never forget: despite being the most successful of the billionaire wannabe rocket barons Musk is the only one that has never been into space himself afaik no fawning journalist or fan has ever asked him why? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The great thing is the more attention these incidents get the more likely they are to spread and be mimicked, commencement/graduation speeches this year have the potential to do the funniest thing

Hey Siri, show me an example of someone going way, way, way, way (I mean wayyyyyy) over the head of their interlocutor.

Oh god the discussion in Vancouver is going to be so stupid from all sides. “11 AI agents” is meaningless as a phrase. If I said “I have 11 spreadsheets” or “I have 11 browser tabs” to do my work, it means about the same thing.

I swear I haven't laughed out loud so much at a standup comedian in two years, never mind an "AI realist." youtu.be/JgVBqcqUGE0?...

Now that AI can figure captchas out, the real test of humanity is not whether you can solve it, but whether you are annoyed af each time.

These dudes think they are casting spells. @wolvendamien.bsky.social called it a long time ago.

In the "I should re-read @rezendi.com's Swarm from... going on 15 years ago" department. spectrum.ieee.org/autonomous-d...

Last time I linked to Zitron was September 2024 and I unsubbed a good while ago, so this doesn't come as a surprise, but it needed to be said.

The single most important thing to understand about tech futurism is that, when Anthropic’s predictions turn out to be wrong, they don’t have to give the money back.

@so-lorange.bsky.social Lighting = organisation de grande classe mais equipe de pas de classes. Une belle gang de Ronaldos.

Yes, yes you are. www.wired.com/story/palant...

Pet peeve: weather apps/sites that show you, 1-2 days ahead, that day X is cloudy with rain. Then you look at the hourly detail, and it's actually sunny all day with clouds and rain coming in after 7-8pm. How is that a rainy day??

As we have long suspected, CEOs and business “leaders” are easily replaceable.

@mathiasbrunet.bsky.social avez-vous pris de l'avance sur la chronique de lundi concernant les blessures inutiles à des joueurs importants qui bloquent des tirs?

Social media, AI, quantum computing-- on being clear as to the real issues: "Geist in the machine & The prospect of Butlerian Jihad" @inevernu.bsky.social (Plus- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin) Keeping our eyes on the prize: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/10/i...

"Google has created a misinformation crisis. Studies have shown that people tend to trust what an AI tells them without question,[...] a grim trend the researchers dubbed “cognitive surrender.”

This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC. "All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources." blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...

I mostly do the same kinds of things every day and mostly use Claude. Some days Claude seems to be a moron, some days everything runs smoothly. How about you? Does Claude's smarts vary from day to day? (It's a frickin' idiot today, tbh.)

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

April fools', the original slop. (Catching up on newsletters from the last few days.)

apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers

Author of the classic novel “if you wear AR goggles out and about people won’t like it and will call you a rude word” unexpectedly negative about the idea of wearing AR goggles out and about

an example of how "the free market" is only important to them when it benefits them

"We may never use hydrogen to move a car or a truck, but at that [solar] price, we will have cheap green steel, synthetic ammonia for fertilizer and industrial heat. These are the exact sectors skeptics say renewables can never reach." www.exponentialview.co/p/solar-supe... via @inevernu.bsky.social

I can only assume discussions are already ongoing for Owen Wilson to play Jürgen Habermas in a biopic?

wow we are arriving at the exact situation every single person imagined within one second of seeing their first robot dog

I'd be really curious to see a chart with: - Jobs lost to AI, for realz. - Jobs lost, the excuse involved AI, but it was because business was bad. - Jobs lost in tech companies because the inc. wants to save money to throw it all into AI training and infrastructure. techstartups.com/2026/03/13/m...

Aye aye aye futurism.com/artificial-i...

I was today-years-old when I realised that Anthropic's Claude was likely named after Claude Shannon. D'oh! (Can't find an official confirmation though.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_...

I'm thinking protomolecule. futurism.com/space/water-...

Not all that surprising, sadly.

Not good, not good at all.

Can it be called "caving" when the bro jumps in enthusiastically?

They don’t need a tool to assess where to drop a bomb when they have one that confidently confirms any location they choose. They don’t need autonomous drones to drop those bombs, they just need to give an order. So the human is just a conduit for the machine, which is just a conduit for the human.

They don't *need* AI to make these decisions. But they *want* AI to make these decisions. Because the tech gives them plausible deniability--something to blame (other than themselves) when things go wrong.

'This is not a call to despair, but an invitation to understand the forces driving the process of collapse, and to explore how we might navigate the descent with integrity, purpose, and care for the living world.' adrianlambert.substack.com/p/collapse-a... via @inevernu.bsky.social

I forget who said that Altman wants to be Steve Jobs but he's Steve Ballmer. More proof.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk would: 1) bar the company from government contracts 2) bar any government contractor from using Claude 3) pressure other businesses to consider Claude insecure Meanwhile, invoking the DPA would nationalize Claude, but now as a surveillance/murder tool

Invoking the Defense Production Act to force Anthropic to make a version of Claude that can conduct mass domestic surveillance and operate murderbots is psychotic

stories like this will mention the AI "doomer narrative" (SkyNet will kill us all, often pushed by industry insiders), but not mention it pre-empts more realistic criticism (Grok's data center in Memphis is aiming its pollution directly at black people) the industry doesn't want to talk about

We have until March 6 to comment on whether there should be one million more satellites in orbit or thousands of mirrors that reflect light back at Earth Jesus Fucking H Christ on a Pogostick

'Look around. Are we not madly harvesting the world’s resources in a monomaniacal attempt to optimize artificial intelligence? Are we not trapped in an “AI maximizer” scenario?' www.newcartographies.com/p/is-ai-the-... via @inevernu.bsky.social

Project Silica is cool but asks a *lot* of those who read/decipher the archive: optical microscopy, a custom neural net, etc. If that knowledge gets lost - not at all a crazy thought for a 10,000-year archive! - you're hosed www.nature.com/articles/s41... (via @inevernu.bsky.social's Sentiers)

So, so, so, so tired of that fucking guy. Go surfing like a dweeb and leave us be.

You may be tempted to roll your eyes and say that this was obvious, but there is a substantive difference between pointing out there is a slippery slope and having solid evidence that Ring's CEO is planning to expand Search Party beyond lost pets. Kudos to 404 Media.

This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors. youtu.be/uoU9Img_B40