thinking about my grandfather, who would have turned 100 this week -- he fought brutally against nazis in WW2 and would have been apoplectic to see the encroachment of fascism here in america

remarkably bleak stuff

Scenes from the confluence of an AI bubble and crony capitalism: xAI is currently raising $10 billion at a valuation of $200 billion while the data annotation team is run by a college kid. Much prudent investment. Very wisdom of the market. futurism.com/elon-musk-co...

it seems like one of the things about the chatbots is that people think they are only letting it come up with better language when they are actually letting it come up with the thoughts--they're just not aware of how much it's filling in for them, or nudging them towards futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

i think this could actually be what kills the MCU

"Even Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as a 'Godfather of AI' — a technology that likely wouldn't exist in its current form without his contributions — recently conceded that his girlfriend had broken up with him using ChatGPT." futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

Extra points to the underrated people at @futurism.com foe pointing out this isn't cute oopsie 'hallucinations' - this is people actively designing a massive and shockingly effective lie machine

help my ai-generated wife is divorcing me

NEW: ChatGPT is causing chaos in marriages, as one spouse becomes deeply fixated on AI therapy/advice/spiritual wisdom — alienating the other spouse and, often, resulting in divorce. In some cases, ChatGPT-enmeshed spouses are using the tech to bully their partners. futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

i cant believe im saying this but we need a return to artisinal, hand-crafted spousal disagreements

Use ChatGPT for relationship advice at your peril.

"The loss is immense…it can be really hard to sort through my feelings to understand what is grief over the end of a marriage, shock from the Black Mirror episode that is my life, anger at Sam Altman, concern for my kids, traces of hope that maybe there's a way to help her, and profound loneliness"

I guarantee you are unprepared for this harrowing and deeply reported story about ChatGPT tearing apart countless marriages futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

When your best friend is out of town and you need someone to help you come up with passive aggressive things to say to your worthless layabout husband

Humanity will disappear if we let Silicon Valley embed this bullshit into our daily lives like they have the internet and smartphones and social media. Physically, we'll all be here. But spiritually, we won't understand ourselves as a shared species - or even as a group - anymore

Talking to ChatGPT about my wife, but just about how awesome she is.

I guarantee you are unprepared for this harrowing and deeply reported story about ChatGPT tearing apart countless marriages futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

NEW: A $2.8 million startup has somehow managed to make AI job interviews even worse. Read to the end for one of the most infuriating kickers I can recall! futurism.com/job-applicat...

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

throws a lot of cold water on the bullshit peddled by the whole austin comedy scene, which has constructed an identity around the idea that the election freed up comics to say whatever they want without fear of cancellation

incredible stuff

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

NEW: A $2.8 million startup has somehow managed to make AI job interviews even worse. Read to the end for one of the most infuriating kickers I can recall! futurism.com/job-applicat...

we're truly in the age of AI-powered dehumanization, by @joeonhere.bsky.social futurism.com/job-applicat...

opportunity beckons

Happening today: futurism.com/parents-test...

maybe i'm just old-fashioned but this sort of thing feels strange when someone died before it was a technological possibility they needed to grapple with futurism.com/startup-ai-w...

i have this hunch that after Trump, it'll suddenly be incredibly hard to find anyone who admits they were ever a fan, like George W Bush

We will defeat the robots by asking them to produce a seahorse emoji futurism.com/chatgpt-hayw...

i'm not saying bluesky is glitchy, but when i go to make a new skeet it asks me if i'm posting in german and the only answer is "yes"

saw an outrageous creature on my walk today

i've never been a huge jazz guy, but i've been absolutely hooked on old videos of Oscar Peterson lately... dazzling musician

mainstream media not exactly knocking it out of the park with this one

sources say that my haters are stinky

this isn't a rigorous analysis but i kinda feel like if there's a throughline in political violence lately it's not "left" or "right" but "inscrutable terminally online weirdo"

look i'm not trying to be a hater but i thought "the paper" was a nauseating failure of a show

idle observation: this manhunt is making it look like Kash Patel is way, way out of his depth

you all right babe? you've barely worn your frocs

NEW: Bitcoin ATMs are facilitating scams across the country. In Idaho, where there are no laws regulating the machines, I spoke to store clerks who have been stopping scams as a last line of defense. www.inc.com/sam-blum/cry...

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok AI has been spreading ludicrous misinformation in the wake of Charlie Kirk's shooting, saying he's alive and well and that video of the event is fake -- a perfect example of how AI is nowhere near ready to handle breaking news futurism.com/elon-musk-gr...

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok AI has been spreading ludicrous misinformation in the wake of Charlie Kirk's shooting, saying he's alive and well and that video of the event is fake -- a perfect example of how AI is nowhere near ready to handle breaking news futurism.com/elon-musk-gr...

how'd that turn out? futurism.com/six-months-a...

how'd that turn out? futurism.com/six-months-a...

The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

Once again thinking about Macaulay Culkin walking into the Parisian café where the wifi password was “Macaulay Culkin” and the owner saying “I knew you’d come here someday”

waiting for trump to evolve his excuse for the epstein letter into "i was a democrat at the time"

UPDATE: In the lawsuit, three senior FBI officials fired by Kash Patel say Patel informed them that he was instructed to "fire anyone" who worked on any investigation related to Trump. And said his own job depended on carrying out the firings. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

we're living in The Onion futurism.com/godfather-ai...