Why isn’t Barney in Jurassic Park? It’s more complicated than you think.

Faust is grinning

On LinkedIn the CEO of a company called Hypervision is boosting his AI / "holographic" replacement for actual airport information staff. A commenter called it dystopian. This was his reply: "Innovation often feels dystopian, until it becomes normal" I. Can't. Even.

One thing I didn't put in this essay is that I spent quite a bit of time giving this tech a shot. And I'm not an amateur I was a senior software and network engineer before I moved into social scientist. In everything I tried, the veneer of utility peeled back very easily

Opinion on the potential and future of so-called "generative AI" is polarized to the point of hyperbole. But if you peel back the extremes, we're having an important debate. My take on the ethics of AI. conservechange.medium.com/is-ethical-a...

if microsoft just made outlook search not suck they'd see triple the productivity gains of any AI integration

Opinion on the potential and future of so-called "generative AI" is polarized to the point of hyperbole. But if you peel back the extremes, we're having an important debate. My take on the ethics of AI. conservechange.medium.com/is-ethical-a...

Boss tip: watch the Buffy reboot instead of the Harry Potter reboot.

"if God is really love, if that truly is the essence of the Divine, then God is for same-gender marriages and non-heteronormative marriages, for the same reason God is for any loving, respectful, interdependent union." Nice piece here from @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social

For me it was Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn. My best friend, Juan, gave it to me to read on the plane on my way to a business trip. When I got to my layover I called him on a pay phone, yes you read that right, and my first words to him were, “now what am I supposed to do?”

Going nuts now!!

Aurora in Grass Valley, CA

“Oh, hey, so you caved on healthcare? Ok well let’s do abortion next.”

They want a system in which most people never accumulate any of their own wealth, a sort of permanent indentured servitude--a subscription plan for existing in which they thrive and the rest of us toil

Hello @support.bsky.team why has @sarahkendzior.bsky.social been suspended without explanation?????

Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.

They're not just going to pull the football out of the way they plan on pummeling us with it.

Hemp rule creates turbulence for Senate vote to end shutdown

Some good news for an effing change. www.scotusblog.com/2025/11/supr...

I’d say that @schumer.senate.gov is a terrible minority leader but that would require me to believe he is actually trying to lead the minority.

It pains me that more people will read that copium-addled hallucination by Chait in the NYT on Mamdani’s win than will read Moxon’s excellent reflection:

One of my most unpopular takes is that Van Halen was better with Sammy Hagar

In fact, “AI” *already gives this answer* (without the snark, anyway)

As much as I want to see my best friend this weekend? I say fine. Do it. Cancel flights. Most people will blame Trump and the GOP.

This 👇

Election results tonight are not just a referendum on people disliking Trump. They’re a referendum on pluralism. The left wing politics people want is diverse and local but grounded to a shared commitment to protecting each other and lifting each other up.

Best post of the night

Dick Cheney is among the upper echelon of people responsible for the dumpster fire we're living through today. The Patriot Act, Torture, lies about WMDs in Iraq. He was a warmonger and a war criminal.

“In this shameful careless age, we can and should and must choose to not be careless people.” Moxon’s writing, especially lately, has an essential clarity that slices right through the bullshit and equivocation and hand wringing of mainstream political discourse.

Name movie or tv universes that aren’t connected but should be.. game on! Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Supernatural Farscape and Firefly Sliders and Stargate SG1 Warehouse 13 and Friday the 13th: The Series Lost and The 100 and Manifest

Do any of those "critics" who wrote scathing reviews of Life of a Showgirl think they made the world a better place with their words? Just rode the Peloton "Life of a Showgirl" ride with Ally Love and I tell you what, it was fun, positive, a room full of cyclists of all ages digging each song.

It really is something special when the World Series is between the best two teams in baseball. Let’s go Blue Jays!!

The only appropriate way to say “Bo Bichette” is fast and strung together like Han Solo saying “Boba Fett? Boba Fett!” in Empire Strikes Back

Really spectacular technology this AI thing!

Update: now Google has let me know that LA won the series. 13 minutes before the start of Game 7

Google just sent me a push notification that the Blue Jays won game 7 (it hasn’t started yet), and when I clicked theough it took me to this AI summary that said the Dodgers won game 7 but with details about game 6 from last night. AI is the future amirite?

It isn’t a “fall.” Rich white people just overwhelmingly favour fascism.

They’ll do anything they can to frame the affordability crisis as a personal failing not an economic one.

Checking out a science article, and @elsevierconnect.bsky.social prompted me to use their AI tool to "read strategically, not sequentially" I cannot understate how damaging to science that notion is. Using findings out of context is what gets you the MAHA movement. Shame on you Elsevier.

Hey @grahamformaine.bsky.social— you want to confirm your cred as a progressive candidate? Do an interview with me. I grew up in Maine. I’m about as progressive as they come. I have no skin in the game. And I’m a trained social scientist, which means I do my research and see bullshit a mile away

Has anybody seen an online version of the British Columbia World Series ad that just ran?

Is this ump saying “no!” for balls?

So I’m doing a thing. Stage is my daughter’s passion but when her company said they were auditioning for a show with adults also, her mom and I thought what the heck. I haven’t let myself have time for something creative in years They cast me as Lt. Ward. Should I tell them I’m an abolitionist? lol

Oh.

My overdeveloped Irish sense of superstition has convinced me that this post is why the Jays lost last night. Tonight I promise to watch every commercial with the utmost gratitude.

Honestly these people probably know they're being dishonest with this "attack". I mean, who didn't grow up with an aunt or uncle in their life that wasn't actually their parents' siblings? Just so tiresome.

This is reason 1,000,001 that growing up amidst diversity is so important, so people don't grow up with a simplistic, narrow understanding of things that are actually fluid and wholly socially constructed. In this case it is what constitutes an "aunt". See also: gender and sex

Somebody needs to count how many times John Smoltz has speculated about who would be the “hero” in this game

These Fox commercials are driving me insane. Is that the guy who plays Col. Sanders bleeding from the eyes in a medical drama?