I stayed up all night long setting up my new (refurbished) phone: a Pixel 8 Pro. I put GrapheneOS which I am thoroughly enjoying. I find the lack of RCS support a small price to pay for warding off the nagging “AI features”.

I also got into the Niagara Launcher which makes my brain happy to look at. Imported some old Vampire the Masquerade TTFs and played graphic designer. Wish you could make the text red!

Traditional media is captured by big business. Outlets like The New York Times, Reuters, CBS, etc frame conversations around AI this way because it shifts the liability away from the oligarchs at the wheel. They didn’t do wrong because the silly AI made a mistake not the innocent humans. And the AI said it’s sorry!

Yes, logically it holds as much water as saying the Furby ate your homework, but that’s the point. The purpose of saying GenAI is not just immune to blame but inevitable is to get the serving and consuming classes to surrender their control and critical thinking to the wealthy.

Absolum made me beat em up pilled. I crave post game. I’m playing Code of Princess and Streets of Rage 4 now to cope.

They might all lose their jobs but I’m glad they’re taking a stand

Most people have no idea their data is being scraped from the services they use either, that doesn’t mean they like it or that they should.

Unlike some folks in this thread, I never got an opt in pop up for the “features” on desktop or mobile.

The fields:

browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled browser.ml.chat.menu browser.ml.chat.page browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate

The Tumblr post:

God I hate the NYT. When it’s not adding credibility to the US government it’s adding credibility to AI psychosis.

I’ve been emulating a lot of 3DS games on my Deck, played these three quite extensively on a bus trip to NY:

Pokemon Ultra Sun (with Photonic Sun hack for catching em all, more interesting wild pokemon distribution and more challenging trainer battles)

Kirby Planet Robobot, the best 2D Kirby after Super Star

Fire Emblem Awakening

Um this rules

Yesterday my wife and I went to my best friend’s place. Our old friend, a neuroscientist formally pursuing her postdoc in Texas before all science lost its funding is staying with my best friend now. We ate Taco Bell, smoked weed, read Homestuck and cursed the government by candlelight. Is this community building?

Shoot I’m doing okay weirdly! I’m seeing Cheekface tonight, things around the home are going well, I’m worried about the eugenicists but hey I’m still able to make silly art and play video games so that’s not nothing!

Nice site, I’m a big fan of Bagel Radio and was happy to see it as one of the stream options. Good variety of alt rock as far back as the 60s and as recent as today. There’s a live hosted show every Friday (9-5 EST) and the DJ is always ranting about the far right ghouls rampant in US media and government. Good times.

That takes me back. I’m stoned watching Bly Manor with my housemates. Creepy dolls are creepy

Thanks for saying so; it’s easy to believe this is just how it’s going to be in any programming job and hearing how unreasonable this is from folks on the outside but in the field is encouraging.