pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

“We have been following the slow growth in revenues for generative AI over the last few years, and the revenues are neither big enough to support the number of layoffs attributed to AI, nor to justify the capital expenditures on AI cloud infrastructure” www.fastcompany.com/91435192/cha...

Pretty much exactly where I thought I’d be at almost 30 years old, sitting in a workshop watching Mythbusters and waiting for my open studio guests to arrive 😊

How did this story get ZERO national coverage?

My therapist said he’d been reading Ed Zitron and I told him an intervention is now scheduled for the first 15 minutes of our next session (and recommended he familiarize himself with a more intellectually-curious class of AI critics like @parismarx.com and @timnitgebru.bsky.social)

There’s a feral cat convention happening outside my workshop, they meet here literally every day around noon I swear 😂

It’s seriously insane to have a comment section full of irony posters who can’t tell this is synthetic text, I thought ya’ll saw ChatGPT everywhere

This was entirely LLM generated and it’s obvious: (0) emdash (1) a list that’s too long and symmetrical (2) sentence structure and tone that doesn’t vary at all (3) discordant combo of meme and academic vocab (soy-faced vs torpor) (4) zero emotional pacing: it’s angry but…weirdly smooth?

That’s because he used LLMs to write this.

TRUMP: And for the sharp narrow ledge around the extremely deep bathtub? What do you think we should use for that? SLIP-AND-FALL ATTORNEY PRETENDING TO BE AN INTERIOR DESIGNER: Oh marble for sure man

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

If you’re in Brooklyn and want to come make stuff and watch Mythbusters, I’m hosting a craft night next Tuesday: luma.com/f9ebstd5

I think this VC newsletter that showed up in my inbox today sums up their attitudes pretty well. They know they are inflating a bubble!

Watering the demolition to try and tamp down the lead and asbestos dust because they didn’t follow the correct abatement protocol

I hope Mamdani makes Curtis Sliwa rat czar so he can unleash his feral cat plan and do photo-ops with his 17 cats

Hope this precludes any future Nathan Fielder projects and we just get double the Tim Robinson but I don’t think we’ll get so lucky

How did I miss the US President opining about going to hell

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got - scam machine - psychosis inducing machine - weapons of mass destruction - button you push that makes the planet hotter - markets that intentionally starve people - clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time - medicine you can’t afford

Think of what his information diet has looked like

Any reason you’re not posting this fucking insane clip everywhere?

all the people doing weepy statements and performative bullshit for a dead nazi might as well just put out a press release saying “please don’t kill me”

If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares. www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some...

This genuinely looks like once of those realistic masks

Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

You have a dog brain if you're falling for Gavin Newsom 's schtick

[universal feature of every API product that has ever existed] are a bad sign. I cackled

Trump is about to let private equity billionaires loot 70 million Americans’ 401k accounts. This could be history’s largest wealth transfer from workers to billionaires. And it will barely be one day of headlines. www.levernews.com/your-401-k-i...

Every sentence under Personal Life on RFK Jr’s Wikipedia is crazier than the last and I feel like there’s no way we’ve talked enough about that

Elon claiming the Big Balls carjacking happened with more than the number of people that could fit in a car (12) is hysterical. Yes, they steal your car and then leave 8 guys behind. Very smart sir.

There should be a wealth cap at enough for a comfortable retirement. If I gave a specific number, you'd haggle with me, but $N million for some single digit N. No one needs more than that. It doesn't incentivize any useful behavior to let people accumulate more power than that.

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

“I think I’m going to run for office” - my grandfather with advanced dementia, still with exceptional comedic timing

How did we get an entire corporate and political world full of scumbags and bastards, all we did was incentivize that behavior at every turn

what is it about the male psyche that makes it believe it has discovered god in the computer

We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. ~ Carl Sagan

The actual public service chatgpt provides is in demonstrating the effect of never hearing the word no on the human psyche, it has made billionaire brain pudding a condition accessible to everyone irrespective of net worth

Ah yes, this Greg Gutfelt

I've spent a lot of time thinking about this fascinating exchange Colbert had with Dua Lipa, when she asked him about the role his faith plays in his comedy.

The thing about the Epstein disgustingness that strikes me hardest is that hundreds of rich old men raped underage girls and the only person currently in jail for that vile behavior is a woman.

THIS IS NOT NORMAL: Flood after flood. City after city. Now it’s Plainfield, NJ. And still, this country refuses to treat climate change like the emergency it is. They’re choosing collapse.

Oooh your chatbot is becoming sentient and may pose a threat to humanity? Should we throw a party? Should we invite all your most gullible investors?

Big Money turning to fascism not because they needed protection from socialism but because they were bored and poisoned their brains with social media is the story of this century I think

Mythbusters in Physics class

Tech billionaires are turning the world on its head. We must challenge their power, but we also need to be clear that the individuals aren’t the sole problem. There are structural forces at play that would pressure anyone in their position to do much the same. They must be dismantled.

I think we’ve got some mafia style politics happening behind the scenes - this Republican showing up after expressing concerns about the BBB to vote yes with no further comment and two messed up hands…and choosing to smoke a cigar so they are visible to the camera…