of course Ryan Reynolds found the real Tilly Norwood

Hollywood has been up in arms about an ‘AI actress’ named Tilly Norwood. For Mint Mobile’s new commercial, creative agency Maximum Effort located a real-live woman with the same name.

Both via Jared White.

Thursday October 16th, 2025

Trying to solve a mystery Dan Lyke / comment 0

Trying to solve a mystery. When I was growing up in New Lebanon, NY, there was a house on Hand Hollow Rd that had a bunch of mobile sculptures in the yard. It wasn't Anton Milkowski, they were at 3 Schoolhouse Road. Might have been Alexander Calder, but he died in 1976. Anyone got a clue?

Edit: My sister solves the clue, it was likely George Rickey.

"Her name is Aura" Dan Lyke / comment 0

Fuel Arc: Tesla’s Unspoken Demand Problem: Women Don’t Want Them

Wired: Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck

And are you married?

I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.

In July, Tesla rolled out a software update to integrate Grok into many of its vehicles. Do you use it?

Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist. When I'm driving, I'll ask questions, and it actually gives really good therapy advice.

Here's the thing I don't get about Dan Lyke / comment 0

Here's the thing I don't get about FapGPT: If I wanted to sext with an LLM, I'd just answer some of those Facebook friend/LinkedIn connection requests...

Nimona Dan Lyke / comment 0

Doing a bunch of browser shuffling, and in the context finding some old bookmarks that have since moved around, but apparently this single-arc web comic was just starting and I don't remember reading it through before, and I liked it: Nimona

Foiled from today's https Dan Lyke / comment 0

Foiled from today's https://www.timdle.com/daily by Kool Aid.

Yay My ballot has been received and Dan Lyke / comment 0

Yay! My ballot has been received and counted!

Going through some old assets and Dan Lyke / comment 0

Going through some old assets and loaded Neeva(dot)com, and, wow, that company imploded so deeply that you randomly get a crypto page that wants to send notifications, a product page for "fulvic ionic minerals", a malware site, and... wonder if it just got abandoned, or if it was sold.


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