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*Just because someone offers it, that doesn't mean it gets mass consumer acceptance

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"Hey wait a minute -- turning slop-memes into Design Fiction diegetic-prototype props, that's not even fair" *Hate to break this, but my 19th-century colleague Albert Robida once constructed an entire fake French medieval town

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*She's been radicalized by political developments

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*There's always an exception to the rule, and "4o" is the "chatbot" that abounds in the lamentations-of-the-women *Probably a good thing that it wasn't an "agent" *At least, not YET

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*I wonder if the regionalized Spanish Slopject should look MORE Spanish, or if it would reassure Spanish consumers if it looked much LESS Spanish

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*That's just me, okay. I was writing about that hand-glitch thing from the beginning

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*Folks, this really is "Sloptober." The hits just keep on coming. #news #frenzy #StanfordKetamine #bankruptcy www.404media.co/character-ai...

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*Here in Ibiza there's suddenly a ton of these down at the drugstore #TheSubstance

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*This localized European version seems to be less aggressive, but it seems that I have to recycle it

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*Well, I managed to get my hands on one, but now alas I have "slop hands" #generated #slopject #glitch #designfiction

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*When you're in the data-center racket, but still fatally chained by the wrists and ankles to the blood-for-oil racket. #climatecrisis #planetarymayhem

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*Nice to see both Claude and Cursor elbow-deep in the GitHub piracy crime-action here. #ReverseEngineering *Clap the irons on 'em, officer

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*Make that two hundred thousand stars #ReverseEngineerAnything "Look, I'm lazy! Just gimme that GitHub link direct from Bluesky, and I'll click on it and I'll swipe something right now!!" *Uh, no

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*Also starting to see interesting "Agentic Bean-Counter" effects, as in, how can I generate effective slop-video, which is also *low-budget* slop video *After all, as a slop-maker, I don't want to buy a zillion tokens just to make some Chinese platform happy

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*That's quite a well-realized AI slop-video scene unless you like to browse book titles *I'm not nitpicking here, I'm trying to understand the artifacts of the process. For instance: do you want slop-video to look real, or do you want it to look like a real movie

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*What does "token share" even mean *Also, who enforces "model country" *And third, what gives with "Other." I might be in the market for some "other"

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*I don't want to sound unnecessarily bitter in my realpolitik assessment here *What about tech companies that you *admire,* you would, like, willingly wear their T-shirt in public *Bell Labs, maybe *Yes, they're dead, but that's what's good about them

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*Given that this verse is 800 years old and I just now happened upon it for the first time, this is more like a lump of frozen pumice than river-bubbles

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*So, you're a big fan of these ladies, then

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*The Gray Zone has bizarre standards, but these Ukrainian tanks, transformed into haystack-hedgehog antidrone monsters, must be some of the ugliest military vehicles ever deployed in combat

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*Do these European political women actually have any "privacy" *No, they must all have big weighty anvils of ruthless oppo-research piled on their heads *Most of that effort now AI-"assisted" *All the more reason to watch them

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*Are they on Bluesky *Yes, three of them *Am I now following them *Yup #InternetPolitics

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*The most active supporters of European online-privacy laws. Is it amazing that these EU legislators are all women *No #privacy #women *Their NAMES are kind of amazing, gee whiz gdpr-omnibus.eu

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*So, Mistral, "terrifying and abominable," I'm afraid that interpretation is not gonna do it #generated #everydayobject #satirical #designfiction

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*So, wait... Are the AI owners Anarcho-Communists? All that lock-in action, that sounds more like Adobe than an anarcho-communist *Unless they're, like, some real-deal Comintern Communists, who plan to crush the entire previous order, and then seize the means-of-production for their Nomenklatura

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*Yeah, yeah, that's true, sorry "What on Earth is he even talking about. De-compiling of what?'" *Well, it's like this, okay:

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*AI decompilation really is a Jekyll-Hyde transformation, that's a bizarre and spooky thing to do *It's like replacing a roast boar on a platter with a boar-shaped gelatin-mold made of ground pork and hot dogs

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*Look at all these OTHER human beings. Does anybody ever claim that THEY were "computation"? It's a fad.

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*Sometimes they still make elementary physics mistakes, but the image-generators are fantastically better than they were. Look at the expert treatment of those water reflections, and the grime, and the hair *By the 20th-C computer-graphics standards of Utah teapots, that is off-the-charts good

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*The all have the same teeth *It's an easy fix, but it's a quirk of the system *Also slopped-people lack natural blemishes on their faces. A scar, smeared lipstick, a mascara mess, those read as glitches to the generator

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*Elena Vazquez, Marcus Chen and their colleague Elara Voss

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*Look, science fiction was invented in the 1920s, while libraries have been burning-down ever since Sumeria *However, Artificial Intelligences getting burned down by remotely-targeted robot missiles, that's an exciting new trend *Is this situation some fantasist's "anxiety," no it isn't

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"Wow, good thing that those flying leopards eating the faces of those Russian data centers would never eat the face of any data center anywhere near me-and-mine"

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"How many expensive Russian data centers could possibly get blown up?!" *Well, the Chinese have it figured that there are kind of a lot of them

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*Your computational base is obviously pretty "unsafe and risky" when someone is methodically blowing it up #datacenters #bombardment

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*When you put your "national sovereign cyberspace" into a bunch of big, vulnerable barns. #DataCenters

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*It's interesting that a fruit-fly-brain connectome is not a mere "metaphor," but a literal map of brain connections of some kind *What are they physically doing, not flows of ones-and-zeroes, but it must be something, or it wouldn't look so bothersome

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*Mmm-hmm, yeah, put in a pre-order, talk-up my new trilogy on BookTok

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