AI is the new motion smoothing

If you're wondering why a bunch of the internet seems vaguely borked this morning

Clearly the players who play the sports we love to watch hate gambling; think it's ruining the game. The only people who want it are networks and the league. I think it's important to remember that. Whenever you fire up the gambling app, you're fucking with the people you love to watch every week

It’s useful for people of my generation to be reminded that this wasn’t that long ago. Ruby Bridges isn’t just still alive—she’s only 71, not ancient!

On the latest Geeks Guide to the Galaxy podcast, I join Andrea Kail, Anthony Ha, and host David Barr Kirtley to discuss Season 1 of the FX series Alien: Earth, a prequel to the classic films Alien and Aliens! @anthonyha.bsky.social Listen at your favorite pod site!

one of these approaches is correct

Back on Geek’s Guide to argue about Alien Earth with @matthewkressel.net and Andrea Kail. So many things I loved! So many things that made me crazy! geeksguideshow.com/2025/11/08/g...

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I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here

Could a quote possibly be more on the nose for Bari, the Ellisons, the Trump movement, or this whole era in American life than "what's the point of standards"? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Entering the Rose Reading Room can be intimidating because staff is turning a bunch of tourists away, but you just need to know the magic words: "I'm here to work."

Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays. Listen in ⬇️

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

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wow they’re still doing this today?

Essentially every time we write about abuse of Meta's Ray-Ban AI glasses, Meta tries to convince us the glasses are no different from an iPhone. Here's a helpful guide for Meta PR about the difference between AI glasses and phones 😊 www.404media.co/whats-the-di...

The opinion sections of major newspapers have responded to Zohran Mamdani's campaign in the same way that a group of terrified, purse-clutching suburbanites visiting NYC might respond if you asked them to ride the subway to try some Indian food in Jackson Heights. www.cjr.org/analysis/leg...

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”

Find you a partner who reacts like this when war crimimals die ❤️

If our economic system is so brittle that it can be destroyed by free buses, maybe we should try for something more resilient.

Yeah never trust an argument about how you should achieve a goal from someone who at a fundamental level does not want you to achieve your goal.

When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits

This colossal Times of London/de Blasio screwup gets more amazing at every turn. Scoop via @maxtani.bsky.social www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

"Can't miss the boat" "Embrace it or be left behind" "You'll be replaced by someone using AI" These are all marketing slogans that prey on FOMO rather than value propositions. Anyone making decisions based on this kind of shaky logic is just another layer in the pyramid scheme.

Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk. I had it exactly backward.

There’s a woman behind me in the plane line ranting about Zohran: “After 9/11, i can’t believe it.” And how expensive things are in new york: “a bagel costs 20 dollars!” She lives in Menlo Park.

A shocking (to me anyway) amount of resistance is just constantly reminding the other guys that they are the baddies. Ghouls like Miller love it, but a lot more of them really don't

"ICE agents will not get any dates in New York City. ICE agents will not make any new friends in New York City ... Nobody in New York City likes you. Nobody in New York City respects you." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/ice-vs-nyc

The Democratic Party has very little to say for itself at the moment *except* for the fact that it’s the one national party that’s not chock full of people with Nazi group chats, secret Nazi social media accounts, Nazi friends, or Nazi tattoos.

ICE agents greeted by a hero on arrival in New York this evening. Make statues of this.

Abolish ICE. Defund all these fascists.

You can recognize that No Kings alone is not going to stop Trump and *also* that without events like No Kings you're not going to get the mobilization necessary to stop Trump

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

CNN talking about the possibility of violence as a guy in a giraffe costume waddles by

This is the kind of thought that would just melt the minds of someone living pre-internet era. Imagine telling someone from the 1950s or 1850s or 1650s that spending 5 seconds clicking a button to find any information in existence you might desire is a heavy "cognitive burden."

no kangs

Feeling dehydrated? This quenched my thirst. www.wsj.com/us-news/zohr...

Back on Geek's Guide to the Galaxy to talk about six classic Greg Egan stories — including my two favorites so far, "Reasons to be Cheerful" and "Oceanic" geeksguideshow.com/2025/10/07/g...

the cloud atlas movie is a mess; the cloud atlas extended trailer is perfect www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWnA...

Maybe the AI bubble is simply the biggest captured fandom of our moment

I've been waffling about whether to look up what this is about. Thanks to @anthonyha.bsky.social for saving me work.

You just hate Tilly Norwood because she’s uhhh. I mean it’s ummmmm. Uhhhhhhhhh

“All of this feels ridiculous because that’s exactly what it is. But the larger goal is to inure you to the strangeness of it all so that when these products — be they movies, shows, or TikToks — finally come to market, your reaction is ‘Sure, why not?’”

perhaps instead of cowering under a blanket labeled "health care," democrats should respond and advance on the issues that move people. this, of course, would require a foundation of conviction and principle, which may be asking too much of the party's leadership and strategists.

First time this guy has ever made me laugh

The AI boom is starting to look a lot like the internet’s early years. Not every investment will pay off, but even the “extra” servers usually find a purpose. @anthonyha.bsky.socialand @mzeff.bsky.social unpack OpenAI’s $100B push, the tech talent shuffle, and more on @equity.bsky.social.