If a power tool had a 50% chance to carve your fingers off when you use it, that would be bad, right? While the manner in which a tool is used can influence outcomes, it is not unreasonable to critique tools both independently of use, and in common use cases. Tools aren’t “just a tool.”

If a company was rolling out the Eyeball Blaster 3000, and critics pointed out that perhaps exploding eyeballs was bad, the CEO would call them "luddites." All new tech is, of course, virtuous. It's like the computer and the internet, some losers just don't have vision. (Anymore!)

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I think I've only had one coffee today. It's just not right.

I spend way too much time critiquing accents when my partner is watchin The Wire. And I say things like, "Moustache guy... he's carrying all of Baltimore on his shoulders."

While this study did involve LLMs, I am terribly curious whether they would have had similar results with non-LLM AI. This could, after all, be a problem with machine agents, in general. futurism.com/ai-study-une...

I haven't been to GDC for years, at this point. Frankly, as a self-funded indie, I simply can't afford it. It's too damn expensive. But, up until now, I always thought I would go back someday, and now... well, what is it, even?

Now that's some clickbait even I can't resist.

Evel Knievel about to probably break 36 bones in his body botching the landing of a motorcycle jump: NOSES PREFER VICK'S SINEX

Gen X had memes -- just not internet memes. They probably don't know who the Slovenian painter Vinko Bogataj is, but if you say "the agony of defeat" around any Gen Xer, they will immediately remember this devastating moment in the man's life: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csvv...

Ethics are part of how we mitigate the fallibility of humans, and I would argue that an AI should never replace a human in any job where it is incapable of adhering to the professional ethics of that job, and being held accountable for that.

It’s worth pushing back, when people reply to reports of LLM hallucinations by pointing out that humans make mistakes, too. When a lawyer references fake cases in a filing, or a scientist references fake studies, there are severe consequences for this, and they may be blocked from further work.

To anyone who thinks that big corporations won't bat an eyelash at the new H1-B fees that are being rolled out, I'd like to point out that Amazon had 15,000 H1-B workers in 2024. Slide a napkin over, and do the math. That's six times what Bezos paid for WaPo. Every year.

I think this is part of why I have difficulty finishing drawings. Fortunately, my drawing profs said things like, "You have a very impressionist eye," instead of slamming me during critique, but they were very much teaching me drawing, and not illustration.

[Establishing shot, burning skyscrapers, beneath a blackened sky. Bank Gothic Pro text splays out across the bottom of the screen.] IN THE YEAR 2025, THE US GOVERNMENT INSTITUTED A TARIFF ON COFFEE...

I guess we finally have the answer as to how Andor got made. Disney apparently had no idea what it was actually about.

Inside you are two wolves

I will never, ever hire a "programmer" who can't read, write, understand, and debug code.

Some Baldur's Gate 3 players play with very few saves, and then get into a lot of trouble, and beg for help undoing their mess. Other players puzzle over why anyone would do this, only to later play Honor Mode, where they can lovingly recreate that same sense of chaos and disaster for themselves.

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to bluesky

I once saw a chip on the side of an unhoused floppy drive explode. Damn thing just popped and started pouring smoke out. Chips aren't supposed to explode. I probably just sat there staring at it for half a minute before I ran over there to unplug the thing.

We were watching a streamer playing Space Engineers, and someone in the chat said they didn't mind losing a greeble, if it ate a bullet, and I shouted out, "ABLATIVE GREEBLES!"

Oh Facebook, never change. No, I'm kidding, there's no redeeming this algorithm.

"When you see the Southern Cross for the first time, you understand now why you came this way. 'Cause the truth you might be running from is so small. But it's as big as the promise of a coming day." Actually, I was just walking home from work, and saw it over the roof of my place, one night.

How do you answer your phone?

Nearly every artist you know/follow is struggling right now. Opportunities are retracting and most of us are barely making rent and/or are one unexpected emergency away from being royally screwed. We're lowering rates, hustling harder than ever, and just trying to do what we love.

