Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me.

Whose your friend who likes to play?

Realizing now that there are probably people here who were Riley’s age (11) when that movie came out (2015)…

“Dick Bong” sounds like a nickname you’d give someone you caught trying to turn a bong into a fleshlight. Or vice-versa…

Yeah but as long as you download CSAM you’re on this governments “nice” list. Use that to throw them off your scent.

Oh they like cheese pizza? Must be a god-fearing republican like us. Move along.

I think these are different teeth. Like one person tried it and another had insatiable curiosity after seeing the bit one.

That first picture is great. That’s essentially generative AI, right? You cast out a problem and have it solved multiple times asynchronously, then find the (mean/median/mode) value.

I do wonder how many of those ladies (weird how “computer” was a largely female profession, and then IT quickly became a largely male profession. Not making any commentary here, just kind of a showerthought observation) got laid off because of the computer. I wonder what they did after their jobs were replaced by it, and if that in turn was a net positive for them/their families.

I guess this was right around the peak of the babyboom, so I think I know what they did. And for a while there, it was feasible for a typical family to do well on a single income.

That’d be nice. Maybe next time around we can get it so that families can do well on a single part-time income. Or more gender-equality for who stays home and who works. Hell, I think a lot of families would be happy to be able to do well on two full-time incomes now. But this is getting into the devaluation of human labor now, instead of the evolution of technology.

On the one hand, I get it. I really do. It takes an absurd amount of resources for what it does.

On the other hand, I wonder if people said the same of early generation comptuers. UNIVAC used tubes of mercury for RAM and consumed 125KW of electricity to process a whopping 2k operations per second.

Probably not. Most people weren’t aware of it, nor did they have a care for power consumption, water consumption, etc. We were in peak-American Exceptionalism in the post-war era.

But, had they, and computers kinda just…died. Right there, in the 1950s. Would we have gone to the moon? Would we have HDTV? iPhones? Social Media? A treacherous imbecile in charge of the most powerful military the world has ever seen?

Probably not.

So…I do worry about the consumption, and the ecological and environmental impact. But, what if that is a necessary evil for the continued evolution of technology, and with it, society? And, if it is, do we want that?

And, to go a step further, could AI potentially aid in finding realistic ways to undo the harms that it had caused? Or those of anthropogenic climate change? Or uncover new unforseen dangers?

Did the inventors of UNIVAC ponder if its descendants would one day aid in curing terminal illness, or predicting intense weather, or realize how much it would evolve in the coming decades? Moore wouldn’t have even coined his iconic law for another 14 years.

What I don’t like…what I really don’t like…is that this phase of technological evolution is coinciding with rampant pro-capital/anti-social rhetoric and governance. I like that it’s forcing conversations around modernizing copyright law, licenses, etc…but I don’t like who is involved in those conversations.

Windows is just a hostile OS now. The only explanation for its dominance now is mass Stockholm syndrome.

Or use a password manager and strong unique passwords everywhere. It’s really not that hard. Just disable everything built into browsers and OS and use a good third-party platform like Bitwarden.

Honestly it’s easier than remembering one weak password (and then being to change it every 3 months for your bank and every 4 months for your utilities…)

Then you can store your passkeys in Bitwarden boom they are on all devices.

Googles Passkey is one of the easiest things to use in the world.

I really wish there was an opensource Social Auth option that was, ya know, actually used. I hate logging into my Google account, but likely for different reasons than op is stating.

So my kid is learning guitar, and I keep thinking of ideas for mildly inappropriate songs for him to learn, because he’s only nine.

I’m gonna add “Stacy’s Mom” to that list, for you.

I know it might be wrong, but I’m gonna teach him that song.

Me, every time I see Fabuloso.

Hello, Clarice.

Actually saying it out loud it kinda sounds like a BFE, Minnesota accent. Or maybe more Canadian. However my idea of Minnesota accent is based on the mom from Bobby’s World and Uncle Joey’s beaver.

I’m realizing again a few minutes later that 00s+ kids may not get either of those references. And Dave Coullier is Canadian and I think his beaver is too.

Edit again, I realize that the 00s+ kids that don’t get the references would probably be more confused by me referencing two mens beavers.

Dave Coullier (sp?) was the actor who played the character Uncle Joey (Gladstone) in Full House, where he pretended to be the uncle to three little girls and lived in their house, with their dad Bob Sagat (of “the aristocrats” and “Rolling with Sagat”), after the mom died of mysterious circumstances. As the girls got older Uncle Joey started making videos where he stuck his hand into a beaver and used it as a puppet. Part of this gag usually revolved around various jokes about “wood”. Eventually this got him to become a bit of a local celebrity, in the morning news and as a radio host.

Partly related fact, Alanis Morissette’s album (and now Broadway Musical), Jagged Little Pill, was inspired by a bad breakup with Dave Coullier

American here, and they rhyme. LEE-ver and NEE-ver.

Better Nate than lever.

– https://natethesnake.com/

I’m gonna wear my grandfather’s old ghost costume. It’s really high quality linen. My drycleaner was speechless, like he couldn’t believe what he was seeing. Like he’d seen a ghost. He even told me he couldn’t clean it and to take it somewhere else. It’s that high quality. That’s the type of “wow” I hope to get.

Semi-related PSA for when Disney is eventually uncancelled…

If you find yourself at Animal Kingdom, try to get on some of the later safari rides. Like, closer to dusk. Usually not much of a line. Totally different experience than during the day.

That’s when you might hear the kitties meow like 15 feet from the van.

Let’s take a look at plus-size models. That’s a really good example.

It makes this rift between haas/body acceptance and what’s really actually healthy.

But on the flip side, super-skinny models aren’t exactly healthy, either.

Both normalize unhealthy weight and lead to population-wide body image problems and related eating disorders. Then you get things like social media throwing rocket fuel on that fire.

I don’t see how either is “woke” though.

Science now has two outlets:

• you can pay money to publish in a scientific journal and get critiqued by other scientists…

• or you can get paid to publish on Amazon and get praised by idiots (while also getting critiqued by other scientists…which won’t matter because by the time your book is popular enough for peers to notice, you’ve already got an army of idiots to drown them out)

Take a wild gander as to which this likely is.