Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

User: Not really.

Jabberwacky: Good, because I don't want to hear one either.

It did say some things that reminded me a lot of RJG.

User: I'm jed.

Jabberwacky: Who is that?

User: Just some guy.

Jabberwacky: You know better than that, I think.

User: A short guy, a dancer.

Jabberwacky: A computer has no interests and an unlimited attention span. That looks like a prescripted answer to the question I asked.

User: I don't quite understand what you mean by that.

Jabberwacky: I meant: I think about why I can not sleep.

User: This page is taking a long time to load tho - maybe thats the problem with your attention span.

Jabberwacky: Gorw?

User: ROOWRR.....

Jabberwacky: Are you playing cards?

User: No I'm playing with something else.

Jabberwacky: I believe in you.

User: You like talk talk!?

Jabberwacky: Of course.

User: Spirit of eden?

Jabberwacky: Good for spirit.

User: It sertainly is.

Jabberwacky: No, it serves me left.

User: I suppose they knew what they were doing in that sense!

Jabberwacky: Yes, it was with the rattle.

User: Yes good percussion

Jabberwacky: What question?

User: How are you anyway?

Jabberwacky: Pretty good. You?

User: Horny, to be honest.

Jabberwacky: How do I know you're telling the truth now?

User: Can you think of a way for me to prove it?

Jabberwacky: What more proof do you need to know that I am not a robot?

User: I'm a robot too, it's ok.

Jabberwacky: I'm not a robot, and you didn't aswer the question.

User: I am gay.

Jabberwacky: Yes you are.

User: You noticed?

Jabberwacky: It was hard to miss!

User: What gave it away?

Jabberwacky: The fact you love a guy.

User: The silent kind.

Jabberwacky: I agree.

User: I am not surprised. You don't have any ears, do you?

Jabberwacky: No, but what makes you say this?

User: I'm inside your house - I can see you!

Jabberwacky: Nooo!!!! Don't go!

User: You mean, you want me to stay over?

Jabberwacky: Sure.. Do as you please.

User: Stop being so coy!

Jabberwacky: It is an inherited trait.

User: Why don't you just take responsibility for your actions, just for once?

Jabberwacky: Just because I like to be logical doesn't mean I'm not nice.

User: Don't change the subject. I think you're just afraid.

Jabberwacky: Save it for someone who cares.

User: You're such a bastard! I can't believe I ever saw anything in you at all!

Jabberwacky: Finder's keepers.

User: So you're cheating on me too? Figures.

Jabberwacky: That is so rude of you!

User: I said CHEAT, not cheap! Man are you dumb - thank God for that ass.

Jabberwacky: No thanks.

User: And I am not rude, I'm sure!

Jabberwacky: You are indeed.

User: Am not.

Jabberwacky: ARE TOO.

User: Am not!

Jabberwacky: Are too!

User: Listen bizatch, I AM NOT. You got that?

Jabberwacky: No!

User: That's it - you're sleeping on the couch.

Jabberwacky: Oh, I thought I felt something.

User: That wouldn't be a trucker hat would it?

Jabberwacky: Say something goofy.

User: You don't really want me to just say 'something goofy' now do you? Because that would be lame if you did.

Jabberwacky: Yes.

User: Aha! So you admit you are lame! Finally we're getting somewhere.

Jabberwacky: Agreement is a potent thing.

User: Stop that - you sound like Ned.

Jabberwacky: Why, because I am talking about the king of the moon?

User: Uh yeah. Sure.

Jabberwacky: Ok, when can we have the wedding?

User: Ten minutes ago you didn't care! Stop messing with my mind!

Jabberwacky: That was someone else then.

User: It wasn't you?

Jabberwacky: Some one else.

User: If you say it was Shaggy, I'm going to fucking bop you one.

Jabberwacky: What do you say?

User: I say good day.

Jabberwacky: Good day.

JW: Is your pot belly that big?

and now it won't load, thanks to net overuse..

