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@zkat I’ve said for years that the advent of Trumpism had only one (very small) positive: it encouraged lots of seemingly-caring people to reveal what they actually thought about immigrants / gays / trans folk / etc so we wouldn’t have to work so hard to suss out their real personalities. Apparently AI is providing a similar “service.”

@Daojoan As someone who used to have several streamers subscribed to at all times, I’m here to say that you can enjoy life just fine if you only have one going at a time and each one only for 1 month before cancelling it. We save hundreds of dollars per year with this approach and still get to watch everything we want to, just usually a little later than we used to. And we get to feel like we’re telling the streamers where to shove their price increases, as a bonus.

@openculture@toot.community Time to rebrand the Internet as the “Idiotnet”?

@preya Since AI produces slop, I propose we start referring to them as “slop machines.” It works because it makes them sound like “slot machines” and they have roughly the same probability of paying off.

@slava When I was writing C++ code in the 1990s, I think I would have predicted that, by 2026, there’d be readily available code inspection tools that would have eliminated that possibility from ever happening again. Instead we have “AI” that produces garbage at an astronomical environmental and societal cost. That’s just great.

@georgepenney And whose idea was it to give two such diametrically-opposed (in terms of dangerousness) spiders rhyming names?

@Strandjunker@mstdn.social Fair enough. “Computer, end simulation.”

@sjvn@mastodon.social So they’re looking for… a time traveller?

@Alice@beige.party And that young kid? Tony Hawks, 1972.

@TheVinylApe@cupoftea.social Anima is also great, though the two in between (counting Amok by Atoms For Peace) are hit and miss for me.

@parisba@cloudisland.nz Corporations do not deserve our loyalty, version 10,000,000,0000.

@Salum Nice to see that we’re finally getting to the switch portion of the bait ‘n’ switch.

@beandev Or: Slot Machines VS Slop Machines

@edza We have a contractor we’ve used several times for small to medium sized jobs on our house (he also does major renos). On our jobs, “It’ll be 7 or 8 days” was 7.5 days. “Expect it to take 6 weeks” was 6 full weeks + 2 mornings in the 7th week. I’ve noticed that he plans it all out ahead of time (including using CAD s/w), has subcontractors who know he’ll drop them if they’re unreliable, builds in a reasonable amount of buffer and doesn’t allow feature creep. He’s like a god to me.

@Mrfunkedude@mastodon.social We are all just bricks in the wall.

@beyondmachines1@infosec.exchange “I’ll loan you the money to RENT it” would perhaps be more accurate, today.

@aks@scalie.zone “Steps to recreate:” in a bug report are the greatest three words other than “I love you.”

@dgar@aus.social When I told a friend that Mastodon doesn’t have an algorithm that pushes stuff to my timeline that I didn’t ask for, he didn’t believe me. He said, “There’s always an algorithm, you just aren’t seeing it.” That’s where we’re at now. We’ve been conditioned to expect the worst and can’t comprehend any other state of affairs.

@llorenzin Dead on.

@gsuberland@chaos.social Writing them down and making each one unique and at least 10 characters long is very secure as long as you don’t misplace the list.

@jeffowski The answer to all your U.S. questions is, “Racism.”

@grickle@mstdn.social (squeaky) “Oil can.”

@MissConstrue@mefi.social I am so sorry you had that awful, dehumanizing experience.

@adngdb@tutut.delire.party Call AI what it is: slop machines.

@Audrina Or possibly it was just “wok”.

@randahl@mastodon.social As clear a statement of her administration’s priorities as we could have asked for.

@beyondmachines1@infosec.exchange … and their slop machines.

@antimnguyen@mastodon.gamedev.place Since AI produces slop, I propose we start referring to them as “slop machines.” It works because it makes them sound like “slot machines” and they have roughly the same probability of paying off.

@Sheril In Canada, a birthday of May 24th would mean you’d have an entire long weekend held in your honour: the “May two-four weekend,” which supposedly is some sort of reference to a box containing two dozen bottles of beer.

@kityates@mas.to os;dr

@TJ1001@mastodonapp.uk What’s with the shading of the top response, making it look like it got about 45% of the vote rather than 75%?

@streetartutopia Start referring to Trump as “CROTUS” - Child Rapist Of The United States

@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io Since AI produces slop, I propose we start referring to them as “slop machines.” It works because it makes them sound like “slot machines” and they have roughly the same probability of paying off.

@joshbressers Luckily our super-modern computer programs don’t ever rely on digital dates like those primitive old relics from the 20th century, right? Right?? Right?!?!

@arstechnica@mastodon.social Just the latest of many, many reasons to abandon the Zuckerverse.

@catsalad@infosec.exchange Yes and yes!

@me@mastodon.peterjanes.ca So… only some of them did?

@NotTheLBCGuy@mstdn.social Dr Manhattan riffs never get old.

@royaards@newsie.social 3 Body Problem

@catsalad@infosec.exchange Buffering your Buffying