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- Comment on OpenAI strikes a deal with the Defense Department to deploy its AI models 1 hour ago:
Yes.
When I leave a cool shadow, the middle finger will be raised to salute the dead ashes of the assholes who thought plugging AI into weapons was a good line to cross.
And someday my ashes will be absorbed into some other living thing. And whatever it is, that living thing will find their ashes and take a steaming dump on them in honor of the lost memory of their stupidity.
- Comment on AI tool OpenClaw wipes the inbox of Meta's AI Alignment director despite repeated commands to stop — executive had to manually terminate the AI to stop the bot from continuing to erase data 1 day ago:
AI is great for plausible deniability.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 1 day ago:
There will certainly be statues. That’s probably inevitable.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 1 day ago:
I have a sneaking suspicion that these PCs will have some sort of protection so that nothing other than Win365 can run. Maybe a locked bootloader/secureboot?
Yes. Very probably.
Of course, no security mechanism lasts indefinitely in the hands of a persistent hacker with physical access.
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to monitor employee 'friendliness' 2 days ago:
Alternately, nothing interesting at all happens, and the AI just has one of it’s frequent hallucinations, and I’m fired.
There’s a special level of sociopathy happening to put today’s AI in charge of anyone’s livelihood.
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 4 days ago:
I heard there was an invisible hand that I should trust.
- Comment on The wildest part about this poll is that it was only shared to Star Wars sites 4 days ago:
Absolutely nothing!
(Thank you for setting up the line!)
- Comment on The wildest part about this poll is that it was only shared to Star Wars sites 5 days ago:
The bomber run physics were fine.
I’ll see myself out.
- Comment on The wildest part about this poll is that it was only shared to Star Wars sites 5 days ago:
I am your nephew’s second cousin’s boyfriend’s roommate’s uncle’s brother!
- Comment on The wildest part about this poll is that it was only shared to Star Wars sites 5 days ago:
And C4, obviously.
- Comment on 'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a 'rookie error' 5 days ago:
And has fewer worthless emails in her inbox.
- Comment on Hegseth threatens to blacklist Anthropic over 'woke AI' concerns 5 days ago:
Might be time to revive “drunk or a child?”
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 1 week ago:
I would buy that.
- Comment on YSK Article Five of the United States Constitution 1 week ago:
Oof, so you think that greater than 70% of the people in congress care more about their take home pay than the success of the country they represent?
Yes. Easily greater than 70%.
- Comment on Oh no, Intel is moving customer support to AI 1 week ago:
Results have been mixed.
This is why it is critical that companies implement agentic AI as quickly as possible. That way the product can already be shipped and received without anyone at the company even noticing.
- Comment on BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games (Demon's Souls/Shadow of the Colossus remakes) 1 week ago:
Exactly. It’s the gamers who are wrong.
- Comment on What are the best solo, free, PnP table games for someone coming from dnd burnout? 1 week ago:
Since it’s a list of other great recommendations, I want to highlight for you:
If you’re willing to spend $10, itch.io has an amazing bundle on right now with a bunch of solo games:
https://itch.io/b/3484/no-ice-in-minnesota
By a “bunch”, there’s a total of *over 1400 games. Some are PC games and some are print and play one shot RPGs or board games or party games. Many have solo rules.
If this deal wasn’t going on right now, in your shoes, I would still go shop itch.io because it’s where I find great independent solo game and solo RPG authors, and many are like $2.
Seriously great bundle for a pen and paper gamer. I’ve never seen one like it.
It’s a worthwhile charity too, in my opinion. I live too close to Minnesota, so I have some motivation to see the masked thugs without badges or body cameras stopped before they spread any further.
- Comment on What are the best solo, free, PnP table games for someone coming from dnd burnout? 1 week ago:
If you’re willing to spend $10, itch.io has an amazing bundle on right now with a bunch of solo games:
https://itch.io/b/3484/no-ice-in-minnesota
Yes. Seriously great recommendation. There’s so many games, and some are print and play including solo play rules.
