currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

lol they really done fucked it huh?

I guarantee you are unprepared for this harrowing and deeply reported story about ChatGPT tearing apart countless marriages futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

When Fallon is the only Jimmy left on TV, you know that evil has won

great advice going around for turning off autoplay videos but might i suggest

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illustration, your computer, magazine (1985) archive.org/details/your...

This is a common conservative trope: Giving money to poor people isn't enough, we need to focus on "cultural values" like hard work and marriage. The problem is that red states have been doing that for decades and it doesn't work! Telling people that jobs are good doesn't help if there's no jobs.

[needing this more than anything I have ever asked a person] no worries if not!

Please help us protect the archine, yall <3

Fucking hell we had an actual Son Of Sam Altman situation. Horrifying. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...

Not for nothing, whenever someone conflates search algorithms, LLMs, and whatever the fuck AI is, I send them this article.

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Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

This is the most bone-headed confusion of correlation and causation since the idea that vaccines cause autism. Maladjusted people are often on psych meds. That doesn't mean the psych meds cause their maladjusted behavior.

It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses

I spoke with a few developers about their experience of AI tools being effectively mandated and learned some horrors in the process. I do give some advice on how to navigate this for people experiencing the same as these contributors though. piccalil.li/blog/are-…

hate to be a this guy, but this

"The idea of robot/AI rights acts as a smoke screen, allowing theorists and futurists to fantasize about benevolently sentient machines with unalterable needs and desires protected by law." firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

Gonna re-up this because I still can’t stop thinking about how insane HTLGI is and how the ‘world’s largest philosophy & music festival’ was for years obviously a reputation laundering machine for right-wing extremists and now it’s got a fascist headlining it

oh no who could have seen this coming

Do I have any followers who are omega-6/PUFA researchers? I have some technical questions for an episode and I'd love to connect.

You see, I just have a thermostat, but I guess that's why I'm not going to rule the future.

This is bonkers.

Tomorrow!

Learning how to create art is a very fun, rewarding , and revelatory process. You just rage quit when you hit a roadblock cause in real life progress is nonlinear.

Sending this to everyone who tells me “students are going to use it no matter what.”

mbtagifts.com/products/bos...? I need her

Stripe crossed a line now. Call up whatever local LGBT organizations exist in your area, gay activist groups, gay bars, pride organizing committees, folks who schedule drag shows, queer church groups, everyone. Also libraries and bookstores. Show up in person to talk to any business using Stripe.

It is funny to see the city/rural divide with mamdani's rent bc half the comments from rural Texas are like "I can get a 3 bedroom for 800 bucks a month what is going on in NYC" and all is yuppie types are like "2300 In a good location, kinda a steal"

Prompt-inject Copilot Studio AI via email, grab a company’s whole Salesforce pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/12/p... - text pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250812-pro... - podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH0I... - video

Earlier days, I heard about a doctor who was using it. When confronted that his use was a HIPPA violation, he insisted that he had told ChatGPT to "ignore any information that would violate confidentiality" 🙃

I've been dreading this turn for months — the war over AI scraping data is undercutting a load-bearing part of the internet, and it will probably only get worse.

What are your favorite US East Coast developer conferences? I’m hoping to do more speaking again.

Periodically I feel compelled to remind people that Stuart Ritchie, who heads research communications at Anthropic, wrote this about Francis Galton.

yes there's also no real advancement? The output is always "unreliable imitation of the thing you fed it." It just so happens Google has more data than god and can generate more types of upsetting imitations

there’s an election for Cat Mayor currently happening in Somerville, Mass. and every cat deserves to win

that said it the entire tech sector wanted to hinge the global economy on cloning dinosaurs that sounds much better than what we're doing

OpenAI went ahead and enshittified ChatGPT, and here are some anonymized examples of why we shouldn't let ourselves rely - much less grow emotionally attached to - corporate products and especially LLMs. They are not your friends and you're purely a wallet.

ChatGPT is intrinsically worse at arithmetic than a TI-83.

It's very simple, you need to learn a new skill - we're calling it a new form of engineering - so you can ask the computer questions that it can answer without looking stupid

Yet this morning I got email from AAC&U telling me to join their workshops so I could integrate AI into my teaching. It's fucking bleak out here, y'all.

Every Silicon Valley innovation in the consumer space has been "what if this software was my mom" which explains why ChatGPT's primary use is as a therapist, relationship substitute for lonely boys, and "personal operating system" to organize their life

they're being cautious because of the Hitler concerns, you see

Today's newsletter is about serious news man Chris Cuomo melting down over an AI-generated video that tricked him www.readtpa.com/p/chris-cuom...

Just watched @jessthebp.bsky.social 's ChatGPT video (recommended) and in it she asks ChatGPT to come up with its own variation on a simple riddle, which it fails. Well, to to show how far AI has come, here's a transcript of me asking Claude to do the same thing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Hoping to one day be secure enough to write a blog post about how one of my current clients is acting like a dick.

The talk Steve references at the bottom is well worth your time.

I do love Trump's utter unawareness that larger inflows of foreign capital are at odds with reducing the US trade deficit. In fact, they are a major part of why the US trade deficit exists.