Never forget the all-time greatest placeholder asset, from Doom 64

Newgrounds' approach to verifying age is interesting and transparent.

NYT is mostly a game company now; anti-trans right wing op-eds are hooks to grow their app business

I do truly believe that LLMs will eventually be viewed as akin to radioactive matter: indispensable and groundbreaking for very narrow specific purposes, and otherwise extremely toxic and harmful to anyone who isn’t a specialist taking appropriate safety precautions.

AI is sold as a cool trick that can help you fool others into thinking you actually worked on something, but in effect distrust becomes more ubiquitous and "proof of work" becomes part of all work, making it all that more laborious and inefficient www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/s...

There are whole movies that don’t have the twists and turns of this paragraph.

This Boer/Grok fiasco is funny, but it previews how AI chatbots will be used more subtly to manipulate public opinion. They present decontextualized authority: unsourced, unauthored, always confident. And we are being trained to trust them as objective or as the Wisdom of Crowds.