TIL the world's new favorite himbo once bought a 13th century copy of one of the Norse Sagas for $150,000, then donated it to the library because "I'm not much of a reader."

Doing a PhD changed my life, it made it worse

Stop, look at this. Just fucking look at my cat.

Big job for me and my team today is reading all of the comments proposals at our university received to try to catch out any inappropriate ones. The number of people who are willing to put a colleagues work into chat gpt to avoid review work is too damn high

Tully, Longoni and Appel in Joirnal of Marketing: Lower AI Literacy Predicts Greater AI Receptivity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Not surprised to see that Emily Blunt claims Spielberg wanted her to use AI in one of the scenes, half this piece of shit looks like it was generated by a free trial version of whatever the fuck. Spielberg denies these claims but damn if they aren’t plausible based on the quality of the end product

Stephen Spielberg knows how to make a good film, not clear to me why he made Disclosure Day instead of a good film

I’m honestly like 3 minutes of scrolling instagram away from throwing away every electronic device I own

The Hobonichi Techo notebook comes with an app. Why does a fucking notebook need an app?

Increasingly it’s clear to me that 4/5 staff at universities just want to do a good job of research and teaching but can’t because the other 1/5 consists of the worst people alive who hate everything that is good in this world

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

I just learned that Pilates was invented by a guy named Joseph Pilates. This feels like it should be wrong but alas it isn’t.

Getting back into chess, but golly it hurts for my elo to fall so dramatically from my usual ~1100 to 850ish and trying to remember my game

It never really went away, but HIDDEN CITY is back in a new edition and I would love it if you gave it a go or helped me spread the word! You can learn all about it here: alanbaxter.com.au/hidden-city-... Thanks!

All the best books are written by some weirdo going mad from staying in their room too long. No other books are good

This is me going after Olga Tokarczuk for succumbing to the temptations of generative AI Read all about it here: secondspace.beehiiv.com/p/drag-your-...

Whenever I post about stuff that’s good, I get no response on here. Whenever I dunk on dipshits using AI, people love it. I know it’s fun to dunk on dipshits, but let’s celebrate the good too

Working through Have You Met Miss Jones with my guitar teacher. Turns out the reason I couldn’t figure out the key change in the B section is because it’s three key changes. You live and you learn.

As I recall, in the last movie agent 007 was a black woman, so what are we even doing here Idris?

My PhD supervisor has a word file with every reference she ever used for anything and just copies and pastes from that when she’s writing, honestly I wouldn’t assume people are lying about this

Every day the AI industry makes us slip further into the abyss

This is me going after Olga Tokarczuk for succumbing to the temptations of generative AI Read all about it here: secondspace.beehiiv.com/p/drag-your-...

Good news for everyone who followed me on here because of me dragging Olga Tokarczuk for using AI, here's more of the same. On reflection, I'm even angrier than before. secondspace.beehiiv.com/p/drag-your-...

99% of the games I like playing were developed before AI was a thing and I anticipate the proportion of new games I’m into will keep shrinking

As a member of the woke elites, just like the Catholic Church before Luther, I’m happy to accept payments to dispense with your anti woke crimes

Bong Joon Ho is clear headed about this shit at least

All my idols have lost their minds in their old age to cash in the last of their credibility to make slop variety.com/2026/film/ne...

People look at me like I’m crazy when I tell them our workplace is only real because we all get up every day to do stuff, which is also why we can change everything we don’t like, but I’m right, nothing is real and all we do is email things to each other

When the post is one character too long and you have to get rid of the Oxford comma…

kleptocratic pornographic racist nihilism, you can ban it "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

SHAROOOON! THEY'VE TRAPPED ME FUCKIN SOUL IN A FUCKIN DIGITAL CONSTRUCT SHARON. IVE GOT NO FUCKIN FREE WILL SHARON. THEY WANT ME TO SING CRAZY TRAIN TILL THE HEAT DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE SHARON. FUCKIN HELL. SHAROOOON!

Aukus strikes me as the sort of national diplomatic disaster that people should be prosecuted for

I don’t think they pay for being depressed and awkward

The last thing you see before opening ChatGPT

Interesting, wonder what people who aren’t war criminals have to say though

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

King

I think it’s incredible news that we’re now going to be strapping billionaires onto rockets and shooting them into space; I must admit I didn’t expect they’d be so willing to let us do this by themselves.

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

We’re gonna bring back punching dweebs with glasses on, but only this kind

This is just every guy in a humanities phd

It’s because it’s shit for dweebs, next question

I email because I don’t want to talk

Apropos my post from yesterday, a response from Tokarczuk This isn’t that convincing tbh. She’s using the plagiarism machine to assist her - including by her own admission in the interview asking it how to “write things beautifully”. This isn’t a misunderstanding, this is what she says she does

My post from this morning about Olga Tokarczuk falling into slopaganda really has brought some interesting characters out of the woodwork.

With disgust I learned Olga Tokarczuk uses AI to help with writing her latest novel - article in Polish, my translation of relevant bit in posts below mycompanypolska.pl/artykul/olga...