They call him The Boss for a reason

Excellent thread that I would have titled "Car Insurance Is The Best Reason to Get Rid of Your Car, If You Can"

Another AI-generated fantasy for a barely coherent mind.

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

I’ve encountered quite a few situations over the years where companies digitized an analog process based on process models only to find they overlooked most of what makes the process functional. Contextual inquiry is still such a rare art but it is the cure for this particular malady.

"Unlike the metaverse, Web3, NFTs, and blockchain, 'AI' justifies the investment made in it" versus "Nope, it surely does not"

Nothing like a rock from space exploding somewhere in one's near vicinity to remind us that the universe has a lot of stuff going on.

We had some sort of giant explosion in the Boston area. A sudden pressure wave, hit and gone in a split second. A bunch of my Cambridge neighbors out on the streets trying to figure out what it was.

It's amazing to me that politics boils to down "we should care for each other" versus "you can all get fucked, you get nothing".

Just once I'd like a Democratic governor to send the state police in to protect protesters rather than join in with ICE.

*and another thing* let’s assume this is correct, everyone just decides “fuck LA, i am moving to fargo, they have a major airport now”, and fargo somehow builds it out — do they think, in this farcical scenario, those states stay blood red?

No, they're just not going to fly. No one's looking to swap NYC for whatever "red state" city you can name if that's not already where they were going.

I am proposing the "don't talk or write about 'AI' challenge". The amount of discourse on this topic is exhausting. You love it, you hate it, it's going to change everything, it's just a tool, you use it for this thing, you'd never use it for that thing. Great. I don't need to hear about it.

*SNIKT!*

The tastiest meals are those you're force-fed, right? @doctorow.pluralistic.net deftly illustrates how the current desire to push "AI" is very different from the pull created by the early Web.

The answer is always "how many days until the market closes for the weekend"

You'd think it would be easy to oppose this sort of corruption and yet here we are. The Democrats are definitively not an opposition party.

Pump, dump, repeat

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

Of course these freaks try To make this out to be some weird issue with about male virility and wanting women to be baby factories and nothing more. Every move they make is creepy as fuck.

Another Monday morning in the Enshittified Future.

BREAKING: puppy!

It is the funniest thing in the world to see someone write a "serious" think piece on LinkedIn and they slap some slop image like a dude with a third leg sticking out of some improbable place in it.

Right now, we're rolling a string of nat 1s

A thing that says a lot about the current state of things in the US is that my dog can get a Lyme vaccine, but I cannot.

There's a whole lot of folks itching to make Jim Crow 2.0 the next big thing.

yeah man, we’re all just dummies who don’t understand that you’re just judicial monks operating in a sphere of pure law [puts finger to ear] what’s this, clarence thomas gave another speech blaming progressives for hitler?

The XAI/Anthropic deal is big in many ways, one of which is that it feels like an admission of defeat from Elon. Can't create a model good enough to compete with Claude so suddenly you've become a service provider for the company you accused of Destroying Western Civilization last month

wait

I'm just gonna keep on doubting, Mike

Dred Scott remains one of the very worst decisions of the Court and Taney's reign was marked by other insults, but no one has run the table, overseeing so many different radical decisions on so many different issues than John Roberts.

The Roberts' SCOTUS continues to find new ways to lead to way in curtailing democracy and rights. What they're doing is beyond shameful. A gaggle of partisan hacks.

This man will not rest until he has turned the nation's capital into a scaled up model of Mar-a-Lago. Just tireless dedication to making everything tacky as fuck.

Pointed question has locked on, fire all chaff and flares!!!

Here's wishing every single hospital administrator who complied in advance a very wakes up in a cold anxious sweat every day until they a) reverse course and b) apologize.

Just finished chapter 1, and a poem popped out of my head: The Universe Is a place of structure and complexity Between two poles Of unknowable smallness And a great expanse of matter smeared so thin That nothing can ever know the joys and pains We experience here in the middle

The only problem I have encountered so far with @chanda.blacksky.app's The Edge of Space-Time is the staggering number of quotes that I think "man, that's tattoo-worthy so I can remember it every day."

That Palantir would do this is both shocking—not because this is some weird heel turn, but because it is a fully mask-off moment for tech bro fascisti—and also the least surprising thing from a company that has always been creepy as fuck.

Love learning new tricks with the tools I use most often. Today was finding out about ways to use Shapr3D's Loft tool to make clean transitions in vessels! Check it out, starting at 7:34 in the video. youtu.be/vK4IXELjgkw?...

It's a mathematical probability engine. Not a thinking machine. The fact that everyone just keeps saying it's an thinking machine when it's just a spicy predictive text machine is the biggest marketing win of the century. youtu.be/0vvVo0Um1HY?...

this is one of the most interesting things I've read about AI. Ben Affleck just sold his AI startup to Netflix for $600m. it's based on his analysis - as someone who's worked in movies for decades - of what AI is *actually useful for*. which is eg: adjusting film lighting. archive.ph/OLsfn

Stevens to RFK Jr: "To top it off, Mr Secretary, I got a copy of HR-944. You know what it is? It's your impeachment articles, sir. You have abused your office, you have gutted America's public health! You should be ashamed."

It's 2026 and the US strategy is murder and piracy on the high seas.

If Bluesky engineers insist on crediting their successes to “AI” while praising vibe-coding, it’s only reasonable for the rest of us to blame their failures on “AI” and vibe-coding as well.

Another day, another project: created a case for an Arduino-based controller thingie. This one took a couple of tries to get it right, but like the result, especially the cut out buttons.

Funny, I don't even have to use it for AI to make me feel like I want to give up and not try

Digging deeper into the words used to market a product is always a good idea. What does the marketer want you to believe, regardless of what the product or service really does for or to you?

He won't get any older and he won't ever die.