The biggest obvious problem with recommendation algorithms seems to be the false presumption that people don’t like variety.

Days like today are why big tech wants you talking to chatbots instead of other people.

On my block, my friend Candelario (José) was taken by ICE from his food truck, El Saborcito. His family is requesting support to survive his absence and pay for his legal support. His goal is almost reached, but he is part of a community of support, so extra funds will get to the right place.

look man i am *also* getting whiplash from posting things like "tobey macguire's first arachnid movie was the spider house rules" right alongside the most depraved actions of the US and Israel, but that is just life right now ok

You can very clearly see why someone whose job it is to protect war criminals would need this pulled from the airwaves: It’s visible proof the Trump administration is operating concentration camps.

God it feels so fucking outstanding to be approaching 40 as a millennial in a culture where hag horror is everywhere, and everyone is—to their greatest ability—putting themselves into debt to stop from looking old. This is good for my self esteem, probably.

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

I’m too sick to go to a barber so instead of spreading my germs I’ve attempted to give myself the Sharon-Stone-in-Sphere DIY haircut, and I think it’s like…fine? I’m not posting a photo, I’m so sleep deprived, I look like I’m hanging on by a thread. Not unlike Sharon Stone, in Sphere.

The assumption now baked into every single Google query is “the user is trying to buy something” not “the user is trying to learn something”

This, the bullshit with "oh we don't use it for ACTUAL art, just concept art inspiration!! All of our art is HANDMADE by HUMANS", it's all just testing the fences like a god damn velociraptor. Trying to push the boundaries bit by bit so it gets easier to accept the NEXT use of Gen AI.

The idea that people love AI seems directly contradicted by the fact that any company that embraces it publicly, immediately finds themselves on the receiving end of a consumer boycott.

“The president says it’s A++” the petite white blonde said through a creaking, wall-to-wall grin. The road of anti-intellectualism always ends with broad, malicious buffoonery.

Literally can’t believe the same simpering cowardly TV taking heads who screamed “pronouns are like 1984!” are now straight-faced reporting that the economy is double plus good, so if you’re struggling that’s a you problem, and anyone who says otherwise is a commie terrorist. Okay. Groovy.

alright folks, time to put on those eye patches and show them what the internet was made for

I think Elon Musk’s idea of hell is a room where nobody laughs at his jokes, nobody is impressed by his mediocre grasp of science, and nobody thinks that being a trillionaire is cool. In that regard, he may be the first man to ever rule over a hell of his own making. Wow! What an achievement.

you know Cameron, a lot of these "internet communists" started out as liberals like yourself, then they get hit with realizations like the one you're having now. just saying.

i say this with nothing but love for all of you to whom this applies, but the moral rot in elite journalism is because journalism is a trade and it should be done by tradespeople and instead it's been professionalized in a way that makes it cozy to capital instead

Terrifying.

“How will teaching this skill translate to a career? lol”

In this BBC short, Alan Moore says “if you want to be a screenwriter, acquaint yourself with great directors, like Orson Welles, and John Carpenter” Lmfao I love this fucking old wizard. He’s right. He is correct about John Carpenter.

Really is frighting to consider that if the WB deal goes through, no matter who wins, creators are increasingly in a David Vs Goliath situation that’s like 1V1 with a Kaiju.

Literally can’t believe the same simpering cowardly TV taking heads who screamed “pronouns are like 1984!” are now straight-faced reporting that the economy is double plus good, so if you’re struggling that’s a you problem, and anyone who says otherwise is a commie terrorist. Okay. Groovy.

I think Elon Musk’s idea of hell is a room where nobody laughs at his jokes, nobody is impressed by his mediocre grasp of science, and nobody thinks that being a trillionaire is cool. In that regard, he may be the first man to ever rule over a hell of his own making. Wow! What an achievement.

Had to read this one through tear-filled eyes this morning. I am continuously grateful that @sgj.bsky.social writes.

