most moral army in the world tortured a toddler

”One tonne of CO2 emitted in 1990 caused US$180 in discounted global damages by 2020 ($40–530) and will cause an additional $1,840 through 2100 ($500–5,700).” Grandkids, we used to have 2.2 € gasoline and 50 € budget flights in the 2020s. Enjoy the disasters! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEW: The government tells Americans to use VPNs to protect their privacy. The government also automatically presumes communications of unknown origin are foreign. Foreign communications don't require a warrant to wiretap. Lawmakers who've done the math want answers. My latest @wired.com:

Fig. 1 for the ages

Variety spends the first 8 grafs on JKR being a piece of transphobic shit in this article and that's the way every single report on her should work actually.

wild to think a game console is an appreciating asset now

Even before this, big AI was pivoting towards more aggressive monetization to manage their huge losses running it. And nobody has any clue how to achieve significant efficiencies of scale with LLMs, they run into expensive memory-bandwidth bottlenecks, Jevons Paradox, or both.

I feel like the surrender of the global electric vehicle market to China is one of those things that will, with a couple of decades of hindsight, be vastly consequential. Scaling benefits, technology development, supply chains... A lot of incumbents that depend on export markets will be screwed.

This was an excellent discussion. I encourage everyone to listen.

My Twitter account was verified in 2016 when I was writing articles and representing famous people in the music industry. I deleted all my posts, DMs then account last year. When I started doing extremism research it was a great tool until moderation gave way to repeated death & rape threats.

Funny and sad to see this story in my province when I was literally in Norway a couple weeks ago and they were telling me what a shit show the Epic health records system had been over there. Can we please stop buying bad tech instead of just making collective investments to build what we need?

I ended up talking wayyyyyy too much about history

Very happy to have @attackerman.bsky.social back on the show this week to dig into the history of US-Iran relations and hostility, and learn more about Iranian drones, the threat to Gulf data centers, and much more!

I locked and hid my account there. It still exists to protect me in case some asshole decides to start trying to impersonate me. (And there is a large chud account there who has a grudge with me.)

Very happy to have @attackerman.bsky.social back on the show this week to dig into the history of US-Iran relations and hostility, and learn more about Iranian drones, the threat to Gulf data centers, and much more!

wild how quickly my following on here not only surpassed but exceeded what i had on twitter

Something I've noticed about all of these "This is a slippery slope that's going to wreck the open internet!" arguments is that they take as a given that the "open internet" of 2026 is good or a status quo we should want to preserve.

Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

ai will be defeated one anti-ai girlfriend at a time

I left as soon as the deal was finalized, and I do not care to return. I’ll get all my doomscrolling from less Nazi-infested sites, tyvm

Canadian politicians/universities...please get off X...it really gives you a skewed perspective

Elon Musk took over Twitter and turned it into the anti-woke, fascist-amplifying X. There’s been debate about whether to stay since he bought it. But seeing how it’s evolved and the recent Grok deepfake scandal, there’s no good argument to stay. I stopped posting there. You should too.

In 1979 "Practically overnight, consumer demand turned from gas-guzzling large cars - Detroit's specialty - to gas-sipping small cars, largely built by Japanese companies." www.autonews.com/article/2013...

saw the news that sony and honda scrapped their afeela ev, and thought of @papapishu.bsky.social trashing it in our conversation a couple months back

“It is not logical to enter such a process with parties that violate agreements.” Hard to argue with that logic.

“Southwest Airlines has issued a memo to employees, prohibiting the use of smart glasses or any wearable technology with recording capabilities during working hours.”

hopefully you can read and write and think and feel when chatbots go offline

Exactly. She has had a grotesque and proactive role.

ngl I like this pope

Dying empire embroiled in a quagmire of its own making attempts outlandish conquest to restore faith

finland was planning to move its election platform to amazon web services. after all the threats from the US and concern about how it will use tech dependence against europe, that plan is on ice.

curious if people have thoughts on clicks communicator vs titan 2 elite

apple planning to go big on ai right as the bubble bursts

thinking about all the dumbasses who seriously suggested people generating personalized versions of tv and movies was going to be an important part of the future of entertainment. these genAI tools are so expensive and so many have no real business case. this is just the beginning.

This has evolved into listening to radio news while I eat dinner officially entering my old lady era

I do not post or even open Twitter anymore for non-research purposes, but I kept my account so that no one can take my username and pretend to be me

I guess it's been over 2 years since I left? I wish more tech people had made the jump, but I'm not going back just for that. Nothing good can come from me seeing all that propaganda and slop day in, day out.

'It’s time to stop posting on X. There aren’t any good arguments left to stay on Elon Musk’s platform' Via @parismarx.com disconnect.blog/its-time-to-...

there was certainly a time where i would have been excited about this. i’m sure it will do massive numbers but i wish the series would flop.

I've said this before, but part of why I continue to be bleak on prospects of prompt war termination are because Iran has *very strong incentives* to continue pain infliction (against the US/Israel/GCC and the broader world) to deter a future war by credibly communicating the magnitude of costs.

The Catholic Church should be made to sell every property, every stick of furniture, and every g-d painting in the Vatican to compensate for this sordid criminality. I hope the victims get every dime of the $30m claim. www.thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...

FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this

I deleted all my tweets, kept my account to avoid impersonation. I do sort of wish I had made one last tweet when I left though, just so I knew the date I left that shithole behind. My last comment in our main group chat was November 2024 so it would have been shortly after that.

Left the other place 12+ months ago and don’t miss a thing. Wish more of my old follows took a principled stand against what Musk chooses the platform to support and stand for.

I loved using Twitter. Had lots of fun, promoted my store and my blog, interacted with friends new and old, even got a book deal. Now it's an ugly mess, with an uglier mess in charge.

I don't need to make an argument as to why you should leave that Nazi site. If you haven't already been convinced, then no moralizing will ever reach you. What I will say is I was shocked at just how quickly I rebuilt the same size following on Bluesky and how my posts reach more people.

Following my reporting here I've learned NYCHH will not renew Palantir's contract when it expires in the fall.

I should have left earlier, but when Orange fuck face won a 2nd time I left so fast. Fuck twitter/X and FUCK ELON MUSK.