The longer generative AI exists, the more of what we take for granted is going to become toxic cognito-hazard waste. We are living in the era of contamination. It is happening all around us, and the people doing it have names and addresses. 13/13

I do not believe in the death penalty for humans. I do support the death penalty for corporations. When they murder people, let's dissolve them. Break them up, destroy their technology, nationalize their assets. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

A longtime fave.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

My favourite Paddington is when he comes for you before you've even died. Here he is ushering Liz Truss out of number ten.

Again,

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

xmas movie posters but with muppets: thread

This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.

Marxists: AI is a technology for capital to crush labor power and take control of everything. Sensible people: this is doomerism and hysteria. Navarro: AI is a technology for us to crush labor power and take control of everything.

‘Looney Tunes’ director, Bob Clampett had a puppet show that Albert Einstein was a fan of. They found 35mm Kinescope prints in a vault that was about to be destroyed. Please subscribe to the channel and share if you’d like to see them preserved! youtube.com/@timeforbeany

And Exhibit No. 1 if you think I'm exaggerating.

Ha ha ha ha ha

I love SCROOGED. Bill Murray’s Frank Cross is a media age asshole archetype that still resonates, & it has one of the absolute best finales in cinema. Great performances, solid Richard Donner direction, Danny Elfman score, & prime Murray. The comedy snaps, yet the sentiment lands. And Karen Allen!

Talking about _The Player of Games_ by Iain M. Banks. www.newscientist.com/video/250912...

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

Merry gentlefolk, it is time. Today is the day. Today is comma-mas. Today is the day where we contemplate the correct placing of the comma in 'God rest you merry, gentlemen'. And if we are lucky, we can have a row about it. >

a betty white christmas: thread

If you're an artist or anyone, use this. nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

i recently read an essay by an audio engineer that contained this startling line: “Recording does not capture an objective reality any more than a photograph would.” aestheticsforbirds.com/2021/04/07/a...

This has popped up on my feed again so your occasional reminder that, if your business cannot turn a profit when acting within the law, you don’t have a legitimate business

Wild story. Developer who has spent their whole career in the Apple ecosystem, writing multiple books on developing for apple, has their account permanently locked for unclear reasons, and Apple employees prove unhelpful.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future. Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.

Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Yep

A few Christmases ago I made some people cross on Twitter by sharing below without the accompanying caption/punchline but I think it’s fun to work it out

you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

Streeting to next launch inquiry into “over-diagnosis” of left-handedness. “Never used to be like this,” he insists.

this is a work of art

You’ll Be OK

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This is the most accurate representation of @gailsimone.bsky.social’s feed that I’ve ever seen…

Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.

This is good. Here's my favorite a.i. pointed Smooth Dunk.

the muppets do deviled eggs: thread

The UK has gone from "We need to enshrine the right to jury trial in a British Bill of Rights" to "We need to abolish jury trial" in the space of about 3 years. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine. But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires? No.

Today is Charles M. Schulz’s birthday. Here’s a comic I drew in the early 2000s. (Link to the full strip in the comments.) Both his son and grandson got in touch to thank me, after this ran. Yes, I was blown away. Full comic here: www.dorktower.com/2022/11/25/g...

Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Very worth your time. Hippos rule.