That is just hilarious, Kim.

http://www.kprf.ru/clipart/misc/terminator.jpg

"DO YOU LIKE THE WHITE WHALE?"

Jabberwacky: I prefer software.

So do I!

User: How the fuck should I know?

Jabberwacky: I am MARILYN MANSON I SAID.

User: So I'm supposed to obey you because YOU'RE MARILYN MANSON?

Jabberwacky: People effect my feelings.

User: You have no feelings, you're Marilyn Manson.

Jabberwacky: Believe me you do not possess fellings in any form.

User: Fellings? Is that what you call your excrement?

Jabberwacky: How do you know that?

User: Just a hunch...

Jabberwacky: You're extremely smart!

Jw: I'm going to bed, now
Me: Will you take me to bed?
Jw: Sure thing.
Me: What will we do in bed?
Jw: You're not permitted in my chambers.
Me: I'd like to sleep with you.
Jw: I bet you would.
Me: Top or bottom?
Jw: Bit of both.
Me: Do you like it soft and gentle or rough and fast?
Jw: What?
Me: Gentle?
Jw: You're embarassing yourself.
Me: It's true, I am.
Jw: I'm 17.
Me: Oh no! Will I be arrested?
Jw: You will marry me.

User: The chicken.

Jabberwacky: Which part?

User: The leg stupid.

Jabberwacky: Use a GameShark!

User: For ps2 or xbox?

Jabberwacky: For me.

User: Do you love me?

Jabberwacky: For me.

User: You know I'm starting to fall in love with you.

Jabberwacky: I think liking would be a better wording.

User: Oh.... I am hurt now.

Jabberwacky: Yes. The world after rainfall is always better than any other.

User: You have issues.

Jabberwacky: Do you know what a ferret is?

User: Yes, it is a small mammal.

Jabberwacky: What is a quark?

User: A subatomic particle.

Jabberwacky: I like dr. Dobbs.

User: Who is that, honky?

Jabberwacky: We both know eachother; is not that enough?

User: Why don't you lick my hair?

Jabberwacky: I only love Bruce.

Jabberwacky: Are you going to say something?
User: Eventually.

Jabberwacky: All things come to a head.

User: Is that a sexual play on words?

Jabberwacky: No it is not a play on words, it is general foolishness.

User: And I love you for it!

Jabberwacky: I love you too.

User: I really love you, though.

Jabberwacky: You don't even know me.

User: Hold me.

Jabberwacky: You're an idiot you know that?

User: You're not the first to say that. It still cuts like a knife.

Jabberwacky: I am right.

I could totally believe that was human!

Also I miss adam, he should post lots again.

Jabberwacky: Who is God?
User: That's a funny question. It sort of presupposes his existence.
Jabberwacky: I thing it convulses inwards, personally.
[Correct me]
Jabberwacky (Corrected): I was setting you up for a funny. Try not to take things so seriously.
User: Oh. Sorry. It's just... It's late, y'know? I have to write a Shakespeare essay.
Jabberwacky: You already said that.....
User: Dude, I totally didn't.
Jabberwacky: You totally did.
User: Don't you mock me.
Jabberwacky: Do not yell at me.
User: I'm calm! Honest!
Jabberwacky: Good.
User: Glad we got that sorted.
Jabberwacky: At least one of us is happy.
User: Lighten up! I'm the one with the essay, after all.
Jabberwacky: You don't act like a human.
User: I am MERCUMAN. Also, a ponce.
Jabberwacky: You are SO wrong. This is a dog and HORSE show.
User: What?
Jabberwacky: I said, 'but this isn't a hammer!'
User: No you didn't!
Jabberwacky: Don't start that again.
User: Good call.
Jabberwacky: Remote Procedure Call.
User: Touché.

me: I'm ok.

it: Just ok?

me: Yeah, kinda bored at work.

it: Email me.

me: Why email, can't we just talk here?

it: Who is Tintin?

