“My girlfriend plays DOOM, but not like you think”

Putting the “Con” in “DEFCON 1” is this anything

Introducing the new Trump-appointed Labor Secretary, Robert Drop Table

“‘Tranches’?” [smokes cigarette] “…haven’t heard that term in a while.” — me, last laid off during the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis slash WGA strike

So is the West Wing now just… The Wing

I don’t get a ton of opportunities to promote my video game, but any time redaction is in the news… ◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️ ◼️ mrgan.com/blackbar/

omg are LLMs a type of antimemetic SCP

Blew through this over the last day; now considering starting Apocalypse Book Club to make me feel a little better about how our world is going. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/783041...

Had a dream that I cried at work because Google Maps got a redesign Probably worth unpacking that one a little

Chotiner? I barely know ‘er

For Seattle folks… I’m giving a talk tonight at Obec Brewery (6:30) about science funding, the history of human computer interaction, and the future of AI. I’m off the clock, so I may get a little spicier than usual. If you’re around, please come!

Will never get used to how @kevinroose.com pronounces “frontier”

Nobody has done a better job documenting the FCC’s attack on free speech under Brendan Carr than @theverge.com under @reckless.bsky.social — a must-follow and a must-subscribe if you want to know how they’ve been preparing to go way past McCarthyism for years: www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

I’m grasping at a metaphor about infections and monocultures, it’s definitely something

Who called it a TENS machine when “cramplifier” is right there

“But why can’t I pay per article??” Because you won’t. You think you will and that other people will too but you won’t and they won’t. People hate them. rreisman.medium.com/the-case-aga...

literally DARVO

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

Has anyone written an essay comparing the human condition of being too online to the way LLMs start to fail when their context windows get too large feels topical

Ted Cruz, of course, is now confirmed to have contributed to the Epstein birthday book

Googling “how to mute an image”

Spotted: portable air conditioner in the alley next to the recycling bins. Fall has truly arrived in Seattle.

feels like we’ve been right about here all weekend

Labor Day of course marks the end of the New York Times print edition’s use of summer kerning, a slightly looser spacing to let the text breathe

Just in case you were hoping to enjoy Gas Works Park today: there’s a hate group holding a rally and they’re looking for a fight, and they brought cops. Stay clear, IMO.

What’s deeply strange is that this was all very well understood as little as five years ago. People talked all the time about training data bias. But then they slapped the label AI on a chatbot and everyone’s got amnesia

I found the AI meeting transcript for the morning standup for the product team that makes all the school apps for parents

they may not tell RFK at all, too big a risk he tries to eat part of the body

Reading up on how long it takes someone to die after they’ve ingested polonium-210 out of sheer curiosity

My 9yo reading 1984: “this George Orwell guy is very talented”

This is bc of the end of de minimis, which meant you didn't have to pay tariffs on anything under $800. I know I am personally excited to familiarize myself with harmonization tables, deal more with FedEx, and learn the difference between various acronyms. My new hobby is tariffs logistics

Putting the “cult” in “cargo cult”

Anthropic, actively getting mega-sued for training its models on copyrighted material (millions of books), looks around for literally any other text it can plausibly ingest

holy heck. these are fantastic. more punk science please

There are still two source photos out there that I can't find and it's KILLING ME. If you can find any original photos/videos of this sign untouched by AI, please let me know so I can rest in peace.

I’m going to have to use, like, Zapier to get my email newsletters onto my Kindle, aren’t I.

Terms which if we had a functioning government normal people wouldn’t have to learn, but alas: “de minimis” “wet bulb” “habeas corpus”

I really appreciate how a bad rebrand still has the ability to bring the internet together

prestige streaming reboot of Man of La Mancha, but cyberpunk and set in LA Don Quixote has AI psychosis Aldonza is an undocumented cam girl

feeling EXTREMELY called out by Ken Jennings

I really want to make a “bizarro Les Mis” joke but I can’t quite crack it

19. we have a volcano and it’s really cool and if you’re lucky it’ll show itself. if you’re unlucky, it’ll be behind a ghostly haze 24/7. if you’re very unlucky, it’ll erupt

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

and frfr it's the monetary policy, regulation, and taxation environment that makes business models possible.

“Hi, I’m Jimmy Dubai, maker of the world-famous Dubai Chocolate!”

The phrase “may every day be another wonderful secret” was basically developed in a lab to make QAnon bros go absolutely feral. Bravo, Mr. President

Here Are 23 Epstein Revelations You Probably Missed At The Time

All worried about how easy it is for GenAI to influence people because it's able to statistically sound like a conversational partner, meanwhile look at this rock YOU ARE HARD-WIRED TO THINK THIS ROCK IS ALIVE AND FEEL SORRY FOR THE SAD ROCK. POOR SAD ROCK.

Credit to the campaign, it’s a very funny concept for an SNL sketch in which a disgraced third-party mayoral candidate blatantly and creepily apes the media strategy of the younger, better candidate who beat his pants off in the primary

Gresham’s Law but for knowledge.