Boycott Target because their AI might randomly and falsely accuse you of theft and then have you arrested and upend your life.

Jack Dorsey, CEO of Block who laid of 40% of the company due to AI efficiencies, describes how to judge the success of their AI adoption. He plans to reduce management layers from 5 managers between a worker and the CEO to 2-3 this year. The ideal is eventually 0 and all 6000 people report to him.

This is hilarious, but there’s also more genuine journalism happening here than in a hundred NYT think-pieces about why you should take some problematic weirdo seriously. The interviewer knows exactly how to handle his subject: don’t legitimize him, force him to try (and fail) to legitimize himself.

It’s important to know that water regulation in Arizona is extremely complicated. But one thing we do know is that former AZ governor Doug Ducey (R) sold a lot of our groundwater to Saudi Arabia to raise alfalfa for cattle. We just shouldn’t be raising crops for export here at all IMO.

In a first last month, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the shift to clean energy.

I'm starting to feel like we've become "Garfield" for an elite cadre of gay cyberteens

and now I can go HOME and SLEEP and no longer single-handedly prop up the Hungarian economy by drinking endless little glasses of that shockingly pink rosé that they make but which actually tastes all nice and dry, good BYE

disrupting my path to nirvana by choosing violence yet again

I personally think not safe to remain in any personal relationship with anyone who is using LLMs to analyze your relationship, make conclusions about your motives, or determine how to treat you. I think this is beyond red flag—it should be an immediate dealbreaker.

I can't stop laughing at this in Spiked from the head of the MCC think tank (the guys who just hosted Matt Goodwin's speech in Hungary to 17 people and one @jonworth.eu, and whose government funding Magyar just eliminated). "Orban lost because the kids went to therapy." Cope and seethe, Boomer.

About as safe as giving a sex crazed teenager a computer, a credit card, switching of virus scanning and then wondering why every piece of malware on the planet is active on it after two weeks and your cc is overdrawn by 17,000$. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/25/p...

you could put jd vance in charge of a party at a brothel in vegas and he'd manage to somehow both get herpes and not get laid, he is a generational fuckup talent that we haven't seen since, like, spiro agnew, who no one younger than me even knows existed

i find the resurrection of vibecession discourse very weird. it's very obvious why people feel poorer even if the economy is generally doing well by the metrics: price inflation. you can argue about whether or not that's a reasonable metric but they will all tell you that is what's annoying them.

Energy policy think tanks keep putting out proposals like "give Mark Zuckerberg sole control over our utility rates by making him America's next grid czar" and the people in Everytown, America are like "go ahead and fuckin try"

Regarding the “Vibescession” stuff you guys have been arguing about, I’d ask: if we don’t trust the public to give a reliable answer on questions as basic as “do you feel better or worse off” then, well: why bother asking them anything at all? Might as well just bash on, in that case.

Experts Very Confident That Disease That Makes Health Problems Worse Is Not Responsible For Worsening Health Problems

Think an underrated part of why Starmer is Like That is that like most very successful people, he has had a long career of “I can reshape my work load to avoid my areas of weakness”, and you cannot be an effective prime minister on that basis.

a guy making minimum wage in a society where making minimum wage lets you comfortably live out your life is going to feel infinitely richer than someone who makes double his salary but wakes up every morning wondering if some jackass has decided to put him into another form of economic precarity

economists struggling with everyone feeling poorer despite good economic indicators while sociology has pretty easy answers for this one: everything has been in crisis for 6+ years and no one is confident about being able to afford to live in the near future, which is just what being poor feels like

“It's a shame that the Pope has made the Catholic Church political” is one of the most amazing sentences ever uttered by a politician. Elite stuff. Arguably the most wrong a person could be, including rejecting basic arithmetic.

Now, you might say, "What about all the knowledge we'd lose if we push all the abusive geniuses out of academia?!" But I'd counter and say, "Well, what about the knowledge we've already lost from the budding scholars whose careers they've derailed with their abuse?"

