This feels true even in my own small-scale work with AI: "If you cannot describe what the human did, with examples, you do not understand the job well enough to automate it."

If Anthropic holds out over the White House, I'm immediately switching over from OpenAI.

Have I aged out of irony and postmodern ambiguity because I’m not sure what I’m supposed to take away from the WealthSimple commercials.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Frantically deleting all the Dodgers podcasts I gleefully listened to after a Jays win.

I’m a life long Blue Jays fan but is it okay if I go to bed?

One of my failures as a dad was not driving home that cereal with milk is a delicious and filling snack. It just didn't take.

"But then I won't be watching TV. You can see the bind I'm in."

companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box

The current situation perfectly articulated

Looking over the Epstein book messages, I'm struck by how comfortable everyone was with compiling something like this, contributing to it, and receiving it. Something most people with common sense would avoid like the plague. But the super-rich and powerful know how insulated they are.

Who ever remembers they have a moon roof?

I wonder how often AI is being used to form opinions about itself.

Nice evening planned in the country house, watching some TV with a loaded squirrel trap a few feet away.

My teaching gig is officially over for another year, but I still can't bring myself to close all the school's admin browser tabs just yet, because I know someone will want something as soon as I do.

One month ago…

There is no way Trump and his co-conspirators aren't making boatloads of money off their blatant market manipulation.

Canada should be doing a full recruitment blitz to bring in all the fired American scientists, educators, health care workers, business people, and anyone else who wants to come and ensure they have places to live and things to do.

I assume (knocking on wood) that I'll outlive Trump and Putin, but a new life goal is to outlive Musk.

They will take over TikTok and dominate almost all the (dis)information spaces.

The brains of Twitter and Meta users are about to be turned into absolute mush (even more than currently)by the US government

The first experience of being in a Tesla with that giant video screen and constant visual noise made me a little depressed.

A quick survey of my college-age students reveals that none use Facebook but are all nearly obsessed with Instagram.

There's nothing I can do to stop the broligarchy from happening, but at least I don't have to witness the takeover in real time.

I am in the process of moving everything I liked about Twitter at one time to this space instead.