In case anyone didn’t believe in the literacy crisis among the kids, my eighth graders loudly complained about being given a six page story and it took many of them about an hour and a half to read it. And then lots of them said they didn’t get very basic things in the story. And I’m so tired.

Why am I forced to take so many AI ethics training courses and the like when OpenAI exists.

Summer light on neighbor’s house, Johns Bay Maine. En plein air watercolor. #pleinairwatercolor #maine #summer #watercolor

A pod of orcas identified as northern resident killer whales (NRKW) from the A5 pod surprised people on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast by swimming close to shore and rubbing their bellies on the rocks. Watch here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/killer-whales-rub-bellies-on-rocks-9.7034393

Stormy coast #hovshallar #kattegatt #stormysea #coastalline #seascape #landscapephotography #winterlandscape #RF24105

Like most people I didn't even realize we were playing Capture the Leader. Was there an opening ceremony?

If your slop machine produces slop, I will call it slop.

Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...

No cheating. Reset with the most recent picture of your pet.

So you're telling me there's a chance??

In more transit content from the Raccoonobahn, the raccoon gives way to Furnando. Neither the raccoon or Furnando, the grey fox, want to tangle with each other. #mammals

Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.

Going to a spa to get a massage from a fancy robot sounds bleak to me. Staying connected to screens and tech during a massage? ☹️

I do not want AI chatbots in my books. I've had a Kobo e-reader for several years and I hope they don't pull this Amazon Kindle nonsense with their devices.

US House Oversight Committee release a batch of only 19 photos out of 95,000 from the Epstein estate. Images include: Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, Woody Allen, Larry Summers, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Andrew Mountbatten, and Dean Kamen. #OpDeathEaters www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/fq3vn...

95,000 new photos! Those who were abused deserve justice. Those involved in committing these disgusting crimes do not deserve any protection or anonymity. We can't end or prevent any of these crimes if we won't even prosecute the ones doing them this boldly.

Fine. Give us the Epstein files in Times New Roman, then.

NEW: AI toys for kids talk about BDSM and issue Chinese-state talking points about Taiwan in tests caught on video www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

It turns out that I have not been watching things that Dakota Johnson is in this whole time so I'm just going to continue doing that.

JUST IN: Oracle's, $ORCL, Larry Ellison called Trump after Netflix, $NFLX, Warner Brothers deal was announced, and said the transaction would hurt competition, per WSJ. Today, Jared Kushner's private equity firm Affinity Partners said was part of Paramount's takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery

The Paramount bid for Warner Brothers includes significant financial backing from Saudi Arabia who really wants more of this industry. Just in case you were wondering why it's likely that the current administration will step in to block Netflix.

When I was a kid (back in the late 1900s), I had a small collection of Illustrated Wildlife Treasury cards (in the plastic green case) and the Pine Marten was one of my favorite cards. I was fascinated by them. Still am.

Zuckerberg's great vision for Meta is to turn humans into spyware.

As funny as this is, there's the tragedy of $77 billion wasted while everything crumbles around us. Imagine choosing this bullshit over improving society, advancing humanity, making a difference in real lives!

Anyone else noticing this increase in the number of municipalities with catastrophic budget lies and errors lately? It's almost like this is a consequence of electing extremely unqualified people who don't understand how any of this works (or want to break everything on purpose).

Let's not wear the AI either.

my braincells have halt and caught fire

"On November 20, 2025, trading algorithms identified what may become the largest accounting fraud in technology history" "The current situation bears structural similarities to three major accounting frauds: Enron (2001), WorldCom (2002), and Lucent Technologies (2000)"

Real animals are already amazing. We don't need AI videos of animals, especially ones that are passed off as real. Please stop.

I'm not sure if my dog is meditating, making a wish, or taking a micro nap.

How many companies are getting aggressive unsubscribe numbers today because of Gmail privacy concerns? Turn off the invasive AI smart features and suddenly Gmail can't filter messages the way they did 10 years ago? UNSUBSCRIBE

This gave me a good laugh and maybe it will give you one too. We all need one.

Amazon will save 30 cents per package by replacing 600k humans with robots. I will be ordering 0 items.

Epstein wore a Harvard sweatshirt. His friend Larry Summers (current BoD for OpenAI) was president of Harvard. DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT.

Maxwell should never be released from prison. Not only did she betray girls and young women by using her presence to create a false sense of security when luring them to Epstein, but she also groomed, trafficked, and abused them directly.

Throwback to Goo Goo Dolls playing Iris in the rain 😍

NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work. Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours. She was later released with NO CHARGE. A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”. You decide…

New: I wrote about how all AI browsers are fundamentally vulnerable to prompt injection, how they're all already getting pwned, and hint that one might not want to hand over control of your email and bank accounts to ChatGPT.

*knock knock* "Hey, Azure, let me in. It's me, Dave" Azure: "Dave's not here, man."

Everyone remain calm. Clearly everything is under control up in the clouds.

Who needs Azure Front Door anyway. 🥱

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

"It's no use, Lurch. Apparently I am doomed to live."

Me: I don't know if I want to go to this vendor conference. Vendor: Sam Altman will be a guest speaker! Me: Oh, I definitely don't want to go. Thanks for making that easy.

When your own sibling rips off your ear over a peanut because winter is coming. #chipmunk #wildlife #maine

Killing time while time kills me.

That's some wild surveillance at the school and irresponsible use of AI without verification.

Anyone else think it’s sort of funny how AWS laid off 40% of its DevOps staff in July because AI made them “redundant” and then it suffered a catastrophic outage?

Unacceptable to lack offline functionality, but for the guy who was "stuck in a sauna" with the overheating bed, why not unplug the bed? For safety and comfort.