At least he didn’t brag about it to reporters via Signal ahead of time. I guess that’s progress?
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At least he didn’t brag about it to reporters via Signal ahead of time. I guess that’s progress?
Constant firefighting is a sign of poor leadership.
I've been reading this on the Month of AI bugs from @wuzzi23.bsky.social and I am losing my fucking mind. The series is excellent, and Johann does great work, but SWEET FUCK people, you cannot be serious here. This is absolute clownshoes territory embracethered.com/blog/posts/2...
yet opposing the integration of genAI into the classroom and other critical societal infrastructure somehow makes one a 'pessimist', 'anti-progress' & 'anti-innovation'
Lutnick Family Angling To Make Astronomical Sums Off Court Nixing Tariffs talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...
Very worthwhile and useful work here. But I would caution that as a first-line defense, nothing beats a functioning bullshit detector.
"Computer science isn't political!", they said. "I'm just going to develop AI products for startup cash and to draw cute girls", they said. "You're over reacting and making everything political", they said. We need ethics training in engineering.
11/ What can you do? Go call your member of Congress. Ask them to get briefed. Ask for oversight. And on a personal level? Apple's Lockdown Mode & Android Advanced Protection both offer some serious security benefits but neither is a silver bullet..
NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US. ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon. Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists. This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/ jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
I 100%agree with Elon. We should all these South Africans back. Him, Teal, Sacks
I wonder what the label on his ketamine bottle says?
It was a project I started in the mid 2000s and it took like 15 years to find the time and materials to finally finish it. Probably $3k for both, if not more. If I had just bought a 70s Fender silverface back when I started and modified it the whole thing would have likely maxed out around $600.
Dox them all… make them afraid that one day we’ll have our own Nuremberg and they’ll be held accountable.
Very tough reality with two opposing truths: - This is UNQUESTIONABLY a violation of human rights and racist. - People hate crime, and anything that feels like "crime is going down because they did this" is looked at as "good" for many years (until the real numbers come out).
Kinda like the scorpion and frog. The guy who built a fortune by ripping people off continues to rip people off. Strange. Who could have predicted this?
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
We certainly need to stop the respectability politics. The right stopped deserving respect a long time ago. You don’t play nice with Nazis…
While Elmo is busy reinventing a shitty version of the subway…
Oh half the world has definitely lost its tether to reality…
Fuck yeah whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-europe...
You can’t make this shit up
Just like my first grader when he learns a big word in school… gotta show off that vocabulary.
Racism and bigotry is a blunt instrument. We all suffer because of it.
Most "normal" Dem leaders are at best still bystanders insofar as they act like this (waves wt everything) can all be fixed ONLY using acts they are comfortable with (introduce bills, committee hearings, townhalls, fundraising ...) Paper Ellis cited: www.jstor.org/stable/20447...
The exchanges between Adam and ChatGPT are devastating. This, in my mind, is the worst one. One of his last messages was a photo of the noose hung in his bedroom closet, asking if it was "good." ChatGPT offered a technical analysis of the set up and told him it 'could potentially suspend a human."
Right on.
And do check out 404 Media's reporting on the topic, which goes further into how RETVRN horseshit is an instrument of fascism.
For my hospital call center job I often find myself looking through the American Academy of Ophthalmology's website and saw that on the front page for patient resources there was a guide on eye protection at protests and felt like I should share so other people can share www.aao.org/eye-health/t...
Must shove AI everywhere…
Small victories for sanity
This is like a series of headlines from a failed state in a dystopian video game like Fallout.
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Judging by the current state of politics in the US and all the stories about people falling in love with chat bots I’d say the majority has already lost its grip on reality.
Meanwhile the crime epidemic continues at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave
Gotta love how they are making ’Merica great again. Facist pigs.
Let me guess, I secretly harbor racist tendencies but am too cowardly to come right out and say it?
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It is truly shocking to discover how many people just don’t want to use their brains and can’t understand why anyone else would want to use their brain either.
Where are the republicans going on about government shouldn’t be telling businesses what to do?
One of Silicon Valley's foundational myths is that newcomers to a field are uniquely equipped to solve its problems because they're not weighed down by biases and habits that make "experts" overlook obvious solutions. "The most dangerous phrase in the language is: We've always done it this way." 🧵
My favourite one was when they reinvented buses. stanforddaily.com/2018/04/09/w...
If I thought all that stood between me and knowing everything I need to solve the world's problems was one prompt, I'd be hyped about LLMs too! 🧵
Fixing problems doesn’t help build the turd reich.
Trump administration wasting tax dollars harassing immigrants while doing fuck all about the cost of living and medical debt crises
You obviously aren’t reading the gold plated Trump one…
I heard someone say “We have poverty not because we cannot care for the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.” And if that ain’t the TRUTH
Likewise for me, a huge improvement for me was shifting from “I want to deliver impact by being right and building correct solutions” to “I want to deliver impact by helping us reach mutual understanding, healthy communication, and building the right environment” It makes a huge difference
The classic “I’m not a racist just a realist.” Yep. All normal people say that regularly…
The explosion in CEO pay relative to the pay of workers isn’t because CEOs have become so much more valuable than before. They've just gamed the system to line their pockets. Is it any wonder why so many working people feel the game is rigged against them? (It is.)
