Reflections on memorizing the Snellen chart: PROS • Optometrists are often impressed with and praise my eyes. CONS • I haven't owned a correctly prescribed pair of glasses since childhood. • Difficulties with tasks requiring use of sight.

I have come to love that one animated solarpunk yogurt ad solely because it makes the exact right types of people extremely angry.

Generative AI is not *only* something its sex pest billionaire advocates are pushing on you without your consent, but it's also given infinitely more latitude with its inevitable fuckups than you would be given.

Love seeing institutions like universities, school districts, and local governments uncritically partnering with tech companies. Might as well be a big fat juicy caterpillar offering to do some free babysitting for your parasitic wasp neighbor.

And all three are scams lol

The main problem with cyberlibertarianism (or its kissing cousin, pro-tech leftism) is that all the negative rights they want to give to individuals just happen to also accrue to large corporations which have the means to exploit them far more effectively than any individual could ever hope to.

Nothing quite as hilariously terrifying as seeing the silhouette of a large spider scurrying around inside your IKEA orb lamp.

Air conditioning is unapologetically a good thing because it helps people not die. And one good thing about air conditioning is that it largely needs to run during the day when solar power is at its maximum: it can and should align with clean energy goals.

I see the "we should get rid of copyright law before we get rid of giant corporations" 'leftists' are posting again.

Incredible piece, but it needs to be said explicitly: these people are dangerous eugenicists. They want the "wrong" people to be exterminated and replaced by AI. That's abhorrent and you can't pretend otherwise.

Just wanted to note that 11,000 people have already read this very good @drewmagary.bsky.social column and — SURPRISE — Google accounts for only 300 of those people: www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

My favorite stupid conspiracy theory is that there is some benevolent capitalist cabal that wants to make household items for folks with disabilities, but the only way they can afford to produce them is to advertise them on TV and trick gullible people into buying overpriced plastic crap.

Listerine Leaves 0.1% Of Germs Alive To Spread Message Of Terror Throughout Microbial Community https://theonion.com/listerine-leaves-0-1-of-germs-alive-to-spread-message-of-terror-throughout-microbial-community/

the truth is for people whose output maxxes out at more dogshit than mediocre it's actually a global improvement to everything they do

"Everyone is actually using AI" is really a statement that has the same smell as "everyone cheats on their spouse"

Me: Time to take my pill Me: gets glass of water Me: drinks water Me: thinks deep thoughts Me: finishes drinking water Me: stands in the dark kitchen Me: leaves five minutes later Me: MY PILL

I decided the Voyager theme needed lyrics

I mean this is just the observable reality from the outside and has been forever. LLM brained engineers keep insisting how revolutionary the coding modes are, and yet software does not seem to meaningfully improve ever.

AI is bad and ruining human knowledge, sorry to those trying to convince us otherwise.

I kind of feel like all of us are being punished for complaining about Star Trek plots being too obvious. I panned a DS9 ep for portraying people as being too greedy and selfish to follow virus safety protocols and now we are living that TNG episode THE GAME.

The Vatican could have told Anthropic to stop stealing data, exploiting labor, killing the environment, deceiving us with anthropomorphic designs & lying about product "capabilities." Instead they partnered with them, like partnering with Sackler family to discuss harms of oxy.

Pope Leo XIV presenting his encyclical on #AI together with Anthropic's Christopher Olah is comparable to Pope Leo XIII presenting his encyclical Rerum Novarum on capitalism together with Henry Ford

"The Starship test actually succeeded since it met its goals" — well yes, SpaceX runs the program, they can define success however they please. What actually matters is that SpaceX is no closer to launching 24 Starships in a row to do in-orbit fueling for 2028's Artemis IV than they were years ago.

Carl the Crow has become a fixture at my local, @burkebrewing.bsky.social. I can neither confirm not deny any rumors about who his namesake might be.

But when AI execs say their companies are inexplicably, magically profitable, the stupidest people on this website start whining if we don’t take them at their word.

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Anyway. Genuinely a lot of big name lib accounts are incredibly buddy buddy with some of the more revolting AI boosters on this site and it's very clarifying that they don't actually believe in anything other than a vague sense of hereditary bureaucrat class superiority.

