Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Yes, hello? I don’t think 2026 is working properly. I’d like to cancel my free 5 day trial please.

If you can read German: @zeitz.bsky.social wrote the most reasonable press piece on AI that I’ve read in a long while. For 2026, we need a lot less hype and a bit more thinking.

The human rights violations on our own soil and the extrajudicial killings in the water were bad enough. But the actual kidnap of Maduro and murder of Venezuelans there is a full scale declaration of war. So many more people are going to die for decades because of his narcissism and stupidity.

When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv You can never change or guilt it Just go find the guys who built it When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv

Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.

A gangster state at home, a rogue state abroad: and entirely because Congress and the Supreme Court have abdicated their proper constitutional roles.

Because international media largely seems to struggle to choose the correct wording to describe what’s happening: the US, under the self describes „peace president“, attacked another country and kidnapped its president. That is factual, no matter how bad or illegitimate Maduro‘s rule is (very bad).

5 years ago to the day, the US committed a different international crime when they assassinated Iranian general Soleimani. At the time, some outlets reported that the US military offered Trump a range of possible actions and Trump, thinking the way a toddler thinks, just picked the most extreme one.

Right now Greenland and Canada are watching the world's response to the motherfucker doing the illegal invasion he said he was going to do.

it's time to admit that osama bin laden won a total victory over the united states

Arrest Donald Trump

There's zero legal basis for the US to use force against Venezuela, which is a sovereign state. It's as much illegal aggression as Russia invading Ukraine, and unconstitutional violation of war powers as well.

I’m 47, and my whole adult life has been shaped by idiotic wars, one financial crisis after another, and the complete annihilation of the Republican Party. I cannot imagine the stress and anger and trauma of those who only know life after 9/11.

there are endless headlines about "grok apologizes" or "grok says it will be fixed" after it generated CSAM using pictures of minors and zero headlines about "grok being shut down" or "musk and xAI in big legal trouble" and I think something fundamental has broken here

grok didn't say shit. Grok is not sentient. This is you helping musk escape accountability for this shit. Journalism fail.

This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

What book would you choose to be sworn in on? I don’t see anything wrong with using the Bible or the Qu‘ran, but a religious text wouldn’t be my personal choice. Maybe a copy of “The Demon-Haunted World” by Carl Sagan?

My daughter getting into the school she wanted, alongside some of her closest friends. Or, if it’s strictly about things happening to me personally: Getting another book contract and then writing said book.

Maybe, instead of doing this, our rule for 2026 should be: If you understood what the person was trying to say, who cares if it was written correctly. Seriously. We misunderstand each other so often. How about if we get someone’s meaning we’re just glad about it, without bothering about spelling.

Permanent ban then, wonderful

DHS now says it's aiming for 100 million deportations. In an amazing coincidence, there are 104 million Black and Hispanic people living in the U.S. right now.

Happy New Year to all you wonderful people living in my phone. I am very grateful to have you all. What we will face in 2026, we’ll face together.

I was gonna post a hopeful and inspirational message for 2026 but I just got a nasty reminder about things that I fucked up in 2025. So now I don’t know what to say.

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

Holy shit!

“Support what’s good, resist what’s not” is my mantra for 2026

Your US citizenship protects you from a lot of things. But it can’t protect you from Trump and his shock troops. If you look wrong, or you think wrong, they’ll take you in anyways. newrepublic.com/article/2026...

I split AI into 3 non-mutually exclusive types (see Table 1 above): displacement (harmful), enhancement (beneficial), and/or replacement (neutral) of human cognitive labour. More later possibly, but see Tables 2 to 4 (attached or here: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960) for the worked through examples. 2/n

Hans Bethe, the scientist who worked in both the Manhattan Project & USA H-bomb programs, wrote in 1983 a 40 page history called "The Story of Los Alamos." It seems not to be publicly available online except where I have made it so, free for all: osf.io/thjpk #NukeSKY 1/n

Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice. Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.

i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides

Two things we need to do as soon as possible: 1) Have a meaningful conversation, as a society, to discuss how we can best support people dealing with suicidal thoughts and ideation. 2) Switch off those infernal chatbots until we can fix this.

I honestly believe that, if this was implemented and they got a large exclusive plaque that reads “Achievement unlocked: Finished capitalism. Only 0.00001% of players achieve this goal,” many if not most current billionaires would be happy with it. For some of them it’s mostly about ego anyway.

I won’t tag them but there are a few fairly large science-adjacent accounts on here (who are followed by a lot of y’all) who have been bashing the work and person of @irisvanrooij.bsky.social for the last few days. I feel it important to note that, as far as I can tell, those people are full of shit

For many, the end of the year is an opportunity to catch up on reading or to purchase books as gifts. In 2025, a number of authors joined the Tech Policy Press podcast, providing fresh insights into how technology interacts with people, politics, and power. Check out the list:

Disco Elysium is the best game I have ever played. So if you want to try, please grab it on Epic store before the deal is gone!

The best game of all time

Friends! For the next 22 hours, Disco Elysium is free to grab in the Epic Games store. I bought it earlier this year (for a discount, but not a 100% one like today) and enjoyed it tremendously, as expected. It might even have found its way into my new book, out in May. Be sure to grab the game!

Shocking and disgusting move by the criminals running the US www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

“You could just tell something was off about them” sounds a little too close to “the victims were idiots for not seeing what I saw” so try and stop saying that whenever someone you found annoying on TV turns out to be a sex pervert.

whether or not you use AI personally, it is making computer Worse and there’s nothing you can do about it

In Germany, Christmas is celebrated TODAY so Merry Christmas to everyone who’s out there waiting for Santa 🎅🏻 and/or Christkind 👼🏻 to bring presents 🎁 and I’m wishing you and your loved ones wonderful holidays 💫

How do you tune (or modulate) an instrument in ancient Babylonia? Fragmentary instructions have survived that tell you how to go from one mode to another on a 9-stringed musical instrument called a sammû

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look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

The New York Times published their list of the 100 best movies of the 21st century. Turns out I’ve seen 65 of them, with some embarrassing gaps that I still need to fill. But there are also some bad and/or pretentious choices in there if you ask me.

But either way, the claims of AI being some amazing way to find "cures" are unscientific and damaging to our ability to discuss medical research. Modern AI is statistics and statistics just doesn't work that way (it cannot find cures); neither does clinical or any research (it cannot be automated).