I'm ready for 2025 to fuck off.

Is it possible to double boycott something?

SoftBank is HardUp

A takeaway of the 21st century is that most people feel that brains are a mistake and would like to see them banned

Straight up murder

Shocked this is my shocked face

The only huge dick that costs Americans this much is Dr. Oz

The House has time to hurt trans kids and their families (everyone who voted for that bill can get fucked) and no time to prevent a massive rise in healthcare costs. Got it. Mike Johnson's only agenda is to maximize pain and suffering.

STOP CALLING IT AN IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN! TAKING CITIZENSHIP FROM EXTREMELY VETTED NATURALIZED CITIZENS IS NOT A CRACKDOWN! IT'S BETRAYAL.

The Worst Wing

I really enjoyed everything in the Ruth Asawa retrospective, but this piece was particularly affecting for me.

I guess I'll go back to Safari.

Ok, let's say it was true that Wiles thought this was all off the record (most likely, it's not). She still blew up Trump and his cabinet. Did she think "off the record" meant "just a gab session"? It was going to get published and it was going to be a big deal, credited to her or no.

White-tailed Deer Three-toed Sloth Bison Meadow Vole African Elephant (from two feet away)

Many people, esp. in management, don’t want new ideas, they want you to magically make old and familiar ideas feel new again. They want to experience the feeling of novelty and surprise again, but only the exact feeling they’ve already had with one specific piece of bullshit nostalgia.

Seeing “AI” boosters loudly and proudly say they don’t have any ideas and that they don’t think anybody has ideas anymore is genuinely funny Not just because ideas are the easy part, which most of you already know, but because very few people genuinely like new ideas and resist them at every turn

It's time for a 100% reset. Primary everyone.

This is the second paper I've added to my "must read" pile this morning. I have a feeling I'm coming out of today with some new ideas to integrate.

This idea of "thin empathy" and "thick empathy" from @mjcrockett.bsky.social is lighting up my brain this morning. It's an intriguing model. We've built a world where chances for thin empathy abound, but thick empathy remains hard to come by. I need to read that preprint today.

Remember the good old days when, if you were presenting bullshit justifications for whatever bad crap you wanted to pull, you at least took the effort to doctor some evidence?

New! We worked with the Public Interest Research Group to test a bunch of LLM-driven toys ahead of the Christmas. That sexual talking teddy bear wasn't a one-off; it turns out disturbing behavior is deeply built into these toys across the board.

Earlier this week, 42 state attorneys general sent a warning letter to the major AI companies regarding the dangers and harms created by AI chatbots. It's as forceful an indictment of what's happening that I've found, so here's a short thread to walk you through the evidence they've compiled... 🧵

Development: we have added a second cat.

Visited the Ruth Asawa retrospective at MoMA. Spectacular.

The Soccer Hooligan Peace Prize is a real honor, sir

Johnson's Congress will of course be remembered for their groundbreaking work on fully stocking the National Gaslight Reserve.

How humiliating. Claiming that a near octogenarian works more than you do when every media appearance of this supposed hard worker is him catatonic in public.

If there's a way to attack black folks, directly or indirectly, Trump will do it. Straight up racist shit all day long.

This "Weekend At Bernie's" reboot is WILD

Doggerel, rhyme, or verse The question is now For LLMs, which is worse

@profanity.accountant how am I fucking doing here

That is some genuine, Grade-A American-made ahistorical fascist bullshit right there

I have long felt that two core challenges need to be addressed: 1. Level off the top: tax the rich! 2. Raise the floor: more benefits for everyone else! Showing that the real poverty line is much higher than the calculation suggests makes #2 a priority.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Trump is a monster. An absolute nightmare with zero regard for decency.

NO (To both the question posed on the cover and to the embarrassing frame of Killer Bobby as anything but a dangerous crank who's been given access to the tools to harm millions)

"THe Harder They Come" was a constant listen for kid me. It was in heavy rotation from the minute I learned to drop the stylus.

We are heading to NYC in a couple of weeks just to see the Ruth Asawa show at MoMA. So excited, we already bought the book at the MFA, after seeing the amazing work of Rachel Ruysch and Martin Puryear.

Checking in on MechaHitler

This is probably bad news for the "human in the loop" theory for checking and correcting machine behaviors and outputs. Humans aren't guaranteed effective guardrails in human-AI collaboration because it's a SYSTEM and the parts influence each other; the human component doesn't stand alone.

Trump has produced spectacular examples of utter failure, embodied, that in turn end up being new units of measure. For example, we were gifted a new unit of time, the Scaramucci. Now we have the Halligan, the mass of a cubic meter of incompetence.

Why would they even make this available?! We are so cooked

The first edition of Conversational Design is available as a free download. I think more people should read it before they go making every interface into chatbots. www.mulebooks.com/conversation...

Sadly, I will be out of town for MICE this year. Seems like I'm going to something awesome with this @alexandragallant.com reading.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Relearning a 3D printing lesson you'd think I would have gotten by now: shitty old filament makes it very hard to get good prints. I've got two semi-ancient reels of PLA that I'd like to use up, but it just fails.

An important side note about today's Epstein/Trump revelations. They show that Todd Blanche's questioning of Maxwell was either (a) completely incompetent; or (b) intentionally crafted not to elicit facts incriminating Trump. Either way, he is not fit to serve as Deputy Attorney General.

Yes, and we all need to put in time, not just money. We can't buy the right kind of candidates, we are going to have to be them or build them with our own hands.