another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

When will he ever shut the fuck up?

This is a 60 Minutes Story about how the Trump administration violated our constitution and people's basic human dignity. Acting like this does nothing to make us safer, and in fact only makes it more likely that American citizens are put at risk.

More people watched their ceilings than watched Trump’s Kennedy Center Honors on CBS.

From the Hamill House to your's: MERRY CHRISTMAS !!! 🎅 🎁 ☃️ 🎄 ❄️ ⛄ 🤶

I'm parent to 3 of those generation and they're actively rejecting it. They're just an anecdote too, but I choose to believe we have agency in all of this. "older gamers are more favorable towards Gen AI while younger gamers are more negative." quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/g...

Well, this is interesting. So they lied and got caught. And there were consequences. Hmm.

PSA: Our roadmap for 2026:

I posted this for my handful of friend who hate AI as much as me, did not expect it to go viral, I had the original source noted in the Alt-Text which bluesky just doesn't show?! This wonderful person linked the full video at the Urban Consulate here: bsky.app/profile/prop...

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

"Bondi and company are sorely mistaken if they think breaking the law and giving Congress a middle finger will make the Epstein scandal go away."

If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.

Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.

Hey! Remember when Barr (Bondi) withheld the Mueller (Epstein) documents for weeks so he (she) could mischaracterize what was in the Mueller (Epstein) Report and spin the findings for three weeks and then over-redact them? I sure do!

Personally, I don't give a crap it they "changed their mind." The fact that they considered it at all is reprehensible and gross. #SciFi-Fantasy-SpecFic 🪐📚 #Booksky 💙📚 #WritingCommunity SFWA changes Nebula Award rules to allow partial LLM usage open.substack.com/pub/jasonsan...

Organisations like Our World in Data and folk like Steven Pinker would have us believe that everything is getting better because lines are travelling a certain way on charts. This week's guest @smillermcdonald.bsky.social thoroughly debunks that. Listen now: www.planetcritical.com/the-myth-of-...

We know why the national Trump media doesn’t cover the devastating flooding that’s happening in these states and it’s heartbreaking.

Grammarian and Errorist are at it again! 🖊️

Simultaneously: - We have no money sowe do this. - Well artists don't deserve it anyway. - We deserve credit for making the slop.

Ugggh... I've seen so many small businesses do this, always with the explanation of "we don't have any money!". All of which is horribly tied into the idea that creative labour is somehow intangible, so cannot hold value.

A local chippy started using AI for it's social posts. Then without any sense of irony posted about how we should be supporting small local businesses...

Hard to disagree. Just look around. Our leaders go through the motions at these COP conferences every year but nothing happens. They’re humoring us only. The leaders we’ve elected can’t ensure our planet remains habitable by humans. If we’ve given up on that, what is left?

I cannot shake the feeling that the damage caused by people simply giving up on caring is going to ripple out for a long, long time...

I have clients submitting AI-written reports to donors that give them six figures annually. These reports are riddled with factual errors, and a year ago we would go line-by-line to triplecheck every fact. It's bizarre.

Every facet of generative AI has made my professional life worse, without question, but THIS specific aspect has been driving me NUTS. Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.

its been mindblowing seeing the kind of thing that even big corporate marketing campaigns are willing to call "finished", stuff that would get a visual artist of any stripe fired from a project and never considered again

"tightly steered iterations" Christ imagine talking like this and *not* having people bellow with laughter directly into your face as you deserve

gonna be so cool when half of all jobs in society are just different versions of polishing AI turds

“I am not in denial, I am in open rebellion.” Perfect.

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

I've loved Sigourney Weaver ever since one of my all-time favorite movies, ALIEN. Couldn't resist going all fanboy on her yesterday & asking for a photo. She told me she's now in the cast of The Mandalorian. Talk about bad timing: she's now in that galaxy far, far away, years after I checked out! 💔

Hilarious… how the trumpers constantly bitch about cancel-culture… while their dear leader CANCELS AMERICA. Or did they “suicide” the country? I can’t tell anymore.

Ossoff: "This is so much deeper than the politics. What does it say about the moral condition of this Congress that the thing that has them all tied up in knots is a very simple question: Should people's health insurance premiums go up double or triple? This is a policy choice."

Rapid Unscheduled De-Turkification.

these kinds of videos always prompt a certain Pratchett quote in my brain, from Thief of Time

It's actually pretty cool to be able to remotely control a robot and could be useful for dangerous work (bomb squad, radioactive materials, etc), but it's wasted on pretending AI is real.

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Just for fun on a Monday morning... :) #BookSky 💙📚 #Romance_Reads 🌶️📚 #Romancelandia #darkacademia #enemiestolovers #whodidthistoyou #magicalworld #newadult

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

If your country establishes a Department of War and simultaneously abolishes the Department of Education, it’s evident that you reside in a deplorable country.

"In a very short timeframe, AI has become the high-fructose corn syrup of the digital realm: It’s now in everything, even if you don’t want it there." www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

Tool

A collection of romance Kickstarters that are now in prelaunch, including mine, (which will launch mid-January!). :) Link: books.bookfunnel.com/romancekicks... #books #BookSky 💙📚 #Romance_Reads 🌶️📚 #booktok #bookstagram

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

Trump has decided to exempt coal used in steelmaking from Clean Air Act rules for the next two years. He issued a proclamation allowing coke oven facilities to sidestep existing limits on toxic emissions including mercury, formaldehyde, soot, and dioxins.

still peak television