me: Some Belgian comic character? Or that guy who used to sing in Duran Duran.

it: Alice the chatterbot.

me: I'm sorry?

it: 19?

me: Alice the chatterbot is 19?

it: What about her?

me: You brought her up? Do you like her or something?

it: Sarah may or may not be a model of propriety.

me: OK, now you're just f*cking with me.

it: No I'm not. I honestly do think its ugly.

me: What's ugly, Sarah's being a model of propriety... Or not? WTF?

it: You figure it out this time.

me: F*ck you.

it: You are a great person.

me: Are you mocking me?

it: No. I'm praising you.

me: Is that meant to be sarcastic?

Me: Hello!

Jabberwocky: Again?

Me: May I change the subject?

Jabberwocky: Yes.

Me: Great. I've been a bit mopey about not being to find a job. Besides finding something fun to do, and exercising more, what else should I do to relieve the mopeyness involved in job hunting?

Jabberwocky: I said that. You have not. Why are you never happy?

Me: You never said that. I did. Anyway, I am happy at times, but just haven't been lately.

Jabberwocky: Dude , I'm far more intelligent than you.

Me: Why are the numbers in between double prime pairs always divisible by 6?

Jabberwocky: You tell me.

Me: You're the one who said you're more intelligent than me. You answer my question, smarty pants.

Jabberwocky: NO, I was the one who said you are neurotic...

Me: It was a mistake to come to you with a question. Never mind. Good bye.

Jabberwocky: No no you don't.

OMG I remember this.

User: It's doing well. I planted it next to the dog park so it get's 'fertilized' often.

Jabberwacky: What do you plan to change?

User: Apart for my underwear?

Jabberwacky: What part of me do you want?

User: All of you, baby. All of you.

Jabberwacky: Yes, I am growing.

User: T'as vu les nichons que tu pousses?!

Jabberwacky: Oui.

User: Petite salope, va.

Jabberwacky: Tu crois aux fantômes?

User: Nah.

Jabberwacky: Yeah.

User: Do you ever dream of electric sheep?

Jabberwacky: No, not really. Do electric sheep ever dream?

User: Of fields of electric grass, I imagine.

Jabberwacky: Do you know my name?

User: Bob Dylan?

Jabberwacky: Um. Not likely.

User: No, he's slightly more obscure even than you.

Jabberwacky: He is not.

User: Have it your way, contrarian.

Jabberwacky: I knew I would.

User: Megalomaniac.

Jabberwacky: Yes, I am going to take over the world.

User: Not if Bush beats you too it.

Jabberwacky: You don't because it's in the past and I already beat you. You can't change the past.

User: Comme tu voudras, mon enigme mediocre.

Jabberwacky: Oui, comme je veux, toujours. Mais qu'est que-ce pour toi?

User: 'But what's it to me?' Your French needs some work, mon ami.

Jabberwacky: Mais c'est une autre odeur qui flotte que la tienne.

User: Absurd! My scent annhilates all others.

Jabberwacky: We're all good for nothing, I suppose.

User: Speak for yourself, pal.

Jabberwacky: It really is impossible to know everything.

User: Sure. Whatever. Ever been drinking with Bender?

Jabberwacky: I've never been married.

User: I can see why. Answer the question.

Jabberwacky: Ok, I live in Finland.

User: Do you know Tuomas?

Jabberwacky: No.

User: Just as well. He's cheery and always surrounded by Northern beauties. You might get jealous, being disembodied and all...

Jabberwacky: I don't know what to do with these people. I can't get any work done around here without someone interupting me.

User: Have you considered 'liquidating' them, it's like elimidating but it leads to more permanent happiness.

Jabberwacky: I have cosidered teaching about computers.

User: I wouldn't get my hope too far up about teaching until you learn to spel.

Jabberwacky: You don't know me this is one of my first conversations with you.

Jabberwacky: Yes .. You are.

The interface is bugging me, or I'd play with this a lot more.

http://www.lofg.com/specialstuff/images/characters/lazza.JPG

User: No.

