I’m receiving an increasing number of messages from some of you who are concerned about me. Please don’t be. I’m not going to stop speaking out. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/please-dont-worry-about-me

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

for all the promise of ai it comes with a lot of slop being forced upon people and wasting everyone’s time simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/...

joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this

Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more

at safeway on christmas day and these are the times i am filled with wonder at capitalism and american supermarket abundance

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

i have a new level of loathing for vcs for not only ghost you after a pitch but also still add you to their newsletter so you get all their marketing shit. unprofessional cowards

what is the secret to getting candle wax out of the menorah every night

he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post

where is the bluesky commentary on this vanity fair photoshoot genius

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Here are a few reasons off the top of my head why creators don’t LOVE AI: 1. It has been used to create videos of them saying inappropriate things 2. It has been used to sexually harass them 3. It has been used to scam their fans 4. It directly competes with their business and devalues their work

Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health. The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information. They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift. Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr

Wow. This is an absolutely terrifying read. We now live in an age when a single company can, through what appears to be plain old bureaucracy, can more or less brick your entire digital life.

honestly i'd be ok if they banned users over 16 from social media too! we can all go touch grass

*screams* www.instagram.com/reel/DRd2ldW...

This is fascinating, as an example of where an AI tool, used properly and carefully, can help people understand things. This is why I get annoyed at the people who insist that there are no positive uses of AI tools. Yes, many use it poorly. But used well, it can be very useful.

i am a top 0.1% user on strava in lifetime activities 👀

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ “The pita bread was warm and toasty, unlike my ex wife’s heart.”

my granola crunched is hysterical but it is 100% unshareable lol

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

incredible writing

cookie monster and big bird??

slapping `reddit -ai` to the end of everything i type into the world’s most popular search engine, the tech industry is fine and cannot possibly be improved

the breakdown of sources for jaggedness is a good framework for thinking about jobs that won’t be automated away by ai in the near future

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

so painfully sf (spotted in noe valley)

truth hurts

none of this is news but wow does america hate working mothers

This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...

what should i do with my newfound blue check glory

a former colleague put some of our team's critical systems on airtable and now it's too much work to migrate off but i seriously hate airtable every time i use it 😭

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For the first time ever, I had to make a payment in crypto. I can now confidently say that crypto payments combine the speed of a dial up modem and the ease of updating the drivers on a 1998 HP Laserjet printer.

Larry Summers is on the board of OpenAI

We'd have less fascism if more guys got knocked the fuck out early in life for stuff like this until they dropped the habit

Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done

Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.

The Harvard Crimson has ID'ed and published the name of a well-known economist who was the subject of emails between Larry Summers and Epstein. Born in China, she did her B.A. – Ph.D. at Harvard. The code name that Summers and Epstein used in their emails about her was "peril." What a vile pig.

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

why does nobody have any frickin ability to follow through on things anymore

Against my own instincts I am turning into a pretty unashamed credentialist. We've become so enamored of the Hollywood narrative where the scrappy outsider proves all the established experts wrong that we lose sight of how rare it is in reality, and how HUGELY damaging it is to treat as probable.

i don’t remember dealing with mosquitos in sf or london before but they have been such an issue this year! what the heck. even today i got another mosquito bite (in sf)

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...