Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Definitely slop. But it is still funny to see the company execs who are so into pushing "AI", now up in arms when it steals from *them* rather than just from artists and other creators. 0460
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Marsupial-like wallet pouch. Evolved due to the lack of pockets in boxers. 130
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I mean, *this* time some blame can certainly be assigned. It just isn't where the people in power would like it to be. 110
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The problem with that approach, if you put everything into fixing the problems without tackling the causes and planning forr future prevention, you are just wasting effort on "fixing" something that will happen again. And, without any consequences for the people doing it, you encourage repetition. 020
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026He has never had a real consequence for maiking up his own "truth". I'd rather have an explanation for the people who can look at everything and still believe what he says anyway. 0395
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It seems to me that allowing the deportations while arguments are still ongoing can lead to the greater harm. Law is upside-down anymore. 🤔 I don't think SCOTUS will "look clean" again for a long long time, no matter what they do eventually. 050
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I wouldn't be shocked to learn these actions were intentional on the part of the companies. "Rogue AI" is either complete incompetence (in which case, they should not be allowed these systems at all), or it is "the dog ate my homework" when it turns out you smeared a hamburger on it first. 010
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I'm trying to picture the kind of puddle where a phone could have been completely lost and all I'm coming up with is pools from The Magician's Nephew. 🙂 000
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Looks like the image might not be AI. Don't know how to tell about the title design. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jo...en.wikipedia.org 221
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Agreed, but even if everyone votes and even if we get back some control, we can't see their election loss as the consequences. Some are saying, if we win don't waste time on punishments, just get back to work. But we need to multitask both repairs and punishments or it lets them try again and again. 020
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is exactly why they keep doing it. Zero consequences. They can keep trying over and over and failing over and over because it doesn't cost them anything. They only need to win once and the rest of us need to win every single time. 130
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Remains one of my favorite games. Am I now going to use the anniversary as an excuse to revisit it this weekend? Probably. 😁 010
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Yep. Win/win for them. Gives cover (minimal, what with all the other things happening, but still) for them before the elections and if democrats win back part of the government, lets them try to blame it on the left when people lose more services. 010
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I'd imagine, then, that there are at least a few out there who will lock down options just to keep them away from potential competitors. 120
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I understand that. And if we had a better political system to work with, I think it could be a great thing. I keep asking myself, though, where we would be if parameters like that hadn't been in play in 2024. I have a hard time seeing the path forward if protest votes keep letting the fascists win. 300
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I kinda remember 2020. My issue is not knowing if it was 20 years ago or last week. 🤔 130
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I specifically checked the comments to see if anyone else's brain did this. 😆 160
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 08/09/2026If that happened here, Flock would just scan your face and sell it with no compensation to you. Having the choice to rent your face sounds positively utopian in comparison. (And yes, the bar is VERY low these days. 🙃) 020
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I have the house to myself for an hour or two in the morning before anyone else is up. Worth it for some early reading or game time before chaos takes over the day. 110
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Don't go giving the billionaires MORE ideas! We already have multiple Tormet Nexus (nexuses? nexii? I don't know. too many in any case) in progress. 000
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026For the people pushing this, even if they do realize that, it wouldn't matter. If the senate age requirement was lower, it would not even matter to them if he hadn't been born. They'd use the same tactic either way. Fear smothers logic and that is what they count on. 020
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026You can't look at it from a perspective of science/logic. It falls more squarely into a pattern of religion/faith. The diety is technology (these days, "AI") and the priests are billionaires who say they can make it real and it will solve all of the world's problems. None of it needs to make sense. 130
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Anyone who sees this and thinks they can do the same should be made to watch Grizzly Man to the end. 070
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 30/08/2026You are right. I don't know what you push for or not. I can only go by what you are saying. Which comes across as "it won't work, so why bother." Again, not saying that *is* your attitude, just the impression given here. 010
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Well, then, you don't actually disagree. 😁 If you choose to be one of the people who don't push for it, that is your choice, but if everyone who wanted it to happen decided to do something instead of just thinking it hopeless, we'd be in a pretty good position to make progress. 110
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Nothing in the thread seems to say it *won't* take decades to remove. Just that we can't let it slide now if we want to even try to start the process. 120
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Even odds the US marketing team asked "AI" what the movie was about because someone couldn't be bothered to check. 000
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Good use of the image, so this is just to include where it originally came from if anyone is interested. xkcd.com/2347/xkcd.comDependency 000
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Same. But, considering 2026 is also the year I learned Ore-Ida is named for Oregon and Idaho (which it says RIGHT ON THE LABEL), I'll give myself a pass on this one. 😁 000
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The fact rowling would say *anything* even remotely positive about any trans person makes me think someone somewhere is actually worried the backlash of her hatred might finally hurt someone's bank balance. If they are preparing for damage control, we are on the right track. Keep it up! 010
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I'm not going to say it was a favorite book, but when it comes to memorable media manipulation, Killing Time by Caleb Carr is one that has come back to me over and over for the past 25 years as one of the first times I read how manipulation of information/media people consumed shaped their reality. 020
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I wonder about movies where it seems the least amount of effort went into the writing. I could be very wrong, but I have the impression "writing" isn't a make or break line item amount in the budget, so why not get it done right? A movie can be silly fun AND run a decent script. Like D&D from 2023. 140
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I hear rumors it is even possible to like *some* of your books, but not *all* of your books. Crazy, but I think it is true. 😁 2500
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Fortune cookies are like "🤷 I couldn't have predicted half the garbage that's happening these days. I have no idea." 120
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 13/08/2026*waves from the U.S.* We should definitely be a cautionary tale for that at this point. 000
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 12/08/2026You did not realize dog stomachs can be quantum entagled? It is like action-at-a-distance, but with vomit. Very scientific. 🙃 1140
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Those resources might not constantly tell you how correct and intelligent you are for thinking the book is too tough for anyone to read. Why stand for that? 🙃 040
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Eternally held prisoner in the faelands vs living the next two years here...I might have to think about that one. 🤔 🙃 110
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 10/08/2026That could become problematic, though, if the vioce you hear isn't yours. 🤔 130
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Seems very appropriate for the current climate. *You* are the one in the wrong for noticing and/or reporting on the bad acts of others. You shoud just respect her perfectly valid opinion on where the pee should be on the toilet. 🙃 000
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 07/08/2026We can't help anyone else if we position ourselves to be the next threat. 110
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 07/08/2026"Relative success" for the right these days might be more tied to the number of abuse allegations that have piled up than it is to political performance. And, as far as I can tell, he is only banned from one country. 010
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Stellar population is just a classification system with Pop I being he youngest and III being the oldest. Seems a pop iii star would have been quite the find in grandma's attic! 😁 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar...en.wikipedia.orgStellar population - Wikipedia 1250
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Don't worry. After this post I'm sure some "AI" somewhere will be telling people you have one. (And that your cats are trying to eat you...which...ok, that one might be true, I don't know. 😁) 140
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I think I have brain wiring opposite yours. 😁 I can't do audiobooks because listening to one takes ALL my focus. Obviously this would be dangeous while driving or walking. And times when I don't have anything else that needs my attention, I prefer turning the pages of a physical book. 020
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Since this is an example from HWA, maybe we replace "AI" with "parasitic brain slugs". (Plus, it somehow feels like a better fit when talking about generative AI.) 🤔 000
Tanek @tanek.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Wow. Setting up camps like that across the country would be horrible. I bet they are glad their side of the aisle would never do (or even plan) something like that! 😏 070
