Well, that's the fastest I've ever spoiled a testing prompt. Mentioned my Romancing the Stone test prompt in a post I put up last night at 11 pm, ran the prompt this morning at 7 a.m. and there my post is in the vertexai list

This popped up when I was filling out my letterboxd review of Bugonia, and I can't figure out if this is just a joke from the letterboxd staff or a viral Oscar marketing campaign but I like it

"we grew up among catalogs"

The history of the press on this is the Trump campaign released a plan saying they would do what they are now doing and people did the math and said that means massive detention centers everywhere yet every headline about it was "With Project 2025 some Dems think they having a winning issue"

New post on that Anthropic paper and a problem with defining sycophancy as AI not saying you are wrong. And more broadly a problem with conceptualizing these things as opinionated chatbots. open.substack.com/pub/mikecaul...

Watching people say "even Google admits they were spying on people" and sharing an AI Overview screenshot that summarizes what people have (falsely) alleged is more 2016 than I wanted to be this morning

So it turns out that article on my work by @cwarzel.bsky.social in the NY Times "Don't Go Down the Rabbit Hole" gets referenced in Bugonia. The Jesse Plemmons character is not a fan.

The swing last night in Texas was so extreme that Dems literally won a town called White Settlement

Yes conspiracy theory rots the brain and yes that has included Noam Chomsky for forty years at least

Ok, it's a very minor crime but this story is great. collider.com/martin-scors...

She looks familiar

Pedro Pascal has paid tribute to Catherine O’Hara after her tragic passing “Oh, genius to be near you. Eternally grateful. There is less light in my world, this lucky world that had you, will keep you, always. Always ❤️ The one and ONLY Catherine O’Hara”

They pitched this guy as ironman but his vibe is definitely the electronics shelf at Spencer's Gifts

"it's a bust out, Davey"

the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system

I see we're doing the "Someone anonymously put up an ad on Craigslist to pay protesters that's proof paid protestors are real" thing now but with Melania seat fillers. My friends, stop getting rolled.

A little thread on the right questions around informational apps (particularly when they are low stakes, e.g. not YMYL) using an app I've started to build as an example.

Fwiw it's not just Claude Code -- I used Gemini AI studio to solve a problem in the space of an evening I've waited for tech companies to solve for 20 years -- searching for scene specific information in movies arc-character-intelligence-717271064346.us-west1.run.app

You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.

Watching Red Dawn, and just thinking how much the makers of this film's heads would explode if they learned how NATO is likely to dissolve (it doesn't start with Russians taking advantage of food riots)

It's a bust out, Davey

Dead Internet Theory undefeated

Tool I built to begin exploring some issues around reducing AI error (film narrative is really hard for LLMs and I want to work on improving response quality). But it's also a really cool tool! mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/arc-findin...

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspaper. The criticism was not “widespread” & the cited sources are all pro-Trump.

This is an amazing piece of writing; truly think it is an instant classic

Whatever you do today, read this article, read all of it, and believe fully once again that the true soul of America will not be defeated. Just beautiful. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Millennial meme machine awakening from deep slumber

Fun little project for people like me that spend a lot of time wondering who that dude on the right in this scene in the movie is and where I've seen them before mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/arc-findin...

Fun little project for people like me that spend a lot of time wondering who that dude on the right in this scene in the movie is and where I've seen them before mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/arc-findin...

Currently watching The Running Man, a film that describes a utopian future where the government feels they have to cover up the killing of civilians.

I think it's interesting how much more of a "screw this shit" vibe the Clinton letter has. The Triangulator-in-Chief turning off the Triangulation Machine.

🎶 ...and there's a legal limit to the snow here... 🎶🎶

OpenAI exec James Dyett calling out the cowardice

It strikes me if you were looking for a good explanation of conflict expansion one week ago a ridiculous hypothetical example would have been "shooting a mountain-biking gun-owning nurse who is a former high school athlete and research scientist now working with veterans"

Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)

You all know I’m their biggest critic. Credit to @nytimes.com for reporting the truth and not the criminal regime’s lies this time. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...

I get the impulse to push for more, harder, faster, but it's worth noting here: the lawyers for both the state and various other plaintiffs have been working their asses off at absolute breakneck speed today.

Don’t let this White House lie to you. Believe what you see. Alex Pretti was trying to help a woman off the ground. Then immigration agents tackled, shot, and killed him. It’s time for them to get the hell out of MN.

I didn't know this about People magazine

Guys, the reason Walz hasn't said "I'm activating the Guard to fight ICE" is JESUS FUCKING CHRIST ARE YOU INSANE WHAT POSSIBLE ADVANTAGE COMES FROM THAT PLEASE ELUCIDATE ME ON YOUR GODDAMN STRATEGY FROM THAT POINT FORWARD ALSO FUCK YOU FOR LEAPING TO START A WAR OTHER PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO FIGHT!

Gravestones of New England has entered the chat from Facebook

The sad thing is all the love Perez got from far left Dems because she "talked like a normal person". She's a mechanic! Woo-wee! This was a winnable seat against a far right loon in a moderate district, and it was thrown away based on people, 8 years later, obsessed with finding the anti-Hillary.

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

Yeah, please be the person that checks stuff like this. The facts as a whole are on our side, it will hurt us none to be careful with them, and just take a couple seconds to choose good info to post over bad.

If you do watch the video, have substantial credibility, and really want to post, rather than reposting it you could describe as accurately as possible what you see in the video which would be a bigger help than pushing it in people's faces.

Remember you don't have to watch the videos. You are allowed to just trust honest people who describe what happens.

Will you do more if you watch a close up video of a woman being shot in the face? Will you care more if you watch videos of a man being executed on the ground? What is the gap between the you now and the one you imagine you are after watching?