we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

Elon Musk genuinely has to be regarded as one of history’s pre-eminent mass murderers

I wonder if the devs working on the Burnout series experienced burnout.

tom homan is a bitch

I’ve made it clear to the few substack writers I used to support. They can stay where they want but they will never get any money from me on that platform. All those “indispensable features” better materialize cash out of thin air.

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

More people should listen to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social When people say AI is inevitable, let them know the future isn’t settled.

I should definitely put more Orbital in my rotation.

So many techbros entire personality has become productivity. It’s like madlib growth hacking but with coding agents. I kinda miss when people would actually talk about technical details rather than their productivity. Why should I care how much value your bots can shovel for some rando shareholders?

Yeah, im gonna go ahead and say Gawker doesnt need the retroactive kudos for being targeted by epstein. I'm so tired of the same shit over and over again. If cis people saw us as human, a lot of shit would be better for everyone rn.

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

it actions like this that make people, especially gen z, despise the democratic party. what are we doing here

Liebe Medien, ich kann die Schlagzeile "Keine Einigung zwischen USA und Dänemark" nicht mehr sehen. Wenn ein Bewaffneter eine Bank stürmt, titelt ihr doch auch nicht: "Räuber und Kassiererin finden keinen Konsens über Geldübergabe." Hört auf, imperiale Aggression als normale Diplomatie zu framen.

Trans people: "Fix your hearts or die!" Scott Adams: ok *dies*

These aren't normal times for politics, but even if they were, it's so clear that Democrats either don't know how to do politics or don't want to. Their position on the board is "the president is hated and his goon forces are despised" and they seem at wit's end how to message from that position.

"I'm not scared of Israel. I'm scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity. Greta thunberg

Fuck genAI! I am disappointed in so many people who think they can carve a useful little tool out of the monstrously terrible AI industry. ITS NOT ABOUT WHETHER IT WORKS OR NOT! It could do the job perfectly but it doesn’t remove the harm these companies have. Stop buying & normalizing this shit!

Fuck genAI! I am disappointed in so many people who think they can carve a useful little tool out of the monstrously terrible AI industry. ITS NOT ABOUT WHETHER IT WORKS OR NOT! It could do the job perfectly but it doesn’t remove the harm these companies have. Stop buying & normalizing this shit!

Happy Zohran Day to my NYC friends. (I’m not staying up to tell it to you in a few hours.)

I thoroughly enjoyed 39C3. I posted a tiny bit more on mastodon but honestly am still processing most of it. What an amazing event this year. 11/10.

Bluesky in general, as a corporate entity and a technology, has been a letdown recently. It split away from the worst parts of its roots (Xitter & crypto) but didn’t prevent itself from falling back into the same ideas. It’s not an outright failure but a very gradual return to enshitification.

@baochip.com where can I find you at C3? I’m very curious.

It’s because computers are unaccountable which is an idea they love. Never forget, the computer operator is accountable still. Don’t buy this “oops AI” line.

I’m finally attending c3 in Hamburg. 39c3 hype and anticipation is going to keep me awake all night. Even the mesh is lively with people all over the greater Hamburg region chatting (LF looks saturated, I’ll switch to SF at CCH tomorrow).

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

Honestly, it’s so relieving to see someone like Rob Pike speak up like this. You can’t be neutral with AI. Its effects are farther reaching than a few prompts and I beg people to slow down for a moment.

The extreme attack on transgender youth we are witnessing from a governmental stage was enabled by The Atlantic and The New York Times.

i hate that AI is such a buzzword these days because it's all linear algebra soup and sometimes the soup is actually extremely good. GFS's reduced accuracy in previous events (hurricane sandy, notably) from computational limitations has cost lives. 99.7% reduction with comparable accuracy is insane.

It’s weird seeing people announce they’ve left X on this platform and others. I’d personally consider it embarrassing to even admit to using that site at all. Why now? Has all of the hate, bots, and misinformation finally affected you rather than others of us who left years ago?

This is the exact genre of story we’ll see with generative AI where people say things like “I just let it handle the boring parts.” These people will end up exactly like these two incapable drivers. You can already see it happening. If you can’t live without it after, why become dependent at all?

reading about genAI slop brokers makes me want to draw more weird manual art. extremely realistic brachiosaurus reconstruction for you

New Bike Day: mastodon.social/@cararemixed...

"Fix your heart or die." David Lynch This platform keeps testing me but I think it deserves to die. Honestly, I’ve been using it less and less this year. You can find me over on mastodon.social. It’s far from perfect but it’s not enshitified nor blatantly fascist.

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now. But there's an even more important reason...

You do not, in fact, have to hand it to the NYT for a basic headline. The bar is so low. It seems like people are excited by the possibility that the paper can publish light handed criticism right next to the congratulatory celebration of authoritarian regimes. !!Woohoo we did a little critique!!

Leslie Lamport is also the guy who wrote a paper titled Buridan’s Principle, which is clearly a paper that tries to break some kind of record for published academic works given the number of times the word “ass” occurs in it. He’s got a sense of humor and is certainly trolling us all with LaTeX.

LFG!

Maybe spend money fixing OMNY and not a giant inflatable. 🤦🏼‍♀️

30 years ago this was peak performance and it was better.

me to a friend: "did you see this shit the @roblox.com CEO said?" friend: "Check his hard drive asap" tbh I agree

Love this. Better hold onto that domain.

This is an amazing fact

Wait. Can someone ask Ezra Klein to lean in on this? I'm sure it's all our fault for making the Nazis have to resort to violence since we didn't volunteer for the camps.

my favorite Half Life 1 glitch: Because of how the automatic voice-syncing works, the security guards mouth the beeps and boops you get when they punch in codes. (It happens to the guard at the end of the trolley ride too)

This should scare anyone who understands the scale of this and how easily manipulated these systems become. For some, it might just make us a little dumber or less eager to question what we read. For others it’s an effective capture where everything real becomes secondary to the prompt.

Kinda ironic seeing sovereign.tech getting hit by the Cloudflare outage today. Some low hanging fruit for them to pick.

I can’t deal with US politics anymore. There are so many self serving parties and politicians. Sure, I’m happy about Mamdani and all that made his campaign happen but what a fucking mess of an opposition party. Democrats might as well explicitly join the MAGA circlejerk.

There is space in the tent for MTG but not Mamdani 😭 These are the people I’m supposed to trust with my life? Everyone pls bffr.