(not so) secretly a total geek

WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE MADE HIMSELF ONE TOO

Went to a fabric store yesterday and saw a sewing machine that did embroidery of photos and the example was of a newborn baby and it was so fucking insane looking I asked an employee if I could buy it and she looked at it and was like “oh my god eugh what the fuck… i think that’s my bosses grandkid….I think you should just take it” so I did

You’d think that once you finally get long term access to a cat and your yearning to have cat access is fulfilled that you’d become slightly less obsessed with seeing people’s cats but no if anything it gets worse

Now that there are two whole cats in my life I have become even more obsessed with cats. Tell your cats I said hi.

I am reminded every day why I love cats because they’re right there, doing cat things, being absolutely adorable and committing cat crimes. They are friends with me and are so soft and also sharp.

They should invent a kind of burnout, where after you reach your limit of existential exhaustion for the third time, your health bar doubles and you transform into a bigger, stronger iteration of yourself. Like you're a nintendo boss in the final boss battle.

It worked for about 3 days and then became ignorable again.

I worry a little bit that people who refuse to learn about ai as a part of their anti ai position are going to be extremely unprepared to understand what’s actually scary about it and already have their digital literacy at risk tbh

not that I am some genius in this regard but if you follow ai developments even slightly you might change the things you are most worried about. do people know the extent to which ai is already eating itself and how meaningless this is making swaths of the internet. do people know that there are plenty of random mid-sized companies today buying their employees’ likenesses to create digital clones and using these to make hundreds of videos. I am so much more worried about labor and surveillance and abuse than people becoming lazy about writing emails. and idk man I sort of like and respect people who are willfully ignorant about it as a way of minimizing its force in their lives and I am in some ways jealous but also when I see posts that basically still boil down to “chatgpt will never fool me” I am like 😭😭😭 for one thing not the only thing to be concerned about, for another thing I am really sorry but I don’t think you’re right

I work at a nonprofit law firm (I do fundraising, I myself am not a lawyer) and right now there’s a lot of discussion about how to deal with the fact that Zoom has put an AI transcription tool in as the default, which can only be turned off by the meeting host, and which may or may not be accurate. How to handle this when there are questions of lawyer-client confidentiality, or how to ensure that the other side’s lawyers can’t change what’s transcribed. Worse is the AI summary tools that sum up the meeting after - a lot of people have noted that the transcription itself may be accurate, but the summary makes inaccurate claims about what is contained in it. If the client later refers back only to the summary, and not the direct transcript, they will be confused and misled. It’s not good!

“my father is a boy and my mother is a girl so i’m mixed” is the funniest possible response to someone asking your gender and it came from 6’5 Viking footballer and notable weird little guy Erling Haaland on a Snapchat

@so-i-did-this-thing

unfortunately i can never hate on a "power of friendship" narrative no matter how corny because the thing is it's literally real