Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

The AI data center "buildout is overwhelmingly powered by natural gas." Despite claims re: alternative generation, "the equipment actually being installed in 2025 and 2026 is almost entirely gas-fired. Renewable capacity, where committed, is scheduled for 2028 or later. Nuclear is a decade away."

jeffrey epstein being the first domino for the financial crash, video game micro transactions, and Gamergate is making me lose my mind

My trusted device

we really need to shut down Nature Comment until we can figure out what’s happening

"desocialization" (like "social deskilling") is a good term for what was once talked about in terms of "social graph" vs. "interest graph," or of "algorithmic recommendation" nymag.com/intelligence...

Mamdani Targets ‘Unusable’ AI Chatbot for Termination

is Minnesota Man the inverse Florida Man

I feel at this point that LLMs should be harder to access and their use cases much better regulated

burning the planet but at least we get more slop everywhere www.theguardian.com/environment/...

computer graphics (1984) archive.org/details/1984...

there’s a French Mr. Bean in my coworking space

listening exclusively to ABBA for the past 2 weeks was certainly a decision I made

BC: instead they put violence into state of MN to get same thing [they coudln't get in court]. J: let's talk about parameters. fed govt says Constitution, statutes, support significant fed power around immigration. no question fed govt can use fed law enforcement to enforce it's own laws. /38

J: the scope of changes they want exceeds the provisions of Section 1373 [I'm sorry, i'm not sure which statute they're talking about.] BC: oh, yes. they're trying to force us to do same thing they sued us over. they've lost all of these cases. this admin is not content with rule of law. /37

I’ll try to live-blog for @lawfaremedia.org the TRO/preliminary injunction hearing in MN v. Noem this morning at 10am ET/ 9am CT. MN seeks to pause, reduce, or restrict DHS’s Operation Metro Surge, citing the 10th Amendment. Relief sought is below: /1 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

40-some years of making it easier to carry a gun and harder to join a union tells you exactly what they fear.

I keep thinking about this fact that his last words were are you okay and hers were I'm not mad at you and it feels like a weird coincidence but it's just a reflection of the fact that the people who are coming out to take care of their neighbors are good and the people who are after them are bad

Mood in minneapolis right now

seen at 38th & Hiawatha this morning

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

I’m reticent to attribute malicious intent to the peculiarities of feed ranking algorithms but I just checked X and 0 of the top 15 posts it showed me mentioned ICE. Regardless of whether they meant to do this, it’s clear that that site is no longer about “what’s happening”

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

Kyle Rittenhouse was on Infowars the day after the Renee Good shooting saying he had heard on X that Renee was putting cigarettes out on her kids. This wasn't true. This is a government by and for school shooters and their apologists.

In some countries the outbreak of bloodshed inspires the opposition party to call for the leader to resign

It's already demoralizing to be a federal thug, a barely sentient ogre. Nobody likes or respects you. But then you go to work in -19 weather thinking surely today you'll get a break from people yelling at you. But no there they are. They're not even cold

When does the U.N. send in a peacekeeping mission?

what the fuck is going on with gmail? this morning a bunch of promotional emails started going to my inbox (instead of other tabs), and I’m getting spammed with notifications, despite changing nothing in my settings

This really gets to the core of what makes Vance such a detestable figure

got an old feeling back

It's a fascinating thing to watch the youth reinvent lolcats from base principles.

I’m relatively happy yet also feeling the need to change most aspects of my life

"If you watch an episode of Cheers, you might hear references to foreign filmmakers, to classical musicians, to Russian novelists. The level of assumed knowledge back then was far greater; now, TV is rarely adventurous in its allusions."

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

obsessed with this teleprinter keyboard that has a “Who Are You” key

for an in depth guide to spotting LLM writing

I asked chat gpt to explain its writing style. Once you catch on to the dumb rhythms it's really hard not to spot in the wild.

tbh software engineering in my experience is more about realizing when the coding tasks ive been assigned don't really make sense than it's about implementing them when they do. the latter is the easy part

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

2026 if I’m being real

talking about AI as a bubble doesn't make sense. AI/tech has become integrated into critical social/financial infrastructure means fall of AI = fall of these institutions. just like govnt's bailed banks during the financial crisis, they will do same with AI so long as AI remains social infrastrctr

I want to play Elden Ring Nightreign but first I need 1. skill 2. friends

I know some things are more important but I’m legitimately so fucking sick of the federal government posting like stormfront

what an affordable bird

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

Reminds me of every time a Product Manager claims to be data driven, unless the data tells them nobody gives a shit about their pet feature

Last week, I got a corrections request for a story I didn't write, on a publication I don't write for. It sent me down a very strange rabbit hole involving a mysterious content publisher. There's a lot I don't understand, but here's what I know: aftermath.site/nicole-carpe...