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lol, Bruce Sterling posted this to bsky: (image)
I don't understand the hate for transition lenses. You don't have to get them in frames last fashionable in 1982.
Another one
https://mastodon.social/@bruces/112690475011154532
edit seems to be a whole bunch of similar ones.
Strange sightings of electoral posters in Tokyo:
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI%E5%85%9A
This is just weird. But I guess that's to be expected from elections anywhere in the world, disgruntled groups use them to get their message out.
Have a cursed book written by Henry Kissenger in 2023.
The Age of AI: Our Human Future -- https://www.amazon.com/Age-I-Our-Human-Future/dp/0316273805
^Found^ ^by^ ^way^ ^of^ ^https://old.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/comments/1dqv2kj/having_heard_the_entirety_of_the_kissinger_series^
I hate that I saw that same post earlier today
Here's a quote from the book:
AI already transcends human perception — in a sense, through chronological compression or “time travel”: enabled by algorithms and computing power, it analyzes and learns through processes that would take human minds decades or even centuries to complete.
Glad to know the calculators I had in school were capable of time travel
I might have been wrong on the capabilities of ML, this is very impressive. (twitter link), was I wrong and Yud right?
Don't worry a heavily edited 3 minute video filled with inconsistencies promised me that AI movies were right around the corner. No matter that the unearthly writhing of the backgrounds makes me simultaneously motion sick and stressed out, I'm sure they'll work that out.
https://religionandpolitics.org/2021/05/12/the-eugenics-roots-of-evangelical-family-values/
Ran across this a few weeks back and boy howdy it explained some things…
"look surely not everything in America is explained by racism" "... OH COME ON NOW"
some of the rest is explained by greed
I doubt you had to do square dancing lessons in school over there but apparently that was a RW thing too.
What do normal people - people who don't pay for twitter, or sneer at rationalists - think of Twitter atp?
Went on to Twitter (my mistake) after seeing Inside Out 2 because it's the latest kid's movie to feature [trope that I found passe that I can't figure out how to spoil inline] and I see a post on my feed from "HBD Chick".
And I'm like okay, that has to be "happy birthday, right?". Nah, her third retweet is creamy porno redux.
Just like all the other right wingers and embarrassingly enthusiastic neoliberals and occasional Musk fans, I don't follow her or anybody that follows her, there's literally no connection or personal interest.
I feel like the post Elon shift is really understated for how bad the site's gotten. Like I see more people talk about how Instagram reels is racist than I do about the average twitter replies section. I know a lot of left leaning people fled for bluer pastures, but I'm surprised you don’t see more buzz about it from regular, non-power users.
Note: all the talk I mention is online talk. Nobody in my irl life talks about social media dynamics ever, thank GOD