Bookmarking to read later, the claims are pretty interesting: “While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.”

I'm replaying Tears of the Kingdom, and I remain convinced that Nintendo married Sidon off to a woman in this game solely because of how obvious it is that he is in love with Link, like how Disney made sure to give Poe Dameron an ex-girlfriend when it was so obvious he was in love with Finn.

The Netflix and Amazon broadcasts are a great reminder that live sports is a deeply, deeply difficult type of TV that requires huge crews of profoundly skilled and experienced people who have worked together for a long time to look natural

As AI continues to advance, more people will come to assume that anything they dislike or disagree with must be the product of AI. This reflects a form of motivated reasoning combined with a breakdown in collective sensemaking. This became obvious to us in late 2023 while developing the plan for...

Cats obsessed with holiday decorations is my favourite seasonal content. Thank you to everyone posting their cats obsessing over holiday decorations.

And by the way, training your monster on data produced in part by my own hands, without attribution or compensation. To the others: I apologize to the world at large for my inadvertent, naive if minor role in enabling this assault.

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.

Typically if one's coworkers tried to murder you, those coworkers don't get to come back to the office Senior Democrats insist you go to work with the perpetrators however

[Taps sign] It’s a good thing! Social media can just be a lil room of your larger social network you peek in on at the frequency you want!!

Merry Christmas! The President of Peace just bombed Nigeria.

Or going into the technical details of their prompts. Can you imagine a real painter not discussing the emotion or inspiration behind their work and instead telling about their trip to Blick to purchase oils? What incredibly shallow people.

AI actors can't explain why they ad libbed this line or that. AI directors can't explain why they chose that particular angle or technique. AI authors can't discuss the deeper motivations of the characters. When they have a platform, AI users spend all the time being defensive

This is a really good point that I had not run into before: these "creators" have no further insight into their alleged creation than the average audience member and that is why it cannot be called art (besides all the other obvious reasons).

A brief thread of writing published and talks given in the past year(+):

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com

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Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon on Thursday, in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day Christians across the globe celebrate the birth of Jesus. For @reuters.com:

Behold, my Jólaköttur!

My fav thing about romance.

I started watching this new mockumentary sitcom called Stumble recently, and it is predictable as hell and really not doing anything new with the genre, but wow is it funny. The actors are all absolutely crushing their roles. It's nice to watch something new that is no stakes and not punching down?

john waters' 1995 christmas card with steve buscemi as him

Local recreational cyclist constantly being yelled at that "it's not the Tour de France" considering taking his shot at the world renowned 23 day bike race after all this encouragement from local drivers. creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorecord

tony hawk was in the nutcracker in san diego

Peace and safety to the folks in Southern California. Wild that effects from the fires earlier in the year actually increase the potential for flooding.

Final report on the Cat Christmas Tree: relatively easy to assemble, looks great, and cats like it. It has not been turned over yet and did not have to be anchored to anything.

Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Christmas fucking miracle right here

the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.

The Kansas City Chiefs are set to receive $1.8 BILLION from the state of Kansas for a new $3B football stadium 🏈 socialize the cost, privatize the profits, baby 🙌🇺🇸

“Leaving behind over 3 million followers” is a crazy thing to write lol

I've been reviewing a bunch of end-of-year retrospectives that have been published this week, and good grief, 2025 was 10 years long. So fucking much shit happened.

(shoutout to CTV Atlantic for first breaking this story, though they surprisingly don't have response from the Sipekne’katik First Nation in the piece... www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/art...)

New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

I'm winding some of my new yarns, and I am so excited to knit with them. They are so soft and pretty!

The Ford Pinto, our barometer for unsafe vehicle, had 27 deaths

But my most memorable moment in reporting in 2025 was seeing a longtime sex trafficker forced to face his victims, and watching a judge send him to prison for a long time. After following GDP for ~6 years, being present for this sentencing felt important: www.404media.co/michael-prat...

NEW: An investigation into chants made during a Bob Vylan performance at Glastonbury has concluded no further action will be taken

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Ms. Soskin was an actual Rosie during WWII. In the late 1960s, she held fund-raisers to support the Black Panthers and delivered the proceeds to Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver. She was a delegate to the 1972 DNC. She wrote and performed songs in the 1960s and 70s… Free: archive.ph/2025.12.22-0... 🌱💐

I'm available for developmental edits on full and partial manuscripts for a limited time! Full details here: open.substack.com/pub/danieljo...

“Gone are the days when companies like Instacart and DoorDash can bully their way into record profits on the backs of workers and consumers," said Sam Levine, the incoming head of the Dept. of Consumer and Worker Protection under Mayor Mamdani.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Elephants are excellent swimmers – crossing deep rivers, using their trunks like snorkels. Loldaiga preferred a different approach: throwing himself in like a fish out of water. Grace? Optional. Enthusiasm? Maximum. Splash radius? Considerable. Now making waves at Ithumba. swt.bio/loldaiga

Mirrored here for when that gets taken down: archive.org/details/3mam...