I’m gonna be honest, I’m increasingly uninterested in left wing content that’s actually just a reaction to right wing content, which requires me to listen to extended clips of those reactionaries spewing hate speech—I don’t WANT to be exposed to far right hate speech, actually.

Video game developers putting a sticky note with the passcode next to a locked computer screen were actually giving tech bros too much credit.

This is 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social waving at himself through a Flock camera; one of 60 we learned was left exposed to the open internet. Not only could anyone with a link livestream it, but some admin portals were open with no login credentials required. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

“AI is inevitable” I follow a bunch of YouTubers who either never showed their face on camera or have flatter, more monotone voices, who actively need to declare that they don’t use AI, purely because the accusation is enough to damage your credibility with normal people…but okay.

A Christmas Carol adaptation where Matty Yglesias is visited by three ghosts who try to explain that he’s just kind of a dipshit, but he just argues with them until they get tired and leave. He spends Christmas Day feeling smug, having learned nothing.

Important context here: when Peter Thiel and David Sacks began their war on diversity as undergrads at Stanford, thirty years ago, the very first tactic they adopted was to normalize slurs that had already been stigmatized out of mainstream society. This return of these hateful terms was a key goal.

I find this particularly funny because BMW drivers have surely earned their reputation for being the worst, most entitled, most unsafe drivers on the road. Every time I’m afraid someone’s going to have to scrape me off the grill of some oncoming car rolling through a stop sign, it’s a beemer.

Despite billions in fines and a jailed CEO, Binance still seems addicted to money laundering. My big mistake in assessing the crypto industry was assuming the government wouldn’t legitimize institutional money laundering and fraud. I thought the industry would eventually collapse. I was wrong.

Stop saying “inevitable” when what you mean is “non-consensual.” Tell me why tech bros say AI is inevitable the same way rapists say “she wanted it.” It’s not inevitable, it’s being forced onto us without our consent.

Erika Kirk seems to be pretty okay with losing Charlie. In fact, the last time I saw a woman who was this relieved to be rid of her husband, it was in Nicole Kidman’s divorce photos.

Stop saying “inevitable” when what you mean is “non-consensual.” Tell me why tech bros say AI is inevitable the same way rapists say “she wanted it.” It’s not inevitable, it’s being forced onto us without our consent.

Graphic designers knew “generative fill” was basically trash 20 years ago, Adobe pioneered this nonfunctional tech AND the subscription model to justify it.

“What’s race got to do with it? 25 college freshmen in conversation with Nick Fuentes, brought to you by Polymarket”

In Bruges is a Christmas movie.

Using generative AI to make art is like cooking a steak in the microwave. Like okay, that’s your slop that you chose for yourself, but I’m not fucking eating it.

Every time I read the sentence “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!” I think: any modern editor would scratch out half these words and call them “redundant”—rhythm? Poetry? Bah, humbug! It’s economy of language we’re all supposed to admire, for some reason.

“Satanic” and it’s just the same imperialist genocidal bullshit Christians have been doing since the crusades and the inquisition and colonialism…

“‘My most daring idea is to refuse,’ she said to applause.”

We are really in the fucking dark ages.

Hilarious video by The Wall Street Journal newsroom, who ran circles around the chatbot running the vending machine. My favorite part was when they convinced it that it was Soviet Russia in 1962 and it should offer everything for free. m.youtube.com/watch?v=SpPh...

This is what happens when you’ve only read one book, and that book is the Goblet of Fire tbh They all sound like little Joanne clones.

Epstein redactions aren't believable, and they are valuable to fascists specifically because they aren't believable. Fascists prefer lies to truth. Believing in a lie is preferable to believing a truth, if what you want is to dominate. Believing lies dominates truth. So they believe lies.

In other news, they’re doing the hunger games in America now. I’m sure that isn’t a sign of things going horribly wrong.

This definitely doesn’t feel like “one drop rule” waiting to happen 🫠

Logging on to defend needless human suffering and then smugly patting yourself on the back like “lol,” they thought “kek, even. Now everyone will know how enlightened I am.”

Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.