Steve Donovan

@whitequark Sigourney Weaver testing a flame thrower in 1978 for Alien. Should handle those Murder Hornets ....

You join a startup generating $74 Billion / day. But there are no developers. There’s just one “agent orchestrator” (mentally ill), pumping out thousands of commits into main. He’s never seen a single line of code his entire life. You are asked to make the product “unhackable”

@pmamtraveller I am definitely going to connect with my Inner Mongolian child this week. Might be hard to find a camel with a sense of humour at short notice though

“Inner Mongolian Child” by Han Chengli

@Alvarend7 Powerful avocado vibes!

Kinetic sand soo satisfying

One falls in love, and then learns, for the duration, that one is at the mercy of someone else’s childhood. Hanif Kureishi

The Grill with a Pearl Earring. I painted with acrylic.

Why is the AI backlash growing? Outside of coding (where there is clear value), and a handful of other domains (e.g. brainstorming), Generative AI has been a net negative for society. GenAI has been undermining secondary and college education, opening up mass surveillance, increasing disinformation, delusions, impersonation, phishing, and other forms of cybercrime, nonconsensual deep fake porn, bias in employment and other domains, and economic disparity, drowning the world in slop and unwanted, over-leveraged environment-damaging data centers that risk causing a recession. Simultaneously it has empowered a bunch of people who want to privatize almost all the gains while leave all the downsides to society, taking almost zero responsibility. I don’t think we are better off than we were four years ago. Some of this is technical (LLMs aren’t reliable), some of it is political/economic (such as the utter lack of responsible regulation). Most of this was predictable. Almost none of it is good. All that said, I honestly believes some future form of AI might be great. But Generative AI has hurt more than it has helped, and been managed irresponsibly. It’s no wonder many people have had enough.

Q: How many Ukrainians does it take to change a light bulb? A: None.

@gracecamille_ Douglas Adams could have done that paragraph...

“One day, he was instantly killed in a horrifying way by forces vastly in excess of anything he was ever designed to experience, for no reason, to no ones particular surprise or upset. In this we are more like him than different”

@BonesawMD There is that expression in the Dao De Jing "the ten thousand things". Looking at Twitter, I see the same old stuff recycled & rediscovered. There are less than ten thousand things

If you leave this app for 6 months and come back you will realise you haven’t missed anything. 98% of what you’re exposed to are repetitive thought loops Day in and day out. Very easy to lose years of your life here.

When you realize that routines are actually rituals of devotion to yourself and your dreams they become much easier to follow

Beautiful paint colour

Just because you're used to the desert doesn't mean you don't deserve the ocean

“The poor die defending the rules that keep them poor because they mistake obedience for belonging.” ~ George Orwell #WakeUpEverybody✊🏿

this phone's case has more utility than 90% of cryptocurrencies

— Mary Oliver

Un tipo armo una app para dejar de estar todo el dia en internet Cada cierto tiempo te aparece un gato gordo y te tapa toda la pantalla para que no puedas ver nada kjj

"Foraging Wild Edibles" by artist Tiberius Ciucinciu.

We are rapidly approaching an 'iphone moment' when it comes to the arrival of personal robots. A sports shop in China with robots on a treadmill promoting sports clothes. h/t @gunsnrosesgirl3

As I walk through the valley of the Shadow of Death, I remind myself that you can't always trust Google Maps.