“Qin has never said “I love you” to her parents or friends. She has only ever said those three special words to her AI “boyfriend”, Lu Chen – a brown-haired, red-eyed CEO of a major corporation.”
The way I’ll be hate watching this 😭
“While consciousness is all about feeling and being, intelligence is all about doing – about performing functions of one kind or another. A common mistake people make when it comes to AI is to confuse the two – to take signs of intelligence as evidence for consciousness. But just because consciousness and intelligence go together in humans, this doesn’t mean they go together in general. Assuming that they do is a reflection of our own psychology, not an insight into the nature of reality.”
How often do we see pro ai people confusing these? 😭
A massive part of British tabloid culture was Page 3,
a British newspaper convention of publishing a large image of a topless female glamour model (called a page 3 girl) on the third page of every mainstream red top tabloids. Introduced in November 1969 by The Sun, the feature boosted the paper's readership and prompted competing tabloids, including The Daily Mirror, The Sunday People and the Daily Star*,* to begin featuring topless models on their own third pages.
Page 3 was only stopped in 2015, and until 2004 the papers allowed participants such as Samantha Fox to pose topless as young as 16 (the Sexual Offences Act only came into law in 2003). As these were mainstream tabloid newspapers, ID or proof of age were not required to purchase them, making them incredibly accessible to minors.
“What happens when we attempt to enslave someone smarter?”
Last year we just had one. Seeing a second is so exciting!! Mama also came by to check on them 😍
This is for WTF Wednesday. It’s supposed to be lighthearted!! No snark intended to these girls - they were just following fashion at the time. Was the widespread follicle damage really necessary though 😭
Sir, you are not a cat 🤣
One fan threw a TV through a third-floor window, and in tabloid headlines and according to pundits, Beckham was vilified, his World Cup performance described as “childish,” “petulant” and “stupid”. “Wherever I went, I got abused, every single day. To walk down the street and see people look at you in a certain way, spit at you, abuse you, come up to your face and say some of the things that they said. That’s difficult.” Beckham adds, “The whole country hated me.”
"Kathy found bullets in letters," said his father said, referring to Kath Phipps, who worked as a receptionist at Manchester United at the time. "So the club had to get the police in because of the threats to him."
David was also worried that his son would get kidnapped because of the amount of hate he received. Beckham said that the night Brooklyn was born, he slept by the door out of fear somebody would try and take his son.
"That night, Brooklyn slept next to Victoria. Victoria was like, 'Come and squeeze on the bed with me,' and I said, 'Absolutely not,'" he recalled.
"I'm sleeping with my head against the door because I was paranoid someone was going to steal him," he said. "It's meant to be a happy moment, and it was, of course. But I was worried."
https://people.com/david-beckham-recalls-getting-spit-on-abused-after-world-cup-loss-7976315
In 2003, the band stated between songs in London: “Just so you know,” she said between songs, “We do not want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.”
This led to their songs being pulled from country music stations around the US, parties where people would destroy their tapes, and they were effectively cancelled. I find it interesting that they received so much backlash when today’s celebrities are often called out if they don’t share their political opinions.
