We should have a lot of debates about whether this a good idea but it’s also important to be 100% clear this was not a chatbot but a purpose built model. ”AI” models are incredibly powerful but chatbots are an intellectual and societal dead end and a whole lot of provosts are distracted by them

"I think the advice I would offer is to remember that leadership is a service role. Your job as a leader is to support the people who work for you, to protect them, to listen to them, & prioritize them." ARL Views with John Unsworth, UVA University Librarian 2016-2025 www.arl.org/blog/john-un...

Democrats are going to go to jail for this, right? To be held without bail while ambiguous accusations of involvement are looked into. Or they’re going to open investigations against people just to harass & tarnish their image. I hope Zohran is ready

"We've never uttered most of the quotes that will be attributed to us in the future." – Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill & Mark Twain

This ad about how great Google Gemini is ends by telling us how Ted, the protagonist and a big James Blunt fan, “found something he didn’t even know he was looking for” at a James Blunt concert where James Blunt is playing not “High” by James Blunt but “She’s So High” by Tal Bachman.

How lucky to be able to read some previously unknown writing by Marshall Berman.

Using the word “redlining” in an article about a tennis match featuring a Black player, 𝑖𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡, sure is a choice www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...

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I just realized that you can take all the one syllable band names from the 1990s and make them into names of crafty Millennial brands Spoon & Tool Cake & Creed Lush & Blur Pulp & Bush Live & Ride Low & Moe

Any time anyone has ever asked me to help them write a better sentence, I’ve kindly obliged; but I’m really fucking sick of these companies getting rich by scraping up every sentence I’ve ever written without asking, so lazy people can write better sentences & pretend they don’t need help doing it.

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

Proposed neologism. Glassolalia (noun) - A unique style of enunciation in which the speaker pronounces “L” sounds in that weird throaty style of Ira Glass. This is a good coinage because, in a shibbolethic manner, saying the word reveals whether or not the speaker has this condition.

The attack on core departments, tenured, and tenure track faculty is now accelerating in blue states, building upon the assault on NTT colleagues. Far from resisting Trump’s assault on higher ed, University admins in Democratic run states are spraying fuel on the fire to make it burn faster.

Please please don’t forget that just because a social media person somewhere is making some truly sick burns, the walking hair gel that employs said person does not deserve a spot anywhere near a higher elected office

I cannot agree with this more. And I've been saying since November that the most important work any of us can do right now is to support the most vulnerable among us who are asking for support.

Honestly the worst news I’ve heard about Mamdani yet. Every politician will try to neutralize him in their own style. Trump & Cuomo are outright colluding, Obama will take a charm offensive. Gives new meaning to “they go low we go high”. Stay strong Zohran. You’ve got much more to offer than “hope”

AOL To Discontinue Dial-Up Internet theonion.com/aol-to-...

Cinema on the Stereo

Had a planet, Couldn’t keep it. I’m so sorry to my daughter and all future generations

If the ATV had a huge MAGA flag you know this dipshit would be celebrating the wheelie as a joyful outburst of patriotism

End of an era. "In 2023, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, an estimated 163,000 households in the United States were using only dial-up for internet service — representing just over 1 percent of the nation’s household internet subscriptions."

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

oh great — so now we’re paying export tariffs too 🎉

Having researched the politics of withdrawal & refusal, I've studied many feminist separatist communities & womyn's lands, most 1970s-80s Pacific Northwest Fascinating to read about this one: for older women in Texas(!) and a landlord/renter model rather than a co-op www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w...

At an event commemorating the 200th birthday of the United States, a sitting Supreme Court Justice was invited to celebrate "the memory of the Founders and the document they drafted in Philadelphia." Justice Thurgood Marshall declined

It’s like these people have never seen a mafia movie. The thug doesn’t come by the shop and ask for payment one time and then go away …

Also worth noting: They’re killing the media industry *first*. Techbros have been very clear that their goal is to put as many people out of work as possible. This is nothing more or less than an attack by the 1% upon the rest of us that, if left unchecked, will crash the global economy.

Can we please put to bed the idea that #LLMs can help with scholarly research? After assembling dozens of titles around a research question, I decided (morbid curiosity) to "check my work" with #ChatGPT. 1/5

Yes Trump is economically illiterate, but it's a failure of econ that there's a lack of critical voices within the field we can trust. The fact that a term like "heterodox" even exists as a marked term, suggesting the preponderance of its others, signals the problem www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...

Well how much

ayooo. Shots fired. LFG NY. Delgado for gov Quick, check out this op-ed before NYT turns on him when he starts winning www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

You’ll think this is gnarly but my favorite snack lately is a piece of toast (any warm chametz will do) with a schmeer of cream cheese & a huge dollop of chili crunch. So good

this captures the logical and legal incoherence of the Brendan Carr FCC. It claims all the legal authority in the world to bully companies who aren't racist or feckless enough, yet somehow no authority to police things that actually matter to real people, like broadband affordability

wow, John Roberts really missed his chance to help move society forward.

In my socialist cosmology, being as universally disparaged after death as Hulk Hogan is pretty much the definition of hell. Which is so appropriate given that he sided with his boss & ratted out his coworkers when they were trying to organize.

Colbert needs to go full Howard Beale and start a campaign to block the merger

Also, “No lying” about a vapid mimic bot that will obsequiously tell you whatever the fuck you want it to say

What is … something that extreme sports bros, elephant seals, and Vannevar Bush have in common? (The answer, says Alec, is: Being cool with dumb little cameras on their heads.)

Wow, simultaneously the most hated and most loved president of all time. How does he do it

You mean learn how to interpret texts and form probing questions? In college?? Wow, we never thought of that, AI brain genius guy.

“Writing is one of the most peaceful ways of communication—a form of listening, a process of thinking, the foundation [of] academic work & the heart of freedom of expression. Unbelievably [writing a student newspaper] opinion piece led to my arrest & detention.” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

I wonder how much better our political situation would be if more people had seen this gem from 2004 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYJc...

How can you be this bad at journalism? ... and congrats to Adelita!

Anyone have a subscription to The Atlantic and feel like sending me a gift link to this 2015 piece? Thx in advance :) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Private equity is a scourge

It’s 3am and I can’t sleep so let’s make a thread of sentences that become utterable if you accept the absurd premise that AI could become god.

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif.

AI has thoroughly destroyed search. I'm trying to find a short story with some keywords & Google AI responded to my query by just making up a story that fits. Of course, the most disgusting thing is the LLM probably pilfered this from the actual story but I still can't find the one I'm looking for

Stop with the autopen. Who gives a shit.