Stephen Colbert has been one of the most thoughtful, funny, and genuinely decent people on television. I’ve always enjoyed his work — especially the Colbert Report. Here’s a clip from when I was a guest back in 2010.

"It seems to me, then, that the key to helping many students really experience writing as a process of patience, careful attention, and imagination is to create the dedicated time and space needed for them to invest themselves in the work." theimportantwork.substack.com/p/experienci...

and now, your moment of zen. 🎥 (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYhEwUvv67q/)

GitHub Copilot moves to token based billing on June 1, and its users have now got a calculator that shows how much they've been actually burning every month - some $39-a-month users have spent $1500 to $5800 in tokens a month. Microsoft's subsidies are insane. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-what...

AI companies currently subsidize their users $3 to $25 for every dollar of subscription. As a result, users are very sensitive to *any* price or rate limit changes, and have no idea what their actual token burn is. Token-based billing will be lethal at scale. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-what...

My latest newsletter is about why the fatal flaw at the heart of generative AI isn't just the economics, but the fact that it's deeply uncool and hated. www.whatwelo.st/p/generative...

Instant flashback to a conversation on here a while back that was so insightful I had to save it

Tomorrow’s free: AI is too expensive, and a preview of “Revenge of the Business Idiot”

Over asiel bestaat al decennia polarisatie. Maar de mate waarin radicaal-rechtse partijen in Den Haag het land nu ophitsen is ongekend. De landelijke VVD doet daaraan mee, tot afgrijzen van lokale VVD-bestuurders.

Ik ben van plan hier een paar rake verbale klappen uit te delen.

Musk v Altman JUDGE: The jury has sent a question and the answer is no, the death penalty is not "available for both sides" please return to the jury room and limit your consideration to civil damages.

Krijg toch het gevoel dat er een flinke radicalisering aan het plaatsvinden is op de rechterflank. Het is echt moeilijk om nog verschil te vinden tussen de retoriek van gevestigde Telegraaf-columnisten en die van uiterst rechtse samenzweringsdenkers.

Nu niet opeens gaan juichen voor #Eva. Dit programma heeft jarenlang het vuurtje van de vermeende asielcrisis opgepookt en (extreem)rechtse standpunten verkondigd. Het kalf is mede dankzij Eva al lang verdronken. Dit gesprek is een schaamlap.

The NYT removed the "um"s in Trump's answer on Taiwan, but put "um"s in AOC's answer on Taiwan to make her look dumb Trump said "Um, I would say 'like' is maybe too strong a word...um, no, I'm holding that in abeyance and it depends on China, depends, it's a, it's a.." L: Trump R: AOC Video below

Outputs aren’t just substandard—they’re outright wrong. Someone close to me had notes in one of her patient files about her husband, dog, and recent knee surgery—none of which she had! A diff dr’s files listed incorrect medications and incorrect details about a past surgery! This is so dangerous!

This monologue from Hannah Einbinder on the show “Hacks” perfectly encapsulates the frustration many people feel about AI. What are your thoughts?

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

Also the next somebody says reparations for black people is a ridiculous idea, remind them that we have a reparations program for trying to overthrow the government

This is why parent awareness and activism is so, so important. Without parents making a fuss, this would have gone ahead. www.404media.co/researchers-...

This is one reason why I love living in Belgium. Here, work is only a small portion of a person’s life. People have friends and go to social gatherings. They have hobbies that aren’t meant to be productive. It’s a slower life.

“We have made a technology that creates nothing but will ensure you have no future while we get richer and richer wait why are you boooing?”

Never feel guilty for borrowing books from a library. Authors LOVE libraries. And libraries pay authors a small sum every time one of their books is borrowed (which in many cases comes to more than the percentage earned from the sale of a book in a discount outlet)...

This is Sasha Paskal, a Ukrainian gymnast. She lost a leg after a Russian attack in 2022. Sasha is very strong, she's returned to gymnastics on a prosthesis.

Just sent out this post. Has Putin Met His Marianas moment? The Ukrainian attacks On Moscow this Weekend make a mockery of Russian claims about the war, and show that even their capital is not safe. When propaganda narratives die, they die hard. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

"The proliferation of references to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the board" -- by Miles Klee www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 1/🧵

"De militarisering van kinderen op deze schaal is geen intern cultureel verschijnsel. Het is een strategisch staatsbeleid met geopolitieke gevolgen op de lange termijn."

