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There’s something obscenely on the nose about every large tech company puppeteering a POC in their generative videos to really drive home how they deprived a working actor an opportunity to get paid or meaningfully advance their career.
May 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
There’s something obscenely on the nose about every large tech company puppeteering a POC in their generative videos to really drive home how they deprived a working actor an opportunity to get paid or meaningfully advance their career.
I was intrigued by the Switch 2 mouse capabilities but after seeing that UFO mini game I’m convinced they’re making a modern Mario Paint, right? Multiplayer Mario Paint? System seller.
April 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I was intrigued by the Switch 2 mouse capabilities but after seeing that UFO mini game I’m convinced they’re making a modern Mario Paint, right? Multiplayer Mario Paint? System seller.
Wait isn’t RHOSLC filming right now? Someone get cameras on Whitney Rose!
April 2, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Wait isn’t RHOSLC filming right now? Someone get cameras on Whitney Rose!
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The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.
March 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.
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Hamilton's newsletter is always so good, but this edition really hits the spot for people who want more justice in the world and feel powerless to help bring it about!! Here's one place to start!
The left thinks a lot about justice but not enough about power.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/theres-no-...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/theres-no-...
There's No Justice Without Power
A rich guy's lesson for the left.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
March 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Hamilton's newsletter is always so good, but this edition really hits the spot for people who want more justice in the world and feel powerless to help bring it about!! Here's one place to start!
All artists get better with practice.
AI artists only get better when a corporation lets them.
How embarrassing!
AI artists only get better when a corporation lets them.
How embarrassing!
March 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
All artists get better with practice.
AI artists only get better when a corporation lets them.
How embarrassing!
AI artists only get better when a corporation lets them.
How embarrassing!
AI “art” is a weapon of fascism.
Creativity thrives in community and there are few things an authoritarian fears more than collective action and meaningful storytelling, lest they rally a resistance.
This is why they call it “democratizing” art and need to rub our noses in it. They’re cowards.
Creativity thrives in community and there are few things an authoritarian fears more than collective action and meaningful storytelling, lest they rally a resistance.
This is why they call it “democratizing” art and need to rub our noses in it. They’re cowards.
March 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
AI “art” is a weapon of fascism.
Creativity thrives in community and there are few things an authoritarian fears more than collective action and meaningful storytelling, lest they rally a resistance.
This is why they call it “democratizing” art and need to rub our noses in it. They’re cowards.
Creativity thrives in community and there are few things an authoritarian fears more than collective action and meaningful storytelling, lest they rally a resistance.
This is why they call it “democratizing” art and need to rub our noses in it. They’re cowards.
Ghibli AI art filters are brilliant for the type of guy who thinks that “remember this thing that existed when you were a kid” Family Guy cutaways are the height of humor
March 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Ghibli AI art filters are brilliant for the type of guy who thinks that “remember this thing that existed when you were a kid” Family Guy cutaways are the height of humor
The generative hype cycle:
An engineer spends a lot of time training a model on a style that he thinks will impress women
Within 12 hrs: A bunch of bandwagon hoppers leech on to the hot new thing and milk it to death through low effort memes
Within 1 week: Ghibli AI slop is cringe
An engineer spends a lot of time training a model on a style that he thinks will impress women
Within 12 hrs: A bunch of bandwagon hoppers leech on to the hot new thing and milk it to death through low effort memes
Within 1 week: Ghibli AI slop is cringe
March 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The generative hype cycle:
An engineer spends a lot of time training a model on a style that he thinks will impress women
Within 12 hrs: A bunch of bandwagon hoppers leech on to the hot new thing and milk it to death through low effort memes
Within 1 week: Ghibli AI slop is cringe
An engineer spends a lot of time training a model on a style that he thinks will impress women
Within 12 hrs: A bunch of bandwagon hoppers leech on to the hot new thing and milk it to death through low effort memes
Within 1 week: Ghibli AI slop is cringe
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the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!
February 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!
Cool Labor Union Worker: Woah hey we gotta Tim Apple ovah heah.
Tech Guy in Black Turtleneck : You mean Steve Jobs?
CLUW: buddy I bet you ‘ain’t never worked no fuckin’ jobs in your life. Your computer girlfriend tells ya how’ta dress?
