Hot take: Dropping a single nuclear bomb over Silicon Valley would solve most of the world's issues

In other news, reports of AI images turning everything yellow have made it to Know Your Meme.

Rare TERF Island W

overtonussy

Mods, crush his skull /j

Ed Zitron having a very good day today:

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

eigen "Breeding Stock for Me, Unwilling Abortions for Thee" robot

Goodness kids need some better role models because sometimes it seems 90% of people on the social networks are morally bankrupt.

The world needs another Mister Rogers, but I'm not sure if the world wants another Mister Rogers.

Mullenweg's the same guy who publicly harassed a random transwoman on Tumblr and had a general meltdown to the point where Tumblr staff had to distance themselves from him, so I'm not shocked. (EDIT: Somehow used the singular masc pronoun for the entirety of Tumblr staff - don't ask me how)

(That its Tumblr is the only thing that shocks me - you'd think he'd have realised its queer-friendly rep was one of the main things going for it)

Pulling out a pretty solid Tweet @ai_shame showed me:

To pull out a point I've been hammering since Baldur Bjarnason talked about AI's public image, I fully anticipate tech's reputation cratering once the AI bubble bursts. Precisely how the public will view the tech industry at large in the aftermath I don't know, but I'd put good money on them being broadly hostile to it.

Baldur Bjaranason coming in with a solid sneer aimed squarely at his own industry's finest

ah sweet

manmade horrors beyond my comprehension