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This orange thread is about San Francisco banning certain types of landlord rent collusion. I cannot possibly sneer better than the following in-thread comment explaining why this is worthwhile:

While I agree that the giant metal spikes we put on all the cars aren't the exclusive reason that cars are lethal, I would hope we both agree that cars are less lethal when we don't cover them in giant metal spikes.

Riffing on this fun subthread:

• Will AI invent the Philosopher's Stone?
• Can AI duck the Zuck?
• WIll AI divide by zero?
• Can AI give you diarrhea?
• Will AI make "fetch" happen?
• Will AI have a second helping?
• Does AI unlock the secret to making the Moon happy again?
• Can AI stop eating after only one marshmallow?

Morning lads, let's have a big week 💪

more of a nsfw, a post on pointing and laughing at the fash. figured y'all may also enjoy reading it

google continuing on their crusade to force ads down everyone’s eyeballs

not that it’s surprising, just “good” to see this playing out exactly as predicted

Band I like accidentally purchases a poster design from a probable AI grifter. Here's their apology/acknowledgement post:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C98X_6huBOJ

The poster in question:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C95H8MQuVI6

I do not blame the band. I blame the AI person for being shit and passing off AI-generated shit as his own.

Google Pulls “Dear Sydney” Olympics Ad After Backlash To Its Portrait Of A Young Girl Using AI

The ad itself is just fucked - its like something you'd find in a shitty cyberpunk novel.

Presented without comment: this utter crankery about hacking the Matrix (HN)

Given the highly speculative subject of this paper, we will attempt to give our work more gravitas by concentrating only on escape paths which rely on attacks similar to those we see in cybersecurity [37-39] research (hardware/software hacks and social engineering) and will ignore escape attempts via more esoteric paths such as:, meditation [40], psychedelics (DMT [41-43], ibogaine, psilocybin, LSD) [44, 45], dreams [46], magic, shamanism, mysticism, hypnosis, parapsychology, death (suicide [47], near-death experiences, induced clinical death), time travel, multiverse travel [48], or religion.

Among the things they've already tried are torture, touching grass, and declining all cookies:

Unethical behavior, such as torture, doesn’t cause suffering reducing interventions from the simulators.

Breaking out of your routine, such as by suddenly traveling to a new location [199], doesn’t result in unexpected observations.

Saying "I no longer consent to being in a simulation" [200].

babe wake up Gamers Nexus is absolutely cooking Intel rn