Reposting things really fills that age old need to cut an article out of the paper, xerox it at the library and mail it to all your relatives and friends with a hand written note about how they might want to check this out.

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

1. This is oddly satisfying to watch. 2. “The irony” Mark refers to at the end is exactly the point. The potential of technology breaks down in implementation…

Talking about Anthropic today and called Dario Amodei “Daario Naharis” … so that’s how my brain is doing today.

Looks like vaccines.gov is broken and unusable; it throws a zip code error for all zip codes. Now millions of Americans have only a patchwork of private-sector tools to search for vaccines.

… reports the WSJ as we neuter regulatory bodies.

This is a great metaphor for all the UX "redesigns" motivated by itchy fingers rather than actual user needs.

Worth noting that this quote could also describe social media.

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

This is our gov saying to companies that they can do whatever they want w/ no consequences. Not just climate as @karlbode.com says… on tech, food, medication, medical devices, you name it. You give your kids Tylenol b/c you are confident it won’t poison them. We can no longer have that confidence.

Ok, good. Also: can we forbid them from integrating what is quite literally an experimental technology into products that kids are already using…?

I think about this constantly as I test AI hardware and smart glasses. As someone who grew up being told my family was constantly surveilled because of my dad’s ties to North Korea, I don’t think people really understand what it means to always live like you’re being watched.

If you have not listened to this conversation b/w @grahamformaine.bsky.social & @chrislhayes.bsky.social… do yourself a favor and hit “play.” … Who is this refreshing oyster-farming, public service loving human and can we please hear more from him? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

the fuck

Read it.

This is the way.

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*are wrong* … Why language models *ARE WRONG*

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The fight is here, actually, so it’s time for people who believe in basic liberal values to stop being nice and patiently indulging bullshit. It’s time for belligerent normalcy & a simple message: vaccines work, and we want them. We want our kids protected from preventable diseases in school.

Behold. The results of gutting expertise.

These companies release half-baked products into the world, scare everyone into accepting their inevitability, integrate them into products that we and our kids *are already using* and then say: “Hey parents! We’ve made it easier for the safety of our 💩 product to be YOUR responsibility!”

The strategy has always been to be 1st to market (even when the product is not ready) & to scale as fast as possible — at any cost. They make billions while making the safety of the half-baked products that they integrate it into products we ALREADY USE… the responsibility of PARENTS 🤬

You'd think that someone, anyone, somewhere, anywhere in the decision-making process would have clued them in to this very cogent point.

… the Greek gov has launched a pilot w/OpenAI for… education. Let’s be clear: these models are most effective in *english*. They are tested in English, they are monitored, moderated, and improved… IN ENGLISH. & they are STILL very… off. Greek is not a common language. openai.com/global-affai...

The exact talent & work they are talking about was happening for 10+ yrs. The people doing that work were fired & the teams they worked on gutted & dismantled. Any journalists who do not even mention what came before should not call themselves journalists. federalnewsnetwork.com/it-moderniza...

… I mean… federalnewsnetwork.com/it-moderniza...

1/ The @chrislhayes.bsky.social interview w/ @karenhao.bsky.social is A+ 1 thought I can’t shake: the way Karen describes Altman sounds a LOT like ChatGPT… This should not surprise us. Digital products are a reflection of the people that create them. Quick 🧵 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Now where’s my dinner.

Just read the whole thing🎯 We’ve just handed the reigns over to people who program products we use… to do… this. This behavior by chatbots is not an accident. These products are designed by people — their behavior is a reflection of the people that created them & the context they were created in.

This is what abusers do. Literally parents are advised by pediatricians to teach their kid that being asked to hide something from your parents is a red flag.

"These technologies are selling worldviews…They're quietly defining who health care is for, and who it isn't."

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

Yep. Sort of like the degradation of appliances so they’d break more easily. Pay more for a shittier product. And when there’s a monopoly, you’re stuck. And it’s coming for *everything*… how has the airline experience changed in the past couple decades? Healthcare?

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What makes me skeptical AGI is around the corner is how ChatGPT is now handling prompts that elicit any kind of self-harm info. Gives a hotline warning, even when the request is a summary of Romeo and Juliet: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Reddit is flipping out: www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/se...

Super interesting interview. Worth a listen. And. I was surprised by the exchange at the end about the new Chief Design Officer & USG websites. Zero mention of the fact that this work has been underway for 10+ yrs by teams like the U.S. Digital Service (now DOGE) & 18F. Both were gutted. Quick🧵

🎯10/10, no notes.

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Yes. People also like to eat deep-fried butter.

Physicians are using A.I. for diagnoses and more. But a new study found evidence that relying on A.I. tools might erode a doctor’s ability to perform fundamental skills without the technology, a phenomenon known as “deskilling.”

It needs to be put this way more

I was the executive director of U.S. Open Data, a non-profit that I created at the behest of the Obama White House. I worked as one of the nation's leading experts in open data. Putting open data on the blockchain is a profoundly stupid idea that fails nearly every test of good open data.

More radioactive shrimp for everyone! www.newsweek.com/walmart-radi...

One of my biggest issues with ChatGPT and OpenAI is that they insist everybody on god’s green earth should be using their products, including children, even though they know full well their products are dangerous for people with mental health issues and have been encouraging suicide

Regulation = radioactive shrimp should not be on the market. Deregulation = 🤬 people. Companies should be able to sell radioactive shrimp 💰🍤💰

Also: if we focus on specific companies or products, we are missing the point. THE PROBLEM IS THE BUSINESS MODELS and the lack of any constraints of any kind.

Yes, and… it’s not just OpenAI. This technology is being integrated into all sorts of products that we already use.