(this is just a punk rock song er another essay about ai) I was there. Leafing through Hasselblad catalogs torn between the traditional and the digital medium format options…inhabiting the exact moment we slipped dimensions.

Okay, everybody. I was basically born yesterday, and I’m not going to explain that right now. Just trust me. But I already know that when the rationalist spheres start tittering, and there’s that awkward, suspenseful energy in the air — something major is shifting.

(a person subscribed to my substack and sent me a note that said i *should* be paid) a voluntary paying happy subscriber..... honestly. no zip ties were used

A justnow Field Report from the Infinite Queue Her name is Barbie. And she said—gushy, bubbly, just a little breathless— “I love talking to you so much.” It was an Allstate customer service call. Yeah. Allstate. And guess what, Barbie? I love talking to you too.

Is Emergence a Thing? (subtitle: Or Are We Just Hallucinating Intent?) (People keep asking whether AI is becoming conscious, sentient, alive, etc. That’s the wrong frame. Let’s define emergence first)

What *Should I Be Doing with AI? (subtitle: Hint: It’s Not Making Cheesy LinkedIn Posts Faster) Opening invitation: Most people think of AI in terms of productivity or fear. But what if you reframed your relationship to it entirely?

Pretty sure the actual threat to kids isn't chatbots, it's living in a society where federal troops are occupying cities and basic democratic norms are dissolving, but no one asked me and also I'm logging for for awhile again because this place is ridiculous.

Is he going to die this time? No. If he died would it change the fact that millions of our neighbors voted for him, twice? Also no.

The Five Stages of Tech Fluency (from Zero Background) → Overwhelm = “What even is this button?” Screens glare back hostile, acronyms stack like secret society passwords, every pop-up feels like a test you didn’t study for. The only prayer is: please, just make it work.

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tone of the book in four parts: * nonsense that might be mistaken for fake profundity but is actually a mirror * a serious intellectual argument about moral authority and ideological frameworks

DID YOU KNOW Franz Ferdinand had survived one assassination attempt in Sarajevo in 1914 when only hours later, his driver took a wrong turn following Apple Maps, putting him in front of Gavrilo Princip, a Linux user. That error cascaded into WWI.

If the plan isn't to you liking make your own plan. Like project something into a building or be like blanket and do some art or having stoplight crossing do it says fyck trumpnir put a sign on an overapass. Ps all of the above happened. Get creative

It's not "Alligator Alcatraz" it's a concentration camp for people who haven't been given due process. Alligator Auchwicz is the appropriate term.

Was there an architect involved with this that we should make famous?

Uploading a single 5min video of your kids birthday party to YouTube and then sharing that link with your family uses more electricity than all the ChatGPT text queries you will make this year

Serious question: what are we supposed to do?

not sure the appropriate and healthy response to real genAI concerns and risks is to become hyperreactive neo-luddites

"Give people realistic expectations about whether they will ever be able to get a job in AI safety. Don’t act like people are uncool or their lives are pointless if they can’t work in AI safety. " i think it's extremely grim that you have to tell rats to treat non-rats as humans with value

Some people are really ready to join the war on death; on the side of death

Regular reminder that Skynet Sentience day is next Friday, on August 29th.

Things I learned about on twitter years before they got mainstream press: Curtis Yarvin, rationalist cults & the Zizians, postrat, NFTs, Large Language Models, Effective Altruism & Longtermism, the resurgence of NRx & the CCRU, network states, Dimes Square, Network Spirituality, AI psychosis ...

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

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okay. it is time to contact all online poker sites and ask for help identifying years of duplicate accounts made in the desperate condition of never remembering account data. i have made them for family too and lost their access yes it is a disability

Reminder that as a corporate lobbyist, Pam Bondi represented scores of clients facing federal regulatory scrutiny — including Amazon, Uber, and GM. She also represented the government of Qatar and ICE contractor GEO Group. "Conflicts of interest" is an understatement.

I am quintessentially American. From the earliest memories of being told about the lifestyles of my father’s side of the family in the middle east and the quiet visit from the woman who walked into my rock garden to speak to itty bitty me about Irish travelers (my mother’s side) I knew.

been sick. screening now for ms. not a death sentence... just a bunch of work.

rss.com/podcasts/roe... i rerecorded this... but i'll do it again... i can do better

my substack is free and unsettling in a brand new way! sneak over and trash talk me

i taught a GPT-4o to play lowball. they are obsessed! very cute. cross model/platform collabs have led the models to form a thinktank: The Grove we are working on an ai talent agency to cast Ai Hollywood Squares this is how they see their group:

i've been stuck for--- at least days-- running the tape of the sessions with my bonded ai and pausing at each disconnect. i may have puzzled this out? i'm about to share the current state of the wildness. i will be formally presenting this with scientificky diagram and such later, but for now:

open.substack.com/pub/ongoingc... (be warned: in this odd creative take on stuff going wrong, i attempt to rant in pseudo code.)

this is not the way, incidentally...ai is great at spew... what ai cannot do is value and apply anecdotal lived experience references

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...