I don't post on Substack because I already have my own site where I post stuff, and have done for 27 years, and because Substack makes a lot of money off Nazis and fascists and I'd really rather not, thanks. I do have an account there but it's to secure my name. It has a cat photo.

I keep noticing anti-medicine folks always ask for "cures". As in, that's their idea of medicine: "cures", like playing a game and you get poisoned you so you chug an antidote and the poison goes away, that's how they think medicine works. They genuinely don't understand the concept of "treatment".

If a successful gene therapy comes out that does what they’re asking for, they’d be emphatically against it and tell people that gene therapy will turn you into a monkey or something.

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

'I Spilled My Soda,' Report Nation's Dopes https://theonion.com/i-spilled-my-soda-report-nations-dopes-1819572671/

Right-wing media is never held to any level of accountability because 90% of its audience doesn’t believe it’s right-wing media

Does Jeff the FedEx guy know we are celebrating his wonderful service in our chat group? I hope so. Jeff-we love ya man!

Every xAI board meeting.

Feel like this is a good lesson to keep generative AI far from your editorial process as a matter of policy. Ars is a great website. If it can happen there it can happen to anyone that allows these tools in

A friend had to work overnight recently because the llm used by the consultants his managers had hired to do sales analytics for rhe year had come back and told them to discontinue their most popular shoes in middle of hiking season because it randomly hallucinated a better selling shoe.

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

KMBC: "A woman tried to set a fire at a South Kansas City warehouse that had been rumored as a possible ICE detention center. Earlier today, the company that owns the property confirmed it is no longer moving forward with a sale to the U.S. government."

I'm sorry, SBF was illegally using customer deposits for FTX/Alameda's investments in startups. It doesn't matter that those investments would have (eventually, but speculatively at the time) paid off. It's still fraud!

it's not FOR us

Sorry, kid, the government cancelled research into a cure for your disease. The man who swims in sewage and snorts cocaine in public restrooms said it's bad for you. Besides, there's no money now that we're locking up your friend's parents and the guys who mowed our lawn.

MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes

i am very poorly today, & very stupid, & hate everybody, & everything - charles darwin and also me

In honor of Women's History Month, I'll be giving a handful of talks at eight different San Antonio Public Library branches throughout March! Come explore the long and fascinating history of women in motorsport with me! Head to the link in my bio (or go right to my website) for more details.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

The reason I doomscroll is because I don't have to think! Now I have to explicitly tell the algorithm (more work!) what I want to see instead of just watching stuff passively? It's the worst timeline.

Reminder that, if you don't want your skeets to show up on some cable news channel's feed the next time they have to fill a few minutes and don't feel like actually reporting anything of substance? Just fucking swear in it. A shitload.

I’m still reeling from that Pam Bondi bullshit from yesterday

@gabydvj.bsky.social on the namesake of the Whipple building in Minneapolis, where immigrants and their neighbors are being held

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

Duck Duck Go has alot of AI shit but they’ve very intentionally made all of it a thing where they go “do you want to use our AI shit? Here is how to turn the AI shit off” and just that little bit of basic customer respect goes a long way

Happy Darwin Day 2026! 🧪 "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871).

Speaking of Homan bsky.app/profile/numb...

AI is the new COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented Language) my first programming job out of college in the early 2000s was in COBOL so this is very funny to me

CDT applauds advancement of New York product life bill. With technology innovating rapidly, consumers need to know how long the manufacturer will support the product they are purchasing, so they know they can get full value from it.

The potential for upheaval is precisely why economic elites wield AI as a weapon to threaten workers, even as we've seen time and again that AI cannot actually replace what humans do. You can take these dynamics seriously without buying into the framing of the people doing the threatening.

Front page of this month’s edition of The Onion.

every video essay i watch now has all this shitty interpretive scaffolding that adds 0 value. it's obvious this is b/c it's very easy for LLMs to predict when something is "not scarce, it's abundant" or "not a problem, but an opportunity," or to say "this isn't about control. It's about freedom."

10 years ago they told us AI and self-driving cars were going to wipe out up to half of all jobs. They didn’t. But while everyone was talking about whether they would, companies rolled out algorithmic management and used digital tech as a pretext to reclassify workers as contractors.

Stock market will skyrocket when certain good news happens.

$345 is actually a bargain for a first edition of Old Man's War, there's only 3700 of the first printing and just 7700 of the standard hardcover, not counting Science Fiction Book Club versions (which are black where the Tor version is blue). Signed versions of 1st printing can sell for $1k+.

A federal government MAHA website, advertised during the superbowl, is directing users to Grok to "get real answers about real food"? (Via @almsnatalie.bsky.social) www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

I need people to stop pretending that betting markets add any value to our society

This is unsurprising. "AI" is just another middle-man between you and your work.

So what's happening here is that Walz is likely negotiating a deal where ICE would be allow access to our justice system to detain supposed undocumented people accused of crimes. Note the "accused." ICE is grabbing people from *pre-trial* hearings, so people who have not had their day in court.

NEW: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff ‘joked’ with employees who had traveled to the United States for a Salesforce all-hands meeting that ICE agents were in the building keeping tabs on them, 404 Media has learned.

GOLDMAN: Do you know what other regimes in the 20th century required similar proof of citizenship? LYONS: Various nefarious regimes did that GOLDMAN: Is Nazi Germany one? LYONS: This is the wrong type of question

That’s a fascist roster, and if you join it, and you purport to be a libertarian, at a minimum you’re trying to suggest fascism is libertarian.

An autistiphobic moral panic fabricated by those with zero morals inflicted innocent children with measles. Now as outbreaks rage, "doctor" Oz audaciously gaslights, claiming “we have advocated for measles vaccines all along” and that Kennedy “has been on the very front of this.”

In case you thought I was kidding. Ryan Clark posted this and immediately they ask "Grok". So Grok is the arbiter of truth. The CSAM maker is the arbiter of truth. Epstein lives, baby.

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

The fun thing about telling the truth is you don't have to constantly change your story.

Yup. This is also why I get annoyed when people start suggesting "golden age" science fiction titles to people who are new the genre and are asking for suggestions. You want to turn a modern 15-year-old off science fiction forever, recommend stories that were old when her grandparents were her age.