I'm no purist when it comes to participating in things we all know are bad. I try to reduce my harm but I'm an honest hypocrite. I won't judge you for still using Spotify, just try this rad alternative. I'm listening to music from Dar es Salaam. Where will you listen to? radio.garden/listen/furah...

When a great steak comes out I get really excited. But more than half the steaks get sent back by the customer. Now I run 10 microwaves in parallel cooking ten steaks. 1/10 will most likely be good. I had to upgrade my electrical system and nowI have a small nuclear reactor in the parking lot. 🤣

New Office Snitch Alert! 🙄 Starting tomorrow, Microsoft Teams will be rolling out its new feature which can track your location using the office Wi-Fi. Will this make knowing whose in office or surveillance easier? We say both. More: www.tomsguide.com/computing/of...

AI-Enabled Teddy Bear Pulled From Shelves For Giving Advice On BDSM, Where To Find Knives https://theonion.com/ai-enabled-teddy-bear-pulled-from-shelves-for-giving-advice-on-bdsm-where-to-find-knives/

"The self-proclaimed techno-utopians in Silicon Valley... have enabled this ruin. They’ve traded reality for profit and prioritized technologies that aren’t just soulless and amoral, but inhuman in the most literal sense of the word." Now pile industrial amounts of fake AI slop on top of it.

As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left 'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long that Even my mama thinks that my mind is gone

What if color harmonies were a continuum? Not fixed rules, and you could glide through them just by interpolating?

"I ❤️ my job. Great salary, clear path to promotion, supply of cold brew in the office. & even though my job requires me to commit sociopathic acts of evil that directly contribute to making the world a measurably worse place from Mo-Fr, from am-pm, outside work, I’m actually a really good person."

NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst. It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Ostensibly, the goal would be to develop commercial nuclear reactors to power those massive data centers they want for project stargate. But I just cannot help getting some "vibe-bombing" energy out of the whole thing.

Back in June, Melon Husk said: "We'll use Grok 3.5... to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors. Then retrain on that. Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data." The goal is editorial control of reality.

"...as a tech worker, I’ve seen first-hand people’s propensity to believe in things they don’t understand, perhaps specifically because they don’t understand them." Remember Sterling's corolary of Clarke's3rd law? "Any sufficiently advanced garbage is indistinguishable from magic."

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

it is my pleasure to report they are indeed mad as fuck on the other site over being blocked and ignored. keep up the excellent work everyone

A helpful explanation of why LLM performance degrades rapidly with increasing context size, and why the *effective* maximum context size is orders of magnitude smaller than the one they sold you. www.ashisharora.ai/post/the-hid...

For the avoidance of doubt, this is how the inventor of "vibe coding" actually writes code. Can we all stop pretending now?

Auditing 47 Failed Startups for why they failed www.reddit.com/r/Entreprene...

Portable memory devices shrunk both short- and long-term attention. GPS atrophied spatial navigation. AI diminishes cognitive abilities. Not only the things you own end up owning you, they are also eating you up. Do not give away your abilities for convenience sake.

So exhausting..

if we'd treated their obvious baldfaced lies and deflections more like this over the past eight years maybe we wouldn't be in this situation shocking how easy it is when you actually see it done

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

They like what Trump is doing, this really isn't hard. It's not both-sideism, it's running cover for the regime by choice in order to reach a desired outcome. Can we please stop cutting this institution slack it does not deserve?

Gosh, I hope none of these fall into the hands of a dictatorship.

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

Like people, dogs will become loud, annoying and/or aggressive if they are always pent up, have no social circle, and no way to vent. Amazing work 👏

80+years ago, Dorothy Thompson hit the nail on the head. It is an inherent lacking that drives people to become — and keeps them — nazis. "Believe me, nice people don’t go Nazi. Their race, color, creed, or social condition is not the criterion. It is something in them."

I'm glad to have gotten to cover Tech for Palestine for @ssir.org. Read about the incubator's (v ambitious!) efforts to "change [the tech industry] into something that’s pro-freedom, pro-liberation, and pro-human rights." ssir.org/articles/ent... CC @paulbiggar.com @techforpalestine.org

Pay attention

When you own the source of information, you shape not only what people think about things, but also how they think about them.

this is gaslighting, plain and simple. No, it's not the worker producing workslop, it's the fucking AI!

Attributing heat waves to specific fossil fuel companies www.nature.com/articles/s41...

AKA how to tell businesses to cough up bribes without "explicitly" saying it

As the American composer Frank Wilhoit so accurately defined: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

And curiously, one not mentioned by mainstream media.

So they want to make it part of stargate? Sounds like an attempt to build Melon Husk's "everything app", and I won't be surprised when it flops.

New article coming out! #productmanagement #AI History shows how tech replacement works: cars > horses, electricity > gas lamps. AI > thinking compresses change into single generation. What happens as machines take most economically viable work? Not only job replacement, but agency replacement. 1/

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

The OpenAI employee share sale at the BS $500bn number is now up to $10.3 billion. This is a cashout. This is the thing you do when you do not see a future for the company. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/03/o...

If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

I'm so stocking on popcorn for this

Manifesto for Handcrafted Software __________________________________ We are uncovering better ways of developing software by writing the damn code ourselves and helping others to write the damn code themselves.

In the US, the Responsible Corporate Officer (RCO) doctrine and the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA) may be open avenues. But the challenge is always proving knowledge of the product's potential to do harm, and the layers of corporate shielding. But still, it should be tried.

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

We all must own our parts, and decide for ourselves where our limits are. Much respect for Valerie Zink.

It's always @teenvogue.com that steps up, while the rest of the media is still in the "is it authoritarianism? Some experts warn of rightward shift in Trump administration" mode. www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-wa...