This is a good essay. The sad thing is that the math beneath AI models is pretty cool. Code generation is pretty cool too. Generative models could have been built ethically and used narrowly for popular, useful stuff. Instead we get slop, disinfo, and bosses convinced they should fire people.

If you're too young to remember the DVD screen saver to the corner rollercoaster, this is it. 145 seconds of pure thrill & expectation. You dodge & weave in your seat, look from the side of the monitor to get the better angle. Real heart pumping chaos. *steps out for candy cigarette

And once told about all the things they actually do, their response was to laugh. Not "oh, shit, we should put that back in place." but "haha. oh well."

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

People are trusting a robot to tell if text was written by another robot, meanwhile the below happens:

This kind of thing at Substack (including their Nazi problem and trans hate problem) are why my newsletter is at Ghost.org and always has been. Andrew Tate is a spectacularly vile human being accused of numerous violent crimes against women and hugely corrosive for young male minds.

I made a new thing! In-app ads are weird, ugly, and might pay you a few pennies, but you won't feel good about it. So I tried to fix that. www.tylerhillsman.com/guild-ads

I stopped the clip at the very first sentence. "We aren't going to have more ag if we don't make it cost effective & pencil out." That's where I stopped. No need to go further. If you want to bring that discussion, we start with the company's financial statements & go from there. Top-down discussion

I'm seeing just normal ninja turtle's walking away from a Shredder blast, not sure what you're getting at. I mean April is wearing a gas mask & body armour bc she's not a ninja, but that's what journalists have to do nowadays.

This is a cool element. May do this to my shoes someday. step 1: have fancy shoes step 2: have a need to wear fancy shoes

i will say this again but children of abuse know how to just absolutely flip the brain off. my wife is like how can you turn into a lamp at the drop of a hat and well catherine we call it survival.

Here's the sad thing. I know a devout catholic of grandmother age that would be the one spewing this nonsense. Literally thinks Benedict should still be pope. Francis was too soft, and Leo is likely even worse. I'll ask some of the others this summer to see what their thoughts on Leo are.

For anyone tired of Google's enshittified search: I got a @kagi.com subscription in January ($108 for the year). It's been set as my default since then. Absolutely zero regrets; paying for search is a little strange, but it's so much better than google.

I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries. Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.

"Making things worse for you, but way worse for other people!" GOP 2026 ad campaign

Just to crib Jan's great chart here a little bit - here are just a few of the headlines that came out when growth somewhat slowed in 2024 Many, many media outlets do not really know how to handle technological change like this

This is called a business opportunity. You can create a database of fabricated citations from which real research can subscribe to. Once that is up, do the same for every industry. You can start the database yourself & keep adding to it, then when you have enough start the process of creating a Co.

Can't wait to get a piece of that IPO.

One of these guys is literally named Dick Epstein. So we are also looking at "Tom Lee", "Philip Hamburger", and "Kurt Lash"? Did this guy just pull names out & squish them together? Is this a "I love lamp" situation? "at least partly right" - if the name is spelled right = at least partly right.

TLDR: News flash - It doesn't save shit! These are written by folks who have $ & pay for it already. I literally tried this. I tracked $ spent on breakfast, lunch for months. $0 breakfast (I drank company coffee). $10/month on lunch (literal bag of bread & lunch meats - most days I'd skip lunch).

Trump pardoned CZ, who built Binance and used it to launder crypto money to Iran so they could fund weapons that gave them leverage against Trump’s war of choice. Trump’s ceasefire now includes paying Iran in crypto. This is on brand for all involved. www.ft.com/content/02ae...

“You’re alienating half of your audience by being political” Motherfucker, my “audience” is people who aren’t pieces of shit, who care about others. That’s who I make stuff for. There is no “other half”.

There are 2 cities in this state. Both on borders. None of the coops are "transporting nuclear energy from other states" to their rural Missouri members. They've already got long-term PPAs w/ generators. Make AI pay for them. I'm not anti-nuke. I'm anti-greedy-bad-faith-asshole.

"We want the construction jobs to build those plants. We want the jobs to operate those plants," Black said. "We don't want to pay the extra cost to transport that energy in from some other state." There is minimal "extra" cost. MISO already exists. Transmission lines already exist.

