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[animentality]

[thememedaddy]

[maxofs2d]

Firefox is adding an AI kill switch

Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, CEO of Mozilla, announced that AI will be added to Firefox. Public outcry prompted Enzor-DeMeo, and then Jake Archibald

Additionally, here are some interesting comments from a Mozilla employee who's been working on these features:

[thelegendofsqam]

[wrenchinator-central]

No, you should definitely keep calling it a kill switch. It helps describe my feelings on the matter.

I would also accept ai throttle. Not because I want to use levels of activity between fully on and fully off, but because I want to throttle the ai with my bare hands.

[irishironclad]

okay this makes me feel a lot better

[divorce-enjoyer]

why go to the grocery store or to a restaurant when you can just get food delivered why go to the mall when you can get same day shipping on amazon why go to the library when you have kindle why make art when there’s ai why go to the cinema when you can stay at home and watch netflix. we are in a loneliness epidemic btw

[justnoodlefishthings]

"Coca-Cola made an AI ad!"

"McDonald's releases AI Christmas commercial!!"

Don't care didn't ask plus here's a beautifully animated ad for a French supermarket that was made by actual artists

[taylortut]

i CANNOT express how much more lovable my friends are to me at their most annoying. i'd rather hear the same story 3 times than not at all. i'd rather read a 22 message text rant about something totally inconsequential than not hear from you all day. i'd rather you tag me in the stupidest post i've ever seen than not know that it made you think of a conversation we had a month ago. BE ANNOYING AT ME. I LOVE YOU

[sailermoon]

huge shout out to this little kid for writing my favorite poem

[flowerais-deactivated20211031]

your future self loves you. they will look through old photos of you with affection, not disgust, nor embarrassment. they wish they could tell you stories of your future, of how much you’ll change, of the people you’ll meet, of how you’ll eventually learn to accept yourself, then love yourself. they will read your diary entries and poems and favourite lyrics, heart aching, tears in their eyes. if only you knew...

your future self loves you. if only they could show you. they are living proof. you’ll turn out okay after all. they wish they were there to console you, dance with you, and make you write it a hundred times: “I AM LOVED”. they will listen to playlists you made, just to experience you again. they will write you a letter - of forgiveness, longing, reassurance. you will never read it. but you will know.

[orangeretriever]

[dogpuppy]

[rrritinha]

I just thought of this but Gina (from Brooklyn 99) and Dyonisus (from Percy Jackson) would be BESTIES.

they're both sarcastic

they both act like gods

they both purposely get someone's name wrong

they both would vote on themselves in a contest deciding who the most perfect person in the world is

[rrritinha]

Jake Peralta, randomly, in the middle of a mission: PINK PONY CLUB, I'M GONNA KEEP ON DANCING AT THE PINK PONY CLUB

[incorrect-b99]

“Jake: Cut me some slack. We all make mistakes. We have to forget the past and make way for the future Amy: YOU ATE CLAY”

—

[incorrect-b99]

Charles: You know that voice in your head that tells you what you're doing is wrong?

Jake: You mean the one that sounds like Amy?

[incorrect-b99]

Jake: *pops collar up on his coat*

Amy: Ugh, can we not do this right now?

Jake: Do what?

Amy: Where you pop your collar up, thinking it makes you look cool. *rolls eyes and walks away*

Jake: .... I don't do that.

[incorrect-b99]

Amy: *talking passionately about something*

Jake: *looking at her fondly* I'm so glad I married this nerd.

[accessibleposts]

could you explain the post about shoelaces and presidents? it would be greatly appreciated thank you

Sure! Do you mean this post?

So, it started in a post in 2012 (or earlier, I don’t know the exact date). As the Urban Dictionary entry explains, you would say “I like your shoelaces” in public as a sort of secret code if you suspect there’s another Tumblr user there. And if there is another Tumblr user, they would reply “Thanks, I stole them from the president” to let you know they understood the message and are, in fact, a Tumblr user. 

I don’t think people do this anymore, and if they ever did, it probably wasn’t a very common thing to do. Maybe they did back in 2012 when the post was recent and Tumblr wasn’t as popular as it is now. 

I also don’t think there’s any deeper meaning to the phrases. “I like your shoelaces” seems like a pretty common and nice thing to say, and if it turns out the person you thought was a Tumblr user doesn’t recognise the ‘secret message’, nothing would happen. But then “Thanks, I stole them from the president” seems weird and specific enough that you would know they understood the ‘secret message’, unlike if they just replied “Thank you”. 

Then other posts appeared making references to the shoelaces and president posts:

[neil-gaiman]

Whoa. I’d missed that one. Then again, late 2012 was when I arrived here…