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This isn’t like letting kids use a calculator, this is more akin to letting kids smoke. The whole point here is pushing an addictive product and getting kids hooked on it early—not educational best practices. www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

Your top 15 TV shows without thinking. Go! X-Files Band of Brothers The Wire Legion The Good Place Scooby-Doo Watchmen Battlestar Galactica Mr. Robot Mr. Rogers Andor Derry Girls Lost Star Trek: TNG The Simpsons

AI vibe coding remains... *always defeated* apparently.

The most bad-ass rebuttal from Tite Kubo, the author of Bleach.

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Unbelievable season for Michigan. Sign Dusty for life! Hail to the Victors! #GoBlue!!!

After the Chainsmokers Final Four... thing... Desperately hoping they spice up the natty tonight with a performance by Angine de Poitrine. ✋🔺🤚

Chainsmokers infusing the Final Four marquee matchup pregame with some serious The Villages energy

CA’s $20 fast food minimum wage raised fast food prices by only 3%. The reason minimum wage increases keep not reducing employment and barely increasing prices is monopsony power. www.nber.org/papers/w34990

#NoKings rally in San Diego was amazing today! Great turnout.

If your “first journalism job” was writing aggregated stories for a content farm, that’s not a journalism job, that’s an aggregation job A lot of people took these jobs to get a foot in the door and they were exploited badly. I’m sympathetic! But that’s not journalism. Words mean things!

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

In case you missed it earlier in the week...

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco seizes more than half a million ballots

Exhibit 8 trillion of how awesome AI is in law.

I will vote for any candidate who nukes (figuratively OR literally) any two-factor authentication system that doesn't remember my browser. Which currently, IS ALL OF THEM.

Kalshi is clearly NOT gambling. Unrelated, I recently placed a prediction market buy on me getting closest to 21 versus the person who was distributing the numbers. Classic prediction market stuff.

“You can’t say people are our most important product and then treat them like shit.” - Jim Sinegal, co-founder of Costco

This makes perfect sense if you also view humans as nothing more than products.

And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting. In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...

This AI-loving newspaper editor is teaching young journalists a valuable lesson: editors can be dumbasses www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...

Really love that the NHL is unable to post clips due to IOC rules. So they’ve resorted to MS Paint highlights.

AI companies still haven't figured out what the hell they're trying to sell to your average person. Hope my 401k survives the impending collapse.

The various color-based Jacks: Black, White, etc.

ProPublica is arguably the most important journalistic endeavor in America right now and hopefully a model for future journalism in this country. I'm hard-pressed to find legacy outlets doing work as consistently illuminating and important as what they're doing.

Is there any greater lie than a "one-time security code?" or "Remember this computer?" 99% of my email and texts are authentication codes for things that I entered the authentication code for yesterday to remember the computer that I told it to remember yesterday.

Shout out to the cute couple we get to watch due to ESPN's technical difficulties! Hopefully not another Coldplay moment....

For all the folks who insist that AI can be a great part of a student writing assignment: Which part of the writing process do you think is unnecessary for students to experience?

For my last post of 2025, here's a look at a network of websites and social media accounts hawking #resistance- themed garments, frequently with slogans regarding U.S. National Parks. As it turns out, the websites in question are likely operated from China. www.conspirator0.com/p/how-not-to...

And, as another reminder, when I buy PACER documents, I make them available to anyone through @free.law's RECAP extension, which then makes them available to all at CourtListener. PACER itself should be free, but, until it is, everyone who can use RECAP to help make docs accessible should do so.

Absolutely love the euphmeism of "prediction markets" as opposed to "degenerate gamblers who weren't content with gambling on sports, so now they have to gamble on everything." Just great stuff.

💯 #FuckAI

Attention South Pasadena Weather System: It works in Culver City, which I suspect is not helpful for people in South Pasadena. It's definitely not helpful for people in Culver City.

Depressing. The then-Knight-Ridder DC Bureau inspired me as a journalist in ways few other journalists did. Their courage during the Iraq War is still not appreciated enough today. For-profit journalism's time is at an end. Hopefully we can pivot to successful nonprofit models, or we're screwed.

GO DODGERS! WHAT A WORLD SERIES!

This is a must-read piece. Fantastic accountability journalism and an absolutely unacceptable situation with California's handling of drunk/drugged driving. calmatters.org/investigatio...

Sorry, neighbors. You're just gonna have to deal with me screeching like a 5-year-old boy. FREDDIE!

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Life has become a series of 2-factor authentication nags and there is no bigger lie in this world than "REMEMBER THIS DEVICE?"

Eye-opening thread

Guys, don't be mad at me for whatever reason. I'm having mitochondrial challenges.

RIP to Paul House. I'm proud that one of my last stories as a journalist was helping to tell his story. www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

Statistics have consistently shown that immigrants commit fewer crimes, but are victimized more often and reluctant to report being victimized for fear of being deported. I can imagine that's only worse now.

Here's how you remove Google AI from your mobile devices.