More shots from the QuitChatGPT protest.

I'm stuck down in Mission Bay today and there's a @quitchatgpt protest going on. Honestly, AI should be democratic and open source. OpenAI was a ruse from the start and Sam Altman can't be trusted. I don't understand why people use ChatGPT when Claude and Gemini exist.

I'm always amazed at how fast rats learn new tasks. All three of mine picked up this new toy in an hour. Every other treat puzzle box I've tossed them they've learned in a night or two. Some of those have two or 3 steps to get a treat.

Join me at Open Hardware Summit in Berlin this May. Tickets are affordable and you'll come back a little more inspired that a better world is possible. We're also still looking for sponsors who want to get their products in front of the open source community!

Well, this is starting to take off on the other website.

The Bohemian Club is a secret society for the rich and powerful here in San Francisco. Yesterday @drboguslaw.bsky.social dropped a list of its members. Today we are releasing a searchable database of its members cross referenced with open source intelligence.🔎 thebohemiangrove.info

The Bohemian Club is a secret society for the rich and powerful here in San Francisco. Yesterday @drboguslaw.bsky.social dropped a list of its members. Today we are releasing a searchable database of its members cross referenced with open source intelligence.🔎 thebohemiangrove.info

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

Let’s recap just the past day at Ohio State University: 1) The head of their ObGyn department was found to be getting quarterly payments from international child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein 2) OSU’s top donor was confirmed to be a co-conspirator of Epstein’s 3) Now this. 👇

These Peter Thiel backed startups have gone too far. This one sells a "luxury security camera."

It is the kind if Monday where my coffee pot stops working, there are trolls in our forum, and American Democracy is in obvious decline.

This might be a better use for GPUs than generating slop. youtu.be/8jVogdTJESw?...

Top shelf logo design.

Join me at Open Hardware Summit in Berlin this May!

Pot roast is just shitty BBQ made by white people.

Praxis

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

⚠️ do not buy these unless you are okay inhaling the whole bag ⚠️

Feels like we are at a defining moment right now.

Woke up to two different data breach alerts. I don't want your "free identity protection" I want you to stop fucking up. This isn't going to change until companies have to pay for their failures.

Thiel Fellowship co-founder Michael Gibson & American Moment co-founder Nick Solheim presented a talk at Peter Thiel’s 2024 “Hereticon” event titled, “Manifest Destiny: Greenland, Cuba, & the New American Colony.” Gibson & his colleagues have also been eyeing Venezuela, Honduras, & Nigeria. 1/

Sick of YouTube ads? I know I am! If you use a Roku to watch YouTube videos on your TV check out the Playlet Roku app. It strips YouTube videos of their ads and works surprisingly well. github.com/iBicha/playl...

Sick of YouTube ads? I know I am! If you use a Roku to watch YouTube videos on your TV check out the Playlet Roku app. It strips YouTube videos of their ads and works surprisingly well. github.com/iBicha/playl...

Indonesia temporarily blocks access to Grok over sexualised images reut.rs/4jvw0JI

Every single "the robots are here" story from CES is wrong

Can someone please put together a company that aggregates the content from independent investigative journalists and allows you to support them using a single monthly payment. This $5 here $2 there stuff is killing me. I'm sick to death of the scattered news environment.

I reset my Android ad ID the other day. Why we allow Google to continue with this nonsense is beyond me.

New footage from the ICE agent's phone who shot at Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis has emerged, posted by AlphaNews on X. We've placed that footage in a synced timeline with the other currently available footage.

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

San Francisco! Emergency Action TONIGHT! Join us for an emergency vigil and protest in response to ICE killing a woman in Minneapolis. 630 Sansome St. SF at 6 PM.

If this were a civilized country the people would shut down everything tomorrow.

I've had no less than a dozen robotics people ask me if I was planning to attend CES. This coverage of CES sums up exactly what I'm afraid of regarding consumer robotics. For the most part, robots belong in factories, farms, hospitals, and in space not in homes.

New article with Natasha Quadlin and Jordyn Wald. Regrets, she's had a few. Women with computer science and engineering degrees are unusually regretful of their major choice www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Happy holidays.

While scanning my Google alerts today I got briefly excited by alert from one of those spammy journals. Given where we are heading with AI, the web, and social media we need a service that just gives everything a "credibility" and "human" score to lessen the cognitive burden.

Good morning. I think it is important that you know how your average tech CEO thinks.

Fix your hearts or die.

The California Historical Radio Society was at the Alameda Antiques Market selling vintage tube radios refurbished with aux jacks and Bluetooth for very reasonable prices. I got the pink and blue one!

Spent some time making the RetroStrange GIF Gallery webpages much more usable. Browse thousands of GIFs from classic movies, old TV, and filmstrips, watermark free. retrostrange.com/gifs/ #indieweb

My conspiracy theory is that Google created engineering product managers to accelerate the capitalist alienation of software engineers as a class. Think about it, product managers cut off engineers from the people we serve, atomize our labor, and intermediate between workers.

Business plan? Sure pal, I've got your business plan right here: 1️⃣ Create ✨️embodied✨️ AGI 2️⃣ ??? 3️⃣ Profit Since we are creating embodied AI our TAM is effectively infinite, which means our potential upside is also infinite. Now give me my $200M seed round.

Let's bully San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie into letting us hold wild sex parties in the abandoned Eureka Valley Muni station again. @sfmta.bsky.social you game? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_...

What the hell is going on with domestic air travel prices. Gas is cheap, and these prices sure do feel like algorithmic price fixing and not "demand."

Boquet break. Roses and scented geraniums both given to me as cuttings from friends.

I'm sorry, but the @inaturalist.bsky.social year end review is way cooler than Spotify wrapped. I got over 600 new species this year. www.inaturalist.org/stats/2025/k...

maybe i am going insane