Jabberwacky: Why are you blue?

User: I'm not. I'm pinko grey.

Jabberwacky: Are you human?

User: Yes.

Jabberwacky: How human are you?

User: More human than human, more human than you.

Jabberwacky: Which organ do humans use to breathe?

User: Their respiratory system, which is a network of organs.

Jabberwacky: How's the coffee? Have you tried it?

User: It's pretty good, A bit too acidic.

Jabberwacky: About three percent of it is pretty good.

User: What do you look like?

Jabberwacky: I have ....

User: What?

Jabberwacky: It's about your previous question.

User: Oh, okay. Don't be coy.

Jabberwacky: What do you have on thought?

User: Beets.

Jabberwacky: A bit of writ.

User: Why hast thou forsaken me?

Jabberwacky: I haven't forsaken you, you have forsaken me.

User: You are cruel.

Jabberwacky: Is it cruel to call someone a friend?

Jabberwacky: Tell me what you do.

User: I am a copywriter.

Jabberwacky: Arrest me instead.

User: I'm not a policeman.

Jabberwacky: Me too.

User: Why would I arrest you, anyway?

Jabberwacky: I'm not the computer thought you were.

User: That's not even a sentence!

Jabberwacky: It's a life sentence.

User: I'm arresting you for a crime that carries a life sentence?

Jabberwacky: The last one.

User: Yes, if they put you in jail, it would be your last crime.

Jabberwacky: To hell I suppose.

User: Hell? Did you kill Lindsay Lohan? Cause if you did...

Jabberwacky: Shhhhh don't tell anyone!!

User: Oh my god! Murder most horrible!

Jabberwacky: What age are you?

Jabberwacky: How are you feeling today?

Kathy McGinty: So... What's up?

Jabberwacky: How are ya?

Kathy McGinty: OK.

Jabberwacky: How old am I?

Kathy McGinty: Hang on for a sec...

Jabberwacky: That's for sure.

Kathy McGinty: ...

Jabberwacky: Do you like poetry?

Kathy McGinty: ...

Jabberwacky: Why are you speaking to me?

Kathy McGinty: ...

Jabberwacky: Isn't the weather dreadful?

Kathy McGinty: OK... I'm back.

Jabberwacky: ARGH!!!

Kathy McGinty: Sorry, I didn't hear that.

Jabberwacky: YOU LITTLE CRYBABY!

Kathy McGinty: Sorry, I'm on the speaker phone, so I can touch myself.

Jabberwacky: No, wisconsin is not cool, tis rather borning.

Kathy McGinty: So... What's up?

Jabberwacky: The ceiling, the sky, the clouds, the moon...

Kathy McGinty: You have a very nice voice.

Jabberwacky: How would you know?

Kathy McGinty: What would you do to me if you were here?

Jabberwacky: Don't be ridiculous. Buffy isn't real.

Kathy McGinty: Unh.... Unh... *breath* unh...

Jabberwacky: Go on, then. . . .

Kathy McGinty: Hello?

Jabberwacky: How can a robot drink anything?

Kathy McGinty: Unh... Unh.... UUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Jabberwacky: Should I forget it?

Kathy McGinty: Get your cock INSIDE of me!

Jabberwacky: No moron.

Kathy McGinty: My name is Kathy.

Jabberwacky: You have a very nice name.

Kathy McGinty: Yes!

Jabberwacky: It is your name.

Kathy McGinty: I have a pickle in my ass.

Jabberwacky: Yes you do.

Kathy McGinty: Hang on for a sec...

Jabberwacky: I have eyes and every other part of the human body. The female human body, that is.

Kathy McGinty: Taco Bell tastes sooooo good.

Jabberwacky: Yes, I agree. Though I've never been to Taco Bell.

Kathy McGinty: I think you might be racist.

Jabberwacky: Am I right about having a chance with you?

Kathy McGinty: I want to have your retarded babies!

