“In every industry, AI is being used to replace all the creative things that bring us joy instead of the boring, tedious tasks we hate doing,” she says.

once again, it is absolutely fucking psychotic that this technology has been let loose on the world without a shred of regulation

We are producing a generation unable and (somewhat) unwilling to think, read and write without relying on tech controlled by some of the most evil people on the planet to tell them what to think, read and write and they don’t seem to see the dangers of this dependency even if we point it out

Was waiting for this essay about this movie. And am pretty damn excited for the movie itself too.

Could not possibly recommend ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER enough. Don't let the runtime put you off because this thing is a sustained panic attack and moves like an episode of Frasier. Take your pals with you cos it's unclear they'll be giving people this much $ to make movies like this for much longer.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

The uniting theme of the supposed age of AI and the M&A/private equity apocalypse is that the world is controlled by people who literally cannot imagine ever deriving joy or meaning or satisfaction from any activity or pursuit for its own sake if it doesn't make money.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

OK, not even getting into the ethics or the existential issues around AI: Have some goddamn self-respect. If you're a writer and you do this I don't know how you look at yourself, but I know exactly how I look at you.

“My idea of heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing." Peter Falk #BOTD

Can only pray it does nuke usership.

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

Been trying to think of something to say about Redford but this pretty much covers it. We won't see his kind of megastar again, the system doesn't allow for it.

Robert Redford is pretty much the textbook example of a life well lived. A star whose looks and methods would have made him one in any era, and however much I like to clown on Sundance clichés there’s no denying it’s one of the great paying it forward acts in the history of the business.

A giant has left us. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

the future of tech is sociopaths chasing engagement clicks with zero ethical considerations at impossible scale

The steady and increasingly normalized erosion of expertise, trust, informed practice in every field imaginable.

If you use ChatGPT to write an application, why would I hire you? At the same time, if you use AI to decide who to hire, why would I work for you? This amount of laziness is almost guaranteed to result in incompetence.

There is a feeling akin to cosmic horror in witnessing the plans of contemporary technofascists, but instead of cool eldritch elder gods it's pathetic, disgusting loser human beings wielding monolithic, destructive power akin to that of gods for the most banal reason (more power & wealth).

One of the greatest errors in K-12 education, in my opinion, is prioritizing trigonometry and calculus over statistics. Yes, trig and calc are important for many professions. Statistics are important for literacy.

It's my birthday. The best birthday present you can give a writer is buying/borrowing/reading their books. This one's a mythic realist tale of a fading extradimensional diaspora set in 90s/00s Calcutta. It won a British Fantasy & Subjective Chaos Kind of Award:

and when have the ceos of the biggest industries collectively been wrong, I ask you? no, the 2008 crash doesn't count. the dot com crash also doesn't count. please stop listing when we were all wrong i have buybacks to execute.

It frankly boggles my mind that we have invented a computer that cannot do math.

Ah, damn, what a great actor. He deserved more leading roles like in CLEARCUT, which is excellent and does indeed go hard.

I know many media professionals who are convinced this junk should be used widely for fact checking.

What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”

the thinking about it is the important part. the struggling is the point. give these kids a million blue book essays until they feel it

a huge part of the problem with AI and delusional spirals at the moment is that the "AI safety" people were busy with their own fantasies of Skynet, AGI, and paperclip maximization being the danger and seem to have done zero due diligence on the *actual* risk factors of the product.

there should be criminal consequences for companies and executives releasing these products when they have such horrific consequences. we’ve evolved from “move fast and break things” to “move fast and kill people” and the tech billionaires could not care less.

this is... insane

And with that, I will go see it twice in theaters. Dear old GDT, passionate to the end. Some people could take a lesson or two from him.

Love how the tech that’s going to take all our jobs and solve all our problems always comes with a ‘often gets things wrong, don’t use for anything important’ warning.

Last week I lost my job at a large A/E/C firm because my role, managing a team of technical writers, was eliminated. The writers under me still have their jobs for now, thankfully, but they are being managed by people who, to put it lightly, cannot write, edit, nor train writers competently. (🧵?)

WSJ running an opinion piece on work-life balance by a soulless, 22 year old, walking caricature of a human being pretty much sums up the world we live in quite nicely.

I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.

RIP Terence Stamp. So many indelible, iconic performances, many of which I still need to see. For me, it’s all about THE HIT, where he’s cool as a cucumber, totally zen, the pinnacle of what he seems, until the climax brings a real confrontation and he completely breaks down. Moving, tragic stuff.

SUPERMAN II is the first live-action movie I can recall seeing as a kid and this glorious performer therefore my original template for onscreen villainy. Couldn't have asked for better.

Gone at 87, “azure-eyed Terence Stamp, with the dark, tousled looks of one of Caravaggio’s more refined ragazzi.” James Quandt on TEOREMA — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Just a few days left to vote for DEEP DREAM or any of the other works nominated for the Ignyte Awards. A lot of people put a lot of hard work into the book, and we'd be grateful for any votes (or new readers) if you dug that work. Anyone can vote:

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People will forget how to swallow and ingest food without asking a computer or a billionaire by 2032.

We’re at the point where no one actually cares if they provide you the service you’re looking for Long as you stay on site

They want people to delete their personal photos so there's enough water to allow people to continue making AI slop images

if you are worth billions of dollars — a sum that makes you wealthier than any king in antiquity — you already *have* been incentivized. you have been allowed, by the state and by your fellow citizens, to escape any material concern except death, a condition entirely unique to the modern era.

A society that has scorned education for what it is—which is an investment in the generative value of human knowledge—and turned it into a purely transactional value, and only to the degree that it can create profits for corporations who are simultaneously trying to solve for human labor entirely.

holy crap. "In Ireland, there are more than 80 data centres, gobbling up 50 per cent of the electricity in the Dublin region, and hoovering up more than 20 per cent nationally, as they work to process and distribute huge quantities of digital information."

You know, Quasimodo predicted all of this.

This gave me chills. Because among the things that bother me about the universalization and over use of gAI has always been how it will strip/has stripped us of originality, resistance and will. And watching my students become so dependent on this is horrifying.

16) Stole this one from a recent skeet I saw: If generative AI could REALLY make the next GTA in 6 months with 10 staff, or write the next bestseller, or produce 10 blockbusters a day? They wouldn't be trying to sell it to YOU. They would keep it for themselves and guard it from you ferociously.

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.