every single thing i learn about american immigration law makes me want to [redacted] stephen miller and every one of his spiritual ancestors

attending a session on how to file a habeus petition as a non-lawyer instead of watching the SOTU

1. The New York Times, unsurprisingly, has released yet another hit piece on transgender people. This time, it comes from Jesse Singal. I fact check it in my latest piece. End your NYT subscription, and put it towards people doing good work on the issue. Subscribe to support our journalism.

What a good time to celebrate the incredible career, accomplishments, and spirit of Delroy Lindo with this wide-ranging interview with our Jim Hemphill, a fan whose admiration is clear in every word: www.indiewire.com/awards/consi...

"i had to go to the hospital because a shake shack worker poisoned my shake with chlorine :(" "i had to go to the hospital because the snow reminded me of fentanyl" "i got so mad at the teens who threw a snowball at me i had a stroke while driving home to north hempstead" new york's finest, everyone

plows keep going by and completely burying the paths people have shoveled to, you know, allow pedestrians to actually cross the street, and it is INFURIATING

i've seen a few people now hypothesize that this is a stealth prequel to The Expanse and hell yeah

absolutely love getting a piece of mail from a company i've never heard of to tell me they have my SSN and experienced a data breach over a year ago that included my SSN

The 1st time the nyt leadership engaged me on trans issues, in 2021, they asked my opinion of a Jesse Singal review of a book by the transphobic writer Helen Joyce. The piece had been assigned by Pamela Paul 🧵

the logical endpoint of treating higher education as a consumer product

i need to go make a snowman after reading this. "the pitt makes you a NIMBY" charlie brown didn't have hoes

hey quick question what the fuck is happening, weather-wise

the people forcing this shit on all of us are dumb as a bag of hammers

orson welles pronouncing biographer “bee-ographer” in F For Fake

why does an ai company need a "copy and content lead" can't their precious agents just do that

me and steve's entire relationship is just us going "instead of using this money for a wedding/property/vacation, what if we made a movie with it"

you should be allowed to knock the phone out of someone’s hand if they’re playing videos out loud

carbrain is so pervasive in america that you'll never stop seeing ostensibly progressive americans defend speeding and vehicular manslaughter

zone of interest/melancholia double feature

It's Friday night baby

starting to see Q&As that have very obviously been transcribed using AI and y'all you have to go back in and edit the transcripts it spits out

"financier" is a fake ass job title. magic bean-counting-ass job title

the only hobbit who looks into a palantir in LotR is immediately fucked up by it and also hobbits who join sharkey's men to brutalize their own people are shamed into resigning as soon as frodo & co. return www.wired.com/story/depart...

i don't really need another project but the explosion in "prediction markets" makes me really want to write a book that positions capitalism as a totalizing ideology

mechanical turks all the way down

And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting. In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...

i'm in like 100 signal chats now but none of them are forums for doing little bits, which is my default mode of communication

I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website* I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...

this person is only of interest as a symptom of a disease that is affecting young boys, tied to the socially ambient body dysmorphia that comes from looking at yourself too much

honestly i think a bunch of these people do believe they have a sentient being that must obey their every command because deep in their hearts they want a slave

you're not allowed to tell me it's not true that the (wolf?)dog who was on the skiing course at the olympics is named Nazgûl

Nazgul, owned by a former skier whose house is 500 metres away from the course, so he just escaped his garden essentially to see what all the fuss was about. Alice Varesco spotted the incident on TV and recognised her pup. She was attending a different race.

"you can't get a new phone or computer because elon musk's AI company needs the components to spit out hundreds of thousands of pieces of CSAM"

you know, it was really, really fucking hard making an entire feature film for $85K. we needed more money, more time, a gaffer who wasn't a weird diva who quit on day 4. i had a total breakdown on day 11 of 12. but i'd rather go through all that again than just feed the script through a machine

"the left must adopt the technology that produces CSAM and falsehoods, induces psychosis, and is built on theft and exploitation because i don't have to learn R to analyze data" is a buck wild opinion to have

oh nice another seeing-stone to be claimed by the sea due to overwhelming hubris

This story is also personal for me -- I had my own run-in with an unstable man who seemed to be fixating on me via Microsoft Copilot. In addition to other delusional, violent, and uncomfortable statements, the man told me he and Copilot had surmised that I was a "gateway" on his "Job journey":

this is what happens when your model ingests a bunch of twin flames shit!!!

we have to burn it to the ground and salt the earth

neither i nor steve like wearing rings, so we just got tattoo-rings instead

what's funny in a horrible way is that magazines like newsweek had male reporters who fed their reporting to underpaid female writers/researchers and then used the resulting copy whole cloth in their stories with no credit, there was a whole book and TV show about this (Good Girls Revolt)

i genuinely don't believe gavin newsom would stop the concentration camps. i think he would fill them with homeless people

the man running the surveillance technology underpinning a fascist state has the same belief about fentanyl as the dumbest cop you've ever seen

cheese, imo

"i was so sick with COVID i had to use an AI tool to help me finish my article by the deadline" is simply not acceptable

you actually don't have to do a splashy profile about a socially inept, racist 20-year-old whose parents allowed him to pump himself full of steroids starting at age 14 and who attributes his physical features to smashing himself in the face with a hammer and using meth

love new york magazine's writers, do not love the back-end bullshit that autoplays kara swisher and scott galloway's video podcast on every article in order to artificially juice the metrics so they can justify the insane amount of money they spend on those two instead of other talent

if i were to have seen a video of a white woman in a blouse and skinny jeans and comfy sandals setting fire to a building that was to be sold to ICE—which i absolutely did not, to be clear—i would probably make some kind of "millennial excellence" remark but i didn't see that, and neither did you

turns out "leadership" is mostly just enthusiastically showing up and patiently answering questions you have no actual answers to

it would actually be cool if @bythebywater.bsky.social were nominated