- Comment on Amazon Wins $6 Million in Damages Against Pirated DVD Stores, Plus Domain Takeovers 1 week ago:
I certainly hope so!
- Comment on Amazon Wins $6 Million in Damages Against Pirated DVD Stores, Plus Domain Takeovers 1 week ago:
I always try to pay for my media in whatever way supports the creators the best.
But if Amazon won’t sell the format I’m buying, I’ll gladly pay someone who will. And laws made by Amazon soley for Amazon’s benefit do not obligate me to become some kind of detective when I buy a DVD.
So no one should force Amazon to produce DVDs, but Amazon shouldn’t be able to stop others from producing what they refuse to produce. There’s already laws about abandoned products that could be applied.
This is just Amazon using their money to be a bully.
This whole thing wouldn’t be an issue if copyright was a reasonable length, like 5 years.
- Comment on Lawyers increasingly have to convince clients that AI chatbots give bad advice 1 week ago:
Yes please. More folks need to all in on the idiocy of trusting an AI for legal advice. Let’s get this public lesson over with.
This is one of the cases where they can simply be a hilarious example for the rest of us, rather than getting a bunch of the rest of us killed.
- Comment on Who Wants to Rent a Human? 1 week ago:
I mean, I guess I’ll take their money.
This wouldn’t be the first time someone was sure their algorithm was smarter than thousands of gig workers, and lost their investment money. It also probably won’t be the last time.
- Comment on Having grown up on sci-fi I always knew there would be people who reject robots and AI on a visceral level, I just thought it wouldn't be me. 1 week ago:
what we have right now is closer to a McDonald’s toy pretending to be AI than the real deal.
I’m stealing this.
I’m going to use it to explain while I simultaneously have so much derision for modern AI, while I also enjoy it.
I like McDonald’s toys. I just don’t use them for big person work.
- Comment on Having grown up on sci-fi I always knew there would be people who reject robots and AI on a visceral level, I just thought it wouldn't be me. 1 week ago:
other examples that I’ve forgotten that would really help me make my point.
Self driving cars that gleefully run down model children in school pick up simulations.
- Comment on Whats the best way to clean up 15 years of stuff around the house? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks. It has helped me, at least.
- Comment on Whats the best way to clean up 15 years of stuff around the house? 2 weeks ago:
I have a two rules that help me:
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I never move between rooms of the house without carrying something back where it belongs. Every trip should make my house a tiny bit tidier.
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When I pick up something random and it doesn’t obviously belong anywhere, I drop it into my “probably should give this away” bin.
When the “probably should give this away” bin fills, I’ll rescue onr or two things I changed my mind about, and give the rest away to empty the bin.
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- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 2 weeks ago:
Existing franchises are missing the young people because they’re about squeezing pennies out of nostalgia, rather than making good games.
The Indie developers of today are creating tomorrow’s lasting franchises.
It’s a tale as old as game development.
It’s all there from day one in the history of Atari and Activision.
Atari’s CEO decided that game developers should wear ties, keep standard work hours and be happy with a salary instead of any equity. This brilliant leadership vision led to the founding of Activision.
Atari went on to become a brand husk company.
Activision went on to become Blizzard / Activision and get bought for more money than I’ll ever see.
- Comment on 15 degrees fahrenheit feels almost the same as 5 degrees. However 35 degrees feels WAY colder than 45 degrees. 2 weeks ago:
It starts to make sense when we account for our body’s reactions.
The human body will work much harder at some of these temperatures, than at others.
It’s also why wind chill matters. The amount of heat lost by the body is much more relevant to safety than the ambient temperature.
- Comment on Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting after you die 2 weeks ago:
That’s a no from me, dawg.
My post-life AI clone will have a single purpose: shitposting to Meta services about how shitty those same Meta services are.
- Comment on The Undiscovered Country: Why is the galley set so worn out? 2 weeks ago:
One of the plot points in “Undiscovered Country” is that the crew were coasting out the last three months until their retirement, when the Klingon crisis happens.
So it makes sense that the set team tried to make the ship look worn in and ready for some time off.