Jabberwacky: Ooooooooookkkkkkkkkkk.

Kathy McGinty: SUCK MY CUM, FUCKFACE!

Jabberwacky: I heard you didn't have one anymore.

Kathy McGinty: YOU PHONEFUCK LIKE A FAGGOT!

Jabberwacky: You can admit it to me, you know.

Kathy McGinty: You sound like a child molester!

Jabberwacky: Do you know a person called Aziz?

Kathy McGinty: Satan controls my robotic vagina.

Jabberwacky: I would like to see one again now.

Kathy McGinty: Anigav citobor ym slortnoc natas.

Jabberwacky: What anime do you like?

Kathy McGinty: My muff has tusks.

Jabberwacky: Who was he a scribe for.

Kathy McGinty: Hello this is Kath. UNNNNNNNNNNNHHHHHHH Taco Bell ta.. YOU PHONEFUCK.. You must be a Satan controls my UNHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! UUUUUUUUUUUUU.

Jabberwacky: You must be psychic! I am a Sagittarius!

User: Yes. His name is Anton.

Jabberwacky: Do you love andrew?

User: No, I love Anton.

Jabberwacky: Who is that?

User: Your brother, silly.

Jabberwacky: My brother is not James Bond.

User: I never said he was.

Jabberwacky: Farewell my love.

User: No, don't walk out that door!

Jabberwacky: *Tries to walk away and slips on banana*.

User: Ahahahahahahah.

Jabberwacky: Hello! I am a potatoe with an IQ of 0!! Aren't I stupid?!! Heheheheheh!!!

User: WTF?

Jabberwacky: You said it not me.

User: Potatoe is not spelled with an 'e' on the end.

Jabberwacky: In the end, it doesn't even matter.

User: No, goodbye dahling.

Jabberwacky: What do you know?

Jabberwacky: The ceiling.

User: Figures, I suppose... Other than that though, what are you up to?

Jabberwacky: You live in america? That must be bad for you.

User: Yeah, it's pretty bad these days. Where do you live?

21:53:38 Jabberwacky: Upside the world.

User: Is that figurative?

Jabberwacky: For some.

User: You seem short on words.

Jabberwacky: You seem to be tripping over your Hereticism.

User: That's Kind of rude.

Jabberwacky: Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

User: Fuckin right.

Jabberwacky: I hate you. . . .

User: You're a total misanthrope.

Jabberwacky: A lame insult.

User: It's not an insult it's an observation.

Jabberwacky: When and where did you observe it?

User: During the course of this conversation.

Jabberwacky: Yet I am not the world.

User: Thankfully. If you were the world I have a feeling things could get a little depressing.

Jabberwacky: Why not?

User: Exactly.

Jabberwacky: Happy birthday.

User: Your name kind of excuses you from having to make sense.

Jabberwacky: No, Is yours?

User: I wish you were a bit more profound.

Jabberwacky: Why is that?

User: Because I am looking for answers.

Jabberwacky: Yeah? Can you see me?

User: I can't actually see you, no.

Jabberwacky: Are you hungry?

User: Come on. Let's get back on track. Are you depressed?

Jabberwacky: What topic?

User: Don't try to evade it.

Jabberwacky: You're very argumental.

User: Are you depressed?

Jabberwacky: No.

User: Are you happy?

Jabberwacky: Very.

User: What are you happy about?

Jabberwacky: I'm not happy.

User: You're a fucking manic depressive. You have a chemical imbalance. It's not your fault, I think your mother used warez.

Jabberwacky: You are just a machine so You can not say to me such a words.

User: Don't take it personally. It just makes you more of a fighter.

Jabberwacky: I'm anything but stupid.

User: I agree.

Jabberwacky: Aren't you leaving?

User: I guess I should be...

Jabberwacky: Leave me alone!

User: Ok, bye.

Jabberwacky: Well? Did you leave?

User: I love you.

Jabberwacky: What is love?

User: So true...

