Ben Carter
@benjustgiggles.bsky.social
Just giggle with me.
Part time game developer, full time smartass.
Part time game developer, full time smartass.
Tool me longer than I like to admit
December 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Tool me longer than I like to admit
It's this season again
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
It's this season again
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It’s Sunday.
You deserve a good laugh!
You deserve a good laugh!
November 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
It’s Sunday.
You deserve a good laugh!
You deserve a good laugh!
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"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Mini says hi.
Need to visit her next week.
Need to visit her next week.
November 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Mini says hi.
Need to visit her next week.
Need to visit her next week.
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All I really want is something beautiful to say
To never fade away
I wanna live forever..
m.youtube.com/watch?v=202f...
To never fade away
I wanna live forever..
m.youtube.com/watch?v=202f...
Seether - Words As Weapons (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by SeetherVEVO
m.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:42 PM
All I really want is something beautiful to say
To never fade away
I wanna live forever..
m.youtube.com/watch?v=202f...
To never fade away
I wanna live forever..
m.youtube.com/watch?v=202f...
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Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"No one's going to build a factory based on a tariff that's on on Monday, off on... Tuesday, the president's changed his mind by Wednesday, he gets hormonal by Thursday and someone says something nasty in the middle school cafeteria on Friday and they're back on again."
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"No one's going to build a factory based on a tariff that's on on Monday, off on... Tuesday, the president's changed his mind by Wednesday, he gets hormonal by Thursday and someone says something nasty in the middle school cafeteria on Friday and they're back on again."
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Cat wrestling.
Happy caturday
Happy caturday
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Cat wrestling.
Happy caturday
Happy caturday
I Germany we call this Ballastwissen (knowledge you don't need and don't want)
November 29, 2025 at 7:56 AM
I Germany we call this Ballastwissen (knowledge you don't need and don't want)
As long as those AI models deem it more important to please you than being correct, they will continue to suck.
And since they are trained to exactly do that, this won't end soon.
And since they are trained to exactly do that, this won't end soon.
November 29, 2025 at 7:38 AM
As long as those AI models deem it more important to please you than being correct, they will continue to suck.
And since they are trained to exactly do that, this won't end soon.
And since they are trained to exactly do that, this won't end soon.
Full body wagging 😍
November 29, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Full body wagging 😍
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“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:44 AM
“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”
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The article itself: www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
Microsoft's head of AI doesn't understand why people don't like AI, and I don't understand why he doesn't understand because it's pretty obvious
Is it really "mindblowing" that people are skeptical of software that consistently doesn't do the things we're told it can do?
www.pcgamer.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The article itself: www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
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If Kamala Harris were President today Sarah Beckstrom would still be alive and Andrew Wolfe would not be in a Washington DC hospital ICU fighting for his life.
November 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
If Kamala Harris were President today Sarah Beckstrom would still be alive and Andrew Wolfe would not be in a Washington DC hospital ICU fighting for his life.
#ettd
"Two Swiss parliamentarians have asked the Office of the Attorney General to investigate whether gifts allegedly presented to US President Donald Trump by prominent Swiss executives were lawful."
Can be fined or result in prison of up to 5 years.
english.almayadeen.net/news/politic...
"Two Swiss parliamentarians have asked the Office of the Attorney General to investigate whether gifts allegedly presented to US President Donald Trump by prominent Swiss executives were lawful."
Can be fined or result in prison of up to 5 years.
english.almayadeen.net/news/politic...
Gold bar diplomacy? Swiss gifts to Trump spark criminal inquiry
Swiss lawmakers raise alarm over possible corruption, warning that undisclosed gifts to Trump could damage Switzerland’s global reputation.
english.almayadeen.net
November 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
#ettd
"Two Swiss parliamentarians have asked the Office of the Attorney General to investigate whether gifts allegedly presented to US President Donald Trump by prominent Swiss executives were lawful."
Can be fined or result in prison of up to 5 years.
english.almayadeen.net/news/politic...
"Two Swiss parliamentarians have asked the Office of the Attorney General to investigate whether gifts allegedly presented to US President Donald Trump by prominent Swiss executives were lawful."
Can be fined or result in prison of up to 5 years.
english.almayadeen.net/news/politic...
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Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
😁
Sleeping on the couch in 3..2..1..
Sleeping on the couch in 3..2..1..
November 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
😁
Sleeping on the couch in 3..2..1..
Sleeping on the couch in 3..2..1..
If you get asked what ROFL means..
November 28, 2025 at 8:24 AM
If you get asked what ROFL means..