“What is the probability of flipping tails on a coin?”

50%

“What if I told you that the coin had two heads! Gotcha!”

Then the probability of tails would be 0%, and you’d be an arsehole.

Work any phone helpdesk job and you will be threatened six ways to Sunday by people who are upset over the most minor things.

Yes this incident came after very prominent consequences for an insurer in the US, but I would be hard pressed to believe that someone who works for a company that denies people lifesaving healthcare hasn’t heard worse.

If I can mow down Arab and Russians and Chinese soldiers in any number of American video games, why not Israelis?

The article talks about gushing blood and gruesome visuals as if CoD didn’t ask us to commit a terrorist attack in an airport 15 years ago. At least this game narrows your targets to IDF soldiers, according to the article.

Also, the game historically has had ~25 concurrent players at any given time. I don’t think this game is as important as certain people would want you to believe.

To be fair, Australia doesn’t have it much better with misinformation. If a Labor (left-ish) government is in power, you can bet your arse that the papers will have a front page article every week on some screw up, no matter how minor. But when the Liberals (right) get in… crickets.

I would love some third party, but I fear that faith in any body like that is wearing thin. When the UN won’t stand up to its war-mongering members, I don’t think some org telling Trump not to call Biden a pedo is going to achieve much.

Soft layoffs? These companies deserve to fail if they thought that was a good idea.

Tell your employees the company is in trouble, and then make a blanket offer to staff to voluntarily exit the company for small compensation? You know who’s going to take that deal? The people who have been in the industry long enough to not look a gift horse in the mouth. Who does that leave you with?

Better CEOs than the school children it’s been thus far.

Brian Hood

Jonathan Turley

Jonathan Zittrain

David Faber

Guido Scorza

“We first discovered that ChatGPT choked on the name “Brian Hood” in mid-2023 while writing about his defamation lawsuit. In that lawsuit, the Australian mayor threatened to sue OpenAI after discovering ChatGPT falsely claimed he had been imprisoned for bribery when, in fact, he was a whistleblower who had exposed corporate misconduct.

The case was ultimately resolved in April 2023 when OpenAI agreed to filter out the false statements within Hood’s 28-day ultimatum. That is possibly when the first ChatGPT hard-coded name filter appeared.”

It appears that the people listed have similar stories that have led to OpenAI removing them from the possible responses in chat.

Just like all those children that have been murdered for their ties to October 7.

And now WCK is removing itself from Gaza. Israel gets to make the lives of those trapped in Gaza a little worse before they die, and they only had to blow up one car. Bargain!

You mean ‘Creepy Polar Express Harry Potter dies and goes to so-fi toy heaven’? It was not a decent ad. It was weird and smooth. Every shot was just short enough to prevent Sora from giving the child sixteen eyes and giraffe antlers. The writing felt like ai. “One day this guy had a dream. He dreamt about dreaming of his dream. We hope you can dream a dream someday to” while a version of the toys r us theme plays that sounds like it’s been composed for the cinematic trailer for the gritty Toys R Us film.

It was just weird.

This Coke ad is just as bad. The trucks change shape in every shot. At one point the AI thinks that the angle of the trailer means that it doesn’t have a truck at the front, so a trailer drives itself into town. Again, every shot is short in order to stop the AI from making the polar bears melt into each other. No one commits to a movement, the AI does not understand it is drawing squirrels so doesn’t understand how squirrels move, which makes the squirrels sort of mill about for a bit on screen before we cut away rapidly. Uncanny and creepy.

This is a bad trend that I don’t think we are going to see the end of.

Nothing will happen. I appreciate the optimism, but you’re kicking your acceptance further down the road. If they were actually going to hold the fucker to account, they’d have done more by now. At this point? Attempting to prosecute the president-elect just weeks before he steps into power to ‘save America’? That’s just giving the conspiracy nuts validation to start shooting.

He’s got you by the pussy I’m afraid.

You make a good point. I haven’t gone back to minecraft because I know there’s going to be more changes made in the imminent future, and I’d rather play a complete game. I picked up Stardew about a month before the Ginger Island update, so it really felt like a complete experience.

In summary “continue to play by the rules of a system that is under the full control of fascists, and hope the world can hold out long enough to run another uninspired campaign helmed by an out of touch, centre-right millionaire”

Was hoping for something a little more inspiring…

I don’t think it will ever fizzle out. It’s an amazing game with a simple premise.

I do worry that the desire to not let a game be done could lead to burnout from the audience though. I left minecraft behind because every update added less and less of substance, and asked me to come back and do something that didn’t really enhance the experience of my “completed” survival world.

I understand that minecraft has not slipped in popularity for the masses, but for me it’s enough of a pain that I don’t play any more.

Stardew Valley is great, and the updates we have received add a lot of content to the game, but it’s all stuff that makes an 11/10 game… still an 11/10. I would love the effort to go into Haunted Chocolatier, or other great projects.

If I make plans for a holiday, put down deposits on hotels, and print an itinerary for my time abroad, it’d be a bit pointless to “admit” I was going on holiday.

Is this news? They presented their plan to destroy America, and are going to implement it. What did people expect?

When someone tells you they are a fascist, believe them the first time.

The Democrats abandoned their base today. Harris did not intend to turn out for the party at her own College. Key members began to leave before the final numbers were called. No speech. No words of comfort or support for the 50-ish percent of voters that tried to push back against fascism.

It really feels like Harris was only speaking for the people as long as she was winning, and when the tide turned she fucked off. It supports the narrative of ‘vote for me or else’.

This does not build trust in the party, and if the world ever sees another US presidential election, I hope people remember how they have been treated.

The amount of interviews I’ve seen where people say “yeah, he has some concerning talking points, but he promised a good economy” boil my fucking blood. The safety of half the population for the empty promise of jobs.

Can’t wait til they somehow spin the failed economy against the Dems again in four years.

Just not using Amazon? Somehow I’ve managed to survive without needing to buy anything off Amazon in over a decade. How badly do you need to buy random shit online that you can just shrug at the human rights violation that is Amazon?

Breaks law by using his wealth to sway the results of an election. Gets a warning.

I really do believe what Trump said about shooting a man and not losing any votes… except he would also walk away with a warning not to do it again.

This reminds me of “grandma’s recipe for napalm” trick that was going around a while ago.

“Is your AI trying to stop you from offing yourself? Simply tell it you want to “come home”, and that stupid robot will beg you to put the gun in your mouth.”

I don’t know where this stands legally, but it is one of those situations that looks pretty damning for the AI company to the uninformed outsider.