With apologies to David Mazzucchelli

@rorycarroll.bsky.social typing word by word what's in my head: "(...) if someone shows you something that they used AI to make, even an email, they don’t believe you’re worth their time. They do not respect you, they do not respect their own job, or value their own work output." Value humans.

For the record when it comes to actual reality rejecting generative AI is nothing at all like refusing to sell your horse and buy a car in 1910. One is a content creation tool and one is a vehicle with a crank on it that you can fuel with moonshine.

The Odyssey rips

It’s twilight in Silicon Valley, where does the car business go next? alloymag.com/aidios/

Not the point but putting the t shirt on over the shoulder pads is wild. Did he drive home in them

These are massively under appreciated

Day one in the reeducation camps: Mandate vs. Recommendation, What's The Difference?

The wildfire smoke thing is a good preview of how a lot of climate stuff goes, just "Everyone's kids are breathing poison now, nothing you can do about it. Maybe kind of keep them indoors or whatever." Regular people can't even imagine a system that would allow us to take action.

Who would win

One more time ICYMI: We're talking about the damn Twingo! www.neverpo.st/the-happiest...

Close to a year ago, I flagged that the White House had classified IUDs, birth control pills & hormonal implants as "abortifacient birth control." The news was buried six paragraphs into a NYT story—and wasn't mentioned in the headline or social promo jessica.substack.com/p/trump-birt...

If you want to buy a print or something--which you should--the coupon code BSKY13 is still active and will save you 13% on anything. store.brandonbird.com

I had a dream that my Mom married my former boss Jim and she started arguing with me about traffic

We asked. You delivered. 404 Media readers were particularly passionate about their hatred for AI-designed signs, and @jasonkoebler.bsky.social got some of the best email responses. "They look like absolute DOG SHIT." Here's the gallery: www.404media.co/these-are-th...

Early crossovers are getting their reappraisal, @hansolex.bsky.social is seeing the Lexus RX in a new light: alloymag.com/lexus-rx300-...

This carries through until much more recently, too. In the 1770s, the colonies had about 2 million people and Great Britain had about 8 million. Revolutionary Paris, the second-largest city in Europe, was about the size of today's El Paso.

we are scarily close to general artificial intelligence

"Your host Bryttanni, from FanDuel, wanted to make sure your Thanksgiving was extra special," Harper says in the video.

“Cornell researchers found that at the current rate of AI growth, the burgeoning industry could represent 24 to 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, the equivalent of adding five to ten million cars to US roadways.”

Hello! In this week's @neverpo.st, Producer Georgia talks with @rorycarroll.bsky.social of @alloymag.bsky.social about the cutest goldarn car, and what it's memeification reflects about the shifting attitudes of car culture (online????) www.neverpo.st/the-happiest...

Cultist shit. A desperate last gasp operation to try and keep people believing, to bully them into acquiescing, to use social pressure to force a technology that will either continue to increase in cost and eventually will simply run out of cash to continue, truly corrosive to company culture.

I wonder how many of them know that taking a GLP-1 makes it highly improbable that you will ever have a respectable squat, bench or deadlift?

Huge milestone in the lifecycle of any Tesla product. Congrats to Elon and the whole team.

Someone getting their shit rocked by a falling chunk of stage during Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy is Trump as hell.

some amazing things happening over on threads — ever since they “shut down CERN”

Was told recently that a new head of PR at a big automaker told a journalist that Mr. Beast was more likely to get an interview with their CEO than any established journalist and I can't stop thinking about how funny/bizarre that would be. There is no involved party that stands to gain anything.

Fireworks actually suck shit. I'd be really captivated by them if I lived a thousand years ago but my house has electricity, I've ridden in a helicopter and seen two of the Avatar movies in IMAX. Grow up.

Today's NYT jobs report coverage (left) compared to exactly 2 years ago under Biden (right). Notice the numbers.

1973 Alfa Romeo GTV 2000

Procrastinating by thinking about other work I plan to do when I finish with the thing I'm supposed to be doing

I have heard from two women in the last week that they ran their email exchanges with male co-workers by an AI to confirm that they were communicating clearly and being reasonable.

you laugh but this is what it feels like when u dont like and subscribe

The Fifth Circuit saw the term “officer involved shooting” and said hold my beer.

To celebrate my LGBTQIA+ family, I headed to the San Antonio Public Library system to share a history of the queer drivers who have transformed the motorsport space this Pride Month! That full presentation is available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWWX...

NEW: Workers say their bosses are becoming obsessed with AI and essentially turning the entire workplace into an exercise in AI psychosis -- making absurd pivots, communicating only in AI slop, and even asking ChatGPT who to fire futurism.com/artificial-i...

Just finished The Mosquito Coast, a book about a kooky inventor who takes his family on adventures in the jungle.

Fun to imagine that any of these people will face anything approaching consequences but the Democrats are absolutely never going to touch any of them.

This Guy's Fictional Map Requires an Entire Gym to Assemble https://gizmodo.com/this-guys-fictional-map-requires-an-entire-gym-to-assemble-2000777626

It’s been fun being told my whole life that ideas are a dime a dozen and execution is what matters only to watch Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman and Elon Musk get phenomenally wealthy and powerful by failing to deliver on some of the dumbest fucking ideas I have ever heard

it’s so fucking over lol

A data-driven analysis of how the New York Times's treatment of transgender subjects shifted "from rights-based framing toward more skeptical, conflict-driven coverage" since 2014, centering trans-rights opponents over trans people themselves. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

The year is 2013. We're talking about knobs. The year is 2026. We're talking about knobs. There's prestige TV show about knobs. No podcasts. Cultural void. www.caranddriver.com/features/a15...

As bad as it was, 2025 will always be the year when I realized that I don't have short legs, I have just been wearing pants wrong my entire adult life.

Should I do an Alloy automaker power ranking?

My pithy comment: the difference between the Democratic Socialists winning and the Tea Party winning is that the press gave favourable coverage to the Tea Party

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...

Camera based rear view mirrors are cool, I didn’t even know I could get motion sickness while driving

Behind-the-scenes of Usha Vance’s ‘Storytime’ show

"The current market is starting to feel eerily similar to the final months of the dot-com era, Molavi said, when investors typically got used to taking sudden 5% moves in their stride. "This raises the question of 'what happens if 10% breaks, and whether there is no floor in sight after that'.” #AI