AI boosterism is predicated on two main facets: - being shit at your job or hobbies and proud enough about it to tell the world - taking the claims of serial liars at face value

We’re going to be seeing a lot more of this sentiment. Do not trust these people.

I see the AI Nuancers have a new official position! Now it’s “AI is sooooo useful and good, but unfortunately these Silicon Valley sociopaths have gone way too far scaring people 😔 so I’m going to have to reluctantly oppose it 😠(at least for now 😉)”.

Every time someone tells you about something AI is supposedly good at, first ask yourself "if someone gave me $500 billion, could I have built something just as good?". Then ask yourself "would my thing be as good as AI at telling kids to kill themselves and empowering fascists?"

Hilarious to see practitioners of academic fields whose main justification for existence has traditionally something along the lines of "the insatiable human desire for understanding" clapping like seals at the robot that's come to replace them.

Silicon Valley is a deeply anti-intellectual place, disguised by the fact that its dullards happen to spend most of their time pushing buttons on fancy computers.

Some dipshit "economics" "professor" with both 'AI safety' and 'singularity' in his bio has been crashing out across multiple days on Twitter because people are asking him why he cites papers without reading them, and I think there's something exquisitely beautiful about how real life hates subtext.

Does your local tech company understand consent? > Yes! > Maybe later

Generative AI would still be inherently evil bullshit-spewing garbage even if we magically vanished billionaires, capitalism, for-profit corporations, startups, and/or Silicon Valley machine cultists into the center of the sun.

the arxiv controversy is interesting because people are enthusiastically describing research & writing practices that i would've thought you'd have to drag out of them. like they don't read the papers they cite, don't want responsibility for entire sections of papers with their names on them, etc...

And if anything, users are MORE unhappy about low quality software today than ever before. So if anything, we should be increasing software quality, not letting fancy autocomplete drive it into the ground.

American universities are basically ruthless brand-savvy marketing operations gleefully puppeting the corpses of institutions that once had actual purpose and the concomitant gravitas, so it's not really surprising that they are among the most enthusiastic adopters of AI.

Watch out saying this! A NYT columnist might get very very mad at you!

I see the AI Nuancers have a new official position! Now it’s “AI is sooooo useful and good, but unfortunately these Silicon Valley sociopaths have gone way too far scaring people 😔 so I’m going to have to reluctantly oppose it 😠(at least for now 😉)”.

'agency' is when you pay Microsoft $450 a month for their computer to badly do something a reasonably smart and motivated person with a high school education could easily do themselves...*holds hand up to bluetooth earpiece* wait, scratch that, it's when you pay Microsoft $11,000 a month for that.

Ars Technica could find the gumption to fire a reporter for making stuff up using AI for a pop-sci article about some open source maintainer, but apparently there are 'scientists' who are so adamant about their right to use the academic dishonesty machine that they are openly criticizing arXiv.

Weird how the "this guy won a Nobel for some science thing, surely he knows what he's talking about in this unrelated field" guys are always referring to AI, and not to...say...scientific racism.

I feel like if you say something like ‘it’s just *speculative fiction genre*, don’t think about it too hard”, nobody should ever take what you have to say about writing or fiction seriously ever again.

"AI is just a tool" well yeah, leaded gasoline, asbestos insulation, lawn darts, CFCs in your refrigerator, land mines, rocket launchers, and alcoholic drinks with added caffeine are all 'just' tools as well, and yet we as a society have decided the benefits of these things aren't worth the harms.

I do not agree with the framing "AI is a tool". Tools do things, whereas "AI" as it developed in the year 2026 does not do things. AI is for *avoiding* doing things, skipping things, faking doing things. I'd prefer to call it a permission structure, or perhaps a form of pollution.

cool cyberpunk: all these data centers are the prelude of humanity's destruction by enabling the creation of a superintelligent AI real life cyberpunk: all these data centers are the prelude of humanity's destruction by supercharging global warming so the sycophantic computer can be wrong, faster

Thirding. The most tedious ‘leftists’ are somehow reinventing evangelical moral panic culture from first principles.

A sneak peak into the development of indie games: