Holy White Jesus, I'm glad to see AI eating itself.

FFS. I'm getting irritated by this shit. "Only the gormless chode could fall for AI personality" seems to be the modern version of "people could quit nicotine any time if they put some actual effort into it." It may be true of you (maybe, maybe not) but it doesn't help the legion now in harm's way.

I am not going to get into the habit of posting AI slop, but honestly! Take a gander at the guy lifting weights at the start of this blessed thing. This is from the same mudskippers who brought you Tai Chi Walking and Asian Women's Pilates. Brah skipped leg day I guess. youtu.be/O6DNM27o4F4

This morning I listened to "Under The Influence of AI" (on BBC World Service but part of the BBC's "The Documentary Podcast"). Followed an American woman and Irish man who each basically got drawn into an AI-driven psychosis. Both got themselves out without ruining their lives. But....

Exactly one year ago today:

I hope whoever came up with the term "mouthfeel" got crotchpunched. Every time I've heard it since first learning it maybe 30 years ago it's evoked such a feeling of disquiet I lose track of the conversation. "Delightful cheese. Fragrant. Nutty. Creamy mouthfeel...." (and I'm out.)

"Stardate 2028.3. Shift starts in 25 space minutes but food replication is still on hold. Word is Elon wants a South African delicacy called "Licorice All Sorts" so we have to wait. Today I'll be mopping up Reactor 3 (Ol' Leaky), but later I play Quiet Guy #2 at Starbucks for Bezos and his date."

Really?!? Really?!?! We're doing this again? Fuck every outlet that covers this story without researching how "Facilitated Communication" collapsed in the 1990s and how it fed on the tortured lives of parents of kids with severe autism. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

I used to be a space nerd. Saw Armstrong's first step at age 3. Built a scale model of the Atlas 5. But I could not care less about Artemis. Can't shake the feeling it's all toward a country club for billionaires and a 80-hour-a-week bellhop/barista job for everyone else. Caramel macchiato for Elon!

Never forget that wherever "The Algorithm" exists it will feed you a steady diet of content that is topical, reinforces your sense of fear and anxiety and aligns with your beliefs. And right now the stupidest, laziest people on earth are saying, "OMG LOOK HERE!!" I mean, check out that fucking map!!

Maybe not the end of the petrodollar but rather an end to US veto power over oil trade. What a spectacular surrender of US strategic self interest in return for absolutely nothing. asiatimes.com/2026/03/iran...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is proud to present its winners of the 2027 Donald J. Trump Academy Awards. Here to accept his 34 Donalds in person, please join us in welcoming President Donald J. Trump.

How it started. How it's going. *Seven* God damned days later.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "Even though I wrote this only six months ago I have to rewrite all of it to match my current, totally amazing, state-of-the-art standards."

Know how there's faux-Chinese fonts for English? (Imagine some delivery place named Ho Lee Chow or whatever.) Thailand does that too for Japanese (and Korean). I read both Japanese and Thai (poorly) so you'd think a logo like this wouldn't murder my brain. Wrong. (It says เส้น ไหม not レらゆ 1れ゚み)

As AI scrapers drive up operational costs for actual "original content providers" today, they are propelling us towards a future where such providers are no longer necessary. When we get there, what incentive will remain to publish a website? And where do we get our new data & new ideas?

Ads with AI presenters still have them do the same, stupid, vacant hand gestures we humans do. I get it. They're trained on videos where we hold the same imaginary football again and again because we're told to "do something with our hands." I just expected something more coherent and articulate.

“Doctors won’t tell you this, but you don’t need medication for a tapeworm—all you need is the natural power of friction,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said as he dropped to the floor, lifted his legs high, and dragged his ass along the White House carpet during a press conference.

FEMA: Watch out for ice. DHS: Why don't you go ahead and stop saying that. DOT: Watch out for black ice. DHS: Oh, come on. Now you guys are just making shit up!

Just divide by zero who gives a shit anymore

#ResistanceRoots Lynn Conway was born on this day in 1938 in Mount Vernon, N.Y. She was a computer scientist, electrical engineer and prominent transgender rights activist whose work at IBM and Xerox PARC fundamentally reshaped the architecture of modern computing and the semiconductor industry. /1

Today I learned there was such a thing as a tai chi sword. That, and the utter bombardment of "tai chi walking" ads on YouTube, makes me wonder what the fuck people think tai chi is good for. Spoiler: joint pain, meditation, body awareness (proprioception). M'kay? MadMuscles & billionaires get bent.

We tried it. And it failed. Women must simply learn to take a seat. God damn it, Canada! Not that kind of seat!!! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Major security advisory on a minor dependency. Requires update to the latest version. Current version is two years old.

Tired: Google Reactor 1 Wired: Google Exclusion Zone 1 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Great news: SpareX expects its next Starship booster to be the first in human history to land in a SOLO or Elon Musk has to take a massive rip off his bong.

Facebook now looks just like an abandoned blog riddled by SQL-injection attacks. But the company that once powered Cambridge Analytica happily hosts this nightmare fuel. Effort & expense went into this and much more and I cannot imagine a reasonable explanation. For them or for Facebook's obeisance.

I've realized #ChatGPT is like asking a random person at an elite prep school, mid-semester. You'll get answered with real conviction, but it may be right for right reasons, right for the wrong reasons, wrong for the wrong reasons, or idiotic and it won't show its work. May your seeds guide you true

I know this looks like AI, but it's not. I took this photo on a back street in Tomari, Naha, Okinawa in 2013. This is by far the weirdest example I saw, but that island has lots of cats with the same phenotype: long hair, predominantly black with orange patches.

That said, mine is the generation that killed the English subjunctive. It survives today an anachronistic remnant; e.g. "If I were you...." My grandparents would have said, "Were it possible we would," or "Best it be done by noon," but me and my peeps killed that dead. So I expect no mercy.

there's a point of social media where if you're not careful it's really really easy to float into a dreamland of your own construction once you've got a big enough audience, anything you say attracts both a swarm of hateful maniacs and also a swarm of loving followers telling you you're a genius--

I have a good feeling about Count Chokula: Breaking Fast. I'm so pumped for the General Mills Cinematic Universe! Boo Berry has always been under-utilized. Heist movie + Lucky Leprechaun? Uh, sploosh?! And tell me to my face Trix Rabbit isn't ready to be the next Tyler Durden!

I just saw a YouTube video where a guy recommended rebooting your Windows computer regularly because leaving it running as long as *8 hours* could "harm your components." The comments were appropriate and unforgiving. But I had to see. The uptime on my MacBook? 151 days. I'm... not proud of that.

It's-a me! Andrew.