I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

GALADRIEL (selectively editing the backstory): and three rings were given to the elves, who were barely involved

i think left-liberals sometimes have a hard time seeing what's going on here because "capitalism" has come be a substitute word for all social ills. but american media consolidation is a nascent planned economy.

Thanks to @markusoff.bsky.social and CBC for having me on Front Burner to talk about sensitive and important issues around ChatGPT + Tumbler Ridge, AI safety, and self-regulation: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...

"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot" HELL. YES.

"could ai do this?" [tries to do an elaborate stunt and eats complete sh*t on the sidewalk]

Bleak and cool: I wrote about a new open-source app that detects smart glasses peeping nearby. Still early days, but it's a fascinating look at the kind of grassroots resistance emerging against Big Tech's growing monopoly over public space.

I'm not kidding about this. I know more about the Scream films than anyone else on the face of this planet. Read it! www.undertheradarmag.com/blog/save_yo...

questions abound

just spitballing but some of it might have something to do with 15 years of sociopathic behavior culminating in the enthusiastic embrace of violent fascism

why do peter thiel's veins look like they're trying to escape his body

they're saying his credibility can get no higher

Characters from The Sims, BloodRayne, Mortal Kombat, SSX, Sonic Heroes, SpongeBob, Crash Bandicoot, Tomb Raider, Unreal Tournament, Splinter Cell, Tony Hawk's Underground, more as featured in non-partisan voting PSA "Stand and Choose" by VG Unity (2004)

I've been woimpilled It's time for some woimposting

there are times when all you can do is lol futurism.com/artificial-i...

A Knight of the Five Boroughs

"I love struggling actually. It makes me feel alive." -Alysa Liu Get out there and start falling on your ass!

It’s great (derogatory) that you can work very hard to find out something incredibly important, and the main response you will get is a derisive “Gee, I’m shocked.” Somebody has to ACTUALLY DO THIS WORK! You can’t pursue justice by going “Your honor: I mean, duh.”

Law knowers, is it a good sign for their client when the defense attorneys are already trying to build a mistrial narrative in the public square, before jury selection is even done?

if prohibition taught us one thing, it's that people will simply brew their own hosses in the bathtub

the fact that telling people that a cool new product is going to kill them in a nuclear armageddon has a positive effect has got to be one of the wildest marketing case studies of all time

Watching Delicious in Dungeon with the kids and we’re talking about ai and cognitive death.

clown world

Soon after we approached Temu for a comment on the dozens of peptide-ish products it had for sale, listings featuring glass vials and syringes started disappearing from the site. My latest👇

me when a franchise i used to love starts cranking out garbage tier content

It's so cool that the fbi is basically the make a wish foundation for one podcaster

hi it's me the guy who's wrong about everything. here's my new 3,000 word substack post

made cornmeal waffles with blueberry compote

pioneering a new type of martini that's 100 percent olive brine

whenever i'm watching something and there's a pregnancy test scene, i sigh dramatically and say "ah, she has COVID"

> all day everybody talks about will stancil > every article is about will stancil > every news channel talking about will stancil > yearn for the oblivion of sleep > dream of will stancil

star trek captain describing drama on a new planet

it sucks to see the Times of India, which is almost 200 years old and at one time was one of the largest english-language newspapers in the world, devolve into publishing borderline incomprehensible plagiarized AI slop

"yeah, i'm on a list" hits different on bluesky vs real life

That Atlantic measles story was so poorly/deceptively edited that even the site's own flack thought it portrayed the actual account of a suffering, soon-to-die little boy. Via @laurahazardowen.bsky.social www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...

[monkey's paw curls]

admittedly kinda funny that trump nominated like half the supreme court and they still keep KO'ing his ass on the pavement

jobs that make money now: gambler, professional lie creator jobs that don’t make money: healthcare worker, educator

It's wild so many of arguments from AIs' actual boosters is "It's going to ruin everything. Really, it's going to fuck stuff up so bad. It's incredible"

looking top form sir

La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Made a video (!) about my story on chatbots reinforcing user fixations on other real people, and how that reinforcement can lead to real-world harm:

it's wild that Intuit remains the de facto titan of consumer finance while its decades-long message to its users has been "please die"

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

the funny thing is that this could 100 percent be a real famous pro wrestler finessing random fans for cash

i have no mouth and yet i must lmao

The fundamental scam of AI *even if* it is entirely successful is that a vibe coder doing the work of ten people will by no means be paid ten times the salary

"In some cases, our reporting found, ChatGPT continued to stoke users’ obsessions as they descended into unwanted harassment, abusive stalking behavior, or domestic abuse, traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives."