Our 8th most-read piece of 2025 perfectly crystallizes the internet in 520 words. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/did...

Per Craig Ferguson: When you're about to say something, ask yourself 1. Does this need to be said 2. Does this need to be said by me 3. Does this need to be said by me right now It's amazing how asking these will get keep you out of trouble (that is, if you actually have sense to begin with)

One more reason to love David Tennant

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

I will keep insisting that everyone read this until everyone has

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

Reposting this to possible save someones life.

a lot of posts over the next four years are going to fundamentally consist of "democrats should have said the magic words that made republicans stop being republicans" and frankly i am going to lose my mind if i am subjected to enough of those

ATTN: THREAD: The loyalty interviews have begun in DC. As someone who has direct experience with this, I have a couple of recommendations for all federal workers. Please share this widely, and with any federal government employee you know. 1/

Apropos of nothing, thru my spouse‘s job we have “ good” insurance. 5yrs ago, I had knee replacement &they made me jump thru 1 million hoops ofc (& we were out of pocket $$$$ too). 1 month later, they sent me a 5-figure bill for the full amount. They *retroactively* unapproved it & demanded I pay up

I'm so trying hard to channel my sadness and rage into productivity, organizing and connection but every morning still starts with a slow motion, internal fight to even try to move what feels like a leaden body and hollow heart that desires nothing more than to sink, disappearing, into the earth.