Yes, I think the enormity of Elon Musk racking up Pol-Pot levels of mass killing is so hideous to contemplate that many people just….aren’t.

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, Vivaldi on my machine: #Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...

leaked software industry training manual (2026)

ghoulish

This is genuinely shockingly racist lol she's speaking English in the original!!!!

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

youtu.be/bUD3q_l-bCM?... cool stuff on YouTube auto dubbing an English ai voice over this woman who is in fact speaking English with a light accent

Really powerful, hopeful paragraph from the latest article in the Atlantic by @adamserwer.bsky.social

this week's episode features perhaps the two things i'm perhaps proudest of creating in the audio medium: 1. playing "rawhide" on the synthesizer and 2. the demented drive-time radio bumper i cut together with a bunch of creative commons sound effects and an actual mayor (!) calling in

arxiv.org/abs/2604.04263 paper: users were 61% likely to choose a sponsored book from a chatbot vs around 24% from a Google search. :/

i found this thread really interesting and insightful

Pinochet was literally voted out of office in a referendum he supported, bc he didn't imagine he could lose. Apparently Pinochet wasn't an authoritarian!

Blimey, genuinely good thing happening in the tech industry?!

Agreed. We have to reckon with this. Soon.

Holy shit agi is here etc (cw chatgpt)

I genuinely do not understand management's refusal to agree to basic protections, like that they won't replace us with AI. It's baffling. Makes no sense. We're on strike to show management how serious we are about this, and how eager we are to get a contract done!

Like even if this all ends without an escalation from the present level of bloodshed Trump and his administration should be held accountable for the threat alone. Making this threat, on its own, is a crime against humanity.

girl take us with you

Lmao

Before you write that SEO listicle consider instead boosting and linking to other stuff that was written in the community you're trying to serve

If your story can be written by AI it's not a story that needs to be written.

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oh my fucking god

Do I know anyone who works for adp?

basically, ChatGPT means that everybody has a Charlie Day Lawyer in their pocket, and it's wreaking havoc on courts

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