Flutterby™! (short)

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...

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal from June 20, 2017 nails the ChatGPT girlfriend experience.

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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?"

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 bonesmashing—tapping your face with a hammer to shape your bone structure—is 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.

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

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.

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.

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 don’t actually view AI investment as strongly growth positive,” said Hatzius. “I think there’s a lot of misreporting, actually, of the impact AI investment had on U.S. GDP growth in 2025, and it’s much smaller than is often perceived.”

Some of this is that the value of the excess manufacturing accruing to Taiwan and Korea.

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 )

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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