Public health and infection control leadership summed up in four images. Krever Commission 1997; SARS Commission 2006, which cited Krever; the UK COVID Inquiry last month, conspicuously NOT citing the SARS Commission indicating IPC / PH managed to bury it; and total excess deaths from the pandemic.

as a non Christian I am wildly impressed by how well they predicted Trump in the Know Your Antichrist section of the Bible

"Even before the current crisis, Agrawal said, the MTerra Solar project could sell 13 hours of power a day from solar panels and arrays of lithium-ion batteries at prices that undercut imported LNG." The math is pretty simple.

ALWAYS going to highlight the use of PRINT MATERIALS in the library, which everyone continues to say no one uses

When I say I did not expect to ever see large scale support of my work, esp after the NEH was gutted, it’s bc according to the hierarchy of academia I’m below the notice of many major funders. (Which is ridiculous to say! I’m so privileged! But there’s eye-watering levels beyond even my privilege)

A fundamental category error of a bunch of engineers and in particular AI/ML ones is their belief that "everything accessible on the internet" or even "everything digitized" is the same as *everything*. A zettaflop doesn't get you everything; what's digitized is very importantly *not* everything.

* ha ha ha ha * The year is 1503, and this jester is laughing at you from his woodcut, reader!

now they tell us lol www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...

My kids' school texting me complaints about how many days of school they've missed this year as if they don't have a doctor's note for almost every single one of those days. I'm sorry, should I have sent her to school with pneumonia? Would that have been better? JFC. 😩🫠

some good news for once. Judge Sansone has again rejected the government's claim that I am a dangerous criminal who needs strict supervision & thus as of today am free to travel anywhere in the continental u.s., no longer have daily random drug tests, etc. Thank you to everyone who helped out.

1. The Spartans were famously stoppable. They were defeated numerous times. 2. The Spartans did not invent military strategy ... that is just silly. 3. Just no.

Wow, this video, put up by the always-disappointing World History Encyclopedia is impressive for how many egregious historical errors it manages to pack into just 40 seconds. Just an astounding master-class on being confidently wrong.

"In lieu of learning outcomes, we now ask whether students have a warm sense of what learning might feel like and whether they can recall, with confidence, that they took 'chemistry.' If so, we mark that as 'exceeds expectations.'"

by changing it from "how compelling is the person talking to you?" to "does the story about how the money flows make sense?" you avoid the potential for the emotional appeal to cloud your judgment. the story is very straight-forward for any recognised charity like WCK or PCRF, in comparison.

USA 7 days ago: OPEN THE STRAIT OR DIE USA today: CLOSE THE STRAIT OR DIE

As somebody exiting the technology industry, it really does annoy me that for years and years and years we were all told "learn to code, learn to code, become agile, you should be working in tech" and then that all got farted out the window as soon as they thought they could minimise costs.

Yes, what serious people around the world thought was "boy, I'm so glad the couch-fucker is getting involved."

AI directly flies in the face of nearly every economic model & I simply don’t think people understand just how impractical it is.

Any government that isn't right now accelerating plans to transition to 100% clean, renewable energy is either: a. Incompetent b. In the pockets of people who'd rather they didn't c. a & b

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

So the Hungarian opposition's big idea was Vote Harder? And they thought, what, that they could vote the fascists out?

But why has China become a global leader in renewable energy production? Because the fossil fuel industry has used its enormous influence (and funding) to attack any moves towards a transition to renewable energy in the West, using both the libertarian & far right political movements & the media.

There’s a point where the “they’re inevitable” narrative just… cracks. Orban lost - properly lost. And suddenly a lot of other “untouchable” of the hard-right figures are looking a bit less untouchable.

America going down in flames bro and nobody wants to admit it’s bc America literally had a psychotic break in response to the Black President.

The point of the university as a concept is that it's been here for a thousand years and meant to be here another thousand. Turning education over to producing what the market needed five years ago is never going to work well.

They are now at 138. Hungary is 1000% done with Orbán's shit and anyone associated with him.