@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.social2026-01-25 20:10:28
In at the last minute! 2nd track was Vancouver jokers The Plodes' "Horses and Gasoline"
"Martin Luther King fights crime on the surface of the Sun with Karl Marx,
Louis Riel casts a spell and gains control of great white sharks,
Albert Einstein fires a rocket into Rockefeller's face,
FDR defeats Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in a race
"Horses and gasoline, apple juice and Vaseline
White-Out and mice, concrete and rice...."
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-11-26 15:30:16
The whole thing is optimized for scams, deception and other criminal behavior:
- user interface that deceptively pretends it's a human you're talking to
- claims from companies highly exaggerate capabilities
companies and "experts" constantly hype "AGI" which they (funnily enough) do to both make investors greedier and spread fear and as a distraction because these algorithms can't actually do what they keep promising
- large-scale accounting and financial fraud (e.g. what Nvidia is doing with circular selling)
- biggest case of copyright infringement in history
Note: I think the underlying technology is really cool, and definitely has use cases and can be used for actually good things. But: some technology just has more downsides than upsides, and some should only be used by experts in controlled environments. Leaded gasoline, asbestos and chlorofluorocarbon are also all really cool technology.
In this case perhaps the techology itself doesn't do anything inherently bad, however the people making it are lying about what it can do, the people selling it are motivated purely by greed and the people using it (often forced to do so) are being deceived.
@qbi@freie-re.de2026-01-26 22:35:30
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-26 11:40:50
Arena Group, BuzzFeed, USA Today, and Vox Media join the Really Simple Licensing Collective AI licensing framework, which now has 50 partners to set AI terms (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/arena-group-buzzfeed…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2025-11-26 03:30:26
These are the photos for my 2026 calendar. Got the proofs today. Should have the hard copies in 2 weeks. Always agonizing to pick 13 of my photos for the next one. The last few years I’ve had to use older ones too. I don’t get out to shoot as much anymore. I’m hoping that will improve. I’ve volunteered to be a photographer for the city park dept. I’ll take pics of people engaged in the parks and activities, and whatever else I see.
@matzekult@chaos.social2025-11-25 13:00:59
There are a lot of charismatic characters in #StarTrek. And a very special one was the reason for a fateful decision; which we'll look at for today's #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-21 18:35:40
House Oversight to depose Ghislaine Maxwell on Feb. 9 (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-oversight-depose-ghislaine-maxwell-feb-9-epstein-rcna255224
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p83#a260121p83
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-11-23 08:22:21
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
I Am the Intimidator:
🎵 GASOLINE
#IAmtheIntimidator
https://iamtheintimidator.bandcamp.com/track/gasoline
https://open.spotify.com/track/1SURdqr5UWHT4Ql8OE5ZSQ
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-12-24 22:32:40
tickled that "make believe ballroom" trims bill graham's intro the same way as the official release, but also has a few bits of off-mic chatter cut or inaudible on other tapes, including weir noting "something's on fire back there & i don't wanna know what" & garcia giggling during a drum break. @…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-23 14:55:37
Forbes plans to launch prediction platform Forbes Predict in February; a widget next to articles will allow readers to make forecasts in exchange for tokens (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/forbes-tests-prediction-platfo…
