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Hello. The moment you gate educational videos behind a paywall, a massive wall of bureaucracy goes up. Teachers have to beg administrators for budgets, companies have to wine-and-dine school boards, millions of students get locked out, and people get forced into using material they don't like.

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Why all these huge data centers?

save this. read it again and again.

when the war's going great

Everyone please welcome CBS News Immigration Analyst Viktor Orban.

sensōji temple reflecting on yesterday's rain #haiku

sensōji temple reflecting on yesterday's rain #haiku

incompetency in action: people without the means to understand the situation assume that a machine with the inability to understand the situation has the means to do so no machines in positions of power. no positions of power relying on machines.

is everyone ready for the eternal panopticon

Good news for anyone that's ever wanted to fight monsters: We now live in the age of monsters

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

What’s also great is reading the dialogue with Claude where it stops and says “I need to stop and be honest with you about something important” and reveals it deleted every single photo. Software built for dunces

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

It's also just... incredibly fucking weird that Epstein was also involved in the trans panic and modern disinfo? Like, I expected a kompromat network with weird connections to foreign states. I did not expect him to be behind most of the evil of the last ten years.

We probably need a word for the (relatively) new type of leader or middle manager that is entirely incompetent and is faking expertise with the help of ChatGPT. I know at least three of these types. They use ChatGPT to write texts.

hello I shouldn't have to say this but please don't generate lists of resources for reporting ICE with ChatGPT and also if you do please give it the most cursory of glances before distributing it to people thanks

had a dream where we discovered that Elon was personally paying for half the bots and trolls on the internet and we collectively decided to rename these small annoyances "Muskitos"

If your friends and family are suddenly interested in events and trying to understand how America got to this point, I wrote a quick explainer here for a couple of European friends. medium.com/@dotfuego/an...

This is worth reading. Couple points. a) The right does not understand that people can actually care about each other and is, in fact, confused and terrified of this. b) They're going to find ways to target Signal groups. Be careful. religiondispatches.org/2026/01/26/r...

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Wrote a little thing about the current moment and why America has lost its mind for some European friends. And it's important to understand this because... the same thing is coming for Europe. medium.com/@dotfuego/an...

if you are feeding people, that is the work if you are helping people with clothing or shelter, that is the work if you offer encouragement & support if you share information & speak the truth if you're setting up chairs for a community defense training that is the work - @[email protected]

working on a new theory of everything

The hardest lessons of the last year: 1) There are always goons ready to join a goon squad. 2) A lot of Americans don't care about freedom or Democracy and actually LIKE fascism because it feels like their team is winning.

Look man I don’t think the people being poisoned by data centers really care if you remove the generated assets before shipping, and I don’t really care if you “only” use the machine that stole my shit and convinced teens to off themselves for internal PowerPoints. Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.

This is mostly interesting but still doesn't quite explain why Japan/Tokyo relies so darn much on overstimulation (by my standards, at least).

man fuck Amazon

once again, if you're the twitter man that bet me we wouldn't see over a hundred cases this year you owe me a couple hundred bucks

i think that really the main reason AI is so attractive to all the richest stupid people in the world is that they see it as a way to add a subscription fee to interacting with the world in general. why bother getting people to sign up for 8000 services if you can just charge rent on being alive

the small language model arrived

worth noting that Nixon had a roughly 30% approval rating when he was actively resigning

American media (1980-2014): racism is bad American media (2015-2024): racism is good? American media (2025- ????): racism is both legal and mandatory

the idea that we will ever devise a technology that can automatically sort true statements from false ones and factual ones from “hallucinations” is a lead-to-gold fantasy

EVs beat petrol cars on lifetime emissions — even on “dirty” grids. Battery production is carbon-intensive, but EVs quickly repay that debt and end up 21–71% cleaner over 250,000 km. We can’t wait for perfect grids: electrify transport and clean the grid now.

"If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period. Or if everyone used Apple Music it would have been £12,331 more." Los Campesinos:

not enough plucky little guys trying to do good amidst the forces of darkness imo

however many trillions spent on developing Algorithms and hoovering up as much data as possible and amazon's recommendation algorithm still goes "oh you bought one window air conditioner? okay, do you want 15 more?"

yessss (also protect your shit from the algorithms)

somehow we have arrived at cyberpunk without people really understanding the "punk" part now's the time for counter-culture, not submission to machines

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

the best way to do this without it sucking is let seasonal produce dictate what you make it's autumn so all the squashes are cheap or there's a surplus of winter veg going for pennies or there's a sale on eggs it becomes a challenge and it makes it actually fun (for dorks like me)

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

Hey guys we need to raise your power bills again because the jackoff material factory needs more power to turn your mom and daughter’s pictures into pornography and we need you to pay for it

beginning to realise that everything the far-right have done in the past decade to achieve power is, very successfully, to commodify moral panics as an online subscription service which is then taken to the polls anyone saying that the antidote is in mimicry is playing with fire #fascism