Deepfakes Rule Everything Around Me... DREAM! Get the money. Dollar, dollar bill y'all!!!

Today many people look at Harriett Tubman and the folks who participated in the underground railroad as heroes. At the time they were all considered criminals breaking many laws related to slavery.

Influencers are everywhere mashable.com/article/ice-....

Gift Article. Friendly reminder: We're being manipulated. "Attention is the currency of power." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Pittsburgh Dad Reacts to Steelers vs. Texans Wildcard Game www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-kl...

It's wild to think that there were people who watched the movie Star Wars and left the theatre believing Darth Vader, Stormtroopers, and the Empire were the victims.

The harm outweighs the good. But at least a handful of people will make a ton of money even if the majority suffers, AMIRIGHT!?!?

Sophisticated phishing attack: medium.com/@eric.moret/...

Priorities! triblive.com/local/mckees...

I want this next generation of software development tools to run on my own computer. Vim and Emacs helped democratize software development and made it accessible. We shouldn't allow this AI wave to take us backwards. I really hope the open source community can keep pace.

It's true. Men will let you down, the Eras tour never will.

If an unidentified, masked, armed man started to open the door to my car as he was pulling out his gun, I'd definitely try to drive away. I'd be hitting the gas hard.

This is a must-read annual review on database systems. 👀

All channels are compromised.

"It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race." - Karl Stojka (survived multiple concentration camps)

The primary practiced response model for school shootings is run and hide. Fighting back is prescribed as the last resort.

Most sane people would run from an armed, masked, unidentified man because at a young age that’s what a lot of us are taught to do.

If they’re so scared of getting hit by cars, why do they stand in the middle of the road grabbing at door handles?

How is anyone in their 80s still in Congress? That ain't helping anyone but their own bank accounts.

"Elon Musk’s Grok AI is flooding the social media platform X with user-requested images of non-consensually undressed women, including children. The resulting images—which are being generated at a rate of “about 6,700 every hour,”"... Holy hell! www.techpolicy.press/why-musk-is-...

Remember when we used to have an FTC and an FCC to provide some consumer protections? In the age of the billionaire, it's the wild west out here. Making more money trumps everyone's well being and sanity. Be safe. Protect yourselves and your children.

Men are using Grok to undress women, children, & babies. Grok can't do this without humans making a request of it & Elon's company provides no safety or guardrails. The grok model is trained on abusive content & doesn't ban users requesting illegal content. Wild. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Everyone's focused on Minnesota, but there's welfare fraud in Mississippi too. Turns out wefare fraud happens across all the states. But Trillionaire Ted's son!?! So sad to see. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/06/f...

langsmith is pretty cool. safe bet you'll want to run on prem if you want to keep your data secure. but the free version is great for getting familiar.

Always excellent recap and roundup of all things database. He's not a player, but he crushes a lot.

Ready. Fire! Aim.

Oh no! Billionaires can't catch a break. Hundreds of wealthy vacationing billionaires were stranded on St. Barths and other Caribbean islands due to the abrupt closure of airspace for U.S. operations in Venezuela. Stay strong! There are 361 days left in the year. It will surely get better!

I'm going to call it now. 2026 is going to be the year of the billionaire! It's been a long haul but they're finally having their moment!!!

social media promotes groupthink.

We can’t ask schools to fix what parents have stopped practicing.

End of an era. I was at the '96 show when the Beasties played undercover billed as 'Quasar'. One of my favorite memories. Thank you Bottom of the Hill from the bottom of my heart.

Don't forget kids: Social media is essentially owned by a handful of powerful old white men who use technology to exploit your emotions, influence your decisions, affect your behaviors and ultimately get you to buy sh**. ( preferably whatever it is they're selling ya. ) So enjoy!

I believe.

Happy New Year! It's going to be a great year. No BS this year. So let's cut through it together and enjoy the good stuff.

Dude. I would not jump into the Monongahela no matter what the temp. The water in both rivers is quite nasty. I am plunge averse.

Also, if you're in Pittsburgh, you know how bad the theaters are & how run down most of AMC's Waterfront's been. They've had 1 decent theater, the Dolby, but the rest were in dire need of an update. Well, they've got it! The seats, screens, floors, it's fun to see movies in other theaters there now!

Took a friend to see Marty Supreme for Christmas. Turns out it's REALLY good. I thought I was taking one for the team and wanted to see Anaconda or Avatar instead. Didn't know what it was about. Wild story about an obsessed dude, sorta like Uncut Gems with frenetic pace but in the 50s. Well done.

Hands down the best Christmas movie of all time.

Congratulations to the #1 ranked @db.cs.cmu.edu PhD student Wan Shen Lim (@wslim.bsky.social) for successfully passing his doctoral defense. Wan has been working on hard AF database research with me for the last *nine* years at CMU (undergrad+grad). He also hates chickens.

Thanks Andy! We published the recording here www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnQK... cc @alona.page @wpaven.bsky.social

The roads in Pittsburgh are horrible today due to yesterday's snow storm, and there's no real reason for them to still be at this point other than our corrupt, outgoing mayor is petty and making everyone who didn't vote for him pay. Stay safe out there!

Our elected officials didn't take the position to solve the world's problems. They took the position to see what they could benefit from them.

It's wild to me that out of all the sci-fi movies I enjoyed as a kid, 1984's Runaway starring Tom Selleck and Gene Simmons would be the one to best predict the state of robots today.

Amazing. You can start an AI company and train your models by exploiting all the IP of another company regardless of any copyright and then turn around and sell your AI back to that same company at a premium price, essentially licensing their own content back to them.

Maybe this should've been the year of: Everything is so bad rignt now, but the promise is HUGE! It's amazing how much can be sold on this premise.

It's kind of offensive to call them the Architects of AI. I've been in a room with John McCarthy, Oliver Selfridge, and some of the other true architects of AI. These folks on the cover are more the pushers of AI, or the salesman of AI. Perhaps the PT Barnums of AI. But certainly not architects.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Last year donnie was Time's person of the year, as he represented the billionaires who ran the country to get him elected in 2024. This year's Architects of AI represent the corporations now running the country without any regulation due to that billionaire investment. Success! Time nailed it.

It's so weird that the internet cites March 2000 as the dot com bubble bursting. That must be a looking backwards, hindsight report. I was there, and it's not what I experienced. College campuses were overrun with recruiters in fall of 2000...