This is an unfathomably evil act that will be a foul stain on our nation’s history forever. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/w...

I just learned that my favorite TV show ever, Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, is leaving Netflix at the end of the month. It’s rumored it will eventually end up on Peacock, which no one has a subscription to because it’s stupid. Time to get back into DVDs, I guess?

NEW: Google's AI Overviews are consistently telling users that entities from the SCP Foundation's horror fiction are real Actual Google AI result: "SCP-565 (also known as 'Ed's Head') is an anomalous, ambulatory human head that behaves like a coral crab" futurism.com/artificial-i...

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SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

Gift link ;) www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

My hot take is that OpenAi is going public purely as a venture capital liquidity event before everyone figures out this business cannot make any money

YouTube's auto dubbing is shockingly racist tbh. Example: this creator, youtube.com/shorts/CY8nX... -- she speaks English perfectly fluently, but YouTube consistently overdubs her with a fake voice and accent, also in English, and defaults to that even after I try and change those settings.

“(…) the threat from AI worthy of highlighting here is that a culture of frictionless practice, which such models (in name only) promote, is not only harmful to people's mental health and skills, but also directly undermines scholarly praxis." -- Olivia Guest (2026)

This is my surprised face. www.thevoiceofuser.com/the-largest-...

I should set a timer for a year from now to remind me to look into the inevitable and incredibly foreseeable massive fuck-ups that result from this

Please Use AI

assaulting a woman is a minor vice, scolding a man is unforgivable

(in the seventh month of defending a candidate who has slowly revealed himself to be a werewolf) so actually I think most guys get worse under the full moon

Marjane Satrapi was one of the most important cartoonists for generations. So many people grew up with her books, grew up on her books, grew up through her books. Unfathomable that she would leave so early but she leaves behind a rich legacy. Rest in peace.

This is my fear about the training data…that this is NOT the worst LLMs will ever be but closer to the besf

The biohackers subreddit banned all posts about peptides and HRT because peptide companies were spamming + manipulating the sub in order to manipulate Google AI and ChatGPT answers. Very insidious industry that is drastically changing the internet www.404media.co/companies-ar...

This one hurts. I've really enjoyed Tim's work in the past But let's just be totally bloody clear here: every single person using a text fabrication engine to replace their work, research and writing skills: THIS MOMENT IS COMING FOR YOU TOO It is truly just a matter of time. It's inevitable ⏱️

never rely on streaming services

A meteor just got burnt up in the atmosphere off the coast of MA. Many people heard the explosion from it. If you are in the new england area, go outside and breathe in the magical meteor dust to receive your new magic meteor super powers asap

Lol

This is very good and, as your friendly neighborhood SEO guy, i can add some context The modern internet is basically built on an agreement that sites will give google access in exchange for driving traffic That arrangement has been unilaterally ended by google

you can see in their definition of "female" the ghosts of the past, failed definitions. a couple of years ago rowling said "I believe a woman is a human being who belongs to the sex class that produces large gametes," which she later modified to a body that is *organized* to produce large gametes.

People write often about how companies like Intuit lobby Congress bc their business model relies on the tax system being artificially bad. I feel like the less obvious problem is that the system being so painful and annoying is also stealth propaganda for the anti-tax, anti-social programs side

“Obviously I wasn’t thinking at all,” the driver told police, according to the footage.

This was relevant and useful again today. Small steps.

#RIP Rob Base variety.com/2026/music/n...

My apologies for cursing so violently in t** post below:

"For 25 years, Google Search was built on a contract. The web provided the content – billions of pages, freely linked, freely crawled. In return, Google sent people back. The link was the unit of exchange. [...] That contract is now broken." @matthiasott.com matthiasott.com/notes/ad-inf...

Also check out this incredible cover art by @dancynrew.bsky.social!!!

Check you podcast apps for the first episode of season 3 of Media Club Plus where @carberry.deals, @sylvibullet.bsky.social, @amtebbel.bsky.social and @swandre3000.bsky.social are joined by @austinwalker.bsky.social to talk about the first two eps of a great show www.patreon.com/posts/at-fir...

I think everybody should try these things out and see how they work so they can accurately comment on them tbh. I frankly think they’re less reliable than even some loud critics say, and it comes from experience.

The fact that Trump hates sharks is like evil icing on evil cake.

The AI-as-fact-checker thing is something I hear a lot and still haven't heard a convincing case for. If you know you need to double-check its work, either you're spending more time on fact-checking as a result or you're not double-checking and just telling people that to get them off your back.

this post was supported by arnold ventures - which isn’t a bad thing, it just makes me think about how this series was a funded idea and how i know experts with lifesaving ideas who are stuck in federal funding traffic bc keeping people alive is woke in america and grant reviewers are using ai

the illusion of free choice

jessbpeck.com/posts/google... Old ~ * 👁️👄👁️ * ~ post How and Why Google Made Its Own Product Worse what do 🪼🧼🫎🪩🪭 all have in common? the answer is stranger than you think

ChatGPT was never Google’s biggest threat; it was always its own hubris. With Search now being sacrificed on the altar of AI dominance, the time has come for users to get serious about moving off Google services. It’s not only destroying its products; it’s trying to further degrade the web itself.

Google is justifying a move to default AI search by saying it "removes friction." The problem is that friction is a necessary part of life and this incessant need to rid ourselves of it is going to lead to so many problems we can't anticipate.

Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that I'd be including not one, but two pieces from Playboy in my philosophy of tech and tech ethics syllabi.

Way to instantly kill any theoretical credibility you might've had. The author, Steven Rosenbaum, tries to downplay this but the details make it clear this is a massive and disgusting error.

Good piece by Jefferson Pooley on how LLM-powered “research” tools like Google’s “Deep Research” and Elsevier’s “AI Discovery” likely strengthen the “Matthew effect”: highly-cited authors are amplified while undercited (often female) authors are increasingly ignored: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Here’s a video from the same podcast as linked in my previous post where you can hear the audio too. I love this because it really lays bare how LLMs fool us - but really they’re just slotting words into linguistic patterns that we’re familiar with. Genres like a podcast or LinkedIn post.

It's not fun to make tech content as much anymore, too. I'm doing some because I actually like it, but it feels like I'm shouting into a slop-driven void nearly everywhere. It's really tiring. I get so much joy reading individual blogs and newsletters still (like yours!), at least.

My apathy levels for the industry are absolutely sky high and I don’t even have a dickhead boss making me hit token targets

So the good news is that Elon Musk just lost his case against Sam Altman, the bad news is that Sam Altman just won his case against Elon Musk

Anthropic’s Mythos model can find lots of security vulnerabilities in your product and the best way to protect yourself is to pay for access to Mythos to find the bugs before the hackers do. This article argues this is another problem that wouldn’t exist if AI companies didn’t create it.