Months later, I would be detained at the border by the US. They wanted to know the names and phone numbers of everyone I would be speaking to, in the entire nation of Canada. My clearance was lapsed, but they were still paranoid.

I overslept on 9/11. I had an AM radio business talk station way too close to my house, and I heard what happened that day from the ghostly radio interference on my phone line while a guy was calling me about a fridge.

"Several studies have shown that women are about 20 per cent less likely than men to use generative AI." Yeah, well, a bunch of us have learned through life experience that we shouldn't trust a bunch of vapid flattery, because the intentions behind it are usually suspect. And this is no different.

My potato soup recipe: 1.) Put a little bit of neutral cooking oil (I use algae oil) in a pot, and turn up to medium heat. 2.) Chop up about 2.5 spicy sausages or substitute (I use chicken andouille), and throw them into the pot. 4.) Toss in half an onion, diced. ...

Fringe. It seemed like they were trying to go for realistic science, but just didn't have the chops for it. The second episode was so ridiculous, I couldn't keep going.

What an absolutely worthless business concept. There is absolutely no upside to this. It's a net negative for society, for the internet, for podcasters, and for all the people who labor to create the content that is going to be pureed into this slop. It's a trash factory.

Just as I expected, the new iPhone Air looks like a thoroughly impractical object.

My Captain? Pike My Uniform? SNW Away Team (with jackets) My Enterprise? NCC-1701 My Theme Tune? Amok Time combat music! My Doctor? Culber My Division? Engineering My Drink? Romulan Blue Ale My Bae? Thoroughly unresolved tension everywhere My Bestie? Ortegas

Gary Marcus talking about LLMs in his recent interview with Kasparov.

We should be gracious and grateful to our employees. It’s astounding that anyone would be willing to spend their precious time on this earth working for someone else, even for money. That sacrifice is worthy of some respect.

And they're mostly useless. Call me when they can clean my toilets.

If its manipulators aren't properly articulated to do house chores, I don't really understand the point of this thing.

Back in uni, I never had time to eat lunch before my Celtic Mythology class. I usually ran to the food co-op, and I could have grabbed some prepared food, but for the same price, I could buy a great rustic bread loaf. I'd get that and some stuff to go with it, and take a little picnic to share.

Huh. I've been avoiding using my allergy spray when I'm going out, because I was worried about whether it had an immune suppressive effect, but apparently, azelastine has mild antiviral properties? Weird! medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09...

This is very good.

Really funny watching No Mans Sky streamers trying out the new shipbuilding features, and trying to remember to engage chat, while their brain keeps trying to go into deep hyperfocus mode.

I will always find it strange that some guys think that there were no girls or women who were ever into Star Wars, back in the day. These were huge films, with a massive cultural footprint.

Covid surges shouldn't surprise people, at this point. They happen twice a year: One in the summer, and one in the winter. '25 is shaping up like '23, with a late (northern hemisphere) summer surge that is probably going to blur into the winter surge.

Every buttery game camera is a million special cases in a trenchcoat, somehow presenting the illusion of coherence through the unfathomable patience of a masochist programmer.

To break this down, you are a member of this class as an author if: (A) you are the legal copyright owner, and (B) the work is in LibGen or PiLiMi and was downloaded by Anthropic, and (C) the work possesses either an ISBN or an ASIN, and (D) the work was registered with the US copyright office.

The blog has been collected at the Library of Congress Comics Literature and Criticism Web Archive, but the interface isn't the best and, um, who knows how long that project will be around in the current climate. Any other archiving/exporting suggestions are welcome.

I've worn the letters and some of the symbols off of a large proportion of the keys on my keyboard -- which is fine, most of the time. I can touch-type the full set of characters I would typically use in a day of coding. But, heaven help me if I have to type anything with one hand. Totally lost.

I think that the thing I'm most surprised that Texas hasn't invented yet is barbecue sauce flavored yogurt.

Every time we see the phrase "vibe [verb]ing" we can just replace it with "not [verb]ing."