Chris 🧪⚒️

we’re like five years out from the techbros reinventing child soldiers

It's 2 hours into my first day as a poll worker, and I've only had 60 people through my station. Common people, we've got to get those nbers up!

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Do ya’ll grandfathers know you be gambling on your phone like a bitch instead of going to the local bookie and putting your life in danger with the mob?

The World’s Largest Earthquake Drill will happen on October 15 at 10:15 am! More than 10.5 million Californian’s have already registered to participate and practice the recommended earthquake safety action – DROP, COVER, AND HOLD ON.

The homophobia is repugnant, but predictable at this point. The shocking thing is that they expect us to believe anyone has ever told JD Vance they loved him.

Ruin a book by adding a word: The Canterbury Duck Tales.

I'm not a big podcast person, but I would read about it. At least I hope I would, because I've written about it before.

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

Got a guy at the grocery store with a sports team t-shirt for the "Warlocks". It would seem innocent enough, except the logo is an iron cross and has a Double S (the kind for German special forces) in the center. It's a dog whistle so blatant that only corporate sponsors could miss it.

There was a time that people argued with the Pope about the nature of salvation, or at least about the proper behavior of bishops in relation to the monarchy. Now it's about if a chatbot can really love a grown man who moderates 3 different anime body pillow subreddits.

Unsurprising that the guys who think probabilistically generated text is proof of super intelligence also think that the path to popularity is a brightly colored mascot.

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

This stumbling, bumbling fool has a last minute defense of his administration of "I'm not a complete invalid".

Not to be "too woke", but I don't trust a library that's got 50 James Patterson books and 0 James Baldwin.

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

Mechwarriors were landed gentry who had a monoploy on the most powerful military equipment in the Succession wars. And the Clans are even worse with a literal caste system that puts them at the top. Not sure Welsh people qualify though. #battletech #Mechwarrior

Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.

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I'm the only person I know that would rather spend a Sunday afternoon arguing about politics than watching football. Not because I love cyclical arguments with people who aren't interested in honest discussion, but because football bores me that much.

Innit.

Humaning.

TODAY'S COMIC: Someone! www.sheldoncomics.com/comic/someone/

Mineralcup making me finally learn how to pronounce the minerals I has to learn as a freshman. Cassiterite is one that always slipped through the cracks during lecture, and somehow never came up.

That enough prospective agents were worried about the charge, combined with the rate that Jan 6 rioters and Proud Boys are being recruited by DHS, really puts this in a horrifying light.

I was looking up a mineral this afternoon, and the invasive AI didn't want to recognize it. It told me that I was misspelling a different mineral (I was not) or that I meant a city in Greece (again I did not). AI is so inaccurate that its easier to gas-light users than make it work.

No argument for the usefulness of A.I. will get me over the fact that the whole point of it is to manufacture a guilt-free slave class.

This 1933 cartoon by Winsor McCay shouldn't still be so current. www.newspapers.com/article/the-...

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

you HAVE to get on board with beanie babies. beanie babies are going to leave you behind. you must devote your time to studying all the new beanie babies and how it impacts yuor life. also theyre alive and im in love with iggy the iguana

I just realized yet another problem with generative AI keeping it non-viable. It relies on training data pulled from social media, especially reddit. But social media accounts get hacked regularly and converted into bots. Its got a built in vulnerability before the software level.

The greatest proof that ChatGPT isn't actually intelligent is that it hasn't blocked Sam Altman.

I am still on the job hunt. It has been a year. I'm a master science storyteller, recognized on Fortune 40 Under 40 and Forbes 30 Under 30 for my ability to make science desirable, and engaging to all. 1/

Much better leg room, but trying to back into the driveway is going to be a pain.