"Missouri will fall behind in energy production as surrounding states allow the construction of small modular reactors that will be necessary to power data centers", Black said. Currently, no small modular reactors have been built in the United States.

Fucking awesome. Ask the folks in SC how many billions get pushed onto electric rate payers from the failed nuke plant. "Ratepayers continue to pay increased rates for the expansion despite its termination." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nukegat...

Man, FUCK yes. What a simple and obvious and utterly perfect bit of municipal policy. It is remarkable how many good things are still happening. Please keep noticing that a lot of people want a better world and have ideas great and small to achieve it.

Doing a basic calculation using a chatbot instead of a calculator uses between 2.5 million and 62 million times more energy. And using chatbots for calculations is *extremely common* - the companies have marketed these systems as general purpose, everything-apps!

Sounds like someone created buyers for their crypto hoard.

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

Microsoft, to its billions of customers: You must use this product to be hired or promoted. It is the future. We are spending billions per day, choking the rest of the economy. You cannot avoid it. You cannot uninstall it. It is risky. Do not rely on it for anything important. It is a toy.

We should be able to disable and uninstall an entertainment app

And on the 3rd day he got up, crawled out from under his rock & said "for reals bro, French toast." And there was.

This breakfast is #OtterlyRidiculous

I think there's an untold story here that an intrepid journalist could investigate: When a big tech company builds a data center with on-site natural gas turbines, who pays for the pipelines the utility lays or expands to bring gas to the turbines? My guess: All gas ratepayers, not the tech company.

This is so, so well-articulated.

I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

That's how gov't services work. "Should we tax the rich & still allow them to stand in line at the DMV for their licenses, or use libraries?" Yes MF'r that's how it works.

From this POV, switching to a heat pump is about as attainable as winning the lottery There are mythical rebate programs, sure, but you still have to qualify, & the truth is a lot of us simply cannot afford the cost- we live paycheck to paycheck. Solutions are only solutions if people have access.

Step 1: Create AcreTrader to get rich off selling farms S2 blow out the soybean mrkt S3: start unnecessary war impacting fertilizer mrkt that blows out corn mrkt S4: roll in piles of money as "Dust Bowl 2: Wines of Wrath" shakes out. Sidequests: bring back measles, Hib, other assrtd illness

That's 1 expensive plant. $2.8m / MW. Ouch. Numbers I've seen are closer to $1 - $1.5m / MW, but aren't "new". They've been in the pipe for years, brownfield, & don't have to jump the transformer lines. No idea if they're adding Transmission lines, pipelines, etc.

Here's a trick I use several times a week lately. (yes, literally) Task Manager - end task; Reopen outlook. BUT make sure you are connected to the network your MS365 is on, or it will take 10 minutes before opening while it "checks your credentials" to make sure you are authorized to use Outlook.

I don’t believe that every hobby needs to be a business. I’m watching this lady sell her items and I’m like you posted 3 days ago you just learned how to make cinnamon rolls and now you’re selling them for $25 and they look horrible. You’re accepting making cakes and the cakes look horrible.

Me showing kid my playlist for music. "Dad, it's in a folder called iTunes. That isn't a thing anymore." Me panicking with the thought that I won't be able to get the 1 song I bought in the last 15 yrs onto my iPod. Stares blankly at screen. "Are you ok? Hello?"

This was, basically, what the internet CAN be used for: Help people who need it faster than they could without it. Within few minutes of needing help to feed a baby with specific needs, Kat's volunteers were able to mobilize. They turned a Discord into an instant, hyperlocal mutual aid resource.

Imagine the horrors these peeps have seen. Pulled ruthlessly from their partners only to be thrown into a pillowy delicious cuddle puddle. Not a smile to be seen amongst them, their scars still fresh. Some may never heal.

Today's science for those champions following along: [insert little thread icon thingy here that I don't know how to do] Conundrum: Out of chips, not out of guacamole. {Not getting into semantics here as "still having guac" isn't a problem. Running out of chips isn't a "problem"]

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That's 1 way to obliterate FDIC I suppose.