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!

Came across a JetBrains survey that covered AI use by programmers, and the results were grim. My first thought was of something Nik Suresh (of “I will piledrive you…” fame) wrote about the median incompetence of software engineers. But it’s interesting that the top use is “boilerplate”. (1/2)

After 4 episodes of Pluribus, I continue to ponder, “what if they stopped at 1?”. I might change my mind if they stick the landing on where they take it, but so far, exploring the minutia of its big idea has dulled its bite.

Cat Follows Man Through Apartment Like Racist Walgreens Employee https://theonion.com/cat-follows-man-through-apartment-like-racist-walgreens-employee/

I can’t remember a more perfect hour of television than the series premiere of Pluribus (Apple TV). I’m tempted to stop watching, and just leave it where it ends, it’s be my favourite movie of the year at 60 minutes.

People will ask their friends to help them move, but here's a lifehack: ask your enemies instead. They'll be at your door at dawn with a dolly to see your ass out of town.

To be clear I bet Altman thinks promising everybody money is how you become “too big to fail” when in fact it will be “too small to tear into enough pieces”

COUNT I Kat Abughazaleh did, while law enforcement was in heated pursuit, paint what appeared to be the entrance to a cave on a sheer rock wall, causing law enforcement to forcibly bonk into said wall. COUNT II The same thing on a different wall, but then a train came out and ran us over???

Apropos of nothing, I've kept receipts on Wired's gritty investigative journalism of the rampant fraud and dishonesty that pervades AI hype.

I don't know which Google executive needs to hear this, but please stop making the AI voice sound human. You've taken so many wrong lessons from Star Trek, can you please take a right one. The computer voice is smooth, monotone, unemotional, unmistakably machine. It isn't a disembodied dude bro.

like where do they think the robot fucking learned it anyway??? theft machine 4.0 didn't fucking invent grammar ????

"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it

I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse

From Windows to Linux 🧵 -- going to start a running thread with some of my thoughts and experiences, as a Windows power-user who is experimenting with Linux-based OSs. The pros and cons I've discovered along the way have surprised me.

The gunpoint-robbery that looted a local bank stretched the bounds of property law, say some police officers.

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster. The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

The commercials for Tron: Ares are the worst I’ve ever (?) seen for a movie with a marketing budget that large.

It's apparent from the messaging of Democratic leadership, they think if they just point how ineffective Trump is at "kitchen table" policy stuff, swing voters will come rushing back. Except really it's an attitude problem, voters crave strong leadership. Dems make things even worse being spineless.

The rationalizations are so familiar to me, as someone who used to follow esports and fight with people on Reddit about it. The “what about” comparisons are never with things that are similarly state-sponsored. This is barely one-step removed from being a paid spokesperson for the Saudi regime.

"Don't speak ill of the dead". If not now, then when?

I'm begging sports reporters to use words like they have meaning. Hint: a "conflict of interest" requires conflicting interests. It's when you wear two hats, and your obligations under one hat conflict with your obligations under the other. This Brady thing involves *complementary* interests.

Good news for the Browns? There's been a JJ McCarthy-type injury (to JJ McCarthy)

Add to the list of Perplexity Pro being given away, so they can book it as full price revenue: also in Canada, to all Bell mobile and internet subscribers. Bell is a top 2 telco, for internet alone it has nearly 5 million subscribers. If you know anything about Bell, you know they wouldn’t pay.

I'm dying at the iPhone shoulder strap that lets you carry your iPhone like a detective's pistol. It's real, I just saw it on the official stream, they really made it. They made the "thinnest iPhone ever" and gave it a shoulder strap.

The MNF theme is such a bizarre genre mash. Phil Collins song covered by a guy in a cowboy hat and long scraggly beard (or just lip synced? Sounds a lot like Phil). Then Snoop Dogg shows up for some fucking reason, and is gone again just as quickly.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

I'm tired of these insulting, inaccurate references to AI as a "toaster". It grossly understates AI's energy consumption, efficiency at evaporating water, and propensity to ruin things. AI is a microwave.

I know people are overwhelmed by too much news from every angle, and maybe people are distracted by the "terrorist" language, or just plain exhausted. But this is the President of the United States saying he is going to go around killing people because he thinks they're criminals. And already did.

News media keeps making this assumption with AI that this is "just the beginning". They treat it as so self-evident that they don't even bother to evaluate whether it's true--they just baldly insist that it is. This is not good journalism. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...