I can’t even count all the ways YouTube is making an absolute mess of its user experience. I’m not even talking about the ads (which are deliberately annoying to incentivize paying them away), I’m talking about the tremendous clutter between you and your subscribed channels.

How can this go on for another 3 years?

“Worst she can say is no” Bro, she said I look like someone tried to draw President Taft from memory

I’m declaring this a masterpiece of the medium of social media video punditry. This does at least half a dozen things, only possible with video, to make it funnier, sharper and more engaging. It’s also an undeniably great take.

it’s incredibly blackpilling to me that it takes rising gas prices and rising gas prices alone to have people turn against the war in iran, and not the american government murdering thousands of children and civilians in iran. americans are incredibly selfish

@greatesttrek.com Wow what a bonus ep, incredible implications.

This annoying thing they did in Discovery has also happened in Starfleet Academy, within the span of its 10 episode first season. SAM, easily the show’s best character through 9 episodes, overtly declares in the finale, “you don’t know me, I’m not that person anymore”.

I think there's a void in current AI/LLM commentary being exploited the booster bros: neuroscience. There is plenty of commentary from the comp sci crowd exposing the secrets of genAI magic tricks, but the bubble withstands the pin prick, because people go "that's also how the brain works!"

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more. They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"

There are no words for how fucking angry this makes me.

"It's a distraction!" Look, if the "distraction" involves illegally killing people (incredibly, this can apply to at least 3 things the Trump admin has done), maybe you *should* be distracted. (1) There's no higher crime, and (2) it's happening now.

"It's a distraction!" Look, if the "distraction" involves illegally killing people (incredibly, this can apply to at least 3 things the Trump admin has done), maybe you *should* be distracted. (1) There's no higher crime, and (2) it's happening now.

The hammer-in-search-of-nail with LLMs has been an exercise in stupidity from the beginning, but now it’s just pathetic. They’re flailing for a target like a blindfolded drunk swinging for a piñata, that isn’t even there.

This analysis is deeply unserious, and I'm annoyed at people reposting it, who are usually more careful. Let's get this out of the way: the Cybertruck is ugly and stupid, it's a betrayal of Tesla's mission of sustainability, and it's dangerously powerful for its size, weight and cabin vision.

This is your brain 🥚 This your brain on AI 🍳

I finally understand this Tara Lipinski commercial: defector.com/i-finally-un...

Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,

Was checking a book's reviews on Amazon, and there's one posted by the author's (sweetly supportive) dad.

I just realized something I hate: science fiction that’s *about* the fictitious science. Like, they posit medical research accidentally creating a world-ending virus, and the point is to fear monger, “oh the hubris of man, meddling in God’s domain”. But the danger is a thing you just made up!

And when it’s not that, we get sentient pubes, the most incoherent nostalgia commercial ever, diet tips from Mike Tyson sponsored by RFK Jr

Cowards.

Are any of the racially-targeted minorities being rounded up by paramilitary goons and disappeared into lawless detention camps even *named* Anne Frank? These kinds of strained comparisons simply raise tensions, and when you think about it, that's the real problem here.

*NOW*, Robert? For *THAT* movie?! ffs. Being a fan of a sports team is a hostage situation. Everyone knows losing is miserable, but the real treat is when you also get to be ashamed and miserable to be winning.

/2 The predominant ethos of the performatively masculine Right is “if I had my way I would stop these liberals with fire and sword, the way the ancients did, but I have been prevented by cancel culture, which involves people saying mean things to and about me.”

Cold take: "The Pitt" is amazing. I avoided it for this long because I was expecting it would be anxiety-inducing trauma porn, but it's exactly the opposite. The medical chaos is just the contrast for what the show is really about: cool-headed professionalism and problem solving. It's soothing.

Lawlessness is a two-way street. Classically, the King/Queen is immune from laws, as are all servants acting in their name (i.e., the gov't). Even the U.S. inherited the idea of sovereign immunity, despite revolting against the monarchy. But in the UK and all its colonial descendants... 1/x

2am at the club when all the lights come on

Watching "The Residence" on Netflix, and discovering it is pretty good, but also SNL-level cursed. Andre Braugher died halfway into filming, and it was the final performance of two more actors: Isiah Whitlock Jr. (who is fantastic in this, such a bummer he's gone) and Julian McMahon (Mr. Nip/Tuck).

Tony Romo became Phil Simms so fast. “Watch he’s gonna look…and then he’s gonna throw it there! And then boom there there! And then back to there”

I stumbled on this take from the week of Trump’s election, which in light of recent polls is looking pretty damn accurate.

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

Thinking about the decay of technology, it's usually blamed on corporate interests (the "enshittification" and "rot economy" theses), but I think there's also something *else* at play, which should be much easier to fix than "capitalism". That is: the myth that technology gets better over time.

So uhm. If this data is accurate (some 🚩 that it might not be reliable), chatbot use plateaued 6+ months ago. It’s easy to gloss past that (I initially did, distracted by other details), but that’d be a really big deal? The industry is deader than dead without a growth narrative.

@greatesttrek.com I have a bone to pick. You classify yourself as a “dick and fart joke” Star Trek podcast, but deliver few (if any) fart jokes. Over >900 episodes, I’ve heard dick jokes a plenty, alongside some piss jokes (too many) and diarrhea jokes. No farts. Where are the farts? #FartGate

You can always count on Trump to sabotage the narratives his apologists come up with, often with shocking speed. "He's going to install the Nobel Peace Prize winner to replace a dictator!" Trump: No, I don't respect her. "We'll be welcomed as liberators!". Trump: Do as I say or the girl gets it.

(Me, delicately fanning the smoke from blazing stacks of cash into the shape of a McDonald’s logo): “I have invented a virtual goldmine”

for god’s sake, just because i flew on john hammond’s helicopter a few times doesn’t mean i’m “into dinosaurs”

I tend to assume incompetence/stupidity before evil. I can imagine Bari Weiss seeing the segment, understanding how dishonest and cruel it made the Trump admin look, and assuming for that reason alone that it *must* be missing context. "It can't *really* be this bad, I'm sure Miller could explain!"

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

AI is not "propping up the US economy", it's propping up GDP, a statistical measure that usually (but not necessarily) *correlates* with the economy. There is extraordinarily little domestic economic activity trickling down from AI spending. The recession is already here, and has been for a while.

So far (episode 2) Stranger Things season 5’s strongest motif is “it doesn’t make sense”. They say it out loud. Like, a lot.

AI's greatest perceived success is (what a coincidence) when there's no validation of success. "It's great at summarizing!" -- but you didn't read the thing being summarized, so how do you know? "It's great at answering questions!" -- is it? If you knew the correct answer, you wouldn't have asked!

The heuristic of, "this many rich, powerful people can't all be wrong!" is so routinely proven false, people really ought to assume the opposite: "if this many rich, powerful people all agree, it must be wrong!".

@realalexbarth.bsky.social 🤔

i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

Months later, more people have caught onto how the premediated killing of civilians who pose no imminent threat is morally repugnant, and highly criminal. I'm annoyed it took them this long, the murder count is now over 80, but better late than never!