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giuspe @giuspe.bsky.social · 1d

(classic)

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giuspe @giuspe.bsky.social · 2d

[chef's kiss]

"If you had dinner with a trans friend on Tuesday, and dinner with fascists on Thursday, your trans friend had dinner with a fascist on Tuesday."

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giuspe @giuspe.bsky.social · 2d

why waste an hour at the gym, when within 5 minutes AI can get you an entire bucket of perfectly fine(ish) synthetic sweat! (sometimes ketchup) (or sawdust) (or rat piss).

...what do you mean with "if you want the gains you'll have to do the work yourself"?! oh, I see, you are an *ABLEIST*!

a close up of a squirrel looking at the camera with a blue sky in the background .

ALT: a close up of a squirrel looking at the camera with a blue sky in the background .

media.tenor.com

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giuspe @giuspe.bsky.social · 2d

let AI handle your job interview... it'll be over in 3/4 minutes! #achievement

giuspe @giuspe.bsky.social · 4d

this, but with the cafe chain owning 75% of cafes in town, and having locked you in with extremely shady anti-market policies.

(also, the competitor cafe sells you sandwiches with "chilly-flavored dogshit")

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giuspe @giuspe.bsky.social · 4d

fuuuuuu-

"1. What is about the Computer that has brought the view of man as a machine to a new level of plausibility? Clearly there have been other machines that imitated man in various ways, e.g., steam shovels. But not until the invention of the digital computer have there been machines that could perform intellectual functions of even modest scope; ie., machines that could in any sense be said to be intelligent. Now "artificial intelligence" (AI) is a sub- discipline of computer science. This new field will have to be discussed. Ultimately a line dividing human and machine intelligence must be drawn. If there is no such line, then advocates of computerized psychotherapy may be merely heralds of an age in which man has finally been recognized as nothing but a clock-work. Then the consequences of such a reality would need urgently to be divined and contemplated."

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giuspe @giuspe.bsky.social · 5d

(saw a Gibson Les Paul original guitar case when I was 11, not easy to come by where I grew up: it was federated with purple velvet, and stunning)

giuspe @giuspe.bsky.social · 5d

no, see, it's easy: you start from page 56, look for at least 3 "k", then move to the last fifth, look for references to penguins (or other fowl), if none is found just drop the book altogether and onto the next.

remember: the book is there to *SERVE YOU*

giuspe @giuspe.bsky.social · 5d

like wise investors say: "always put all of your eggs in one basket"

(or the other way around, can't remember)

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giuspe @giuspe.bsky.social · 6d

[absurd statement] into "I'm just asking questions" >> my brain starts to play muzak and think about house chores or something

giuspe @giuspe.bsky.social · 7d

[your heart surgeon, about to cut you open with a blunt fork] "ponder this: a scalpel is a metal stick with a handle"

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giuspe @giuspe.bsky.social · 7d

... hey! don't you dare besmirch my beloved Dyson! we go back a long time...

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giuspe @giuspe.bsky.social · 7d

"...the b-b-booomb is perfectly sAfE..."

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giuspe @giuspe.bsky.social · 7d

I mean, we *went* thru a pretty harsh race war back in my days

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giuspe @giuspe.bsky.social · 8d

this is coming in the same update that solves hallucinating, I guess.

giuspe @giuspe.bsky.social · 8d

ahah, Ed, you silly lizard! you do that with "Time Travel Self Gene Editing", a promising startup I'm about to found 5 years ago.

(we don't know how to actually do it, our investor pitch was just "yeah, dunno, we'll wait for AGI, it'll solve it")

(we got 7.6B$)

giuspe @giuspe.bsky.social · 8d

disagree! there's also Bill Hicks' "Scatmuncher" bit, which is not very polite to quote anymore because nowadays can sound a bit homo- and kinko-phobic (and vaguely fatphobic, but that's a false one I think)

Rush Limbaugh

YouTube video by Bill Hicks - Topic

youtu.be

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giuspe @giuspe.bsky.social · 9d

I think they think "CAESAR" means "weird broke person"

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giuspe @giuspe.bsky.social · 10d

@foldablehuman.bsky.social now that you're done with Silksong, time for "Line Goes Up 2.0"

www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

"NVIDIA's plan is simple: fund these neoclouds, let these neoclouds load themselves up with debt, at which point they buy GPUS from NVIDIA, which can then be used as collateral for loans, along with contracts from customers, allowing the neoclouds to buy even more GPUS. It's like that Robinhood infinite money glitch...

...except, that is, for one small problem. There don't appear to be that many customers."

giuspe @giuspe.bsky.social · 11d

so, in a move I heavily struggle to comprehend, Google recently removed from Maps

- the possibility to filter results by "open now"
- the possibility to sort results by distance, instead of "relevance" (aka "trust us bro" sorting)

thus rendering the app 98% useless.

suggested alternatives?

giuspe @giuspe.bsky.social · 12d

don't worry, on his super secret Signal group @deathToTheWesternDevil69 said this is "perfectly safe"

giuspe @giuspe.bsky.social · 14d

I'm just trying to imagine why a person who's 20yo or younger should take the world of "grown-ups" seriously at this point, what their motivation would be...

(coming up empty on the task)

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giuspe @giuspe.bsky.social · 15d

ok, so no changes to my daily routine then

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giuspe @giuspe.bsky.social · 15d

what if I have 9 SoundBlaster boards from 1996? is my garage safe? (my bad, I thought they'd be way more valuable in the future)

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