Everything’s a conspiracy if you don’t understand how anything works.

Desperately hoping more ppl move their work away from Substack. Your brilliant work doesn’t deserve to be overshadowed by the environment that Substack has cultivated.

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Trevor Project released its annual LGBTQ youth mental health report. The results are shocking. 40% of trans youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. Trans youth who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could.

And another thing: this framing sets up the position that if you always need them, it’s a personal failing on your part. They’re puritanical moralising brain chemistry.

I want cis Americans to sit uncomfortably with the fact that most of these restrictions were ushered in through the liberal act of "just asking questions" about trans people.

This alone should tell you how much they have no idea how LLMs work. Hilarious the “do not hallucinate” with “generate your own” numbers. Like next level funny. A psychologist would have a field day reading this, especially as this person said he has no introspection 😂

All major apps should have implemented by now the OS (ie iOS) age detection API and stop asking to submit stupid photos to third parties. Come on. Looking at you Reddit.

One of the — secondary but relevant — things that this movement has shown is how community support makes people safer than a small group of armed fellas going around. This should be a reminder for the after times, once all of this is (again) put behind.

"On Polymarket, the Journal found, 67% of profits go to just 0.1% of accounts. That means less than 2,000 accounts netted a total of nearly half a billion dollars."

I’ve seen a viral image going around putting on the same level prostitutes and pedos. Hell. No. I guess well done for leveraging the viral effect of people telling to fuck off shaming sex workers and people agreeing pedos are bad. Horrible strategy tho.

I think the kitty wants something… #kitty #cat #loud #scream #noms #comic

I just found out I’m two degrees of separation with someone reaching first stages of AI psychosis. (2 = person I know knows…) Yikes.

You wanna know something really wild? E-bikes are already displacing more emissions from autos than electric cars. Wild! Break free from the uncertainty and cost of gas prices - buy an e-bike! www.cbc.ca/news/climate...

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

They are the only AI company ready when the bubble goes to shit I guess? XD

Stop telling people to just research when avenues for learning and doing research are being destroyed . If you don’t have a pedagogy for what good research looks like you’re sending them into indoctrination And no someone’s credentials don’t equal good work that’swhy there is( was) peer review

Ok this was a new learning: on Malaysia Airlines apparently “vegetarian” isn’t one of the food options but something to request in advance 😅 On the plus side the cabin staff has been great.

Glad to see that the fine against Sussex University regarding Kathleen Stock has been overturned. Stock separately campaigned for neo-Nazi "bullies" Nina Power and Daniel Miller in their failed High Court action to suppress my freedom of speech. Beyond contempt.

France plans to ditch all fossil fuels by 2050. “France announced a ‘first of its kind’ plan to phase out coal by 2030, oil by 2045 & gas by 2050…The roadmap was published as dozens of nations gather for the first-ever international talks on how to transition away from planet-heating fossil fuels.”

When is this bullshit going to end. When is the world going to be ashamed of mainstreaming genocide denial.

As if it has ever been about having evidence…

please make way on the timeline, cattle coming through

Another “catastrophic failure” of an LLM let run without sandbox in a machine that has delete access to production. People keep giving too much agency to agents (ironic I know) without sandboxes. (My apologies for linking a Xitter source) x.com/lifeof_jer/s...

Befriending a witch is fun! #art #cat #witch #broom #sky #fun

LLMs enable rigorous text WHAT now?!?! Temperature = 0 would like a word…

I feel this episode was good but the script was a bit rushed. I suspend authored by AI. I imagine the next episodes will be explainer ones. Not sure about the choice of another event like this during this season tho, unless the authors are planning an escalation?

I keep thinking how hard it is to tell *community* stories not hero stories. …then thinking maybe it’s difficult because we aren’t used to them…

Caitlyn never thought…🐆

Another framing: lack of regulation in USA and China led to individual companies concentrate excessive power and expand worldwide unchecked wrecking the world. Why do they think the EU process has bern about creating and expanding the unified market? (Aside: Brexit was also a hit to the EU power).

'Better for more young trans people to die than us admit our policy choices are killing them": this now seems to be Labour's position. I'm sorry we have to write about this stuff. But unless we do, nothing will change. CW: suicide.

Fantastic thread. Very much agreed. I’d also add: the USA had a myth of innovation and (briefly) immigration policies that attracted talent. That alone is HUGE. They hoovered up most of world talent. Now? Talent is scared of USA. It won’t take a day, but it’s a tide hard to turn.

Every time that someone I read pointed out “taxing the rich won’t meaningfully change things, see this analysis” the analysis is always some marginally thin slice of “rich”. It’s like people want to tax 2% and the analysis taxes 0.0000001% of them. Uhhh. We are not talking about the same thing.

If they keep doing the Torment Nexus, then they can’t be surprised that also the Butlerian Jihad comes to life.

This is also where lots of countries are headed towards woh constant cuts and the slow drift to privatization.

The use cases for LLMs are getting clearer, and one of the patterns is spawning sub-agents for specialized tasks… …at which point they will start realizing it won’t need a massive expensive model then to do things?

I may as well reshare it myself 😇

Inside Palantir, people are finally waking up to the fact that they might actually be the bad guys Great reporting once again from @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/palant...

I took a few Tesla taxis recently and… urgh yeah. Not just frustrating, but also every time the driver said before I even moved to get out “Press the button”… which means it happens all the time and they are used to people being stuck.

Thanks for waiting! #art #illustration #sunset #bird #snail

I wrote about why design keeps failing to gain autonomy, and why AI is accelerating the same trap. The answer has nothing to do with better frameworks or leverage skills but with the structure of the system designers are trying to (and ultimately always fail to) influence.

The undertaker seems to imply the existence of the much more dangerous undergiver.

Harassing has so little long-term effect: "We found that 76% of the men we reviewed are professionally active, 41% are in the same or an elevated role since the allegations were made public" I'm glad someone is keeping track so industries hold people accountable sfstandard.com/2026/04/20/7...

This is so incoherent that it only makes sense as a billionaires reactionary brain farts. Eg: public employees are not “priests” and are over compensated. Reality: they are underpaid and have been serially abused. Next point, people engaging in public life (read: DOGE, Palantir) deserve our grace.

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This thread is amazing, full of creative humans helping someone be creative by offering dozens of beautiful, practical variants on "you've got this! Let yourself mess around & fail! Do something else! It's all good."

Neat little technofascist manifesto. What could possibly go wrong granting a company access to militaries and police forces around the world that talks of "regressive" cultures and reclaiming national values, the need for militarization and a new age of AI weapons that they will bring about.

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.

…you sure? Sure sure? #crow #shiny #found #sus

They moulded the clay child into a worker, with data-filled eyes and a mouth full of brands.