the problem with AI is what AI does. it does not cost an enormous amount of energy and absolutely not water
I had a development deal with SNL 1998-99 that sadly didn't go anywhere. Some of the cast members I worked with were ... not great. Will Ferrell, however, seemed like a standup guy.
I'm in shock. Pronouncing "jaguar" as "jag-wire" is a regional pronunciation? I knew the Brits had their own strange way of saying it, but the rest of the country says it wrong too?
Vance is so pathetic it’s unbelievable, a man with a void of integrity so vast it has its own gravity bsky.app/profile/reic...
one of the major problems with capitalism which AI exacerbates is that useful activity (search engines, news) is often entirely a side effect of useless activity (ads, ads), and we expect the distribution of that useful activity to remain constant even as the returns to related activities change
What's the best hypercompetancy fantasy TV show? Where the characters are above all else the best at what they do and are goddamn professionals at the job. Examples: Sorkin's oeuvre (West Wing, Sports Night, etc.) House Suits? The Bear? NCIS Mad Men
Stretching "classic" but season one of Earth: Final Conflict, with an eye on avoiding the problems of seasons 2-4 (and the excruciating season 5).
Am I paranoid or are the websites selling custom cartoony family portraits on plates/pillows/ornaments/etc also selling your family demographics to ad companies? Like, this family seems to have a cat, a dog, and baby and a teen, so target ads in that direction!
Earlier this year in India, X faced similar requests for targeted account/post removal upon penalty of fines and imprisonment. X complied. India has a right-wing government, while Brazil is cracking down on right-wing insurrectionists, so Musk complies with the former but fights the latter.
Elon Musk's social media platform X said Thursday it will block certain accounts and posts from India in response to executive orders by the government.
Facebook for me is currently: 10% posts from "friends" 30% unobjectionable Pop culture slop 30% community posts 30% offensive bait Even though I block the worst stuff on sight, the proportion never changes, so either Facebook is bad at it's job or this is what it wants to be.