Tech Guy in Black Turtleneck : You mean Steve Jobs?
CLUW: buddy I bet you ‘ain’t never worked no fuckin’ jobs in your life. Your computer girlfriend tells ya how’ta dress?
February 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Cool Labor Union Worker: Woah hey we gotta Tim Apple ovah heah.
Tech Guy in Black Turtleneck : You mean Steve Jobs?
CLUW: buddy I bet you ‘ain’t never worked no fuckin’ jobs in your life. Your computer girlfriend tells ya how’ta dress?
Tech Guy in Black Turtleneck : You mean Steve Jobs?
CLUW: buddy I bet you ‘ain’t never worked no fuckin’ jobs in your life. Your computer girlfriend tells ya how’ta dress?
What’s the opposite of a failwhale?
January 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
What’s the opposite of a failwhale?
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The U.S. imports more than a quarter of its coffee from Colombia. The price of coffee has already gone up substantially, so this is pretty much going to fuck everyone.
NEW: Trump is going to force Americans to pay more for coffee because Colombia refused to accept his deportation flights.
He announces immediate 25% tariffs on all Colombian goods, rising to 50% next week.
Diplomatic bullying of a supposed ally and economic self-harm.
It’s Day 6.
He announces immediate 25% tariffs on all Colombian goods, rising to 50% next week.
Diplomatic bullying of a supposed ally and economic self-harm.
It’s Day 6.
January 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The U.S. imports more than a quarter of its coffee from Colombia. The price of coffee has already gone up substantially, so this is pretty much going to fuck everyone.
Here’s an idea. What if Elon Musk’s Nazi AI told you what books you should and shouldn’t read? Or better yet told you to stay illiterate and spend more time interacting with their AI?
"Imagine a world in which an A.I. can analyze your reading patterns and alert you that you’re about to buy a book where there’s only a 10 percent chance you’ll get past Page 6..."
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Opinion | AI Can Work for Us
A.I. can be designed to dramatically enhance individual empowerment.
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Here’s an idea. What if Elon Musk’s Nazi AI told you what books you should and shouldn’t read? Or better yet told you to stay illiterate and spend more time interacting with their AI?
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every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”
January 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”
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Imagine a world where you never learned or tried anything new, you just kept pushing the button for another pellet like a rat.
"Imagine a world in which an A.I. can analyze your reading patterns and alert you that you’re about to buy a book where there’s only a 10 percent chance you’ll get past Page 6..."
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Opinion | AI Can Work for Us
A.I. can be designed to dramatically enhance individual empowerment.
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Imagine a world where you never learned or tried anything new, you just kept pushing the button for another pellet like a rat.
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the world they want is one where you're either unemployed or work an almost no wage job, you have almost no political input or self determination and you’re happy about it because you can get a t-shirt off temu for a $1
The plan is to crash the economy to suppress wages.
January 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
the world they want is one where you're either unemployed or work an almost no wage job, you have almost no political input or self determination and you’re happy about it because you can get a t-shirt off temu for a $1
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The city's biggest police union wants to scuttle NYPD reforms that are meant to bring the department's protest policing policy in line with the U.S. Constitution. Last week, the union made its case to a federal appeals court: hellgatenyc.com/pba-wants-th...
NYC’s Biggest Police Union Still Wants to Reserve the Right to Violently Crush Protests
The Police Benevolent Association made its last ditch legal argument to scuttle a settlement that reforms how the NYPD approaches protests.
hellgatenyc.com
January 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The city's biggest police union wants to scuttle NYPD reforms that are meant to bring the department's protest policing policy in line with the U.S. Constitution. Last week, the union made its case to a federal appeals court: hellgatenyc.com/pba-wants-th...
We do have to give the Democrats credit for their accomplishments over the last 4 years. Their insider trading grift really cleared the way for this administration’s crypto grifts.
January 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We do have to give the Democrats credit for their accomplishments over the last 4 years. Their insider trading grift really cleared the way for this administration’s crypto grifts.
What tech innovations are Silicon Valley going to bring to war? Subscription models for the nuclear briefcase?
December 23, 2024 at 2:17 PM
What tech innovations are Silicon Valley going to bring to war? Subscription models for the nuclear briefcase?