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After the Ukraine war is over, we should extend the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention to include autonomous anti-personnel drones.

Ow, my knee!

Omg I just ran into Mark Bodē.

That Sam Altman! That Sam Altman! I do not like that Sam Altman! Do you like Gen AI Spam? I do not like it, Sam Altman. I do not like Gen AI Spam.

Amazing new mosaic at the Balboa Theater

Today is Artificial Intelligence Appreciation Day for some reason, so everyone please celebrate appropriately.

I am a model, you know what I mean And I do my little turn while getting arrested Yeah getting arrested, getting arrested, yeah I do my little turn while getting arrested

@trabern@mas.to Wait until he finds out that "America" is Italian.

Turn signals:

cone party

China's single time zone demonstrates that people will adapt to whatever numbers are on the clock. I mildly prefer year round Standard Time just because it's closer to Solar Time, but that's because of my niche interests. Most people do not care about that. They very much do care about not having to dick with clocks twice a year and suffer from stationary jet lag. Year round Standard Time, year round Daylight Time, world-wide GMT - all would be fine. Stop messing with clocks!

Diarrhea jokes: always funny (if it's not you).

Sorry to hear about your bladder issues, sign.

So apparently bluesky has an anthropomorphized Torment Nexus account, which is pretty much on-brand for there.

Yesterday's Daily Cal was almost 100% about the use of generative AI in campus and city writing. One article mentioned they fired some staffers for using AI. You will never guess what full page ad is on the back.

I mean sure you talked to Mitch McConnell. What's important is whether he talked to you.

@jwz@mastodon.social (Note: "Rainbows End" is set in 2025.)

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There are a bunch of science fiction stories where the bad guys scoop out your brain, scan the neurons, and upload you to the cloud so you can live forever in virtual paradise, whether you want to or not. The Stone Canal, Iron Sunrise, Jury Service, Software. We are now getting an idea of what *really* bad guys will do with brain scanning tech: the same thing they are currently doing to books. Scan them to train their model, then throw away the useless remains.

insulators

Bitch better have my money https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/14/e-jean-carroll-trump-payment

cones & cables

@jwz@mastodon.social Occurs to me that the Vaillancourt animation on the recent guacamole.expert website could be a screen saver.

@grassrootsforeurope@mas.to ....Brexiters were twice as likely to die? Maybe they were tended to be older, but even so that's a really big factor.

Got the first election pamphlet today in CA.

@byroncclark@mastodon.social @openvibe@mastodon.social Into the dip with them!

What does closure mean to you? I can think of at least three different things. At least I think they are different.

• A function plus the environment is executes in.
• A special operator in a regular expression, such as *.
• A set containing all possible results of applying a function to another set.

Saw a Trabant in SF today! With license TRA 008! It was loud and stinky!

Ooo Gauntlet

AI DERP

I used to think the matte painting of Colossus's huge data center was unrealistic. Now we're building dozens of them.

@glyph@mastodon.social The cones are warnings to the drivers to not go that way. There are a bunch here because the Potrero Division is now closed.

The SF DA should charge Waymo with false imprisonment for keeping people at the Golden Gate Bridge.

Ran across this ridic steep half block at 48th and Balboa. My inclinometer app said 16° which I think is 30%. The official steepest SF street is 41%.

@mattblaze@federate.social Intentionally poisoning AIs could be fun though.

@mattblaze@federate.social .....Now wondering if running my exhaust fan counts as "house farting".

@evacide@hachyderm.io I just ran out of staples for the first time ever.

Italian sub from Pizzeria Violetta

@alice@lgbtqia.space Decisions decisions...

@jwz@mastodon.social At long last we have created the book wood-chipper from Vernor Vinge's classic sci-fi novel Don't Create the Book Wood-Chipper

@jwz@mastodon.social I just ordered some floppy disks to refurb an old art piece and holy crap they are more than a dollar each these days! Anyway I should end up with some extras so if you still want floppies...

@gvenema@fairmove.net @climatebrad@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr Yeah that took me a minute. I mean it's plausible that these yobknobs do think that 1053 hypothetical bots outweigh 8 billion meatsacks. But why that specific number? I was in the middle of checking if it was like the JW's belief that only 144,000 souls get to go to heaven when I realized it was just a missing ^

@jerry@infosec.exchange Did not know fish have teats.

@jwz@mastodon.social I ran into an anti-AI protest van today. Literally, because it was PARKED IN THE BIKE LANE.

@jwz@mastodon.social I am worried that all three are somehow the same thing and I'm too dull to understand it.

@mattblaze@federate.social Well now I want to see "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming" but for voting. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060921/

@jwz@mastodon.social Also, Sequoia was showing this off at the Guac Off. Don't know if it's the same model used in the animation.