Halt and Catch Fire and Ash

Re: OpenAI being uniquely poorly run, on cue with this day late/dollar short bullshit: www.engadget.com/ai/openai-is...

My big theme for next year is relearning to take control and ownership of our lives (NOT YOU, CRYPTOCURRENCY)

Today on Bluesky: Type of guy who is pro-cryptocurrency but anti-generative AI

I have a lot of reason to suspect that Anthropic inference is unit profitable, so if you have some reason I should think otherwise, I sincerely invite you to say so.

what being on bluesky does to an LLM

Every poster who is all in on AI being a supply-driven fad should be made to explain how ChatGPT is about to hit a billion weekly active users. I worked on 3DTV at Discovery. I followed VR very closely for several years. I know a supply-driven phenomenon when I see one. This ain’t that.

Absolutely insane fact I learned this week: Before he wrote every thriller in the airport bookstore, James Patterson was the copywriter who wrote the “I want to be a Toys R Us kid” jingle youtu.be/LMd8qmBmTkg?...

That whispered command? You guessed it:

This is taking food out of the mouths of digital artists who would like to receive visits from the Secret Service

Hey did Kevin Spacey do one of those bizarre fireplace chats this year

I BELIEVE IN NOMINATIVE DETERMINISM

It’s even in the god-damn name: the Immigration *and Naturalization* **Service** vs Immigration *and Customs* **Enforcement** The central aims here were well-reflected in what we called the organizations themselves.

Get Rekt

Let’s simplify things with 68±1

“the true champs of safe drunk driving” AaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

I think we have to retire this meme now

This is the energy we’re taking into next year

“My way of life is being destroyed!” “Oh shit, you can’t leave your home because ICE is racially profiling and deporting white people?” “What? No.” “You’re being forced to dress androgynously and the M was removed from your passport?” “No.” “Then how is it being destroyed?” “Oh… you know how.”

🎶 Party building in the house tonight 🎶 🎶 Every voter just have a good time 🎶

What about my dream of moving back to my home town and opening an Appalachian music venue with my high school sweetheart, who improbably is still single, works at the diner across the street and is played by Zoe Deschanel? What does Abundance have to say about that?

Woot is currently selling 64 and 32 megabyte RAM sticks as a joke 😭

I thank my lucky stars every day that I show no signs of balding at 38

I want that twink Desalinated

Canceled

Pluribus 🤝 Mrs. Davis Prestige TV in which the human race has been converted into the tool of a powerful omniscient intelligence that must be combated by misanthropic protagonists. All of this takes place on a subscale streaming service that persists because of a much larger parent business.

The State of Jefferson maniacs are literally secessionists

We are now entering the most dangerous time of the year. The Bean Dad Zone. Think before you post.

I was all set to laugh at these guys but… I’m sorry, but this is a boneheaded way to structure a tax. What the fuck are they thinking? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/t...

Diabaté, his arms wide

Manoussos, when the walls fell

This post made me curious what the wedding bookings business for the Kennedy Center has looked like since they put Trump’s name up.

Zosia and Carol Sturka At Tanagra

Stephen Miller waxing nostalgic about old Christmas movies is him trying to create a white Christian nationalism that includes him. Memo to Stephen: No version of Christian nationalism ever truly welcomes Jews. Only multiracial democracy ever has and ever will.

“it validates every person who feels their way of life is intentionally being destroyed. It objectively is” Buddy, I am definitely not going to accept such horseshit from a fellow white cis guy

YouGov "Is a transgender woman a woman?" among 18-29 "Agree" - 51% (+11 from Jan 2025) this is less than a year in and we're almost back to peak woke Woke 2.0 is going places you can't even imagine

does anyone have advice for being more assertive in situations like this?

I give you… Left Yarvinism

"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel" "sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"

Once the bubble bursts, we will finally have a "conversation" about the meaning and purpose of technology, for the wicked have imposed such advancements upon us. We'll just wait for the glorious collapse of the global economy, and then our ideology will rise from the ashes.

it’s like Anthony Bourdain said: once you’ve been to San Francisco, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Marc Andreessen to death with your bare hands

Or, on the flip side: You think it’s okay to use an LLM to prototype some simple software? Have you considered that as an English professor, I find my students are lazier than ever?

You think humans aren’t just thermostats? Have you considered that I read “Word and Object” in a Slate Star Codex discussion group 15 years ago?

Oh my god I am going to hate this youtu.be/7seIvJN4pB4?...

“These are not new things — they are new things to the government — which is this idea of knowledge capture and knowledge management in light of the fact that people might not be there for their entire career.” Sir.

I’m actually not worried about this because all of this happened during the Bush admin and it took less than 10 seconds of waterboarding to change this shock jock’s mind youtu.be/qUkj9pjx3H0?...

It would unironically be a good idea to rebrand “The Humanities” as “Metacognition Studies” or something similar