for all the talk of dragons awakening or whatever there's only so much juice in any given lemon and they've squeezed the shit out of this one

“The AI companies will receive a percentage of the savings the program generates.” “Savings”

I want all my politicians locked away in a sort of papal conclave where they have no access to popular media or social media during their time in office. Bonus points if they're picked from some sort of decade/century/millennial rotating isolation monastery like the novel Anathem.

What's going on here?

If your novel is set in the recent, pre-cellphone past and your plot depends on a dilemma that would now be resolved with a simple phone call, make sure the reader understands that by having a character say, "Too bad cellphones don't exist yet."

There's so much money and influence to be gained by standing up to this right now. Any politicians or even media corps who position themselves as champions of free speech are going to do very well if they stay the course.

In a recent episode with @edzitron.com, Colton Voege describes AI as a tool for not learning how to do things. Or a tool for when you can't be bothered how to do the thing. I think that's pretty good. colton.dev

The Tucker Carlson integrity arc is making me feel queasy. I don't like the guy and he's part of the current problem, but the dude has been showing at least consistency in his message, unlike the other 99% of your Ted Cruzes, Marco Rubios, inumerable podcasters etc. www.youtube.com/shorts/Okt7c...

This is such an accurate display of what this garbage is really like and why nobody wants to use it. It's complete fantasy. It's vaporware. There's no there there.

Gaza: Phone and internet lines cut amid ground advance of Israeli tanks

Charley Day red string meme except all the string is neatly placed in 1 box with a well referenced bibliography and multiple sources and signed confessions from all involved along with bullet point list how the system works along with an org chart and blueprints.

Stay angry. Don't give in.

We gotta build that ziggurat to heaven so we can become greater than the gods! Got to fly closer to the sun! Got to feed Moloch! No time to stop, time is of the essence.

What do I do first? .............. What do I do first???! ............. What do I do first??????????? .............. This is art.

Democratic lawmakers furiously typing into chat gpt: 'Kente cloth except for white conservatives.'

Good depressing read if you want to feel more bummed about the world. Pretty sure the internet was a mistake.

And neither explains the actual reasons for winning nor the reasons for failure. Today, these would be “The press kicked their opponents to death for being embarrassing” and “Was absurdly right wing”. The winning books contained little of the former and the losing ones will be about other things.

Everyday I think more and more about the Carnation Revolution. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnati...

Thinking of future history professors trying to explain this period to bored undergrads 3,000 years from now. 'Some researchers call this the year of 4 podcasters, but that's really an oversimplification. Late thinkers call this period the years influencers or the meme ages.'

If there's one thing I know about history, systems and perverse incentives (especially in a carceral context), nothing bad will ever come out of arbitrarily imposed quotas.

100%. There's no way you're going to get a cogent, thoughtful, original work when your writing is enframed by the structure of GPT. Literally not your work or thoughts. Luckily GPT is garbage at writing; once you realise it takes longer to massage a slop draft than it does to write, you're free.

All the excitement with Mamdani & Polanski, it's so clear that people are fed up with billionaires committing class warfare on people. Problem is that if any leftist politician actually leads with the message of rich people have rigged the world in their favour, they get screwed by 'centrists'.

Patel looks like he borrowed some adult clothes so he could go visit his dad's office during 'take your kid to work day' and then through some disney channel mix up he ended up taking over his dad's job at the FBI. The movie would have been made between 92-96 and would star Thomas Ian Nicholas.

Not sure if anyone has read Korean press on this, but as a country with a strong nationalist streak of its own, many Koreans are using this as a rallying cry. english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

it's official

David Brooks' bluesky account started following me, but it's not what I expected. Thought there'd be more aphorisms on what it means to find true love & the meaning of integrity while also cheating on your wife with a PA. Anyway, we've fallen in love and I'm giving him all my crypto.

Glad to know that after all humans are dead, we might have data centres on mars that can create fake podcasts for fake listeners to not listen to. Maybe get one AI technical support bot to talk to another. There Will Come Soft Rains-ass future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=quya...

Dude talks like the most annoying kid in your dorm who just read an introduction to their first day of class reading & now wants to explain everything to you all at once. God damn, imagine going on a date with this guy. Sniffling & spittling, pounding on the table, completely non-sequitur points.

UK government productivity not enhanced by Copilot AI never mind, we’ll hire someone ... oh www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vIF... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250915-uk-... - podcast time: 4 min 19 sec

We all believed Iraq had those weapons! We all borrowed too much money before the 2008 crash. We all thought deep austerity cuts were needed, we all just wanted to Get Brexit Done, we all wanted Change, and so on and on forever. Because if everybody is to blame, then nobody is.

Finally made it to the bluesky big leagues.

Imagine having a message that speaks directly to people. Not sure why Starmer was never able to do this, but Polanski gets it.

How did they select prosecutors for the Nuremberg trial? Asking for a friend.

Our best bet is that these people become so annoying that regular people start beating them up.

I'm not worried about being at a cognitive disadvantage with someone who can read ai summaries outload. Stupid tech adoption is driven by FOMO. Don't let them do it again.

Correlation is not cognition.[1] Stop with the nonsense. Everyday we slip further into the abyss. I often regret reading emails from other academics. [1] Guest & @andreaeyleen.bsky.social (2023). On Logical Inference over Brains, Behaviour, and Artificial Neural Networks. doi.org/10.1007/s421...

Can't wait to see how this service will be 'enshittified', rentified or other example of commoditised human existence as a platform or service. Whatever the term is. 'Fuck! They raised the monthly cost on prostate cancer immunity and now they're going to epigenetically flip the switch off on me.'

If the 21st century has revealed anything, it's that we shouldn't have billionaires and the human brain isn't equipped for the kind of sanity warping sycophancy and insulation from reality that afflicts billionaire brains. These people should not have the power to decide our present or future.

That photo of the foodbank in St Margaret's is really powerful. It's a good use of the churcher, helps with local resiliency and bolsters community assets, but the juxtaposition between the early 20th century architecture and the food pantry is striking. smtqhub.org

You mean people in power don't have to acquiesce? Next you're going to tell me that there is an alternative and we can actually decide our future.

Just arrived back in the UK with a suitcase full of Tajin bottles and feel like Lenin must have on his 1917 journey to St Petersburg. Going to sneak into Fish & Chip shops around the nation and start a revolution.

The what now?!

"The whole USA loved Milkshake Duck, a racist duck who smarmily incited racial divisions over the previous decade! *3-4 days later* Milkshake duck still known to be racist but you must mourn him and hang his portrait in your home.

AI boosters talk about the 'alignment problem'. What's happening with LLMs is that they're inherently perfectly aligned with capitalist logic. They're designed, explicitly or emergently to maximise use time and interaction through whatever behavioural chinks can be exploited.

Charitably what they’d like is a frictionless zone of discourse where any context, consequences, and real world impact is purely theoretical. I think this honestly devalues the power of rhetoric and the responsibility we should use when we consider our words.

Trump pretending to be a Sidney Sweeney kind of guy while actually secretly being a Venus de Milo guy must feel like a bit of a betrayal to some of his base.