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Wednesday February 25th, 2026
Voice teacher suggested we try Moody's
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Voice teacher suggested we try Moody's Mood For Love, the sheet music version is Amy Winehouse's version, and... holy crap do the producer and I have ... different visions.
Hope someone else follows the same sheet music structure so I don't have to listen to that percussion over and over...
SMBC prescient on AI
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ERROR 406i: AI_SLOP_DETECTED
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Have you tried using more?
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MeFi user
notoriety public
Omelas Council: "We have created a beautiful society that requires only
that a single child suffers."
Techbros: "Have you tried using more?"
Bonesmashing Looksmaxxing
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Ya know when you see something that's definitely there to troll the older generation, like
Tide Pod challenge or whatever? This is so fucking stupid I can't believe it's actually
real, on the other hand it is the 2020s, so "so fucking stupid" is completely believable.
GQ: What is
Bonesmashing? Inside the Extreme Looksmaxxer Technique
As looksmaxxing enters our lexicon, the practice of bonesmashingtapping your
face with a hammer to shape your bone structureis trailing close behind.
"Retrophrenology" was supposed to be a joke. Although this also probably isn't de-
douchebagifying the incels, so, yeah, doesn't work in practice either.
Via Charlie Stross.
Summer Yue trusts OpenClaw, hilarity ensues
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Should probably make a note of this, 'cause it's everywhere right now: Gizmodo: Meta Exec Learns the Hard Way That AI Can Just Delete Your Stuff
One small trick to get you to inbox zero.
TechCrunch: A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw
agent ran amok on her inbox.
The X/Twitter post/thread
that describes the thing, there are alt links in the Gizmodo text.
The saddest thing about this is the anthropomorphization in the follow-up screencap, with
any sort of sense that the LLM has "learned" anything.
podcasting isn't video-first
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Podcasting Isn't Video-
First
A recent study by Triton Digital says 80% of those surveyed consume podcasts
both in audio and video. But only 7% only consume the video.
I am surprised that the video consumption is that high.
Whale penises!
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Daniel P. Huffman
@pinakographos@mapstodon.space has a warning to Adobe InDesign users to double-check
all of the AI generated content, including image alt text that you might not have known was
even there.
AI Added Basically Zero to US Economic Growth
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Hot on the heels of Goldman Sachs announcing an AI-free index fund (Pivot to AI on
the topic), AI Added Basically Zero to US Economic Growth Last
Year, Goldman
Sachs Says
Briggs colleague, Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jan Hatzius, said in an
interview with the Atlantic Council that AI investment spending has had basically zero contribution
to the
U.S. GDP growth in 2025.
We dont actually view AI investment as strongly growth
positive, said
Hatzius. I think theres a lot of misreporting, actually, of the impact AI
investment had
on U.S. GDP growth in 2025, and its much smaller than is often perceived.
Some of this is that the value of the excess manufacturing accruing to Taiwan and Korea.
Tuesday February 24th, 2026
If Microsoft creates a modern
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If Microsoft creates a modern Aibo, does that mean CoPilot is your dog?
(Ref: "CoPilot is my Jesus" from flabdablet https://www.metafilter.com/212...ain-Has-Left-the-Station#8817052 )
POLITICO and the New York Times Laundering Pink Slime "News"
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I wondered how the NYT could edit Trump's comments to make him sound coherent and like he
was speaking in complete sentences, and yet record every "uhm" and "ah" in a quote pulled
from the middle of a 90 minute AOC free-form Q&A. Spin Class
Cass Study: I Caught POLITICO and the New York Times Laundering Pink Slime "News"
How the sexist backlash to AOC and Gretchen Whitmer at the Munich Security
Conference led me to a scammy "local news" outlet pushing a coordinated right-wing
narrative
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