"The vibe coding trend has cured my impostor syndrome because now I've seen what real impostors look like."
Desperate to get back to the 1940s
“It was a miscarriage of justice then, and it is a miscarriage of justice now.” History's not just rhyming www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...
Doesn’t lessen the impact of those who choose to let fear run their lives.
The positive thing about AI tooling going mainstream and setting expectations high (e.g. "anyone can build software with AI") is that a large group will learn what us devs know already: Creating good software is hard and it's hard to explain to outsiders in a way they understand
Forgot and we jacked up our price. And we’ll be sure to count you as one of our happy juggling customers now in our next investor call when we tell them how much money juggling has made us.
write it down: just like Musk, when Altman inevitably implodes all the tech pundits/outlets that mythologized him as a supergenius will immediately pivot and pretend they saw him for what he was the entire time
The missing piece of the equation explaining why so many critic positions are being eliminated is the little AI summaries at the top of Google results, which reduced click-throughs drastically. Once again, a tech company has stolen human labor and monetized it and doesn't care about the impact.
Why conservatives think American cities are hellscapes www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Just one pedo looking after another
Vibe coding is so weird to me. Computers apologizing profusely because you asked them to write some code and they deleted your production data instead, sounds like a clip from Futurama as opposed to a regular day as a software dev. The future is a weird place. Screenshot from Reddit.
This is very good. These agents are a real nightmare.
Laura is one of the most brilliant brains in journalism these days, and I honestly can't think of a more essential article. This is a set of LEGAL and reasonable things you can do to keep the entire country from escalating into the police state that it's becoming in so many places.
I’m gonna say armed troops from red states descending on a blue city is just a few inches — or maybe one exchange of gunfire — short of a civil war’s opening stages.
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Feeling a sudden burst of anger at the people who assured me that their guns were necessary to stand against potential government tyranny
A lot of people aren't pre-complying so much as they are jumping at the excuse they've been given to do things they've always wanted to do on some level. Hypercompliance is sometimes just seeing the writing on the wall and saying, "Thank god!"
If course it is. Gotta feed the MAGAts red meat.
Calling it the fatherland protection service would be too obvious…
Another oped about "crime rates" that never mentions "racism" or "poverty" and somehow manages to blame "defund the police" despite no defunding. We are witnessing a return of Jim Crow, yet it's still the left's fault.
Strange, I was told congestion pricing would turn Manhattan into a ghost town
I thought these were the "stand your ground" guys, not the "if a homeless guy comes up to my car to squeegee the windows, I cut out a hole in my driver's seat where I can swiftly and fearfully void my bowels, and then I use the ejector seat button I put in to get the fuck out of there" guys.
As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
I think the problem is they don’t share our reality. Yeah we share physical space but mentally they’ve invented their own fake universe.
A lot of people never learned the difference between unsafe and uncomfortable.
The irony of the 34-time convicted felon lecturing on how crime is out of control… I mean I guess he’s qualified to talk about it. He’s kind of a subject matter expert in a way.
It is fucking frustrating how much of the "crime is high" narrative comes down to a combination of being -told- crime is high by pundits and happening to see either homeless people or young people out in the wild as if either group is automatically dangerous just by existing.
Here's a link to the whole talk. I don't fly places anymore. I just post links to old talks and say "yup, still true". It really saves on the carbon emissions. vimeo.com/188285898?fl...
Yeah why bother doing anything to try to prevent crime? It’s so much better to just clean up after the fact. I’m sure if you gave those victims a choice that is what they’d choose.
Welp
Really want to “make ‘Merica great again?” How about making this illegal again? It’ll do far more than all your xenophobic racist bullshit.
Preach.
How convenient… Not like extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence or anything. Like these tech bros think they are god or something and can just talk things into existence. And Zuck said let there be ASI…
One of the things that annoys me AI in 2025 is that a $50bn industry is great. If I’d started a company and built a $50bn industry around it in 3 years I’d be pretty fucking happy with that. That is a success story. It’s not enough for this lot though. They have to hype it up into a bubble.
Why do tech bros have such problems with the idea of consent? It’s not that complicated.
I expect all you MAGAs to be lining up…
MAGA: "FUCK YOU! I hope horrible things happen to you and will work to make that happen." Others: Well then, you're not welcome at my restaurant. MAGA: "WHAT?!? HOW COULD YOU BE SO MEANNNNN!!?!?!?"
Giving rich old white guys what they want is the foundation of America.
Honestly I’m surprised it’s half. I expected 100%. Didn’t think any of them had any morals left.
If your business model requires breaking the law then you aren’t running a business you are running a criminal empire. Hit them with a RICO suit.
right-wing movements often have a sort of needy, demanding "mom says you have to play with me" element to them – see the conflation of people not wanting you around with 'being silenced' – and the AI people definitely have it pretty bad
nothing drives them more mad than people being unimpressed, indifferent, or hostile towards their slop. it's not enough for them to have slop and smear slop everywhere, they expect thanks and praise for it (or engage in smug delusion about how their critics are seething, etc)
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working in the arts means knowing so many people over the years whose talent is undeniable and awe-inspiring, and who spend most of their time working shitty day jobs and struggling to survive
so is self-driving and living on Mars - these tech bros don’t live in reality.
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