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do you guys wanna see my favorite video on the internet yes you do

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Literal definition of spyware:

Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡

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Given how much of feline play and social behaviour are imitative in character, I feel like it shouldn't come as a surprise to gamers that their cats want to roll the shiny math rocks, too. Like, you demonstrated that this is a form of play and let them watch you do it. They're participating!

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invented a game called “I throw dice at the cat”

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i love six o clock because the clock looks so stupid. "|" like get real

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Years ago back when I worked in cubicle land, we were hiring junior software developers. They didn’t have to have a ton of experience, just a willingness to learn, and some demonstration of their software skills. Like: show me a program you wrote (any language) or a web site you designed. Anything.

And there was this one guy I talked with who seemed super sharp, but had virtually zero experience writing software. When it came time to do the show-n-tell part of the interview he whips out his laptop, brings up a website, and spins it around to show me what he made.

A website of tiny ceramic frogs.

Not for sale. Just… all these ceramic frogs, organized into categories. Frogs on bicycles, frogs with hats, frogs sitting on lily pads. It was a virtual museum of ceramic frogs in web form.

I scrolled through his online collection of frogs, slightly baffled.

“This is your website?” I asked finally.

“Yep!”

“You coded this yourself?” I popped into view-source mode and poked around some incredibly well-formatted, well-commented html. I nodded slowly. This guy was meticulous.

“Yep!”

“So… where’d all the frogs come from?”

“I made those too,” he says, beaming. 

And while I’m processing this he rummages in his bag and pulls out a little ceramic frog working at a computer terminal. He places it on the table before us, next to the laptop.

“And THIS one,” he says, “I made for you! As a thank you for the interview.”

It was adorable. I hired him on the spot. I mean, why not? Worst case he’d wash out in 90 days and we’d hire somebody else. He turned out to be one of the best developers on our team. 

And yes, his cubicle was loaded with ceramic frogs.

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Heaven-versus-hell type tabletop RPG where the lore is written in such away as to leave the reader almost, but not quite, certain that the author intended to use the word "seraphic" to describe the militarised forces of heaven, and that it's probably just a weirdly reliable autocorrect error that the actual text consistently says "sapphic".

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YOUNG MAN!

There's no need to feel down,

I MEAN YOUNG THEY!

I forgot your pronoun,

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My brain: What if I don't really like goofy meta RPGs and I've just convinced myself that I do because I'm afraid that if I wrote anything straightforward or genuine I'd be revealed as having nothing interesting to say?

The exact same brain five minutes later: What if there was a tabletop RPG where you play as pants.

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In Star Trek, they manifestly use generative AI all of the time, and I'm not talking about Data's art either. The holodeck clearly runs on this: you say "Computer, give me a table" and it generates a table from its huge dataset of tables. They can customize it: "Make it a metal table" and it will procedurally generate this as well. When they talk to holodeck characters the dialogue is mostly just generated by the computer (because it has to be). There's a whole plot in Lower Decks about Boimler going off on some insane, meaningless quest because he ran off the rails of his own holomovie and the computer had to make up a bunch of bullshit out of its "in-fill" parameters. And yet everyone still does real art even so. Jake Sisko's a novelist, Picard paints (not well), the crew does community theatre; Sisko and Riker still cook even though the computer can literally assemble food for them in seconds. Even writing holodeck programs is portrayed as an artistic endeavour even though the computer is doing all of the tedious parts.

Anyways, there are two possible morals to this story: (1) Most of the episodes that I'm talking about were written in the 80s and 90s and they didn't have a realistic conception of what computer-generated art would do to society; or (2) AI art would be unobjectionable if people weren't dependent on income to survive. Personally, I'm inclined to the second one.

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"do it scared" ok but I would like to do something some other way occasionally. Like at least once. For a change.

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if daniil thinks he can't be surprised by this town anymore, he needs to think again

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learning that people want you in their lives is a skill you can develop if it does not come naturally

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umm i need reassurance that my presence is wanted but i can’t ask for reassurance because that’s really Embarrassing and it wouldn’t feel genuine if i asked for it

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Au @indigo-constellation and i were talking about where Daniil is hbomberguy