Trump and his cronies can try to dress this up, but it is an illegal act of war to replace Maduro and grab Venezuela's oil for his billionaire buddies. Full statement below:

You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.

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For those w/ social anxiety, calling this late at night means there's virtually no chance you have to worry about talking to an actual person. Take your time, write out what you want to say, call, read your script, and hang up. If that's too much, all reps and senators have contact forms. Use them.

The whole "Grok admits" "Grok apologizes" thing reminds me of the famous IBM presentation quote that evidently everyone has forgotten. And I do think representing your brand on social media counts as a "management decision".

yeah there really isn't any other choice FIFA and the IOC are comically, viciously corrupt so it's going to be on everyone else to force their hand but things cannot go on as normal and taking away his spectacle is one of the few ways to really piss off Trump

Too bad, slopguy

Grok can’t “apologize” for making child porn for the same reason autocorrect can’t apologize for changing “fucking” to “ducking.” It’s not conscious. It feels no remorse. It just generates the most likely response to each prompt. Any reporter treating Grok like a person should never be trusted.

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago

Silicon Valley and the Trump administration are betting the entire American economy on the continued growth of AI, a mission that’ll require spending billions of dollars on datacenters and new energy infrastructure. These researchers are tracking their physical imprint with an interactive map:

Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.

I am determined as God is my witness to start the Trump fake hand conspiracy theory. His hand isn't showing signs of an undisclosed illness. It's a fake painted Halloween costume hand because his hand was already removed. It's time.

So, while there's no exact second that "This is What it Sounds Like" reaches its apex, if you start K-Pop Demon Hunters Sing Along on Netflix at around 10:36 PM on New Years Eve, the Honmoon will restored and pearl colored for 2026.

Seems weird to have the pizza roll technology and not be trying to exploit it Stop doing AI and give me a chile colorado pizza roll god damn it

My final newsletter of 2025: We're in The Enshittifinancial Crisis, the fourth stage of enshittification, where companies turn on their shareholders. Unprofitable, unsustainable AI threatens future of venture capital, private equity and the markets themselves. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

This is how terrifying the power of our collective divestment is to them. Even a single band's boycott is catastrophic to their sense of domination and power. Boycotts work.

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.

Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

it would actually cost SO MUCH LESS to just do this instead of throwing trillions of dollars at technofascists too, who would've thought

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

1/5 Seeing some tech/ai slop accounts online claiming that AI has always been used in games, pretending GenAi is a part of that, when its absolutely not. Yes, AI has always been a part of games in: NPC behaviors, Data Mining, PCG’s (Procedural Content Generation) etc All different from GenAi!

Look up the startups that authors who are pro AI are affiliated with. Tell the journals you consider this a CoI (because it is), do it often, during review and retrospectively — keep pushing them to get serious.

maintaining the fiction that cbs news would remain relatively objective under her leadership was a *lot* more important — to the admin, to cbs news, to david ellison and to bari weiss — than killing this story was, and it’s incredibly funny she didn’t know that

please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

Think of AI instead of cigarettes here. Nothing is inevitable.

i made a helpful reference

We can do even more.

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

So the guy himself is saying they arent really even seeing productivity gains? He said they are just using AI because they are afraid of being left behind. He is inviting this public scorn by repeating techbro talking points for no benefit at all. The mind of a CEO is fascinating.

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.

if mick foley can stand on business anyone can and should

John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”

literally (featuring @biteghost.bsky.social)

Today I am wondering about the insights we could have about the brain if we didn't insist that it recapitulates western power structures For example, to what degree are our hypotheses about prefrontal cortex limited because we call its processes "executive functions" instead of like, "mothering"

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

there are pundits who will say that immigration is trump's strongest issue and that picking fights around immigration helps him on the margins. but i think this misunderstands the way public opinion works, as evidenced by trump's declining fortunes on his handling of immigration.

Y’all I’m sorry the fact that Mark Cuban’s Cost-Plus-Drugs can exist at all is proof that the system is rotten. The entire concept makes no sense if you take the insurance company’s word for what they’re doing.

Disney just invested $1 billion into OpenAI, in other words, a billion in the AI slopification of its brand. Disney princesses have also become one of the most common fictional subjects of AI porn on the internet www.404media.co/disney-inves...

A good friend just told me they would make Mickey fuck Bin Laden since Disney wanna do this shit

Also a reminder that having your name in the credits was only if you were *SPECIAL* and there is a long history of uncredited artists who never got their flowers. It doesn't matter if you are an indie or established studio, if you do not value your team it will be the culture. We cant repeat this.

But most importantly, when my or my loved ones' life is on the line, I don't want the cheapest option. I want the best. That, for the millionth time, is why health care is not and never will be a free market. Because the alternative is not making do without it, it's death.

If you canceled Disney+ over the Jimmy Kimmel thing this is another good reason to cancel Disney+ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/b...

This is 100% the correct (and obvious) move by Dems and they need to do it Every. Single. Time: counter Republicans strongarming companies/schools by openly and directly saying "we will be in charge in like a year and will absolutely make this cost you." www.semafor.com/article/12/1...

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

in other news, our grotesquely corrupt Congress just killed "right to repair" military reforms that saw massive bipartisan support and would have saved taxpayers billions of dollars