and the 80% reliance stat is almost beside the point. it's the "can't recognize faulty outputs" part that should terrify everyone. you're not just outsourcing thinking. you're outsourcing the ability to audit the outsourcing.

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We get to justice by just means. And we must be uncompromising about this. Because once you begin to bend who matters or what values you're willing to prioritize, you're already halfway to becoming those you despise.

"We have to live into the world we want to create." I wonder if this is a harder lesson to get across in North America because we're steeped in the fundamental agon of the Western. You know that whole thing about picking up the gun to protect a society that picking up the gun excludes us from.

Yep. In a nutshell.

I had a pal in undergrad who used to say "most people's opinions are just the last thing they heard on a topic." I thought him overly cynical, but over the intervening years I've seen more & more evidence that he was right, & that critical, engaged thought is rare. And seems to be getting rarer.

"Worst City" is tricky. If it means "municipality in which you've had the worst time" then the answer is _definitely_ Cochrane. If it means "municipality that meets the new UN definition of city that you have been to and you would rate overall as of the lowest quality" then probably Indianapolis.

In 2000, John Waters donated 372 pieces of his art collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art. They named a rotunda after him in their gallery. He requested an all-gender restroom be named for him instead. #BOTD

Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it’s Saturday:

There’s so much I want to share from this: let’s start with “The present is different from the past, but that’s no use if you can’t remember the past.” Then go read it. Even if you think you know the story go read it.

Best Star Trek crew. Wrong answers only. "Best" is too hard. I've been able to narrow it down to a top three. Every Star Trek has it's own vibe, you know. But these were definitely the best three.

Under normal circumstances a Qlippoth mirror doppelganger lasts a full moon cycle before it loses coherence & can no longer be stabilized with the blood of the innocent. Now, when they're making replicas from replicas without access to an original, the decay can only speed up from generation loss.

Defending institutions is a dead end. Institutions don't bleed, don't cry, don't experience pain. They are conveniences we can build and destroy at will. Loyalty to an institution should be loyalty to the people that institution is supposed to serve. No more and no less.

My thoughts on this have not changed. Also, repost things that other people you follow make that you think are good. I've also explicitly indicated my interest in your taste.

Even if "Kate Heartfield" on a book weren't already enough to sell me a copy, the phrase "Umberto Eco meets Susanna Clarke" would definitely have done that.

I have developed the big sphere technology, but if I want them to be clear I'm going to need to start with water that has a lot less calcium than ours does. Still, this will melt very slowly in my Weller's Special Reserve Wheated.

Promo your stuff relentlessly, before, during, years after release. This is probably because I was a stand up and we necessarily lived in self-promotion mode, but if I don’t see you posting about your shit every day, I assume the weird American Calvinist kind virus got you. Or you’re Canadian.

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gonna find out really quick how many people care enough about this wasteful bullshit to actually pay the API rates vs. burning $3k-$5k in tokens for $200

Y'all, they threw Pam Bondi's official DOJ portrait in the trash, then LEAKED a photo to the media. There is literally no upside to being a MAGA bootlicker. www.ms.now/news/pam-bon...

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discourse on this site every other week

"20 years study proves sex is required". I mean all those Maslany jokes are there, but I skipped right past all the clone stuff to the important part.

“The Klan monument is run by slave labor” is a little too on the fucking nose

Libraries and librarians saved my life more than once.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE TURTLE

it is okay to follow a weird voice into the darkness and wrestle with angels. please believe that.

private equity is to business what cancer is to a healthy body

The old world is dying. The new world struggles to be born. Things are pretty busy at the world hospital

"all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." Awesome to live in the time when we discover there are third and fourth layers, and they're "slapstick" and "Farrelly Brothers".

...I do not have kind thoughts here.

Why do none of these articles ever mention the whole impoundment / the President is explicitly not allowed to refuse to spend money that Congress has budgeted thing? Five times a day, minimum, Trump's admin does things they are EXPLICTLY not allowed to do, and everyone just shrugs?

Okay, I get publishers affirming that the books we've produced are human-made, but have we also considered bringing back medieval book curses??? Just saying.

Hegseth firing Generals who wouldn't go along with his purge of Black and female officers www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

Crazy things Pete Hegseth did YESTERDAY alone: 1) Fired head of the Army 2) Changed rules to allow military personnel to carry personal weapons on bases 3) Fired head of the Chaplain Corps 4) NBC reports he blocked promotions of a dozen Black or female officers All further evidence for my column:

I've always been part of friend groups where "carving" each other is part of relating. If you didn't carve someone about some topic it was because they might be vulnerable there. The Kid & I have had a similar relationship. Just lately she's mostly stopped making "You're so old" jokes. Hmm.

Guess it's going to be another "camera off" week after this long-weekend.

So me and @tychebooks.bsky.social got early arcs for finishing our work 😅 Yesterday, we spent half an hour on the phone discussing our series theories like a couple of old women watching their shows and it was AMAZING. This is probably the best serial killer mystery series I've ever read.

Had to pop over to Boston for a couple of days of all-day, high-level company strategy meetings. I did get to clean out my US mailbox again. Only a few things since I was just there last month, but quality things! Most excited about the Witcover—I've been looking for a good quality copy for AGES.

Still need that app or device that just straight-up automatically shuts down any "smartglasses" within a certain radius.

The obvious question is to ask what is the point of the article. And the answer is means testing. By saying the rich don't deserve public goods it makes it easier to say someone just above the poverty line doesn't either. They want public goods to be shit.

There are at least three things in this one post that each make very different parts of my brain happy.

Spoiler: It's because he and his boss are racist and sexist pieces of shit

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For every American rube who ever argued that instead of statesmen, we should allow a businessman from outside the political sphere to helm our government, here is the internet posting that should make you shut the fuck up and bathe alone in your submoronic ignorance until you wrinkle and die.

i get it, we all read transhumanist stuff but you're anthropomorphizing linear algebra

what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?

I can't speak for other fields, but programming is headed for a future where the Morlocks eventually die off leaving a generation of Eloi who will be fine as long as the Second Law of Thermodynamics is wrong.