Alex

Alex

@sleepcore.zone

surly n' sassy STL-ish @sleepcore@tacobelllabs.net on mastodon

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Minor potentate so charmed by a mechanical bird whose movement and song is so lifelike that they demand the bird or else have a tradesperson executed is a beautiful story thst echoes through time.

Alex Hern's entire job is to read press releases from AI companies and uncritically repost their talking points, never questioning their narratives at all.

I know you're not supposed to think too hard about children movies' lore but there definitely was a mouse/cat version of 9/11 in The American Tail universe, right?

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For example, here's a former Remedy Dev who has been invaluable in the PC modding scene with his tools, Luma+RenoDX which adds accurate HDR and tons of other features (like injecting DLSS) into many games.

Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social

Modders are furious as Claude-powered mashup mods flood social media. https://bit.ly/4rMbGrv

All of these articles about vibecoded decomp games are only making Reddit like AI more because it's the jingling keys app. Kinda makes me wonder if that's the entire point of writing articles about vibe-coded decomps that can't even manage to launch.

I love cats as much as the next guy but I truly do not think you've ever owned a cat if you're pushing the "cats respect consent" schtick.

a cat will spend 10 minutes getting comfortable on your chest and show you their butthole no less than 12 times every time they decide to get up, turn around a few more times, and claw into your chest to get comfortable

the juniper stuff is both not a great look for her but at the same time a pretty desperate and mediocre attempt by her haters to get her cancelled

Ex Lethality Jane is a clout-driven ghoul who will quote you and try to destroy anybody she can simply for the attention.

I'm really struggling to share and host self-hosted content with my parents and friends these days because AI bots are constantly scanning and trying to do malicious things with my servers. This wasn't happening even a few years ago and it really sucks!

jess m. ☕🍂@jametc.bsky.social

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

teaching my mother-in-law how to log into the VPN on her TV and connect to Jellyfin is going to be a special kind of hell

You see, if you're a TV star and a rapist, you should get cancelled, but if you're a YouTube essayist rapist with smart lights and good editing, that's different. He's definitely not just playing a character at all! Parasociality IS good and we should never interrogate our viewing habits!

please do not take job advice from podcasters but especially podcasters who have not had a legitimate job interview in the last 30 years if they ever had one at all

Kai Ryssdal@kairyssdal.bsky.social

I’m sorry, but if you bring an iced coffee - or any damn beverage at all - to a job interview, you’re disqualified. It’s not hard, people.

Google is twisting the knife for all pixel owners by spending the last 2 years putting in useless AI features and now they're bundling in a harry potter marketing campaign in a system update. I was gonna wait for my contract to expire to switch to iOS but oh my god they must really want me gone

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Coming Up On TCM@comingupontcm.bsky.social

#ComingUpOnTCM A SUMMER PLACE (1959) Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, Troy Donahue Dir.: Delmer Daves 7:00 AM PT An adulterous couple discovers that their children are sexually active. 2h 10m | Romantic Drama | TV-PG #TCM #TCMParty

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Aaron Rodericks@aaron.bsky.team

Gotta say the deliberate aliteracy in picking on one post in a thread and choosing to think the exact opposite outcome from what was described continues to be a vibe.

This guy is getting so mad at a woman who produces YouTube videos that teaches literal babies how to form language lmao. Can't wait for his loser manifesto against Elmo.

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The only thing I'm confident about is that Wesley Bell is going to use our tax dollars on expensive and wasteful personal travel charges and dodge questions about it for years while receiving just shy of 1 million dollars from AIPAC alone

Truthout@truthout.org

Despite three-quarters of Democratic voters opposing the U.S.’s ongoing military support for Israel, the House Democratic leadership has picked two foreign policy hawks — Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Wesley Bell — to join the House Foreign Affairs Committee, while also promoting Jared Moskowitz.

I wonder if there's any correlation between Missouri's low democratic turnout and the Missouri Democratic Party joining forces not to do anything good, but to force Cori Bush out and replace her with an AIPAC plant with sticky fingers

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mm3-6 sound effects vs mm1-2 sound effects

Berry 🍇@nyamukoneko.bsky.social

why do so many megaman fangames use the MM3-6 enemy hit sound its so weak sounding I think MM1-2 and 9-10 have the best hit sound ever

sorry to be a marxist but "COVID broke everyone's brain" is correct but I think masks the bigger point that the contradictions are becoming a lot more obvious to more and more people and that IMO is the real driving force for people going a little bonkers

sorry to be a marxist but "COVID broke everyone's brain" is correct but I think masks the bigger point that the contradictions are becoming a lot more obvious to more and more people and that IMO is the real driving force for people going a little bonkers

COVID did suck a lot and was a turning point but conditions for many many people haven't gotten any better since then

looking forward to the next ffxiv expansion just so I can have a different leitmotif stuck in my head for 2+ years

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the handful of people who are constantly the topic of conversation about their smug posts on here are, without fail, deliberate provocateurs with unpleasant attitudes and even less pleasant faces. the only thing dumber than fighting with them is defending them from attacks

STL pizza is fine and just a flatcrust alternative combination to the standard 3-cheese-blend that 90% of pizza places offer anyway

I used to gently bully my cats by force-rolling them on their side when they were being annoying and petting them aggressively but now they just drop to the floor on their own and block my way to demand attention and pets. Now there's a *chance* this is my fault but I refuse to look inward at all

I understand that science is allowed to have whimsy but I'm just not sure naming this 'Dog Vomit Slime Mold' is really fair to the slime mold community.