Sharkpuncher
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Sometimes I get lost on the road of life
This is reinforced by the sheer number of times that a company rolls out a feature that they let you disable if you don't like it, but then after a certain amount of time just take away the ability to disable it.
The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar
new iOS update is sleek and also defaults in Music to “you must want songs transition as they would on a dance floor.” so many people will wonder why they can’t just listen to an album. Apps > Music > Song Transitions > toggle off.
December 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
This is reinforced by the sheer number of times that a company rolls out a feature that they let you disable if you don't like it, but then after a certain amount of time just take away the ability to disable it.
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Love to see the Sedgwick County Zoo putting out a good explainer on why GenAI slop videos of animals are a problem & how to identify them! It’s succinct, easy to read, and doesn’t shame people for not knowing better. A+ useful link to share with family and friends.
scz.org/blog/the-rea...
scz.org/blog/the-rea...
The Reality of AI Animal Content – Sedgwick County Zoo
If you spend any time on social media, you’ve probably seen them – bears bouncing on trampolines, apes caught on doorbell cameras, or “rescued” wild animals acting in ways that seem too good to be…
scz.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Love to see the Sedgwick County Zoo putting out a good explainer on why GenAI slop videos of animals are a problem & how to identify them! It’s succinct, easy to read, and doesn’t shame people for not knowing better. A+ useful link to share with family and friends.
scz.org/blog/the-rea...
scz.org/blog/the-rea...
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online friendship is crazy. like yeah we go way back. we talk about weird shit exclusively and we've seen each other in person between zero and four times
December 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
online friendship is crazy. like yeah we go way back. we talk about weird shit exclusively and we've seen each other in person between zero and four times
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there's a certain personality that's very debilitating in modern life. 100 years ago, if you wanted to buy something, you'd go to five local shops and decide. now with the internet, you need to spend 1,000 hours so you can own the best version in the world like you're some venetian patrician
December 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
there's a certain personality that's very debilitating in modern life. 100 years ago, if you wanted to buy something, you'd go to five local shops and decide. now with the internet, you need to spend 1,000 hours so you can own the best version in the world like you're some venetian patrician
My mom owns a lot of things that I would call "clown-adjacent" and she is currently trying to get me to take this kind of gaudy statue, I have challenged her with telling me a place that I would put it
December 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
My mom owns a lot of things that I would call "clown-adjacent" and she is currently trying to get me to take this kind of gaudy statue, I have challenged her with telling me a place that I would put it
It's amazing how much my mom refuses to acknowledge dietary restrictions no matter how many times I tell her, every time she tries to justify not remembering or negotiate why it's not a big deal, after it's already been done.
"It's not that much", "Can't you just take something for it", she says
"It's not that much", "Can't you just take something for it", she says
December 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
It's amazing how much my mom refuses to acknowledge dietary restrictions no matter how many times I tell her, every time she tries to justify not remembering or negotiate why it's not a big deal, after it's already been done.
"It's not that much", "Can't you just take something for it", she says
"It's not that much", "Can't you just take something for it", she says
Spotify called me old, gave me a listening age of 57, but what 57 year old is out there with castlevania OSTs in their top albums. I'm being unfairly judged for liking 80s music lol
December 4, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Spotify called me old, gave me a listening age of 57, but what 57 year old is out there with castlevania OSTs in their top albums. I'm being unfairly judged for liking 80s music lol
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Cool whippersnappers are always like "back in my tumblr years" meanwhile us LiveJournal crones are like
a cartoon witch is sticking her head out of a hole in the wall
ALT: a cartoon witch is sticking her head out of a hole in the wall
media.tenor.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Cool whippersnappers are always like "back in my tumblr years" meanwhile us LiveJournal crones are like
LRP: the whole startup mentality of "keep pouring money into it, lose money until it succeeds, then if it doesn't it implodes, oh well" is rampant everywhere in tech but I think AI is is a great example where everyone lost their goddamn minds and are too far in now to pull back-
November 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
LRP: the whole startup mentality of "keep pouring money into it, lose money until it succeeds, then if it doesn't it implodes, oh well" is rampant everywhere in tech but I think AI is is a great example where everyone lost their goddamn minds and are too far in now to pull back-
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And this is why we fight. This shit won't last long at this rate. If they keep racking up half-TRILLION dollar loss projections, even the most bullish, fascist-ass weirdo billionaire is going to have to stop to keep from losing his shirt.
"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 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
And this is why we fight. This shit won't last long at this rate. If they keep racking up half-TRILLION dollar loss projections, even the most bullish, fascist-ass weirdo billionaire is going to have to stop to keep from losing his shirt.
