The latest AI tell for me? "quietly" (or "quiet") It drives me bonkers. I'm starting to see it everywhere, all the time. Usually, I see it used as a way to indicate a subtle shift from one reality to another. "People are quietly adjusting their schedules" or "Expectations are quietly shifting."

AI developers have long made it clear that their entire focus is on supporting "use cases" (arbitrary tasks they wish you'd do) and they spare no attention on abuse cases or misuse cases.

Oh cool. Thanks Cayuga County for the REDUCED RATE on parking for the jury duty I am legally required to serve at a rate of $40 per day under threat of jail time and/or $1,000 fine. Glad you could muster the discount 😒

I used to side w/ bikers thinking "Haha look at all these middle-aged Karens clutching pearls at loud engines."

🧵 Re: activation of the NG and Marines in Cali - Lots of uninformed ppl keep citing the Oath of Enlistment as proof that soldiers need to follow orders of the current administration. But y'all are missing important facts about how our gov & military are designed in a specific way to avoid tyranny.

Me, in my 20's: "We all have the same 24 hrs!" 7-9am: uninterrupted wellness & thinking time, pre-work 5-7pm: uninterrupted entrepreneurial/social time 9pm-?: sleep (or party?)

How I know I'm an old: when Spotify changes their "Hip Hop Focus" playlist to "Boom Bap Focus" + it takes about 10+ min looking for the playlist bc I've never once in my life thought of hip-hop as "boom bap"

Usually complains about online censorship are overblown. Then there are exceptions, such as the proposed "abortion bounty hunter" bill (HB5510) that would basically - declare abortion information "verboten" 😒 - mark anybody who shares it as a target 😱 - reward random people to hunt them legally 🤯

Well that's grim

Companies be “mobile-first” until the time comes to delete an account or cancel service, then suddenly you need a desktop device, a mobile phone, an email address, and thirty business days.

Fun fact: I live in a very rural agricultural area. Generally I love it out here. But lately, the factory farms in the area have really started to… how do I put this… not care?

Sure, AI may be an environmental disaster and produce mid outcomes in cases where it doesn't straight up lie, but at least it's extremely unprofitable.

As Mother's Day creeps up on us... to the people who have complicated relationships with your moms: You're not "immature" for "not forgiving and forgetting." You're not a bad person for protecting your children. The most mature, loving thing you can do is choose peace over abuse.

Something that's been on my mind lately (🧵) 1) To get good outputs from AI, you often have to do some level of cross-platform checking (i.e. have one AI tool shoot holes in another AI tool's work)

"AI is the future" is not a statement of fact or a prediction, but rather an ideological statement. Big tech is invested in making AI the future, at any cost. LinkedIn (where over half of the posts are now AI) is doing its small part by deboosting AI-critical posts. www.linkedin.com/posts/albert...

I opened up Spotify to play some "tropical house" and accidentally typed "topical house" which... I guess is the same thing.

As a student of the "school of futurism" I have a few predictions for the next 5 years. Is it bold and egotistical to publish these predictions? Obviously. But I'm feeling lucky and it's Monday.

Positive affirmation suggestion: when you wake up in the morning, allow your eyes to open completely. Then, in a grating whisper, hiss the words “I AM REBORN”

The nonlinearity of grief (a thread) It was (just barely) warm enough today to bring my laptop outside to work. It's not the first time I've worked outside this year, but today it was v windy, and all sorts of objects were flapping in the wind (bear with me, this detail matters). (1/9)

Important: clickens.chicken.pics/humble/30/1

This week, my son pointed at a $10 bill and said, "Mama!" How's your week going?

Interesting seeing the angry reactions to AI-gen memes of Americans doing work typically done in non-US sweatshops. It's as if people have forgotten we've been exploiting humans for decades (even w/in the US) & only care now because it looks like their neighbor, Bill. futurism.com/china-mockin...