Who the balls is the market for an AI-glazing “documentary”? The more one likes the technology, the shorter one’s attention span.

“Horror Novel ‘Shy Girl’ Canceled Over Suspected A.I. Use”

an apparent excerpt

The AI-as-excuse layoffs have come for Meta:

reuters.com/…/meta-planning-sweeping-layoffs-ai-c…

wait, I totally had something for this… TERF AI-land

From the second link:

Aella is someone with whom I’ve been on friendly terms for some years now; though we have our — sometimes rather extreme — differences, and though I think that she is probably evil, I nonetheless have valued my conversations with her, and would love (though I am not optimistic) to see an outcome to this local situation that allowed us to keep talking from time to time.

whaaaaa

[Effective Altruism] was originally applied to initiatives like raising money for mosquito netting, but now includes figures like Johnson, who has reframed his blood experiments as a product of his own generosity, set to cure humanity of its greatest ill: death itself.

People keep saying this, so it’s good to have a reminder that the weirdos (derogatory) were there all along.

Here’s the 14-minute version, with a transcript.

I am retrospectively disturbed by how well “I really came in a fluffer that time” slots into Dorothy Parker’s flow.

A skilled, centaur-configured programmer

This is like reading Yud mumbling about “Shoggoths”. It’s giving knight errant, organ-meat eater, Byronic hero, Haplogroup Rlb.

I was not ready