For no explainable reason the song New Age Girl from the 90s popped into my head randomly. I'm pretty sure there was some subconscious trigger involved in looking up novelty coffee mugs on Etsy that could be hazbin hotel coded with ginny but like...I can't explain what that background process was-
November 29, 2025 at 3:36 AM
For no explainable reason the song New Age Girl from the 90s popped into my head randomly. I'm pretty sure there was some subconscious trigger involved in looking up novelty coffee mugs on Etsy that could be hazbin hotel coded with ginny but like...I can't explain what that background process was-
Remember that point in time when basically everyone was filming their content with a GoPro, and then the bottom just completely dropped out of that market?
I don't really have anything else to say about it, it just was something I was thinking about now. the trend died so abruptly but quietly
I don't really have anything else to say about it, it just was something I was thinking about now. the trend died so abruptly but quietly
November 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Remember that point in time when basically everyone was filming their content with a GoPro, and then the bottom just completely dropped out of that market?
I don't really have anything else to say about it, it just was something I was thinking about now. the trend died so abruptly but quietly
I don't really have anything else to say about it, it just was something I was thinking about now. the trend died so abruptly but quietly
I get that a lot of businesses now have their "Black Friday" sale the whole week of, and that's whatever, but it sure is silly to get emails that say "our Black Friday sale is still going on!" and it's only Wednesday
November 27, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I get that a lot of businesses now have their "Black Friday" sale the whole week of, and that's whatever, but it sure is silly to get emails that say "our Black Friday sale is still going on!" and it's only Wednesday
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I don't remember if it was something someone posted or just online somewhere but I remember reading a story where someone called the police because a neighbor had a bunch of empty cardboard boxes outside that iirc were for isopropyl alcohol and they thought "maybe it had something to do with drugs"-
November 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I don't remember if it was something someone posted or just online somewhere but I remember reading a story where someone called the police because a neighbor had a bunch of empty cardboard boxes outside that iirc were for isopropyl alcohol and they thought "maybe it had something to do with drugs"-
I suspect that we're going to see more and more "we don't use AI (until you catch us doing it)" now that there's so much pushback on it, whether it's for some sketchy internal purposes or just trying to slip between the lines on a technicality with marketing
Just so it's clear. It's not allowing AI because it's trying to create a clean dataset for training AI. It's not because any of the involved parties actually care about human created art.
Demons can lie to you. You have to rebuke them categorically, rather than fold when they say the right words.
Demons can lie to you. You have to rebuke them categorically, rather than fold when they say the right words.
Vine is being rebooted under the name diVine, with funding from Twitter’s former CEO Jack Dorsey.
The app plans to feature more than 10,000 previously archived Vines and does not allow AI-generated content.
(divine.video)
The app plans to feature more than 10,000 previously archived Vines and does not allow AI-generated content.
(divine.video)
November 22, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I suspect that we're going to see more and more "we don't use AI (until you catch us doing it)" now that there's so much pushback on it, whether it's for some sketchy internal purposes or just trying to slip between the lines on a technicality with marketing
I'm sure some of it is trends and not shady stealth sponsorships but it really is interesting when you see so many different videos where people are all using the same products, oh really you all randomly decided you wanted to make videos on what to do with a ninja creami? that's sooo interesting
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I'm sure some of it is trends and not shady stealth sponsorships but it really is interesting when you see so many different videos where people are all using the same products, oh really you all randomly decided you wanted to make videos on what to do with a ninja creami? that's sooo interesting
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One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
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the 'clubs' they mentioned are a thing that just does NOT exist anymore. I honestly think that's the biggest hole
like, clubs, or lj comms, or single-interest forums just do not exist. Today you toss fanart/discussion onto an open sea and pray other fans will see it and engage, and if not, too bad
like, clubs, or lj comms, or single-interest forums just do not exist. Today you toss fanart/discussion onto an open sea and pray other fans will see it and engage, and if not, too bad
November 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
the 'clubs' they mentioned are a thing that just does NOT exist anymore. I honestly think that's the biggest hole
like, clubs, or lj comms, or single-interest forums just do not exist. Today you toss fanart/discussion onto an open sea and pray other fans will see it and engage, and if not, too bad
like, clubs, or lj comms, or single-interest forums just do not exist. Today you toss fanart/discussion onto an open sea and pray other fans will see it and engage, and if not, too bad
Every once in awhile I think about how something "wasn't that long ago" and then I do the math and it's like 10+ years ago and I scream inwardly at the constant fleeting passage of time
November 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Every once in awhile I think about how something "wasn't that long ago" and then I do the math and it's like 10+ years ago and I scream inwardly at the constant fleeting passage of time
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Been laughing at this for about 10 minutes.
November 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Been laughing at this for about 10 minutes.
Me, someone with 5000 unfinished projects waiting: ok, but WHAT IF I try to make a functional replica of this antique style radio that everyone is already making replicas of, but I do it more authentically and with more functions. What if I do that. I think I should (looks up parts online)
November 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Me, someone with 5000 unfinished projects waiting: ok, but WHAT IF I try to make a functional replica of this antique style radio that everyone is already making replicas of, but I do it more authentically and with more functions. What if I do that. I think I should (looks up parts online)
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A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...
www.tcj.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!