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scooby shabobo @thrashinbatman.bsky.social · 1h

but to be clear, women DO in fact hate the vehicle

scooby shabobo @thrashinbatman.bsky.social · 2h

when i first started saying this i was kidding, but as time has gone on i think i can admit im serious now:

everything after Windows 7 was a mistake

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 6h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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scooby shabobo @thrashinbatman.bsky.social · 2h

"women don't like the vehicle" is gonna be bouncing around in my head for the next week or so

Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 8h

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

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Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 9h

Big part of the trouble with politics these days is that "we disagree on the right solution to this problem" and "we disagree on the material reality of what the problem is and how it functions on a fundamental level" are treated as equally legitimate

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scooby shabobo @thrashinbatman.bsky.social · 5h

i even see people who are somewhat aware of the problems, but still occasionally share GenAI pictures because they dont quite grasp just how far-reaching it can be these days

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scooby shabobo @thrashinbatman.bsky.social · 5h

Microsoft cant prevent themselves from forcing Teams and OneDrive on people. like physically, they cant do it

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scooby shabobo @thrashinbatman.bsky.social · 6h

really helps put it all in context

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scooby shabobo @thrashinbatman.bsky.social · 1d

the Lowe's by me moved the Halloween stuff out of the way to make room right in front of the entrance for the Christmas stuff. it's bad enough that we gave up Thanksgiving for Christmas, but now apparently we're doing it to Halloween too. fuck that

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scooby shabobo @thrashinbatman.bsky.social · 1d

yeah sure whatever who even gives a shit anymore

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scooby shabobo @thrashinbatman.bsky.social · 1d

im not even really sure about "AI is the new law of the land" because even then you cant get around the fact that a lot of OpenAI's future viability is tied up in promises that it cannot physically keep. even if we tore every industry down and replaced it with AI, those data centers arent happening.

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scooby shabobo @thrashinbatman.bsky.social · 1d

it's 2016 forever

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scooby shabobo @thrashinbatman.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that Altman's big ideas for profitability are "slop social media platform with ads" and "porn" should tell you how juiceless OpenAI is. If this shit was truly revolutionary, they'd have revolutionary use cases for it.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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scooby shabobo @thrashinbatman.bsky.social · 1d

kind of absurd how much ball you have to know to not get fucked at the dealership these days. i dread the day i have to get another car.

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scooby shabobo @thrashinbatman.bsky.social · 1d

absolutely are made weird. being totally insulated from consequences or criticism does awful, awful stuff to your brain

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ThinlyVeiledPanda @thinlyveiledpanda.bsky.social · 3d

I’m beginning by to think I may have wasted my time and become another casualty of society

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scooby shabobo @thrashinbatman.bsky.social · 2d

the whole "do women actually wanna fuck right wing dudes?" thing that they constantly float is as pathetic as it is hilarious. it isnt happening, fellas, give up

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 3d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

www.gq.com

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scooby shabobo @thrashinbatman.bsky.social · 2d

we've all spent years trying to explain to folks that no, the President doesnt have nearly as much control of the economy as we pretend he does, and it takes a while for what changes they do implement to show themselves. then Trump shows up and almost single handedly ruins everything immediately

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scooby shabobo @thrashinbatman.bsky.social · 2d

perpetually thankful my job doesnt use that shit

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 2d

RIP to Drew Struzen, the greatest to ever do it. 🙌

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scooby shabobo @thrashinbatman.bsky.social · 2d

"a new way to do shit that we could already do" is definitely worth hundreds of billions of dollars and boiling every single body of water, for sure

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scooby shabobo @thrashinbatman.bsky.social · 3d

developing quantum ligma to sell to Mark Zuckerberg

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3d

i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question

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OrbGazer @orbgazer.bsky.social · 3d

Shredding Is Not A Crime

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scooby shabobo @thrashinbatman.bsky.social · 4d

COVID also fucked the market up bad. Prices are still absurd compared to pre-2020 levels. I remember when folks were practically giving away 5150s and now because of that + EVHs death they're collectors items. Idk how anyone is expected to afford any gear beyond the lowest end shit anymore

scooby shabobo @thrashinbatman.bsky.social · 6d

things that make you say, "hell yeah"

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scooby shabobo @thrashinbatman.bsky.social · 7d

i was incredibly skeptical of X-Men '97 and it blew my mind. probably the best thing Marvel has put out in years

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