Rob T Firefly

I like this idea, but they are announcing cheapish sunglasses for sale during the height of sunny summer with an estimated ship date of late November. That seems like a slight miscalculation.

EDIT: I’m an idiot, and other places exist. Thank you multiple commenters for pointing out the flaw in my thought here!

While playing catch by myself with the squishy stress ball on my desk, I declared my left hand was charging my right hand $1M for the ball and my right hand was throwing it back to my left and charging $1M for it in kind.

So, according to these metrics I’ve sold $400M worth of stress ball to myself today. Alert my shareholders!

And of course TechSpot posts this very story illustrated with an AI slop picture of a guy with a robot, because no human could possibly draw such a thing for them.

“I do assure you, Mrs. Buttle, the Ministry is very scrupulous about following up and eradicating any error. But if you do have any complaints you wish to make, I’d be, well, only too happy to send you the appropriate forms.”

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Maybe an AI can read the story too, and they can all leave me the fuck out of it.

Crap-looking Special Edition Jabba has awkwardly entered the chat.

Do you want Little Shop of Horrors? Because this is how you get Little Shop of Horrors!

Waterloo, got off of X 'cause they needed to

Waterloo, Elon’s hellsite is too shit for you

I worked on a crew that took lots of long interstate drives when “We Like to Party” by the Vengaboys was a big radio hit. Every time that goddamned horn blasted in that song when we were on the road, we all frantically looked around to see the big truck that was about to kill us only to realize it was just the stupid Vengabus.

This article was written by award-winning verifiably-human journalist James Ball.

The image is credited to Benny Douet, a human professional illustrator with a legit body of work which stylistically matches said image.

By all means call out slop when it appears, but this isn’t it.

Top tip: Getting computer-generated wrong answers in Chinese is just as useful as getting computer-generated wrong answers in English.

You don’t even have to read Chinese!

Very sad news. He’ll be missed.

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“Descent into” the main thing it’s been for 20 years.

The article is about “stealth bots” that don’t identify themselves as such. The Internet Archive bots have always been clearly identifiable.

Despite being illustrated with a stock photo of the Catholic Pope and mentioning his recent remarks on AI further down, the article notes that this person was granted a religious exception based on Unitarian Universalist practice, not Catholicism.

For those unfamiliar, Unitarian Universalism is an inclusive and diverse movement centered around common ethical principles which basically boil down to “you do you, just don’t be a dick.”

I personally don’t like using catchall for this, I prefer to play with aliases, but it’s certainly another way to do it depending on the result you want.

Another fun thing to do when you have your own email on your own domain is create all sorts of fun little forwarders/aliases so you can give out addresses that aren’t your main one, track who passes the address you gave them along to spammers, and delete the alias addresses whenever you like.

For example, you want to buy some cheese from the site Cheesemonger.foo and you need to give them an email address when creating your account. So, you give them cheesemonger@yourdomain.foo which is an alias you set up to forward to your real email inbox, and you receive mail from that site as normal. If you then start getting spam email sent to cheesemonger@yourdomain you know for a fact where the spammers got the address, and you know to delete that forwarder and buy your next batch of cheese elsewhere because screw those address-selling jerks at Cheesemonger.foo.

So I can either set up an expensive machine that will make my electricity meter spin like a helicopter rotor while being a major safety hazard to life and, even if it works only as intended, fill the air with a constant supply of mosquito smoke (don’t breathe this!) or I could just get some of those curly sticky strips from the dollar store.