My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-- Rodney Dangerfield
Category: Computing
TikTok
If politicians really want to destroy TikTok, they should make the owners sell it to Elon Musk.— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) March 14, 2024
Pig Butchering Scams
Pig Butchering Scams – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:
(more…)HAL’s Birthday
Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you’d like to hear it I can sing it for you. — HAL 9000 (2001: A … Continue reading “HAL’s Birthday”
Most of the world doesn’t use Twitter
If Elon wasn’t on Twitter…
Funny thing is if Elon wasn't on Twitter I'd probably to this day think he's an evil but very capable industrialist, but thanks to Twitter I know he's dumb as shit and just a product of a terrible economic system that rewards being a sociopath from old money over real ability— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) November … Continue reading “If Elon wasn’t on Twitter…”
How code has changed the world
Torie Bosch – How code has changed the world:
(more…)Controlled by a right-winger who hates real journalism
The Free Speech Platform
(more…)The Free Speech Platform*
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) June 21, 2023
*except the billionaire who runs it will censor you for using words that offend his delicate right-wing sensibilities https://t.co/Hs0TCATgQg
Acceptable Replacement for Human Imagination and Effort
You do all understand that the corporate goal for AI is to get everyone in the world down to the cognitive level where AI-generated work is an acceptable replacement for human imagination and effort, yes?If you don't understand that, congrats, enjoy your AI-generated work.— John Scalzi (@scalzi) May 7, 2023