Print this, frame it www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...

I did not write a new blog about tech journalists using AI but let me leave this from last summer right here www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

Sorry, but if you think that Ms. Rachel is bad in any way, shape, or form, no one on the planet should listen to your opinion on anything else.

Weird hill to die on, Jimmy (from Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #50, written by Otto Binder, art by Curt Swan)

Ian Wurman today:

As a related example: "AI is useful for note taking" obfuscates the fact that we had non-LLM based speech to text for a very long time, and the LLM ones are considerably worse

Extremely satisfying and comprehensive pan of a guy I have disliked for a long time, here. Simply no feeling like it. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

this is turning out to be one of the onion's all-time classics

From now on this is the only way I will travel

i like to call this "electoral college brain," when politicians (or hell just regular people) confuse the fact that the electoral system privileges closely competitive interior states with some deeper, fundamental meaning

genuinely fascinating that we’ve hit a point where the full monetization of the internet and ai bot takeover has led to a majority of people wanting tech minimalism

Every single loser criticizing No Kings looks like this to me

You could not waterboard the statement "AI makes me a better writer" out of me. If the prose from the Great Automated Averager is an improvement on what you can do yourself, then you're admitting that you are a below average writer. Not below average for reporters; below average for the gen pop.

the ratings collapse at CBS is not all part of the plan; Weiss and Ellison are both humiliating themselves in ways that harm them and fascism in general. also Bari might well get fired. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/bari-weiss...

Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it. From the Penn student paper: www.thedp.com/article/2026...

There’s something very fucked up about Sonic the Hedgehog driving a car, not because he’s supposed to be faster than a car ordinarily, but because it places an animal on the same level as man

I expect the Harry Potter show will be popular, at least for a while, and the extremism of the author will be minimized. If this comes to pass, I suggest practicing these phrases: "No, I haven't heard about it." "Isn't that for, uh, 11 year olds?" "So... you're really still into that? Uh. OK."

“we’re at the City Hall” “we’re at the Taco Bell” “we’re at the combination City Hall and Taco Bell” BYE 💀💀

😎🥳💃 variety.com/2026/digital...

"im a law professor and grok said this was real" should be an immediate disbarring. if this guys your lawyer you're getting the death penalty for jaywalking

I LOVED Ready or Not 2 letterboxd.com/anthha/film/... (As a middle aged dude, I also appreciated all the crowds of middle aged dudes who were clearly there to see Project Hail Mary)

Once in a while I let myself get extremely petty, as a treat

i've had a few well-meaning people tell me that no one REALLY thinks that AI is a 100% replacement for actual embodied journalists. but I do in fact think that many media decision makers believe (obviously wildly inaccurately) that we have moved beyond the need for human journalists.

You succeed in your career and meet your role model. "I really enjoyed chatting with you" you say. "Huh?" they're confused. "You were probably talking to Claude." you bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn

this is completely insane: since when is it acceptable for a tech company to rewrite news outlets' headlines without their consent? especially at a time when audiences are sensitive to how stories are framed in headlines? (ie Israel/Palestine, the Trump admin, ICE) www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

hearing someone say they regularly talk to ai chatbots for anything does feel like they just rolled up their sleeve to reveal a festering zombie bite

A journalist filed a brief live blog entry on an apparent Iranian missile strike that hit no one and caused no serious damage. Next thing he knew, angry Polymarket users were demanding he change the story—and threatening his life and family if he refused. My story: wapo.st/4lI6Pon (gift link)

Imagine losing 3 F-35As of money because you trust the lying robot more than paid counsel

I've been seeing chatter about someone using ChatGPT to cure their dog's cancer, so decided to go find out what that was actually about. Short 🧵>>

Jobs don't have to make us feel this way! They don't have to be an axis of exhaustion that we twirl around until our grip strength fails. We just need to believe in the guardrails that made good jobs possible:

Can’t believe Mamdani had dinner with a guy who was a spokesperson for a group in which some of the members lived across the street from a kid who told them about how his gym teacher once dated a woman whose brother had a Palestinian flag in his window

truly humiliating how bummed i am about this

My take on birth rate discourse: so much of it is rooted in racism or Islamophobia that it's not worth hunting out good faith arguments to respond to.

AI-washing "is not a technology story; it’s a management honesty story that happens to involve technology." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

He’s not playing chess literally. He’s not playing chess figuratively. He’s not playing chess on any level of abstraction whatsoever. I doubt he can play chess.

get in losers we’re eschatonmaxxing

the people yearn for woke 2

"Personally, I saw very limited gains in productivity from AI, nothing nearly profound enough to justify tossing out half of the company's workforce along with their institutional knowledge and expertise." www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Also, when you ask @attackerman.bsky.social why everything is awful, you have to let him cook

Went on Geek's Guide to talk about Kim Stanley Robinson's short fiction. Honestly I would have been fine skipping most of the others and just talking about The Lucky Strike and A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions for the whole two hours! geeksguideshow.com/2026/02/18/g...

I saw The Secret Agent

Maybe Starship Troopers was too subtle

"We are no longer operating in a world where we judge technology by what would happen if it landed in the 'wrong hands.' It is already in the wrong hands." www.theverge.com/policy/88634...

I like to distract myself from the terrifying political news by reading the ridiculous political news.