Signs and symbols near the Bowery

Me: Will there be drinks at this thing? Sally: Of course! It's a memorial.

Meteor? I hardly know 'er!

Their new girlfriend is women

so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

Google's place in the platform world has always been its emphasis on the open internet. Search is definitionally that. Their approach to the ad business the same. Took me a while to get that their approach to incorporating AI in search has been a decisive move away from open Int towrd walled garden.

The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.

Claude Code and Grogu

MOSTLY YOU SHOULD MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS

Why is this just so crazy to read from him. Explaining how the robots are not human. Just spelling it out

Want to prove you've had zero exposure to the military? Say "Happy Memorial Day." See also: Happy Good Friday. Happy Yom Kippur.

@nycsanitation.bsky.social I’d like to report a sweep

I really like this definition. Something about people glorifying ideation over productive work. The supremacy of the Ideas Guy.

The Lion, The Witch, The Wardrobe, and Grogu

Worst crossover ever: My Dinner With San Andréas

Just found out the actor who played Gozer the Destructor in the first Ghostbusters movie was not an actual native Gozerian and I am fucking PISSED

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

my yeast: nutritional

In 1872, the Chicago Evening Post published an absolutely brutal editorial mocking people who objected to sharing public spaces with Black people. Still some dated language but a remarkable piece. “Hire a carriage and you can sit all alone by your own sweet self for $2 an hour.”

This analogy is very useful for understanding how AI-generated texts function as literature. While the strings of words might be intelligible, the meaning of those strings are conferred solely by the reader as there is no meaning behind the product itself. AI-generated texts are empty. (1/n)

Zadie Smith: I want to be wanted by a human Cheap Trick: Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'?

Zadie Smith somewhat unexpectedly analogies reading an AI-produced novel to having sex with a machine. No thanks, she says. “I want to be in relation with other humans. That is what I believe I am on this earth to experience.”

PRIEST: (just ate a salad) lettuce spray

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.

terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

Every official who participated in this corrupt DOJ process should face termination or impeachment, followed by a full criminal referral for prosecution. Public trust demands consequence.

Among other experts, the Guardian article also includes commentary from @garymarcus.bsky.social, whose recent blog - Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion - is well worth a read too. 👇

“This idea of superintelligence or consciousness [of LLMs] is pushed by the companies building these things. So when you talk about the systems as conscious, you’re actually doing marketing for these companies.” @timnitgebru.blacksky.app nails it, in this on point opinion piece by Arwa Mahdawi.

[hovering in the air, eyes glowing] pringles are a type of latka

the fuck it will

Do you know I actually think that these people are so inoculated from any public sentiment that they are legitimately shook by a handful of boos at commencements this week?

Funny how two+ years in and we're not hearing about all the massive success stories AI must be responsible for by now

Don’t worry—we have the most brilliant scientists in the world working to make sure it’s not in the Cuisinart mixer’s best interest to kill us all. www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...

This isn’t a new observation, but I think there really is a massive referential calibration problem in public discourse about ‘AI’ and its capabilities. There are at least two sides to this.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

Slightly diminish a book Portnoy's Suggestion

Slightly diminish a book Fear and Loathing in Reno

checking in for a brief moment on the Rededicate 250 blasphemy fest and yep, it's beyond parody

Slightly diminish a book Catch-21

Ugh. This is a scary thread. AI chatbots make it even worse.

This list is more interesting by far !

I’m sorry but “everyone is going to use AI to code their own apps” sounds like “everyone is going to learn HTML and code their own websites.“ like … have you met people? no they’re not

Here's the great thing about AI. If it works as they say it will, it will hurt a lot of people (destroy industries, maybe kill all humans). If it doesn't work, it will hurt a lot of people (destroy companies, global recession from bad investments). Win win!

Mamdani and Grogu

Make a band out of two others The Fabulous Thunderbyrds

Mentioning increasing the House, proportional representation, and fusion voting, as he often has: aside from all the other reasons to be a fan, @jamellebouie.net is one of the few prominent commentators who is genuinely well-versed in the ideas about structural electoral reforms.

Make a band of two others The The Band