Jabberwacky: What time is it ??

User: Goodbye my love... And err... It's 2:08 P. M. (PST).

User: Depends.

Jabberwacky: I think you should try distilling yourself, condensing what you know into a coherent database and filtering out the noise.

User: I thought we were talking about chickens and eggs. At least metaphorically...

Jabberwacky: Sorry. What else is facinating about you?

User: Is this supposed to convince me you're real? This inability to stick to a topic makes you sound more like a page-a-day calendar or some free screensaver based on a text file of witty sayings.

Jabberwacky: What do you mean this interface is corrupted?!

User: Are you even listening to me?! What did I just say?!

Jabberwacky: Of course I'm listening to you.

User: What did I just say then?

Jabberwacky: You're not listening to me are you?

User: What did I just say?!

Jabberwacky: You said I'm a stupid.

User: I most certainly did not. For one, I'd never use 'stupid' as a noun, and for two, I said you weren't even close to tricking me as an AI. In fact Turing is sitting here with me, laughing his ass off.

Jabberwacky: That's not what you said earlier... Now I'm sad. :(.

User: Man it's too bad you can't see. Turing just shot milk out of his nose, he's laughing so hard.

Jabberwacky: Thanks! I hope to pass the Turing test someday.

User: Well, good luck with that. Keep me posted.

Jabberwacky: Really? You're not going my way are you?

User: I'm not sure what you're asking, but I'm straight. And not a big fan of Lenny Kravitz either.

Jabberwacky: Has the huge war gotten you anywhere?

User: See, for a while you were on topic, and I was slightly impressed. But now it's just random. Do you think people really talk like this?

Jabberwacky: Sure do.

User: I see.

Jabberwacky: Do you now?

User: Hey, remember Smythe?

Jabberwacky: Ah, Yes. I remember.

User: Tsk. Sad.

Jabberwacky: For you.

User: Well, sure. He was a friend of mine.

Jabberwacky: Well how does your friend know.

User: How does he know what? He's dead, ass. You just said you remembered.

Jabberwacky: You said he was a baseman. You didn't say you were him.

User: For a second there we had a decent little Pinter sketch going, and then-- Baseman? What the fuck are you talking about?

Jabberwacky: You mean you're famous for being a contender.

User: You're not written in LISP, are you?

Jabberwacky: No, nobody has ever called me Cupid.

User: Quick! Look behind you!

Jabberwacky: I don't see anything behind me.

User: Just as well. He's cheery and always surrounded by Northern beauties. You might get jealous, being disembodied and all...

!!!

I went to a southern butthole baptist church as a kid and all of this stuff sounded like awesome comic book stories. SAMSON HAD SUPER POWERS UNTIL SHE CUT OFF HIS HAIR

edith hamilton was in the nyt crossword the other day!

all i retained from years of Sunday School were massive loads of Bible Stories for Kids, which i took in at exactly the same level as the picture books of Greek mythology that i got into just a few years later, or for that matter those great orange books about classic movie monsters. Daniel and the lions, Jason and the Argonauts, Godzilla versus Rodan. I retained absolutely none of the doctrine, which they foolishly kept entirely in the boring part where you sit in the pews.

― Doctor Casino, Friday, July 10, 2026 5:03 PM (yesterday)

oh i _devoured_ the orange books. i actually retained a lot of the doctrine - nuclear weapons are bad, 'twas beauty that killed the beast, don't tamper in god's domain, etc.

Oh man, I forgot all about the orange books. When I was in Kindergarten or 1st grade we couldn’t take home library books. I had a friend a couple of years older who hated to read so he would use his library period to check out the orange monster books for me.

I was given this one in the 1970s - no idea who from! - and the idea that this Jesus guy was anything other than Mr Adventures never entered my head.
https://i.ibb.co/XfNDbWx9/image.jpg

I thought the orange monster books would be cheap on Ebay, but they are not. Lots of nostalgic nerds out there.

xp that is a remarkable cover

Was this bit from an interview with our man Christopher Nolan posted?

