"80% of the time" bafflingly misleading way to frame the use of AI IN AN EXPERIMENTAL TASK where people were explicitly given this as an option, not some kind of observation across all their waking lives.

As someone who always keeps up on anything to do with space, how the hell did I just totally miss the Artemis II launch?? I didn't know it was happening until today lmfao

Gonna start an AI search startup called "Browse On Fleek"

Wow, there really is nothing like being properly medicated for ADHD - instead of wanting to bury my head in the sand 24/7 and think about 50 things at once, I'm feeling actively propelled to do what I need to do, as if someone is physically pushing me from behind onto a moving sidewalk

I wonder how long it'll be before people want to abolish used bookstores... hell, maybe I'll make a performance art piece where I demand money to make some art, and then refuse to show it to anyone because they'd be mentally stealing it if I did

saw someone respond to an LLM trained on Victorian-era writings with "by trained you mean stolen?" some people are negatively polarizing themselves into intellectual property stances that would make Disney's lawyers blush

The horse is trying bring up the ancient two-spirit discourse from Twitter again

For anyone who follows me for Professional Music Takes, have this fun fact of the day: It has been scientifically proven that the best song ever written is Black Cow by Steely Dan

Among other under-discussed reasons why AI hatred is a thing, one that you'll often see people admit out loud is that they dearly missed bullying computer nerds, and this gives them a great permission structure/high horse to do that even as they now find themselves addicted to using tech as adults

Prison TVs with the plastic shells are like this, and honestly they're super fascinating to look at, especially the CRTs

This is unironically the impression of Claude's personality that its users have given me, like that guy is NOT doing alright

I love how we're still doing "LLMs are just a database of existing text" as well as "code must be beautiful and original, an inspiration straight from the divine spark that must never be copied"

Oh no, she said the obvious thing out loud…

I've been thinking about this - oil doesn't just teleport out of the Strait, so it is really going to be something when the U.S. just completely loses these imports and we get to watch gas hit a $10 average

Do these people think that they're diverting entire rivers, filling them with pesticides, and then releasing them back as a sludge... in DATA CENTERS? Also, oh no! I might have to see posts from people I don't follow? That's bullshit, social media shouldn't social - I just want my bullying clique

Doing it now so that my timeline clears up forever 🙏

Having met a lot of these people myself, I can confirm that the Wozes of the world are honestly a lot more common than you'd know - for every Jack Tramiel making weird and bad decisions, there's a Bil Herd who's super kind and is actually responsible for all of the tech they sell

I need to read more about that era, because what exactly was this guy's hold on people?? I know cool progressive people today who had thought he was obviously mountains better than Mondale back then, and of course he somehow won virtually the entire country in a landslide

So what you'd need to do: ✅ Going 550 km into hostile territory. ✅ Excavate a tunnel entrance ✅ Locate the Uranium ✅ Transport it over ground to an extraction point. ✅ Somehow flying a REALLY BIG plane in MULTIPLE TIMES to ship it out. You can see why the WSJ reported it could take a week.

Unrelated, but I've been so bewitched by the awful idea of going to a state that allows personal whiskey stills and making some experimental nightmare crap like seeding lawn grass whiskey, just to see what absurd flavors I could achieve

There was basically no freedom of speech under the 1st Amendment until 1925. In Barron v. Baltimore (1833), Chief Justice John Marshall wrote that “Congress shall make no law” in 1A meant only Congress. States prohibited & banned speech, practiced religious discrimination, etc. until Gitlow v. NY.

Genuinely curious how much energy that would take. Has to be at least one nuke right

I think the replies to this have officially obliterated my remaining faith in humanity... how the fuck do you even fall for this tabloid-level crap

This is super funny because if this post was written by AI it wouldn't have made a headline with this level of mistake

I am going to be a diehard Pizzaballa booster the minute we have another conclave

I was thinking recently about how part of that awful "slick modern Hollywood" look is thanks to costumes being completely fresh and not lived-in, so it just rips you right out of the immersion Anyway, Harry's robe looks like an $8 polyester hoodie from Temu

The NYT says today’s #NoKings protests had “no shortage of skeptics,” and then quoted exactly one of those skeptics: The chairman of the Ole Miss College Republicans (as of 2025.) But of course, the Times doesn’t ID him as such. He’s just a Concerned Youth.

Noise music, fully electronic/algorithmic music, atonal music, and even literal silence are all uncontroversially regarded as obviously being music by people who have degrees researching this stuff - but man, even laypeople who respect the avant-garde in other fields struggle to accept it in music

Just you wait - from 2027-2033, we're gonna have to hear nonstop bullshit about how liberals and the DNC decided to elect Platner, and the left were totally opposing him in 2026

Seeing the MyPillow guy jumpscared the hell out of me, I haven't thought about him since 2022 and I thought he was in prison lmao

New theory: Platner is getting GOP donor money to win the primary and ensure that either Collins or an even worse Republican (him) will win in a guaranteed blue wave year

Like I was saying yesterday, this is most of Left Twitter/Bluesky lmao

Today's ridiculous idea: ban in-person voting so that everyone is forced to vote by mail, which will weed out all but the most serious voters and destroy the Trump coalition overnight

I asked Opus 4.6 in Claude Code to build me Borges's Library of Babel. An hour later it delivered this. The AI implemented a Feistel cipher so each possible book has a single real location, you can search for text across the Library & find the book. Enter it: library-of-babel-3d.netlify.app

Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.” That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...

Not only does the business side of it make no sense, but also... I'm sorry, but the vast, vast majority of indie games just cannot touch the quality of major studio works! They can be good, but for every Undertale, there are literally millions of awful Godot platformers that cost money to play

I have a theory that much of the fascist/extremist backslide boils down to the simple fact that name recognition is king/all press is good press, and the Internet incentivizes us to only talk about the worst, nastiest people doing the worst shit all the time, even if we do so as criticism

Once in a blue moon, Reddit can still make me laugh

I think the one thing that can finally crack Trump's base of support is a Cuban missile annihilating Cinderella's Castle in Orlando

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If Platner had said all of these things as an ex-cop instead of a veteran, he'd be polling at 0%

"Mr. Buria [Hegseth's chief of staff] told Mr. Driscoll [Secretary of the Army] that President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events, the officials said." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

Need I remind people that voting this guy into the Senate also makes him a prime PRESIDENTIAL candidate... boy wouldn't that just be excellent...

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

Liberalism is a murderous ideology being pinkwashed by men on the internet, I say with a hammer and sickle in my name

liberal's must match fascist resolve - but i don't think we can, or should, mirror their *style* of politics macho, dominance orientated, ironic, endlessly insincere - that isn't us www.liberalcurrents.com/cringe-is-go...

It's funny because both Sam Altman and the Butlerian Jihad people would have arrived at this same conclusion through equally ridiculous and undeserved means of validation for their ideas

fending off the fanfic masses with a worn hardcover edition of Finnegan's Wake, like garlic before vampires

It's almost like the U.S. is a country designed to be fundamentally different from the British Empire of the 18th century as a place where protest can and does change things! You see, the aim of the Revolutionary War was to instill this newfangled thing you probably don't know called "democracy"...