Everything about Song of the South is atrocious... except James Baskett’s amazing performance, for which he deservedly won an Oscar (a special one because he wasn’t white- adding to the atrociousness) and it’s a damn shame no one should watch that horrible movie because he was so good in it.

I just... why did Apple even include this feature? And why hide it?

“There is no logical reason, for example, why the FTC needs to know the identities of journalists engaging with Twitter,” the committee’s recent report says.

Remember when Musk tried to back out of buying it because he said that Twitter hat a bot problem?

They are floppy disks because the disk inside is the floppy part. As opposed to hard disks which use a hard platter.

No, CD-Rs. Well... CD-RWs. Well... one CD-RW which gets passed around from base to base and occasionally new code gets put on it to replace the old code.

That poor baby.

Oh good, it wasn’t enough of a waste of my productivity yet.

So he’s at this level now...

I went to one meeting of the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society. One. They had their own clubhouse and the stench! Oh my god.

He’s like one step away from collecting his urine and toenail clippings in jars.

That’s what I came here to mention. The moon is constantly getting bombarded. This seems like a bad plan.

As usual, everything is awful.

Because they can.

I don’t think you need a human-level AGI for a lot of that to happen. The religion? Sure. But we’re already seeing AI deepfakes convincing people of all sorts of things that aren’t true and they’re just going to get more realistic, so saying things like AI will shape reality, not literally, but in terms of how people…

It might be difficult to picture now, but the AI Stooges predict a possible future where cardigan clad, Lime driving tech CEO could rapidly consolidate political power.

Good luck with that.

Maybe. But on the other hand, I don’t think he gives a shit about his kids and would happily use one of them as a science experiment.

He won’t, but he’ll happily sacrifice one of his 2 dozen kids or however many he has now.

How much do people really want this beyond a novelty? I played with ELIZA for a while in the 80s but it got old and I went back to doing better things with my time.