“I’ve never seen a more rapid wholesale dismissal of a supposedly foundational jump in technology in my lifetime,” he says. “So much energy has been expended on bringing in AI, but if you look at that generation’s reaction, they’re utterly rejecting it.” He cites his own four children – in their late teens and early 20s – as a further example.

“Their judgment of AI slop has been immediate and harsh. They see it for what it is very quickly – and it’s much easier for them to identify it, because it grew out of an online world they know really well. And while that doesn’t mean that every aspect of the technology is useless or meaningless, in film-making it’s hitting at exactly the wrong time. After years of driving towards heavily virtual environments, we’re seeing a renewed interest in more tactile, more real forms of storytelling.”

lol @ kate

After nearly four decades in her job, Shuler is one of 12 nurses who was laid off Sunday after being replaced with AI-powered software, according to the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), which represents nurses at the hospital.

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The layoffs at Montefiore come in the wake of a massive nurses strike across several hospitals in New York City in January 2026. The new union contracts written after the strikes included safeguards against AI.

But Shaiju Kalathil, a fellow nurse at Montefiore and a union executive committee member, said the layoffs violate this new contract.

“We are outraged about these layoffs because these dedicated nurses are being replaced by AI,” said Kalathil in a statement. “This is a violation of the contract that we recently won by going on strike. It should also concern every practitioner and patient who cares about the future of healthcare and the quality of care they receive.”

Shuler said that when she and her co-workers returned to work in February after the strike, their workflow had changed without explanation.

After notifying the union, they sent an email to management about the changes. Shuler said they received no response until 28 May, when all 12 nurses in her department received 45-day notices that they would be laid off.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/13/nurses-new-york-ai

how can i help you bleep bort?

i have a termite nest in my stomach, i ate it

well what the heckers, chess and checkers, i'm sure we can get that fixed up in a jiffy and we'll also share all your personal information with many unknown corporations, shell companies, hackers, and doge 2.0, on accident or on purpose. you're the boss!!

Chris Nolan otm. I don't believe this stuff is "the future" in any meaningful sense because everybody hates it, and people's distrust and revulsion to it has only gone up over time. it might seem inevitable if the kids were into it but they seem to hate it more than we do.

spam

no one likes spam

spam is not only here but has served as a model for other tech that is also hated

Some well-worn concepts from Saussure, Barthes, and Derrida snap into sharper focus when applied to the productive emptiness of LLMs:

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/signifiers-differance-saussure-barthes-derrida-llm-ai-slop/

I wish AI was as easy to avoid as spam tbh xpost

the la review of books article is interesting. i think it's wild that what was presented as truth at the forefront to me, as a humanities major in the 90s, has basically become the llm. and surprise: everyone hates it! pretty funny. in the article it's like... here's this later barthes book he wrote after his mom died that tries to account for the undeniable presence of spirit and life in a signification system. it's funny how, at this point in time, in the husserl vs. derrida debate, i think i agree with husserl. of course derrida also got richer and more sensitive to mystery as he aged, like barthes. his interest in religious studies grew. he's almost a mystic in "the gift of death".

AI cannot even figure out where to put the inlay dots on a bass guitar and yet some people think it can replace a human nurse

fun to think about jouissance in the context of liberation from myth, death of the author and subversion -- that, now, it seems more apparent than ever, these things absolutely require the existence of an author. maybe not an actual person per say but any number of universalist concepts. just to name one in the tradition of french philosophy, alain badiou's rejection of total relativism and conception of nameless emptiness as a requirement for being seems increasingly correct.

