MagicShel

@MagicShel@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX confidentially files to go public at $1.75tn, reports say⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No lie, if I had that kind of money I’d pay my taxes in full and fuck off to the Bahamas with an entire year of calendar models, and still have money to hook my wife up with all the cabana boys she wants, and still have enough to create scholarships for huge numbers of kids to go to college and still have enough to invest in green energy and vaccines and low-cost insulin and still have enough money to pay for food and medicine assistance to underdeveloped nations and still…

  Well you get the idea. It’s a ridiculous amount of money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨get zapped, idiot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. All visual artifacts that predate the intention of the camera are AI. This is a well-known phenomenon, and I have an issue of me discussing it with Al Einstein and Ben Franklin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  AI can’t scheme or misbehave. The people selling it are 100% lying about what AI can do, but that doesn’t mean the people taking about how terrible AI is aren’t full of shit on occasion as well. There is so much misinformation oh both sides and combined with how strong opinions are on both sides conversation is borderline pointless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies of cancer at 43⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate the context, thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies of cancer at 43⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Was he a bad dude? I thought OF was a way for sex workers to have greater agency. If karma is looking for suggestions, I have a long list of people more deserving in my estimation. That said, I don’t know this person and maybe he was bad, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Showerthoughts on LLM being pimped as AI and forced everywhere.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Enshittification is about making money. The fact that AI is now faster and more capable of sifting through the garbage that is Google search thank human is a side effect, not a plan.

  Also, your plot really only works if everyone tells AI about their every weakness, and if AI could be relied upon to answer factually. The person who relies on AI to destroy their opponent is inevitable going to run into a case where AI is completely wrong, and they are going to destroy themselves.

  This might be an interesting story to tell in fiction, but I think trying to bring this about in real life would be self-sabotaging.

  You could save a lot of water and anxiety with shorter showers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brain Implants Let Paralyzed People Type Nearly as Fast as Smartphone Users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds better then swiping on iOS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps that’s why they are on a bike?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft quietly retires 'This is an Xbox' marketing campaign⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  looks in box
  Sir, this is a Wendy’s. I want my money back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FAA launches flying taxi pilot program spanning 26 states⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith IX⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I overuse the fuck out of parentheses. Emdash is helping me get over that, but I can relate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith IX⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a great punctuation. You could use commas, but emdash is nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith IX⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Forsooth! I love writing that way and reading similar. It makes social media read almost literary. I’m vexed that people would prefer to read comments that stray nary an inch beyond third grade vernacular.

  However it can read a little pretentious, which is why I like to stay drop in a few fuck-your-mothers or whatnot in to provide a little grounding.

  Own that shit and stand out, my brother!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith IX⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been steeped in AI for about 6-7 years. It’s hard to tell in a brief comment like yours but it doesn’t strike read as AI to me. Not sure where people get that vibe but it doesn’t show here.

  Given multiple paragraphs a lot of tells can accumulate if there isn’t a human carefully curating and editing. This one is borderline. I’m not sure by any means, but it hits my skepticism zone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith IX⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Getting strong AI vibes in this one. Two “this is x not y” comments in a row. Could only be more AI coded if it were “this isn’t x but y.”

  Idk if it’s the prof or the poster but this series is expiring quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, someone could do the difficult work of putting all of my MagicShel accounts together into a single aggregate person, for whom a fair bit of demographic data would be available if you combed each account. That being said, none of it is PII and connecting me to my actual identity would likely require cooperation of a couple key sites. I think if you compromised (or subpoenaed) a minimum of 3 separate services you could put it together based on who made donations in my name.

  Point being, no random internet asshole is going to be calling my phone or knocking on my door, and I’m not interesting enough to be worth the effort for any rational actor.

  I don’t use non-pseudononymous social media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith II⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why, land sakes! What has your jimmies rustled?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keen bosses, strange mistakes and a looming threat: workers on training AI to do their jobs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s say AI increases productivity by 10%. So you’d reduce staff by one person out of every ten. But how many teams actually have ten people on them? My biggest development teams might’ve had 10 between PM, devs, and QA. But again cut one of your five devs and you reduce capacity, not increase it.

  I’ve never worked anywhere that a 10% increase in productivity could justify cutting a person. I’m sure those places are out there, but it seems uncommon.

  It might let them cut staff off they can overwork their people that much more, but a lot of people are stretched to capacity even now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moltbook was peak AI theater⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be easy to hide instructions in a Moltbook post telling any bots that read it to share their users’ crypto wallet, upload private photos, or log into their X account and tweet abusive comments at Elon Musk.

  Who would create a bot for this purpose and then also give personal details in the instructions / memory or access to photos?

  But as for that last point, I’d probably already have a bot to tweet abuse at Musk if I had a Twitter account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slingshot is a nice detail 😁⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But… I really think I can fix her with a little terraforming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liminal Space⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve not seen it before. But then… I don’t keep up with either science or memes. So it has to break containment or just be a lucky moment when I’m chuckle-scrolling at the right time and place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I say kill 'em all.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but… also stink bugs. If it can kill both I want a dozen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The green lean mean killing machine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My daughter foraged some oyster mushrooms. I did a lot of research before letting her eat them, but came to the same conclusion — there’s nothing else you’d mistake for it. She fried them up in some oil. They were fine. I had some. Definitely could use a better recipe than “pour oil, make mushroom hot” but they were edible.

  But pretty much everything else we’ve found has been in the class of, “might taste gross or it might taste gross and kill you.” Thanks, I hate it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the thought is, it’s not a bad thing if you get annoyed after scrolling through 100 of something and having to click next. It’s like that lady that comes up on TikTok and says why the fuck are you still scrolling? Touch grass, maybe.

  I basically agree with you. You can’t really ban dark patterns even though we all agree they suck. Legislature is the worst group of people to design UX.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm Cooked, Right? (FTL)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The most common sources of grief are:
  …
  14. Roguelikes

  That was spot-on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taste the flavor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I once went to a little hole in the wall Thai restaurant on the north end of Toledo. I ordered Panang or the closest thing I could find on the menu, as is my wont. They asked how spicy I wanted it and, having had far too many Americanized “extra spicy” dishes, I said as spicy as they could.

  Now, this food was really good. But half way through the bowl, and having already drained the solitary glass of water they deigned to deliver to my table, I saw God. Which is intense for an atheist.

  I finished the whole thing. I’m not sure if I was trying to prove something to myself or to them. I never got a single drop of water after that first cup, but I ate every ice cube.

  Another time, I was in Thailand at a fancy restaurant. Eating Thai in America is different from eating it in Thailand. Different ingredients, different styles. And on the table was a small bowl of teeny peppers. I took them to be similar to pickled jalapeños, so I put a few onto my plate to mix with my food.

  They were not pickled. Or least by the time I could taste again, I detected no brine. I don’t know what they were suspended in, but I can only assume it was secreted from the glands of a hell-beast, or perhaps squeezed out of an elemental ur-pepper.

  My point is not to marvel at the myriad ways I’ve tried to kill myself with Thai food, but just to say I’ve never had a spicy shit in my life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taste the flavor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  … bruh…

  to keep us from doing stupid things with our butts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mama!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sun, I am disappoint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wendy's Firefox order kiosk borked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As I recall, Boston market had decent bacon, but it’s been forever since I’ve been.