I think it’s the way “agentic” AI obscures the issues of critical AI by becoming more complex, and thus “useful.” Claude is particularly good at this, and so its users are getting wowed. Saying that seemed to get me dismissed as pro-AI, somehow. www.techpolicy.press/stochastic-f...

Musk isn't putting a server farm in space and he isn't launching a million rockets. Don't say "it will be v bad for the environment if Musk launches a million rockets", say "this man is a fraud, his pyramid scheme will collapse at about the time his crony [redacted], and all of this shit is pretend"

Women

Challenge for those who are very confident this drawing I just made of Batman with bishi eyes isn't conscious: Explain [clutch of wasp eggs bursts from jugular]

Have they never heard of the Halting Problem? Or the Frame Problem? There is no such thing as automated coding *for everything*. We are deskilling a whole generation of computer scientists — sigh

Stop with the “vibe coding” and start doing some algorithm design, foundations of computing, and computational complexity analyses. Even just doing playful computer science unplugged is better than all the current hyped non-sense. www.csunplugged.org/en/

You also have to recognize a world where corporations limit anything you find convenient and make you pay for access. The more that inevitably happens in your life, the more glad you’ll be that you actually used your brain and stored knowledge/skills.

They’re calling it the most reassuring message of all time

It's time for me to find a Grammarly alternative. There seems to only be three that come close to the core, non-gen AI mechanics of Grammarly, but I only need something that helps me with my horrible spelling and grammar correction.

Very bad look for BuzzFeed

Incredible piece about digital archiving, in particular what does and does not get that treatment.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

occasionally i think "if i were a millionaire/billionaire" etc and recently it's been "i would have a journal called 'Boring, Important Studies'" to celebrate and print studies that don't get publishing elsewhere because they're boring

For all the folks telling people to use Claude instead of ChatGPT, this usage has obviously been in the works for some time and it didn’t violate the terms of their contract. Claude worked along with a tool of Palantir’s to pick targets. Ironically they’ll probably use Grok now which is worse.

i'm not an economist but if 900 people can afford to fund $3,000 checks to damn near everyone else in america and still be insanely fuckin rich afterwards maybe they have too much fuckin money

i was teaching java back when netbeans was a popular ide lol and it had a wysiwyg editor for ui that generated absolute garbage code where i could tell a student used it even if the assignment said not to. their code worked though, but they locked themselves into the netbeans editor.

Slop code is easy to spot too, it just kind of (arguably) doesn’t matter as long as it works. That’s really the difference.

I agree with this. I've seen enough of my coding friends' eyes pop out of their heads when they realize what Claude can do to believe that programmers have an exciting new tool. (con't)

a very beautiful, very short film. i loved the snake part. also dennis hopper narration in the first track

the phrase “more than a dozen pregnant children” ringing in my ears www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"The Condé Nast-owned Ars Technica has terminated senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following a controversy over his role in the publication and retraction of an article that included AI-fabricated quotes, Futurism has confirmed." futurism.com/artificial-i...

Yes, of course. Because LLMs are being built by people who made social networks before, which were algorithms designed to amplify content that would reflect back your priors in another person’s voice. It’s ex-Facebook product managers making ChatGPT! Except more emotionally addictive this time.

please don't phase out the old red line trains yet @mbta.com, I only just finished sewing my camouflage jacket

Gotta admit, feels not so great to just keep paying taxes to the "science bad, child murder good" government

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

Oh dear. arxiv.org/abs/2602.16800

The New York Times clearly just saying Crockett is a progressive and Talarico is a moderate because Crockett is black and Talarico is white

THIS IS WHAT SAM ALTMAN WANTS TO TAKE FROM YOU

I am already seeing "it's a distraction!" takes and please fucking kill me

Jack Dorsey renamed the company to Block because he thought blockchains would be the future, in case you were wondering what his track record of predicting long-term tech trends is

one of the funniest things to keep coming out of the anthropic reporting is that the pentagon was trying to convince amodei by proposing elaborate hypothetical scenarios. buddy do you think an EFFECTIVE ALTRUIST has never considered a bizarrely specific and elaborate hypothetical scenario??

all the the mighty and morally superior “West” knows how to do anymore is murder children

Holds up

Can you guess which one is a valid syntax for style queries? Think about it, then read my last post to find the correct answer (and understand why you got it wrong) 👇

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

(first day as an AI salesman) Can I interest you in an exciting slopportunity

Peter Mandelson has been arrested - send up the hater signal. It's once again a poster's holiday.

Big deal, nobody knows how to read anymore. Is the world worse off? It is? Well if that were true I'd have read about it somewhere

Gonna start calling these Claude Code Blues

New- A new website exposes Oregon businesses who have official government contracts with ICE and CBP

“is there a technology that the left is excited about?” Trains. We love trains, actually

three answers suggesting you might want to think about the question a little bit and one releasing you from ever thinking about anything again

"is there a technology the left is excited about" I am genuinely excited about machine learning and what it can tell us about patterns. I'm excited that it can help farmers and doctors spot things that they may miss. I'm excited about the ways we can use data to make life better.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

lmao i saw people talking about this graph but i didn’t know it was microsoft lmaoooo of course it is

Another story where you realise that absolutely no one has any idea how to deal with all the AI papers being cranked out. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I made a thing. Actually I’ve made a lot of things lately.