I’m Dave Toaster feat. Jason Koebler

“Anti-social network” Hussein back with the heaters.

Petition for someone to wipe the word “libidinal” from Riley’s vocabulary.

I can’t know how to hear about ‘libidinal’ anymore. Who added this to Riley’s lexicon?

Come to Adelaide you pommy dog

JK Boiling did not get nearly enough love

There are better Australian wines than Grange Riley ! Come to Adelaide you dogs I'll have you at my wine bar

black mirror actually does have an episode about an ai that lives in someone’s toaster lmao (White Christmas segment 1)

Big congrats and well wishes for Hussein! Hope he can get some rest as able

JK Rowling-boil

"Anti-social network" goes hard

It's cool how capitalism destroyed the third space, and will now destroy cyberspace. You'll get to the point where even finding other people you are sure are other people will be hard. Just a Kessler syndrome for human contact

All of their AIs; Out accomplishing nothing, But making it worse

This latest in the UK has alerted me to the existence of the Paedophile Information Exchange, who surely must have met down the PIE & Nonce

Only the labour party could create such unfuckable looking furries. The Orangina people are shaking their heads.

Deep cut to FONV Old World Blues, my mind went there immediately when the appliances discussion started

What the fuck is this about canine vaginas?

The Sylvia Plath chatbot in my oven is making me really uncomfortable.

Tommy Robinson AKA Stephen Yaxley-Lennon

W/ apologies for ranting to the already on-board but +1 to the de-skilling and esp Hussein’s point about cooking and care and humanity: MY OVEN has a WINDOW AND A LIGHT and that’s how I can TELL WHEN SHIT IS DONE. ALSO BY COOKING FOR YEARS AND LEARNING. FURTHERMORE, as someone who grew up with mechanical consumer goods and worked in Computers OBVIOUSLY THIS IS IS GOING TO SHORTEN THE ITEMS’ LIFESPANS also hmm. where is that cost going?? /end rant

Is the Spanish bathroom cabinet…single? Asking for a friend

"The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas," except it's Elon in the hole in the basement.

Welcome back, Big Daddy Hussein!

Milo going off about stupid technology already, and it's not even a week into 2025. *chefskiss*

with our new character line of appliances you too can pretend to have a bunch of house slaves, that'll be eleventy thousand human dollars please

If you haven’t read SUPERGOD it’s time to do it before Elon turns himself into Jerry Craven

Dead Internet Theory? No. How about Dead Internet Business Model? Now there's the money. .

Not the steppe horseman, the horseman that stepped up

The smart AI-infused washer dryer combo in my apartment has an app. I’m not sure what purpose the app serves because I still have to manually load an unload the machine so remotely running a wash from my phone from the other room doesn’t really help me. Also the only function of the AI is the “AI Wash” and “AI Wash + Dry” settings where the machine does the same exact thing as the “Wash” and “Wash + Dry” settings except now you don’t get to tell it the water temperature or spin speed anymore

imo there's a blind spot in this discussion of "who wants genAI bot users on social media" which has nothing to do with any company's profit margin. The more that a human userbase can be diluted with convincing-ish bots, the greater the degree of control over users' perception of social consensus. You can't have a real one-on-one conversation with these things but in large numbers they're more than capable of shifting the balance of what goes viral or who gets dogpiled. This "hall of mirrors" is highly desirable to anyone with an interest in manufacturing consent or sidelining dissent. Musk's biggest customer isn't advertisers, it's the US defense department. We passed the point where profitability was the main concern of any of these tech giants decades ago, and we need to reckon with what we're really facing now: a chimera of corporate and state power which supersedes the market economy for the broader purpose of imperial population management.

I hear "Have a more personal, human relationship with your dryer" and my brain instantly goes "Step dryer, I'm stuck in the sister machine and I can't get out!"

I have a parasocial relationship with this comment section.

The toaster with an AI personality is very Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Hussein! Yay!

The socially ackward loner that haluncinates his household appliances are his friends, and forms a suicide pact with his maybe imaginary friend was already a pretty good anime. 2006s "welcome to the nhk. " I think it's streaming on funimation.

Once again a discussion of AI chatbots with no mention of Britain's premier LLM...

Welcome back Hussein, and also sorry that we still live in hell

I HAVE GLUE IN MY FREEZER SO IT LASTS LONGER! I WILL NOT PUT IT ON PIZZA, THANK YOU TRASHFUTURE!!!

WE HAD A TECHNOLOGY FOR WHAT IF I ALL I HAVE I A BUNCH OF RANDOM FOOD! It was called the internet. And before every single recipe blog on the first 2 pages was SEO spam you could search said internet by putting in the food you had and find new ideas to cook. Yes it was weird and dumb or posh or whatever sometimes but at least it was people trying shit.

JK Boiling is amazing. Also the only use case for this kind of AI seems to be funny memes on Instagram occasionally

The TF crew are just slightly too young for that terrifying children’s classic The Brave Little Toaster. I was afraid to upset an appliance in case it decided to turn against me. I guess I’m still afraid my appliances are working against me…

We need to bring MySpace back

someone sure found an off-label use for meta smart glasses, so zuckerborg did in fact imagine something that another person would want. and of course there's the ai-generated kiddie p0rn bots

Yesssss I saw that story about the Labour TikTok earlier and was immediately certain that TF would have fun with it