David McLean

You too, wall. You too

@S0NGT0THESIREN A little known fact about Ken Russell is he was the world’s leading capillomancer. Actors in his films spontaneously grew magnificent yet artfully floppy hair overnight. Hugh Grant had full body alopecia before working with him. Oliver Reed was sixty naked mole rats in a cape

idk if anyone is picking up what i'm putting down but the men in ken russell films are such gender goals for me it's crazy

@BerryMuses @ghostysapphic Stretching goals make life worth living

@ghostysapphic I really hate Jimmy Carr and I still think you're right, I could be doing more.

we as a society don’t hate jimmy carr enough

@rat_balls_69 @ghostysapphic Jimmy Carr looks like he was born with plastic surgery done in the womb

@ghostysapphic Comedians don't even make jokes anymore they just look at you like

This Reddit post. An example of how well-meaning people are victimized by AI.

Let me explain exactly why your phone seems to read your thoughts, because the real answer is more invasive than telepathy. Every time you open a website or app, a real-time bidding auction fires in under 100 milliseconds. Your GPS coordinates, browsing history, device fingerprint, age, gender, income bracket, and hundreds of inferred interest categories get packaged into a “bid request” and broadcast to hundreds of companies simultaneously. One company wins the ad slot. All of them keep the data. This happens thousands of times per day per person. A 2018 New York Times investigation found 75 companies pulling precise location data from apps, with some users tracked up to 14,000 times in 24 hours. In 2012, a Target statistician identified 25 products that, purchased in combination, could predict a customer was pregnant and estimate her due date. A teenager’s father discovered she was pregnant because Target sent baby coupons to the house before she told anyone. That was one retailer. Store receipts only. Fourteen years ago. Now scale that. Your phone pings GPS while you sleep. Data brokers link your phone, laptop, and tablet through probabilistic matching of IP addresses, WiFi networks, and behavioral patterns without you ever logging in. The FTC caught two brokers in 2024 categorizing people by visits to reproductive health clinics, political protests, and religious services, then selling those profiles to law enforcement. The algorithm doesn’t hear your thoughts. It compares your behavioral fingerprint against millions of similar profiles and predicts your next interest before you’re consciously aware of it. It makes hundreds of predictions per day. You ignore the misses. The five hits feel like telepathy. You paid for the phone. You pay for the data plan. You generate the signal. And every time a page loads, your identity gets auctioned to the highest bidder before the content even renders. They called it “personalized advertising” because “real-time mass surveillance funded by the people being surveilled” doesn’t fit on a consent banner.

@romanitor23 @TTomTToro

@SwordsaintPress @TTomTToro Brother is suffering from psychosis and didn’t even need AI

@romanitor23 @TTomTToro No, robot in Mumbai, that is not the plan for real. That would be a criminal offence. You are a naughty bot. Don’t commit crimes

@SwordsaintPress @TTomTToro So we riot and destroy all the data centers? Is that the plan for real?

@esjesjesj A psychopath

Wha kind of person views the world like this

@r0ck3t23 @nlyonne The technical term for this is ‘horseshit’

Elon Musk just described the white-collar extinction event. On Joe Rogan. Casually. Musk: “Anything that is digital, which is like just someone at a computer doing something, AI is going to take over those jobs like lightning.” Not gradually. Not eventually. Lightning. The assumption most professionals are operating on is that AI will assist them. Make them faster. Augment what they do. That assumption is the most expensive mistake a person can make right now. Musk: “Just like digital computers took over the job of people doing manual calculations. But much faster.” Think about that analogy for a moment. We used to employ entire rooms of people whose sole function was arithmetic. Highly educated. Well-compensated. Essential to every organization that ran on numbers. Then the computer arrived and the entire category disappeared. Not shrank. Disappeared. Nobody talks about it as a tragedy anymore because the transition happened before most people alive today were born. It’s just history. A curiosity. That same transition is happening right now to coding, writing, analysis, research, legal work, financial modeling. Every profession whose output lives entirely on a screen. The difference is the speed. Digital computers took decades to displace manual calculation. This is moving in years. If your work begins and ends on a screen, you are not competing with a tool that makes someone else more productive. You are competing with a replacement that does not sleep, does not need benefits, and gets cheaper every six months. Musk is not predicting this future. He is describing the present tense.

Anne Applebaum nails it:

@NickClairmont1 Tolkien is clearly making the character describe the literal future of the next sentence, as if it has happened because it’s inevitable. When the kids say cooked they aren’t expecting cannibalism

This is actually a great example of why the OED methodology of finding a single first recorded usage to which to date the origin of words and phrases is misleading and wrongheaded

@WileECoder @pmddomingos Nothing. They see nothing. There is nothing there.

@pmddomingos wild how fast “bold prediction” turns into “we’re not talking about that anymore” makes you wonder what they see internally that we don’t

AI moves so fast. Barely a month and he’s already been sidelined.

@Variety By any standard this is abject and a disgrace to all involved. Will never watch, hope no-one else does

FIRST LOOK: Val Kilmer has been resurrected via AI to star in the new movie "As Deep as the Grave." Kilmer was cast in the movie in 2020, five years before his death. But he was too sick amid his throat cancer battle to ever make it to set. Now an AI version of the actor is appearing in the film, with the full blessing of his daughter, Mercedes: "He always looked at emerging technologies with optimism as a tool to expand the possibilities of storytelling. This spirit is something that we are all honoring within this specific film, of which he was an integral part.” “He was the actor I wanted to play this role,” says writer-director Coerte Voorhees. “It was very much designed around him. It drew on his Native American heritage and his ties to and love of the Southwest... His family kept saying how important they thought the movie was and that Val really wanted to be a part of this. He really thought it was important story that he wanted his name on. It was that support that gave me the confidence to say, okay let’s do this. Despite the fact some people might call it controversial, this is what Val wanted.” wp.me/pc8uak-1lH1PI

This

@nxthompson @jasminewsun This is deeply sad

This is a cool example of how you can use AI to help your writing—without relying on it for any actual writing. From @jasminewsun theatlantic.com/technology/202…

@diegrueneKatze @ErrorTheorist That’s quite funny, because your example doesn’t follow.

@SwordsaintPress @ErrorTheorist Laughably shallow reasoning. If you want a tattoo later in life, you can unfortunately get one, but removal is very imperfect process.

Here’s a paper arguing that getting tattoos can be immoral. The author argues that altering your body in this way can violate duties you have to your future self.

@DrAllyLouks It was RrarrraRRRRaaarrRRR

I wonder what the dinosaurs thought when they encountered magnolia blossoms 100 million years ago

No. This was only ever about positioning Meta as a ‘growth’ company, to prevent their share price cratering down to ‘mature company.’ It was never really really, just like the AI bubble isn’t really real