Opus 4.8 (the very latest LLM from Anthropic) responds to a particularly tricky question, "How many days in the week have the letter "d" in them?" AI is going to change EVERYTHING!

the best argument against democracy is 5 mins with the median voter, the best argument for democracy is remembering that without it, thats who gets what they want, not you

youtu.be/307RZ3stxNg?... This video was very informative and also fairly mind blowing because what do you mean there’s just toxic waste they’ve done nothing about?!

just wanted to read a kids’ menu online and look at all this fucking shit lmao

Example 34,567 on why I don't trust AI, or people who trust AI.

AI has FINALLY made some progress on hands, and folks still gotta complain

Part of the appeal of Tim Walz was the whole Midwest Dad vibe, where you show up to the house, they vanish into the garage to refill your windshield fluid and check your tire pressure, and when you leave, they give you an awkward hug and tell you they put the spare jumper cables in your trunk.

Also the “hey we built this using material we stole from you and now we are going to sell your stolen work back to you”

Google had perfected something to the point that its brand name became a common verb and then they decided, wait, let's fuck that up completely.

GenAI is antithetical to librarianship as a profession, ethics, & pedagogy; it is v. depressing to see library workers pushing to insert it into all our systems and services. So I love the new Luddite Lab Resource Hub, partic. the 'AI Implementation Bingo' activity (under Political Education) 👇

Existing post moderation is problematic, constantly mislabeling nudity—too much skin—as sexual. Automation overrides self-labeling and no human seems to review appeals. Now you’re rolling out something that clearly doesn’t work to the account level? FFS 🤦‍♂️

Again, if we’re ever actually going to run the government and universities like businesses (no, we shouldn’t, anyway), the model is Costco, not Google or any other company from Silicon Valley, tech, or finance.

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

When I say I won’t read your Substack this is what I mean:

On the bright side, this is a rare Republican scandal that doesn't involve pedophilia in some form.

the bus. you've once again invented the bus.

my favorite erick erickson moment is when he said that his family refused to eat asian food on the anniversary of pearl harbor to honor the tragedy. a reporter reached out to his mom to confirm whether this was true and she was like “i don’t know what the fuck he is talking about”

FIRE is a right-wing dark money outfit. Let’s be absolutely clear about this. It presents as libertarian, but its real agenda is imposing right-wing ideology on schools.

i had a job interview this week and the hiring manager said to me "we have a corporate ban on generative AI. is that ok?" and i could have wept. yes i think that would be ok

What a tragedy!

I do love a raisin cheese burger.

RIP Pizza Hut and its unlimited salad bar. You can't come back from being sold to private equity

'You want us to use this expensive product we don't really like but know you haven't budgeted for, and will rank us well if you do' is like catnip to any employee who hate their employer

employees are not there to optimize for the company’s benefit, they are there to optimize for their own continued employment if you want them to optimize for the company’s benefit, your job is to align those incentives

A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3

The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:

the uber model (sell something at a loss until everyone relies on it and then increase prices) only works if the thing is, in fact, helpful/useful/worth the money...

The no-win set-up question is actually “Do you *still* beat your wife?” But maybe he got fed a bad quote by AI… 😏

I don't think anything has ever demonstrated just how bad c-suiters are at their jobs as quickly and thoroughly as AI. Practically everyone in an upper management position saw ChatGPT write an email and immediately decided this was the future of every industry instead of a way to write meh emails.

A judge ordered ‌the removal of Trump’s ​name from ​the Kennedy Center, ruling that ​it cannot be renamed without ​an act ​of Congress

Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.

2010: we’ll start a business that makes money by selling a product or service to customers 2026: fuck customers, our product or service makes money by being terrible but having leftover customers from when it was good

Who did this

I think "shut up you ugly fuck" was the correct response to this man

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I thought you might enjoy this campaign advertisement. It’s always infrastructure week in our hearts.

No, when the yellin' don't work, Ursula looks up at the rain clouds, sighs, and looks disappointed.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Visited Lyme Park, setting of Pemberley in the BBC Pride and Prejudice. They have a costume room where you can borrow clothes to wander around in. Great fun. #NationalTrust #LymePark #Regency #PrideandPrejudice

wait a minute, I've been in this relationship before

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

Conservatives are terrified of Dems finally understanding that the people yearn to tell Republicans to shut the fuck up

Hello. Fire pits that require consumers to pour isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol or other liquid fuel into an open container or bowl and then ignite the pooled liquid in the same location it was poured violate the requirements in voluntary safety standard ASTM F3363-19.

A lawyer on Instagram just said that Catholics can refuse to use AI in work for religious reasons now that the Pope has made his position clear on it.

Artificial Intelligence and legal work - a crucial case to read There was a routine court application which would usually go through on nod, but the judge suspected something was not right and asked questions, and this then came out. If you must use AI, be careful. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

I’ve been saying this for a few years and I won’t stop - almost all of the gop shit is easily branded as a “war on kids.” Genital inspections. Abducting immigrant families. Cutting health care. Gutting education. It’s a War on Kids.

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I read the Chronicles of Narnia in the mid-1980s, and had no issues with understanding that the England mentioned there was set in a different time. As much as it pains me to say this, the time difference between books set in the 1980s and right now is the same as Narnia time:1980s.

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.