Free newsletter: The dawn of token-based-billing has shown that generative AI doesn’t have a return on investment. It's too unpredictable, too unreliable, you can't easily measure the cost of tasks, and organizations are already pulling back. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-doesnt-have-roi/

Anthropic and OpenAI are dangerous and unsustainable companies that shouldn’t be taken public. The AI bubble is a con and retail investors are the marks. AI doesn’t have ROI, it’s nothing like AWS or Uber, and it’s got no post-bubble recovery story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKD...

it’s crazy watching people be loud and wrong online and when presented with facts they simply refuse to accept them like. i know we’re in a literacy crisis but now it feels like we’re doing straight up crimes against information.

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

What the hell is the American Music Awards

Pretty annoying how hard it is to write a book

We are going to win! This stuff can and will be brought to a halt. None of it is inevitable. Anthropic cannot afford to slow down. It has to grow to at least $100bn a year in revenue or it doesn’t have a hope in hell of paying its compute bills. Same for clammy little Altman.

You didn’t “inherit” 43 of my scripts, Anthropic, you stole them.

It’s interesting how Juaneco y su combo have two songs with “abuelo” in the title, making them the premier grandpa based cumbia band. This is a good post if you like 60’s Peruvian prog rock cumbia. Otherwise, I’m sorry.

The fact that the government chooses to leak this to you is an implicit insult although you would have to be self aware to pick up on that so no worries.

Israel bombed a kitchen that provided meals to the forcibly displaced Palestinians in Gaza, killing three and injuring others. The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said Israel has killed at least 871 people since the so-called ceasefire began last October.

John Roberts says racism is over in the South and that’s why we don’t need the Voting Rights Act anymore

Trump administration prepares to seek Raúl Castro indictment as it pressures Cuba

I’ve been moving over the past couple of weeks and it’s an interesting reminder that most of what I own is books and trash that I think I might use for an art project someday

TPUSA was promoting an anti-trans event on Juniper's campus when she was stabbed to death Sunday. I'm pretty well-informed + I only heard about this today on the "It Could Happen Here" podcast. Violence against trans and nonbinary people has skyrocketed in recent years. Media coverage is dismal.

This This and This ... are not 3 things... they are one thing

Never not going to share Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" when it pops up on the timeline.

Abolitionist John Brown was born May 9, 1800.

Such assessments speak more of the limits of the mind of the person making the ambitious claim PhDs are meant to be original work so a plagiarism lying machine just remixing existing stuff would not create good new research

Kevin Morris, a researcher at the Brennan Center for Justice, said that Alito’s claim is “simply not factual,” and that the turnout gap had “exploded” over the last three years. trib.al/8N53FLm

If Republicans enact their planned gerrymandering, they can lose the popular vote by *4 percent* and *still keep the House.* www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

How much do you think real estate developers are salivating over dying Philly schools?

The school board plans to vote Thursday on a $3 billion facilities plan to close 17 schools, co-locate six, and modernize 169. City Council members are threatening to hold up school funding over it.

“Not only did ASU allegedly not communicate to its academic community that their lectures would be spliced up and cannibalized by an AI platform, but the resulting modules are just bad.”

we've moved from "shooting yourself in the dick" to "pouring lemon juice into the hole you shot in your dick"

Trump and Elon Musk destroyed most of the global H.I.V. program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Zambia. Now the US is threatening to cut remaining support, unless Zambia gives access to the country’s mineral resources. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

Remember how less than three weeks ago the president threatened to kill an entire civilization

I slept so poorly last night that I’m considering going to law school

ME: (shivering, stripped naked and tied to a chair) Drag queens have pretty privilege… CIA AGENT: Again. Do another. ME: Please, I can’t, I— CIA AGENT: (dousing me with a bucket of ice water) Another take! Hotter! ME: (sobbing) Dating someone who needs glasses is a predatory power imbalance…

The position that we were too hard on the Nazis is both seemingly unrelated to anything else on this list and also weirdly on the nose.

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Social media is a good hamster wheel.

I posted “It seems like a bad idea to have an opinion on the internet” on Threads and a man recorded like a 4 minute video explaining why he thinks I’m wrong.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

The Democratic group, trying to figure out how to get the Youth to support them: what if we said the word "fuck?" (Or actually, "f*ck")

Elevating monstrous assholes to power not only emboldens every other piece of shit out there to emulate them, but *also* makes it incredibly difficult to convince kids that morality is a worthwhile thing.

did we ever figure out how the moon tastes though

The ICE official "noted that the case was important to someone close to the White House. The woman, Amanda Ungaro, was placed in ICE custody and ultimately deported."

My mom used to make me microwaved eggs, so now I find them comforting

BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

People who think Marx was right about everything have clearly never read Marx’s writings on Latin America

"One paper’s acknowledgements thank 'Professor Maria Bohm at The Starfleet Academy for her kindness and generosity in contributing with her knowledge and her lab onboard the USS Enterprise'."

starbucks barista: good m- melania: allow me to set the record clear, i am absolutely not a friend of jeffrey epstein. i would not call him a friend. i spend several pages of my book, Melania, not calling him a friend, or anything at all.

It’s really revealing how she assumed anyone but her and her insular bubble were thinking or talking about this.

I know everything is on fire right now but we have to call about this, we’re already calling about everything else, just add it to the pile. The grief I feel rn is indescribable but to them it’s just any given weekday.

you fucking guessed it! "Last year, Philz was purchased by private equity firm Freeman Spogli & Co., which also owns Popeyes Chicken and El Pollo Loco, for a reported $145 million, according to Mission Local, though the company did not provide details of the deal."

I now play for the Chicago Bulls

Please write my book for me