Remember Friendster? It’s back, in slop form!

If you do it from the duck’s perspective it still breaks.

Why does Reachy 2 have a tank top? Are they shy about their bot nipples or something?

Thus, what appears as intellectual fast food – the ultra-processed thought-nuggets deep fried in venture capital – often conceals wholesome ingredients sourced from a gourmet pantry of quite some sophistication.

What am I even reading.

This demo is powered by a “World and Human Action Model” (WHAM)

George Michael must be spinning in his grave

“imagine a perfectly spherical chud of uniform duncity…”

Well has anyone tried prompting it in EBCDIC? How do we know doing so won’t immediately create the super intelligence that "or whatever"s us to silicon Valhalla? Asking for a friend.

Oh, is that what the orb was doing? I thought that was just a scam.

Imagine a perfectly spherical scientist…

Get in losers, we’re pivoting to crypto ai quantum

As an app fondler with 20 years of experience, it’s also “fuck my life”

Yeah, and a lot of the answers he gave seemed to originate from that point.

One particularly grating thing was saying that the left needs to embrace AI to fight facism because “facism embraced AI and they are doing well!” which is just so grating a conclusion to jump to.

Got to a point in this where Casey Newton enumerated his “only two sides” of AI and well, fuck Casey Newton.

So I enjoy the Garbage Day newsletter, but this episode of Panic World with Casey Newton is just painful, in the way that Casey is just spitting out unproven assertions.

This just hit my inbox (and spurred me to unsubscribe from future BuiltIn slop) and man, so tired of this sort of mindless drivel. Like companies still have trouble with basic application and management processes, but magic robot will fix? Fucking hell.

EZ is a PR person, and definitely has a PR person vibe. I don’t know what that poster’s deal is, and I would not accuse Ed of being an AI bro. That post kind of has “haters gonna hate” vibes

To be fair, you have to have a really high IQ to understand why my ouija board writing " A " " S " " S " is not an existential risk.

Pretty sure this is a sign from digital jesus to do a racism, lest the basilisk eats my tarnished soul.

AI doesn’t have to get better, we just have to get collectively worse.

Ooo, I like that.

Banner start to the next US presidency, with Wiener Von Wrong tossing a Nazi salute and the ADL papering that one over as an “awkward gesture”. 2025 is going to be great for my country.

Incidentally is “Wiener Von Wrong” or “Wernher Von Brownnose” better?