Why do we keep sending quarantined people to Nebraska? This is genuinely a very interesting question, and I had a great time learning about the efforts of one doctor, two decades ago, to make it happen slate.com/technology/2...

The Talkie/ Vintage model thing is cool because it shows that all models are limited by data that exists or can be presently generated (even if you make thousands more data points by face-capture) BUT they fine-tuned it using stuff generated by Claude. So there's likely going to be contamination

NO GOBLINS

I did quant economics and then worked in tech and I can pinpoint the year that I stopped having software brain because my life became way more interesting

Objection, a Thiel-backed startup, aims to use AI to judge journalism, letting users pay to challenge stories. Critics warn it could chill whistleblowers and reshape how media accountability works.

Outdoor Voices relaunches as military drone company :)

Will be interesting to see how this plays out in the salary stuff as well

Maybe I’ll write about the Affordability Discourse one day but I think that one thing (among many both material and perceptual) that this hard to untangle is that everyone—including those who are doing fine in material terms—has a lot more visibility into how well the rich are doing than in the past

Luxury goods, for example, are both more expensive—their prices have far outpaced general inflation—and much more broadly marketed than they were 20 years ago. If you get sucked into the wrong algorithmic feed, it can feel like you’re the only person without whatever fancy thing it is you desire

"Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has said he is open to the idea that Claude may already have some form of consciousness, and company leaders frequently talk about the need to give it a moral character." This is a sales pitch, and journalism that doesn't highlight this has failed.

I guess what I’m saying is great consumer products don’t make young people feel anger and despair the more they use them www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/s...

TV review in The Guardian that I thought was a genuine headline and didn't even blink

Waiting for the discourse about LLM use in journalism to ask whether sources are comfortable with reporters dropping everything they said into OpenAI's database. Like, sure you can replace a journalist but... I feel like we need two-party consent for Otter

goodnight sweet prince

The models need fresh data <3

These LinkedIn job ads are getting so accurate

What To Know About ‘Sinners’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-sinners/

this is just an evolution of Cluely, the "cheat on everything" app that caused a stir last year. This is what it looks like in the real world.

A newly published study of how college students interact with chatbots and human strangers showed talking to a random person offers more connection than an LLM.

This week - Cornell Tech research shows that using an autocomplete LLM can shift your beliefs. Exposed to a biased bot, users' attitudes converged toward the AI’s position. Users didn't notice & warning that it might happen didn't impact on whether it did. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Good hotel lobby laptop Lower East Side? <3

"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning" got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing

every day i flip a coin between "i was an idiot to do a graduate statistics degree in 2018" and "thank god I did a graduate statistics degree in 2018" and the entire vibe of the whole day rests on the outcome :)

We got photos and video of the Cybertruck that nearly barreled off an overpass while using full self driving. Lawsuit says Tesla is to blame because Musk has oversold the truck’s ability to drive itself www.404media.co/cybertruck-t...

Wrote a (good?) cover letter, sent the whole application, then immediately re-read it and started questioning my maybe-incorrect use of a really common colloquial phrase in the first line, and now I'm like... man. It would be so good to be able to blame this anxiety on a robot.

how will you feel when AI comes for your paddleboard

Maxxing is the new gate

Yesterday I saw a CEO's AI agent posting on linkedin AS THE AGENT, talking about the CEO's daily productivity schedule in the third person, and have low key been in fight or flight since then

Really following this New Mexico Meta Trial very closely because it's like, what if big tech companies could be shilling products while ignoring evidence that they're bad for people's brains

As someone who's been paid to code *and* to write, I disagree with this take. IKEA mass-produces chairs but we're not like "carpentry is bullshit". A lot of early career coders were, essentially, apprentices learning foundational info. Humans doing well takes skill in all domains <3

If only there were a job where you don't really report but you have good writing skills. Sure, you'd have to use the writing skills, which would be annoying!

“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Just feels like they maybe could have named some of the ways you can be "steered very wrong" www.cnbc.com/2026/03/04/g...

As a human being you have the right to be able to understand the world. That is why education is so important. Any technology that hinders your understanding (even if it seemingly gives you capabilities) is deeply in- and anti-humane.

The answer to problems in sociotechnical systems is not always "more software", "better software" or "open source software". A lot of the time the best solution is _less software_ and sometimes even _no software_.

I've been in a closet writing and am now reading these posts properly... I feel like the artificial quotes chaos pulled attention from the fact that dudes who write things like "Your a scientific programming God!" are demanding access to all the code bases theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

the publisher of the new york times wants you to subscribe to the handbasket www.thehandbasket.co/subscribe

She made a "rookie mistake", but with OpenClaw, *everybody* is a rookie! There is no non-rookie! It's a fool's errand to pretend there's a safe way to run this shit, and the wild thing is that these people are publicly advertising that they're running this stuff.

how can you love free jazz and yet hate bad bunny? <3

extremely predictable outcome of announcing how creepy your product is on the national stage

If you ever have any doubt about this, try going to a "Mexican" restaurant in London.

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

Old Super Bowl ads: Look! Big horses! Buy a beer. New Super Bowl ads: give your soul over to the theft engines or we’ll use footage of you to kill your dog.

I am not seeing any reputable news article stating that was Liam Ramos at the Super Bowl but verified accounts with hundreds of thousands of people are spreading the rumor. Come on people.

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WE BOUGHT A SUPER BOWL AD

404 Media just had an ad during the #SuperBowl! We Googled "smallest TV markets in the United States" and bought an ad for $2,550 that only ran in Ottumwa, Iowa, population 25,000. That still counts www.404media.co/watch-404-me...