This company is worth a bazillion dollars and has billions of users, yet popular newsletters display in font size 10,000. smh. #enshittification

Without referring to it, this article points out why large models do not create art. www.yankodesign.com/2025/12/16/r...

Terrifying stuff. www.theverge.com/health/66136...

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

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Fun story. For shares (ETFs or otherwise) to trade, you need market makers to provide a bid and offer price for you. The thing is, that takes capital...and there's a finite amount of it. There are so many ETFs now that market makers may have insufficient capital to provide liquidity in all of them.

Why “I Don’t Hate Trans People, But…” Is Never Neutral www.transvitae.com/w... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

It always stretched credulity that oil & gas majors would transform into leading renewable energy players overnight. www.ft.com/content/c6d7...

When men say things like “if you have a womb, you’re a woman,” I just assume they are the same type of guy as Jeffrey Epstein. This never fails me

WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN

INBOX: James Fishback, a Republican candidate for Florida Governor who is accused by his competitor Rep. Byron Donald of statutory rape, released a campaign video today pledging "to make the trains run on time," a direct reference to the Fascist dictator of Italy Benito Mussolini

Apple Music’s Replay reel is nicely done.

Make a family code word. Ask for it. Don’t ever volunteer it when someone calls you. Make them say it to you.

Graham Linehan has such little self-awareness he *really* doesn’t understand how totally unhinged he seems in his ‘woe is me’ batshit crazy ranting! 😬 He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!

This week in Surveillance Log 010: complexity usually doesn't work; pro-natalism as a tenet of the far-right; and giving up on hard problems is better for your wellbeing. buttondown.com/fpaulus/arch...

The massive data breach at the South Korean retail giant Coupang affects more than half of the country's population.

You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned. archive.ph/Tmthz

It's just two parallel realities: one for an executive class so enraptured by the promise of labor savings that creative departments are pushed into creating AI slop, and one for everyone else, who view the slop with their own eyes and are repulsed by the rank aesthetics of automation

It's truly wild to me that this just keeps happening. Coca-Cola runs an AI ad and people overwhelmingly react with disgust. They do it again, and people are disgusted again. Now McDonald's makes an AI ad that's so bad that so many people are furious about it they pull it down. People hate AI slop!

the true believers around nixon genuinely saw him as some kind of embodiment of the people and thought that congressional attempts to corral his authority were illegitimate on that basis. straight line from them to the executive power fetishists on the supreme court.

I can’t believe a technical solution to a complex social problem didn’t work. Ah well, nevertheless

see the thing about them all being the worst people in the world is that even when one of them gets killed they can't create a proper cult of martyrdom around him because the others get jealous he's getting all the attention.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

This this this

“No! That’s wrong!”: Lilly Wachowski slammed right-wingers for co-opting the “red pill” and missing the point of “The Matrix” entirely bit.ly/3M8wUPQ

This is a shocking story - disturbing and ultimately enraging. futurism.com/artificial-i...

This PR is like the perfect distillation of LLM-assisted hubris. Dev who has never written a compiler or even studied the DWARF spec vibe codes out 13k LOC of "support" in OCaml with a bunch of shallow test cases, and doesn't think he needs to understand his own PR because "Claude understands it!"

He said "Amen" straight into the drop Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible

A ballroom legend, an aspiring model and a young athlete: Some of the trans people lost to violence and suicide this year

If you have the $ Give some If you have a platform Hold up others If you love you trans brothers, sisters and all Tell them/him/her/it Remember those of us that are not here and help make sure we don't lose more #trans

the actual suicide of the West will be combining a rapidly aging population with hostility to migrants. however we must give credit to East Asia, especially Japan, for pioneering this model.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

Re: Epstein’s emails

Oh man finance.yahoo.com/video/openai...

attacking SNAP benefits while also telling US army soldiers to rely on foreign government handouts

I think this is in some ways the most encouraging thing for me from last night they really went national full court press to beat Mamdani and they got what they wanted - Republicans showed up, held their noses and voted for Cuomo, the anti-Mamdani coalition worked they still lost by 9

having a good laugh at this, secure in the knowledge that precisely zero footage of me fighting exists online

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

Underground, Overground My hunt to find locations where you can see Underground trains traveling over Overground trains (or vice versa) continues. This vantage point near East Putney station has views of tube trains traveling over the railway. I waited 30 mins to get this shot.

Who is wise? One who learns from all people. Who is a fool? One who is content with their own limited understanding of the world. (Pirkei Avot, Ethics of our Fathers)

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

Most people study what misinformation says. We decided to study how it looks. Using novel multi-modal AI methods, we study 17,848 posts by top climate denial accounts - and uncovered a new front in the misinformation war. Here's what it means 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

And after the Romans left we were both invaded by Germanic-speakers, which is why Wales and Wallonia have similar names. Both basically mean ‘foreigners’ Which was rude

1/x (but short, I promise): If you read (or have already read) this WSJ piece, the context you may be missing is that for at least 100 years people have been saying that they were trans (using varied language) and cis ppl responded by spending HUGE effort proving that they aren't really trans.

funny I'd rather live next to JV's brown family than him