Great aesthetic. Waiting for the second time the fashion comes around in about 10-15ish more years. Fashion usually gets better second time around.

I’m getting a 503 forbidden, unable to load video. Any way you can post a link to the actual tweet on xcancel or something?

I’ve been saying it a lot lately, we finally built a computer that’s as unreliable as a human. I’m pretty sure that’s not a good thing.

Also Xbox controllers have garbage ass build quality. Valve seems to make pretty solid hardware. The only one I see as comparable is the PS5 dualsense controller, but it’s still missing some things like the extra buttons. It has a touchpad, but just one, and it’s not optimally placed, imho.

Cory Doctorow still uses pgp if you email him, I think his key is on his website, IIRC

Bill Hicks always had the best bit about this.

For England, James?

It’s a standout because you get the normal “for whatever reason Sean Bean’s character always has to die” but you get him dying not once but twice in the film.

Obligatory.

Trump again proves he’s faster than other Presidents at making quagmires. The best quagmires you’ve ever seen!

I mean, he fits in with all the other sexual predators in the White House.

Giggity

That’s definitely a path as well, but considering how smart (at least in math and computer science) you have to be to be developing AI in general. Those are not easy people to replace because of their skill levels and skillsets. Them just leaving and refusing to do the work is honestly a lot better play than trying to get everyone in the company on board for unionization. Only OpenAI is strictly an AI company. Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Twitter all have their fingers in other pies, meaning you would need to get everyone in a massive company on board. Far easier to just get all your colleagues on board and just bail to build your own thing.

LMAO a hunger strike in front of companies who literally don’t give a shit if you live or die.

I think the scariest thing about Artificial Intelligence is the absolute fucking basement-dwelling, fart-sniffing, booger-eating, antisocial narcissists with zero ability to empathize with other human beings developing and “training” it. They spend their lives acting like a victim because they’re “autistic” but I have met plenty of autistic people who aren’t self-aggrandizing, narcissistic assholes, so it’s not because of the autism, it’s because they’re assholes.

We’re essentially letting AI learn socialization from the people with the least quality socialization skills and interpersonal skills available. That’s the scary part, the idiotic shit it will learn from these narcissistic fucking idiots.

They can try all they want but they can’t wipe that photo of Cole Allen in an Israeli Defense Force sweatshirt off the internet.

Employees need to start figuring out that whining about it doesn’t change shit because you’re in a corporation, not a democracy. The only leverage they have is their numbers. They need to put up or shut up, the only way to stop this is for entire swaths of people to quit their jobs. Further, Google has plenty of people wealthy enough to start their own business, these people have options that a lot of others don’t. If they still care more about their paychecks than they do their ethics, I couldn’t give a fuck about their opinion that they won’t actually stand up to defend.

At least Timnit Gebru stood on principles (mostly anyway, she at least threatened to quit and they fired her), and the paper Google fired her over is more important today than when it was written in 2020. It was literally a prophetic document for all the issues we face regarding AI today.

Google pretended it fixed things by doing a lot of fake inclusivity bullshit (not that including people is bullshit, but rather Google’s methods are those weak and pointless corporate ideas of “inclusivity” are bullshit), and brushed the contents of the paper under the rug. The reality is that paper was way too on the nose of real problems for them to allow to be published as it was.

Anyway, if the employees didn’t figure it out six years ago when they shitcanned Gebru for standing up for herself (and humanity), I doubt they’ll magically figure it out now.

EDIT: typos

This doesn’t have enough pixels to tell but the difference is the spelling. The left has “Febreeze” and the right has the correct “Febreze.”

For a minute I thought I was in the liminal space community.

I don’t want to live in this universe anymore.

I’m pretty sure the earliest ones didn’t have dialogue and thus were effectively music videos.

Fruit of the Loom with the Cornucopia: Fake
Curious George with a tail: Fake (I know because I had the fucking Curious George huffing ether shirt in college.)
Chic-Fil-A: Fake (Link to Chick-Fil-A’s founder S. Truet Cathy’s book “Eat Mor Chikin” published in 2002)
Looney Toons: Fake
Fruit Loops: Fake
Oscar Meyer: Fake (I often confused the two spellings as a kid because we often bought Oscar Mayer hot dogs from Fred Meyer.)
Berenstein Bears: Not fake, more of a matter of different publications running with different spellings.
Jiffy: Fake
Febreeze: Fake (link to archived post from 1996 in an ad magazine announcing P&G releasing Febreze)

Okay Maybe I’ll come back and finish digging up the evidence for all of these, but literally the Pikachu one is the only one I’m unsure about. I’m positive everything else on the left hand side has been completely debunked or is a situation like the Berenstain Bears where different publishers used different spellings, especially in the home videos.