It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.

dragons all the way down

maybe in the US, in the UK we had incredibly camp sitcoms (‘allo ‘allo, dad’s army) that did everything to avoid making them look cool but, y’know, back then ppl still remembered how they’d relentlessly bombed our cities

I know this is hard to grasp and maybe boring but even when you’re posting shit from the Epstein files you need at least some context if not sources random jpegs of half redacted text with the word trump highlighted are not the fucking way, c’mon

it’s going to look great at first: a new era of “cheap” phones and laptops, that are light and slim with amazing battery life - because they’re basically just front ends for cloud services, and do zero local compute added bonus: forget trying to block ads when “your” browser is running in the cloud

Tim Maughan wrote a pretty great thing about this, more or less, last year. www.noemamag.com/not-my-probl...

the data center push isn’t just about AI - even if that bubble bursts they want to take computation away from you and put it in the cloud on a subscription - just like they did with media, music, email, all your data etc youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

finally getting round to playing the indie turn based RPG that everyone got excited about this year, and all the hype is justified youtu.be/-fVF2DCX_QA?...

the only advent we celebrate in this house youtu.be/BwXK3m_mJoU?...

It's her.

absolutely astonishing thing for a nobel peace prize winner to say about plans to invade their own country (source: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...)

if I see another academic describe LLMs - a tech owned by a small elite of white billionaires, built from extracting data from humans and minerals from the earth, and refined by the labor of underpaid workers in the global south - as an ‘important tool for decolonization’ I may simply just explode

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

That Samsung AI ad where the guy goes to a museum and his phone tells him about all the art is such a good idea. I hate when you go to museums and they never tell you what any of the stuff is

if I see another academic describe LLMs - a tech owned by a small elite of white billionaires, built from extracting data from humans and minerals from the earth, and refined by the labor of underpaid workers in the global south - as an ‘important tool for decolonization’ I may simply just explode

For me it's the next gen "mystery box" show, so a copy of a copy, smoother edges, less going on, for a generation of people who review movies based on whether "it has a lot of twists and turns" or "it didn't have a lot of twists and turns"

still find myself scratching my head not just about how bad it was, but how much ppl seemed to enjoy it? the best idea in S1 was that the mythology was invented to stop innies going crazy, but they just threw that all out for “it’s real and generations old”? and that the severance tech is old too?

the legend returns with an absolute spanker

shout out to to when I wrote that short story about (amongst other things) celebrity branded finance grifts www.noemamag.com/line-go-up

I know all my mutuals are shitting on this and a lot of people on the post are frowning on this. But it's not enough. The fact that there's still a subset of people that worship this fucking monster genuinely disturbs me.

what your computer should be doing when you’re doing nothing on your computer

am kinda over the damn moon about this review of ANOTHER WORLD ISN'T POSSIBLE in The Whitney Review (but you'll have to buy it to see it)

ICE is staging in a garage on Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan ahead of what neighbors believe is a planned large-scale raid of Canal Street this afternoon. Estimated 20-25 agents inside, with more steadily joining, some taken by surprise and caught with their masks down.

tfw you’d temporarily forgotten who the DA of DC was

I just find this really sad. Imagine being so certain that you need slop machines to do your work, that you convince yourself that EVERYBODY must need them.

The average medieval peasant could not buy a gas station delta 9 gummy and watch “Scooter Fail Compilation 5” on YouTube, which makes it difficult to compare GDP across time

Calling authors petit bourgeoisie is indeed insane. We are artisans and we deserve to profit from our labor. That said, digital piracy has never been shown to represent actual lost sales, and may in fact DRIVE sales. I think authors should cool out about it.

don't think most ppl get quite how badly the Open AI memory deals are going to raise consumer prices for basically all electronics - consoles, smart phones, GPUs, laptops etc If you really want/need to buy something, you're probably best doing it ASAP www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-alt...

If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Ooops.

I think this is appropriate here. Jesus fucking Christ. "House EDM"

piss awful track selection for someone allegedly from chicago

Time for our main story of the week: Chozo Artifacts

Next - try fascism. That should be easy, right?

I can’t believe John Oliver @lastweektonight.com has ruined Metroid Prime 4

just watched a single youtuber call a game "undercooked" (meaning bad), "cooked" (meaning bad), and "fully cooked" (meaning bad) in the space of 5 minutes

not based on how popular Dispatch is! *ducks for cover*

"To maintain safety, no operational details are included in this manuscript' my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

today i am mostly trying to make the phrase "marvel slop" happen

yes i absolutely believe those ppl deserve a right to a trial by jury you absolute insane bastards! we need to get rid of labour and we need to undo all the damage they're doing to our democracy.

phew - turns out the economy isn’t going to collapse, because the AI boom is real and concrete, and not just a case of the emperor’s new clothes source: the emperor www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

'Tis gone made with rage!

Holy fuck. Great Heinlein’s Ghost, fuck Musk and all who follow him or use this piece of shite.

I’m sure I’ll get round to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 eventually, but I’m going to need a mod to make the characters uglier

don’t forget to file, there’s more than a few grand at stake

“kamikaze drones” is the sort of phrase you use when you just googled modern drone warfare 5 minutes ago and it made you think of Pearl harbour and also you are a fucking hack