Just yesterday I had to comb through a 17-ft roll of parchment looking for a dropped semicolon.

Good! Watch these moves well

Man but where would we be if he didn’t have those extra two years he lived, only to die of his refusal to get actual medical treatment? Think of the iPhones!

I’d ask how he keeps getting to the top of the transplant list given how many people die every year waiting for organs but I feel like I already know the answer

Turn 13 in 2039.
Receive government account for Facebook, the social media site where the dead outnumber the living.
Make first of three daily mandated posts.
Get a comment from Uncle Carl, who died in the Drone Wars.
It’s a picture of a pig pooping on its own balls.

Ah yes, the thing people have been predicting since the 1920’s is surely be at hand thanks to this latest productivity-increasing innovation.

The skeleton army has an awesome dental plan and a generous vacation allowance.

They ended up doing a cartoon series that has apparently been running for over 15 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Kratts

The 80’s/90’s problematically horny sci fi era will never be replicated by man nor machine.

notices ur sfumato OwO

Sounds recorded at vibrant reefs — such as the clicks of snapping prawn and the thrum of fish — fill the water at spots where coral reefs are struggling because of high temperatures, pollution and other stresses.

Not knocking anyone for trying here, but how does this not feel kinda messed up?

By unloading the expensive semiconductors to investors, the company could adopt a more asset-light approach to its balance sheet.

It’s not “dumping liabilities on the marks,” it’s “taking a more asset-light approach”

All the rubes are out there replacing workers with AI while Apple sticks with the tried and true method of squeezing ever larger amounts of labor from an ever smaller pool of workers.

They probably wouldn’t even notice if we were sneaky enough about it!

Cory Doctorow used the metaphor of a toddler sitting in the back seat with a toy steering wheel to suggest we let billionaires play with LLMs while quietly airgapping them away from anything that society actually requires to function. If management could be contented with a sycophantic algorithm churning out nonsense reports while someone who drew the short straw occasionally goes in and reassures them that their instructions are being followed, that could be the best solution.

One of the higher ups pointed ChatGPT at our GitHub and asked it to find things for us to do. They then sent us the resulting four pages of incoherent consultant speak it extruded and asked us to address the issues.

I’m pretty sure one of the reasons LLMs are catching on with bosses is because they’re used to throwing gobs of money at real people to produce this sort of work-adjacent bullshit and so the ability to automate it is an actual innovation in their minds.