The answer is no. There is no way that smartphones are responsible for a 40% decline in worldwide fertility rate. This is what the graph looks like from 1970 to the present (from @ourworldindata.org).

Experts: klimaatverandering is 'catastrofale dreiging voor volksgezondheid' nos.nl/l/2614735

Taiwan onder de bus gegooid.

It just doesn't seem sustainable for LLM vendors to keep training on copyrighted materials

none of those articles about US v European income per capita mentioned that Americans don't have Eurovision?

If this isn't "designed to stir up hatred" against Jews, what is? Why are the Met not arresting them?

This, about Khan Academy getting in the AI business explains a lot about where we are right now and why products like Khanmigo haven't succeeded. Solving the problem of how not to get left behind is not the same as solving actual problems in education. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/b...

From @steverattner.bsky.social: “This is extraordinary. I've been a professional investor for decades and I haven't made this many trades in my career.” Gobsmacking corruption no previous president would even try, without getting impeached and removed. 🤯 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A president's trading of securities for his personal account can in no way be argued to constitute activity that falls within the "outer perimeter" of his "official responsibilities." www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...

Billionaires, and the politicians they fund, will do everything they can to strip workers of their rights.

Anthropic en Google gebruiken schoolkinderen om hun AI projecten te testen. Eerst het onderwijs beïnvloeden met Google Education en dan kinderen als proefpersonen gebruiken. Ouders, leraren, sta dit niet toe!

Professional services firm EY has withdrawn a study on loyalty rewards programs after researchers at GPTZero found apparent AI hallucinations and fake footnotes (Stephen Foley/Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

An interesting thing to ponder is a world where we wait to see the results of such studies *before* commercially deploying LLMs at scale. Independent research has already been conducted and the results aren’t impressive!

Zorgen van mensen over woningnood, armoede, gestegen zorgkosten of de toekomst van hun kinderen, is het gevolg van politieke keuzes. Het is verwerpelijk en laf dat politici geen verantwoordelijkheid nemen voor hun beleid, maar wijzen naar vluchtelingen. Om vervolgens olie op het vuur te gooien.

As @emilymbender.bsky.social points out. "Stochastic parrot" is not an argument or a hypothesis, it is a description of a system that mimics human language by creating sequences of words based on a probability distribution derived from a large corpus of training data. Just what an LLM is.

Russia to Trump "We own you bitch" Israel to Trump "We own you bitch" China to Trump "We own you bitch" Trump to America "It's all Bidens fault"

Zeer verhelderend boek van @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social Zondagskinderen. Onderschrijf de verklaring hoe 80j vrede na eindeloze oorlogen ons tot pacifisten heeft gemaakt. Kan alleen niet verklaren waarom Amerikanen wel eindeloos geld en mensen blijven offeren terwijl ze nooit echt aangevallen zijn

Vandaag bij Tata Steel: - Procedure tot intrekking vergunning - 200 miljoen verlies - Nieuwe rechtszaak Waarom wil dit kabinet zo graag 2 miljard belastinggeld in dit zwarte gat gooien? We roepen de minister ter verantwoording.

As a Mets season ticket holder and a lawyer with an office in Queens, I’ve been to Flushing hundreds of times over the past two decades-and always felt welcome The contempt this administration shows for Democratic strongholds-especially areas which primarily contain people of color-is reprehensible

En... het streefbedrag van 6k is gehaald! Echt super jullie allemaal. Dat betekent dat er straks een Shahed uit de lucht gehaald gaat worden die anders dood en verderf had gezaaid. En omdat het in NL wordt gebouwd, doen wij hier cruciale kennis op. Zo belangrijk in geval van oorlog hier.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Markuszower neemt geen woord terug, op rechts blijft het oorverdovend stil. De premier reageert laat en slap. Dit is geen willekeurige uitspraak van een politicus, maar een oproep tot geweld. Daar mag geen enkele ruimte voor zijn. Wij willen volgende week een debat.

"To the folks at CBS, in the words of the great Ed Murrow, good night and good luck, motherf* kers."

42% of new cars sold in China last month were fully electric. Norway is already at nearly 100% electric but Europe/UK can’t get there in another decade? This isn’t that hard people. bsky.app/profile/eric...