machine that makes you stupid thenextweb.com/news/ai-advi...

Showing my wife a chart that the average number of female orgasms is up 26% over the past 30 years and that her experience isn’t representative. Why yes I am a business school professor, why do you ask?

alcoholic trying to get sober after a relapse tells Google's "Health Coach" about it. it tells them to drink every hour and messages them to make sure they're drinking as soon as they wake up.

Decided to organize an impromptu game night later this week for Meccha Chameleon. Dusted off my old Wacom for the occasion, and happy to report it Just Works on Linux.

I hate that technical communities are all mainly on Discord now. Not only does this mean fewer answers can be found via web search, but they seem more prone to attracting teens and early 20s amongst whom rude little shits are vastly overrepresented

This is art, to me.

This shit with Taylor Farms is exactly what I’m talking about when I say you may say you “don’t do politics,“ but politics are more than happy to do you. The microbes political bribes got out the door and into your intestines don’t particularly care that you find it all beneath you.

The thing I hate most regarding this ridiculous article is that a bunch of paid Claude users will excitedly feed it into Claude, and the computation of the output will be done at Colossus. The people who breathe the surrounding air are definitely moral patients.

Effective altruist Claude-bros with AI psychosis are a demented petrocult who believe pouring methane gas into a shitload of video cards has already created life. They need to be stopped before they burn us alive. archive.ph/K3ptn

no computing appliance, no matter how complicated, can ever gain capabilities beyond those of a turing machine, or by church-turing, the untyped lambda calculus. anything a computer does must arise from some composition of `x`, `\x -> e`, and `x y` (names, abstractions and applications)

“If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them.”

Sky Clearing, Waterloo County Carl Fellman Schaefer 1967

Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. You were killed by DARK WIZARD!

Tangled first impressions: I like that the UI doesn't bug out or fail to load half the time.

I will vote for whomever runs on making the US party to the ICC and immediately enforcing compliance, regardless of whether it sweeps up their own party's figureheads too.

NEW: A second ex-wife of David Brouillette, the ICE agent who killed Joan Durán Guerrero in Maine, Lucinda Brouillette, issued a statement this morning. "If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes." /

Is it good when the enemy sets your Security Academy on fire

'Netanyahu Belongs in the Hague' | NYC's Mamdani Says He Still Eyes Arrest of Israel's PM During September Visit - U.S. News www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...

We don’t need education about ethical *use* of AI; we need more education in how it is being *used on* and against us. 2/n

This paper is pretty interesting, creating harmonic distortions via GPU workloads to attack data center power infra Bit2Watt: A Cyber-Physical Vulnerability Exploiting GPU Workloads Across Power and Computing Infrastructures arxiv.org/abs/2607.05993

When your wife has finally watched Berserk with you

"It's just a tool" yeah yeah it's exactly like that time my boss told me to either use Emacs or find a new job

The ultimate deadlift is actually called the diedlift

Finally, they've created a social media site you can't post to

The beautiful game. The people’s game. Throughout this World Cup, we have been reminded of a simple truth: football belongs to everyone. So does the joy and community it creates. Yesterday, I joined New Yorkers on Rikers Island to watch England take on Argentina.

“Today’s stupid prompt injection: just write like the AI – Pivot to AI” https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/16/todays-stupid-prompt-injection-just-write-like-the-ai/

Not only do we stand by our reporting. Madison Square Garden’s ridiculous lawsuit actually confirms it, noting the company did, in fact, track the sexual orientation of LGBTQIA celebrities in its talent database.

That sound you’re hearing is the mouse clicking of 10,000 post-post-apoc solarpunk RPG indie gamedevs saving this PNG to their mood boards

Entirely as expected (see link.springer.com/article/10.1...) --- “Epoch AI … published a graph last year … It shows the exponentially increasing costs of serving more “tokens”—the words users type to chatbots—with several public AI models.” article: archive.ph/IrNBI (h/t @maartenp.bsky.social)

Someone made the Odradek from Death Stranding but instead of detecting ghosts it detects pervert glasses

New from me in Tech Policy Press: The UN’s IISP Report extends the trend of erasing the human from major policy definitions of AI. Rather, it frames AI as a “system from nowhere,” further obscuring human accountability from the companies that build them.

NEW: Cops around the country have used Flock cameras at least hundreds of times to search for specific people, not cars, using searches such as “person on skateboard,” and “person wearing orange vest and construction hat,” according to data reviewed by 404 Media.

Possession (1981)

I miss the times when internal wars waged by software developers against one another did not have one side of that war explicitly and vehemently supported by c-suite and management and a trillion dollars in VC

Representative Ilhan Omar, a longtime advocate for respecting international legal fora, has introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives which would urge the US government to apply to join the International Criminal Court.

"In a burning world we need to hold ourselves and each other to a higher standard. “Useful” is far, far from being good enough." https://tante.cc/2026/07/15/useful-is-not-sufficient/

AI companies seem to be just universally baseline negligent and scummy, beyond the median for companies in general, even setting aside their actual product offerings. I wonder if there's anything to that.

“.. I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any. “.. By economic and engineering measures, generative AI might be the worst technology ever deployed.” @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The Amazing World of Tomorrow

Hard to overstate Israel's strategic importance to the United States as functionally an unsinkable Little Saint James in the Middle East.

Temporarily-embarrassed mortal

Using "I'm going to do the Ship of Theseus to you" as a threat

if a company saw a huge increase in the productivity of its workers and was able to convert this extra output into profit efficiently, do you think the business would be inclined to lay those people off. does this align with what we observe at companies going all in on AI?

Corollary: if an electorally ascendant Democratic Party fails to do this at a bare minimum, it is because they endorse these shootings, full stop.

The axis the coin these two belief systems have set themselves on opposite sides of is a shared abandonment of technorealism. That: 1. These systems were built by human hands and can be dismantled by them, & 2. These machines are structured like the social environment constructing them.