📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

The semantic creep in the use of the word “aesthetic” will never be acceptable to me. Condemn me for my uncharacteristic display of prescriptivism if you must, but I care not! The word does not mean “appealing”!

Sharing a gift link to this because I know when I was caretaking my mom every ounce of validation that I was doing something emotionally, physically, professionally and financially impossible helped me feel less alone

Is Lib Hysteria Over “Climate Change” Contributing to the Male Loneliness Epidemic

Just overheard a woman on the sidewalk breaking up with her boyfriend, all “You know what Steven, I don’t like you when it’s 80 degrees on a bottomless mimosa day. And I definitely don’t like you when I’m sober and it feels like 113.”

friend at a big tech co just told me that her company's chatbot and their client's chatbot have been caught in a mutual support loop for several days that has generated nearly 20k emails

Absolutely brutal thread. "A.i." in education is a fucking plague and anyone who pushes it on professors and students is betraying education itself. An act of abuse and betrayal to push this fucking cheating, lying, bullshit machine on anyone, ESPECIALLY in an educational environment.

WE DON’T NEED A FUCKING TREATMENT WE HAVE A VACCINE THAT IS 97% EFFECTIVE AND COULD ERADICATE THE DISEASE IF WE DIDN’T HAVE ANTIVAX GRIFTERS LEADING US 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...

My kingdom for a tech ecosystem that will stop smothering me with apps and devices that constantly try to engage me in conversation against my will

Between 2021 and 2024, USAID is estimated to have saved 91 million lives. Before it shut down, the agency accounted for less than 1% of federal spending. The collapse may have already caused 762,000 preventable deaths and could lead to more than nine million preventable deaths by 2030, study says.

Tipper Gore thought she heard Satan speaking in Judas Priest records and it was an emergency, but the computer that has literally convinced teens to kill themselves and others? Put that in the schools, baby!

who could possibly have guessed

today in ‘water is wet’

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

The crime. The criminal.

No big deal just a solar eclipse as seen from the moon streamed to us here on Earth by astronauts who are farther away from their home planet than any human has ever been

I have been watching so much of the #Artemis II livestream that I just said aloud to my friend "I'm going to have to enter my pre-sleep period soon"

“Copy Moon joy” #Artemis

Not a serious question. The reason to boycott the Harry Potter series is not just because of J.K. Rowling’s heinous views. Any money she makes from the show will be used to terrorize trans people. She has made this abundantly clear. This is not a theoretical.

“Rowling has made it abundantly clear that she thinks attacking transgender people via the legal system is a worthwhile cause and a good use of her vast personal fortune…there’s no way to watch this show without supporting Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting…”

Oh my god, the alt text is a gift. 😹

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

if you’re really invested in watching a tv show or not respecting a boycott or whatever you could just do those things and nobody would know. nothing is forcing you to go online and list the the reasons why you’re still a good person

quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...

Writing is thinking. Writing is a way of molding YOUR OWN thoughts. So when you hand over your "writing" to monstrous AI apps made by the most craven motherfuckers imaginable, you hand them the keys to YOUR head. AND you strip the work of writers. GRIND THESE APPS TO DUST.

Working from home proving more stressful than I feel is necessary

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

My favorite show, aka "Well to solve this problem we might just have to throw the best ball this town* has ever seen!" *Ton

this is so shitty and senseless and awful

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

PRESENT ME: man I wish I had a delicious snack right about now like cake or something PAST ME: I’ve got you covered look I made all these lentils

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

much like Wicked, Avatars are simply none of my business

A gentle reminder—turkeys out of the freezer and into the fridge today.

Wife: What’s Shiv Roy’s poor husband’s name? Me: Fitzwilliam Darcy. Miserable he may be, but poor he most certainly is not. 10,000 pounds a year and he owns half of Derbyshire. Wife: Babe. Please. It’s for work. Me: Ugh blah fine, Tom Wambsgans.

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

how happy we’d all be if this was all the internet was for

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

I know it’s not technically polite, but I love having a conversation with other people who are comfortable with short interjecting interruptions. To me it makes the conversation feel more like something we’re weaving together rather than alternating individual presentations. It feels more alive.

On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote. zohranfornyc.com/register

dunno who needs to hear this but

Fuck RFK jr and fuck this administration

Here’s the link to file claims in the Anthropic case: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

My best, most perfect, most beautiful, most wonderful boy in the whole world, Gus, passed away July 1 after his cancer returned sooner than I hoped. I was and am filled with grief beyond words. How dare such a small creature leave such a chasm in the world.