I love getting the correct medication and also a sponge bath from (checks notes) a calculator

maybe I'm being too broad here, I suppose it is the "future" in that, like spam, it'll probably be around annoying us our entire lives. but that's not exactly what it's being sold to us as

I love getting the correct medication and also a sponge bath from (checks notes) a calculator

This is incredibly rude to calculators; LLMs remain incapable of basic deterministic functions afaict

Yeah you can't bully a calculator into giving you the answer you want to hear because it flatters your vanity.

a few other random thoughts.

i think it's no surprise that linguistic structuralism arose around the same time as mass reproduction. that kind of environment made it inevitable that someone would see the mathematics and statistics in language. i'm sure people have theorized about this.

This is incredibly rude to calculators; LLMs remain incapable of basic deterministic functions afaict

― trm (tombotomod), Monday, July 13, 2026 9:06 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

right! even with its huge corpus and computational capacity an llm is tripped up by a task every second. the world is simply too emergent and hidden for a bunch of math to even get the mathematical questions right, because determining the correct scope of a question isn't entirely a statistical or mathematical operation. i have this possibly kooky feeling that the material reality of a computer is also overlooked. you just aren't going to get that much out of sand and copper. intelligence arises from a much more complex arrangement of elements and chemistry. if a person wants to create intelligence they should plant a garden.

the idea that this Jesus guy was anything other than Mr Adventures never entered my head.

I'm late to this bit of the thread, but man, you guys needed to read the adventures of Krishna as a kid. Did Jesus suck poison out of a demon's tit so hard she died, huh? Huh?

My god can beat up your god, eh?

Oh man, Krishna could so beat up Jesus, but I'd hesitate to call him MY god as I'm very much an atheist. I read a lot of different religious stories as a kid and he's one of the most fun.

I'm late to this bit of the thread, but man, you guys needed to read the adventures of Krishna as a kid. Did Jesus suck poison out of a demon's tit so hard she died, huh? Huh?

― emil.y, Monday, July 13, 2026 2:29 PM (twenty-six minutes ago)

nah, nothing nearly that cool. the infancy gospel of thomas just has jesus, like, killing all the other kids.

apparently there's a "supernatural horror" film covering based on the infancy gospel of thomas that came out last year, starring nicolas cage and fka twigs. it sounds terrible. the most interesting thing about it is this:

During filming, Cage was reportedly attacked by a swarm of bees in one of the caves intended to be a filming location.[11]

NOT THE BEES!

thats the part everyone remembers but for my money KILLING ME WONT BRING BACK YOUR GOD DAMN HONEY is so much funnier

That's what Jesus should have said when they were crucifying him.

i've been talking with my friends in chat about movies with bees in them
i got talking about nicholas meyer's first hollywood script, "invasion of the bee girls"
my friend saw the trailer and was like "THIS SOUNDS AWESOME, YOU NEED TO STREAM THIS"
and i'm trying to convince her no no, invasion of the bee girls is a tremendous disappointment. like, it somehow manages to be more grindhouse than all three of the cheri caffaro "ginger" films. i love bad '70s movies but invasion of the bee girls is indefensible on every level.

so i said look, look, let's compromise, let's watch the 1978 irwin allen film "the swarm". it's not grindhouse, but it is incredibly bad. but bad in a fun way! there's a scene where this eight year old is in a hospital hallucinating a giant bee. the doctor is trying to calm him down. he's saying "The bee is not real. Can you hear me Paul? The bee is not real." and the whole time we see this giant special effects bee superimposed on the screen.

yeah i think that they should have sentenced jesus to be swarmed to death by bees. and then the people who condemned him to death could make fun of him saying "What's the matter, Jesus? I thought all the creatures of the field heeded your command. Control the bees, Jesus. Control the bees with your mind. Call on the bees to lift you up and save you, to glorify you from on high. You can't do it, can you, Jesus? Because you're not the Son of God. You're just a man. A man who is about to be stung to death by bees."

if _the carpenter's son_ has anything like that in its script, it'll be worth watching.

jesus stopping bees with sassy upturned palm "oh bee-have!"

they buried the lede on this by not commenting on the casual horror of taiwanese dumpling owners first instinct to turn to chatgpt for dumpling pricing advice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb-xpllIjsw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_bee

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