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TERF obsessed with AI finds out the "degenerate" ani skin for grok has an X account, loses her shit
https://xcancel.com/groks_therapist/status/1972848657625198827#m
then follows up with this wall of text
https://xcancel.com/groks_therapist/status/1973127375107006575#m
A man's co-workers pressure him to embrace vibe cooking.
The AI industry is getting sneered by the dictionary.
what is "linear definitional bias"
Whatever the precise definition, it appears to be comorbid with stimulant dependency
C'mon bro, it's just a bag of words bro~ We actually discussed this previously, on Awful, and this comment is a reply for them in particular.
dictionaries are obsolete bricks remembers that they are useful that's why they're actually ai when you think about it
The dictionary doesnt tell me how wise and smart my misinterpretation of a basic idea is and then tells me im right weird AI bro.
In today’s torment nexus development news… you know how various cyberpunky type games let you hack into an enemy’s augmentations and blow them up? Perhaps you thought this was stupid and unrealistic, and you’d be right.
Maybe that’s the wrong example. How about a cursed evil ring that when you put it on, you couldn’t take it off and it wracks you with pain? Who hasn’t wanted one of those?
Happily, hard working torment nexus engineers have brought that dream one step closer, by having “smart rings”, powered by lithium polymer batteries. Y’know, the things that can go bad, and swell up and catch fire? And that you shouldn’t puncture, because that’s a fire risk too, meaning cutting the ring off is somewhat dangerous? Fun times abound!
https://bsky.app/profile/emily.gorcen.ski/post/3m25263bs3c2g
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A pair of tweets, containing the text
Daniel aka ZONEofTECH on x.com: “Ahhh…this is…not good. My Samsung Galaxy Ring’s battery started swelling. While it’s on my finger 😬. And while I’m about to board a flight 😬 Now I cannot take it off and this thing hurts. Any quick suggestions
Update:
- I was denied boarding due to this (been travelling for ~47h straight so this is really nice 🙃). Need to pay for a hotel for the night now and get back home tomorrow👌
- was sent to the hospital, as an emergency
- ring got removed
You can see the battery all swollen. Won’t be wearing a smart ring ever again.
At least it wasn’t a cock ring.
Let's be honest: These are exactly the sort of people who will stick their dicks into the Torment Nexus.
It almost surely has been done, but dare I ask where one can find trashy romance a la “pegged by the basilisk”
"Pegged in the ass by a physical manifestation of an online forum thought exercise gone horribly wrong" should be a Tingler if it isn't already one.
Is your ring even swole, bro
In a move that is not in any way ominous, and everyone involved has carefully thought through all the consequences, there’s a sora-generated video of sam altman shoplifting gpus that’s apparently quite popular right now.
https://bsky.app/profile/drewharwell.com/post/3m23ob342h22a
(no embed because safari on ipad is weird about downloading or linking video)
If the AI industry gets bailed out (and that's a multi-hundred billion dollar "if"), it will be because the technology they create makes shit like this possible.
To try and end this on a somewhat lighter note (source):
can someone catch me up to speed on what the latest nix fiasco is?
@mawhrin@awful.systems summarized it nicely but if you want some fresh abyss to stare into, here's some links to fedi posts with details:
thanks, I hate it 🫠
looks like more things are occurring? https://www.haskellforall.com/2025/10/nix-steering-committee-vote-of-no.html
in short, the whole moderation team resigned because of interference from the steering commitee; inb4 palmer luckey crowing about how no-one in the project will stop anduril from using nixos to build american military domination.
you know, just another day of the fascist takeover of the nixos project.
Elon Musk announces "Grokipedia", which is exactly what it sounds like.
for article in wikipedia: grok.is_this_true(article)
The Gizmodo story mentions that he retweeted Larry Sanger, but it doesn't dive into the rabbit hole of just how much of a kook Sanger is and how badly his would-be Wikipedia competitors have failed.
Lol maintaining a wiki is so much work always much respect for people who actually try to keep one up to date and filled with good info. Of course the fraud thinks he knows better without having ran one.
He would have a heart attack if he had to write a complex mediawiki script.
A small taste:
{{if|{{{1|}}}...
Gork is this true?
Gort is Klaatu barada nikhto?
Trok is this grue?
Shaka, when the walls fell?
Grue? Is this Zork?
Or perhaps it is bleen
Newsom signed the AI Bill (https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-law-california-ca-companies-regulation-newsom-rcna234562) but looks like they took out the private right of action vs the one last year that he vetoed, so basically defanged.
I do predict even more compliance pop ups in the near future though.
Article posted here just for the line: "AI-made material is a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind"
Our final defenses are more diffuse, working at a level of norms and attitudes. Stigmatization is a powerful force, and disgust and shame are among our greatest tools. Put plainly, you should feel bad for using AI.
Nice find. There are specific reasons why this patchset won't be merged as-is and I suspect that they're all process issues:
Using generative tooling is a problem, but so is being stuck in 2011. Linux doesn't permit this sort of code dump.
