How many ‘dang, that’s crazy’s did you have to pull out?

I personally find the psychological effect - the devs thought they were 20% faster even afterward - to be pretty interesting, as it suggests that even if more time overall is spent, use of AI could reduce cognitive load and potentially side effects like burnout.

This assumes that lower estimated time = lower stress levels, when other factors could easily be throwing off time estimation. Think the trope of someone very busy at work who realizes they’ve worked through lunch or dinner. I would have expected people who spend 20% less mental effort on something to be less engaged and more bored by the passage of time, not less.

Also, importantly, improving worker conditions is something that can reduce burnout without the burden of massive data centers. We don’t have to make a machine that produces the illusion of speech to pay people better.

The Onion makes its best social commentary when it initially fools you into thinking it’s real. The point isn’t to be absurd or trick you, it’s to hold a mirror up and make you think.

People keep saying The Onion can’t compete with reality anymore, but every week or two I keep biting.

Big if true. Maybe as much as 330,000 the mass of the earth.

Steamy book reader, you say? 👀

Detectors aren’t 100%, blah blah, but this isn’t even pinging on any I used. Text doesn’t look AI. The image has a weird quality to it, but to me it looks more like a filter/bad camera/bad lighting than AI.

I’ve been seeing this exact reaction to people trying to raise awareness for the difficulties trans men and trans masc people experience for around 20 years now, it fuckin sucks and is depressing and is why I’ve stopped trying for the most part. The wild lack of awareness and judgement in saying a trans man is bitching for doing that is both shocking and unsurprising, because that’s frequently the kind of response it gets.

It’s nuts because my experience with medical providers who were helping me access surgery was so not that?? I recognize I might have gotten absurdly lucky here, but the pre-surgery therapists were both like ‘you guys go through some shit and don’t talk about it, PLEASE come talk about it!’

With some flour you can bring fediverse posters to your area!

You can insert ‘old.’ before any Reddit link (old.reddit.com) to bypass that crap

⚠️ CORN FOG!

That’s fucking great! I hope they are safe to use in people and make it to market soon.

😂 It wasn’t as fucked up as I’m making it sound, I swear! We were always screaming with laughter the entire time it was happening, and if anyone had actually been upset by it they would have stopped immediately. I’d put it in the same tier as being tickled.

Only works if you pair it with a good open-handed slap across the face. They don’t want you to know that anymore, because of woke.

(don’t make me /s this)

I said apps but I probably should have said websites and apps, because websites aren’t exempt. I hear you on how frustrating it is when they’re making everything an app, though.

My husband was mildly horrified when he learned I got birthday spankings as a kid. It was all in good fun and among friends/family as an elementary schooler, definitely NOT from people at school, lol.

I don’t know if this was just a tradition in my family, but it also involved being picked up by two people at your wrists and ankles and swung back and forth while a third person spanked you (hence why it was only done to fairly young kids). Explaining this to my husband didn’t help either!

It’s absolutely Orwellian, and people should be angry at the UK for forcing this onto any website their citizens access.

Applies only to the UK, which is requiring it for apps that host adult content: https://www.theverge.com/news/704468/bluesky-age-verification-uk-online-safety-act

I thought for sure this had to have the saturation cranked up (very common when people post colorful birds), but the pic is straight from the Macauly Library and, if anything, underplays the fine details of the colors due to the image degradation.

Ohhh I miss St Mark’s! It’s such a great area to go shopping and eating. I haven’t been there in over a decade, but I remember having a great time at a punk fashion shop.

I don’t think they did the street closing when I was there, it looks fantastic.