i just don't understand these people like on any level.

can't believe it only took him 5 hours to come up with this.

I get that everyone who is in the know knows this already but I am quite happy for a publication to be surfacing it again, especially for readers who may not be aware

4 hours and 45 minutes ago

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i'm at the stage of winter where i'm watching videos on the internet about growing tomatoes.

someone quoted me and out of curiosity i looked at their timeline and kept scrolling until i saw a post that had any likes and i got to 7 days.

another week of ✨ Shameless Self Promotion Saturday ✨ where thinking about the ethics of trying to make a living in this moment in history makes us feel like turning our skin inside out hi new people. hi old people. hi creatures who dont identify as people. we love you. please buy art. or dont.

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

Update: They succeeded: www.mississippifreepress.org/byhalia-ice-...

my mom, when telling me about a post she's seen where she's not sure if it's AI, will say "I'm not sure if it's real or stupid"

The defining feature of AI today is infrastructure: the rapacious buildout of data centres; the transnational configuration of labour exploitation; the grafting of AI onto processes of capitalist accumulation.

i think it's anthropologically kind of interesting to see people work to find a place for certain projects and phenomena - like, as a totally anodyne example that will upset nobody, AI - in certain social movements and projects.

It feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence.

i don't know if this channel is going to be exclusively about birds in video games but this video is captivating and the channel is probably worth following.

If you're building a startup in 2026, you are expected to work with the world's largest venture capital firm (which is not even really a VC firm), where one partner strangled my neighbor to death for being Black, and another actively sought Jeffrey Epstein's counsel for years. This is *normal*.

And every *other* option you have for getting funding, even the most decent among them, are folks who will not refuse to do business with those people. You will be expected to sit in a room with those monsters, and act like it's reasonable, without armed security or witnesses.

He's disabled. They're going to murder him because he's disabled.

AI data centers are increasingly not just leaning on (behind-the-meter) natural gas-fired power (in part to evade regulatory oversight), but particularly dirty forms of natural-gas fired power.

out of curiosity, did anthropic collect any data on how the pages of those books they scanned and shredded feel against a human's fingertips? the thick pages, the thin pages, the ones with rough edges? can they go back and collect that data, or is it all basically gone?

someone should've touched the orb of the emissary and had an experience that the audience didn't get to see. SAM is the obvious choice, but it'd be funny if it was caleb and if this was the one experience we didn't get to see. i realize it would've been goofy, but we watched a guy vom glitter

my maybe controversial opinion is: if you have like as few as 10k followers on a platform, and you're in a local organizing group chat, your posts can bring a lot of attention to the group that is not always helpful and... here we go: you should probably be acutely sensitive to people's concerns.

fwiw for people thinking "i need to get in a comment at this guy i saw on my feed..."

said elsewhere but it seems like the future of labor with AI in the mix is drifting toward cleaning up AI, filling in the gaps where it can't recover, being the scapegoat for legal reasons, etc

my stargate atlantis knowledge is finally paying off

waymo executives admit what we all knew to begin with, that their self driving AI is really just remote operators in the philippines.

you've gotta let someone take a photo with it before you fix it like come on please

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And there it is.

i hate how predictable and avoidable this shit is and yet we don't avoid it at all, because some people see the opportunity to run little authoritarian fascist domains on their phones and their eyes roll back.

Hey, remember that time I said that pointing out that AI is giving bad data to ICE is missing the point because ICE doesn't actually care if the data is good? Check out how right I am.

> Maybe what "generative AI" generates is a kind of dementia among those who hold the greatest power in our society. This would explain why the world’s richest men, unable to control the culture that their platforms house, are such patently undignified losers.

i have a hot take and it's that expressing an opinion like this about students or colleagues should probably be fireable regardless of tenure status or whatever else.

... is there anything meaningful to the "_67" username other than literally being like "also, look at this: six seven"?

also arguably the worst thing about applying for jobs 🫩

With the awful WaPo layoffs and the state of journalism more broadly, if it's useful for any writers and reporters considering going indy, @molly.wiki, @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social of Aftermath, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social of 404 Media, @edzitron.com and me will do a little workshop next week.

This debate or discourse or discussion about why Bezos is dismantling WaPo or whether or not more subscriptions or boycotts could change things or how he could fund it easily is pointless. It’s moot. Bezos bought the Post to control the narrative and push his agenda. Financials don’t matter.

biden was so passionate about killing palestinian women and children that an israeli prime minister 40 years ago distanced himself from biden's comments.

A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.

did he really get his account suspended on here for making someone feel bad, or whatever rule the T&S team made up a while ago?

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At 12 ET today me and Jason are doing AMA on the main technology subreddit about the tech ICE is using, the nationwide network of AI Flock cameras around the U.S., and the state of surveillance in general. Get your questions in before then: www.reddit.com/r/technology...

Tech is a culture

Today, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza.

when someone uploads a long text (like josh shapiro's book) to a chatbot (without permission), asks the chatbot what it thinks, and then posts that on twitter, it makes me think they're not using their time very well. i might think a bit more about why that behavior elicits this particular feeling.

was epstein uniquely responsible for evil or is he just the one obscenely wealthy person whose emails we're getting to read

Of course there are academics in the Epstein files Academia is not a natural space for radical politics, knowledge and emancipation as many pretend it is, buoyed by reactionary moral panics It is primarily built on conservatism, hierarchies and thirst for power so this should not be surprising

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