The Steller's Jay is back at the feeder today, which means the finches are going to yell about it from a distance for a bit, and there is now corn *everywhere*. Throwing whatever he happens to dislike this time out of the feeder is p much his way of life

going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

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What you gain an immense understanding for is that people do not know how to fail. They come up with an idea and hold onto it so long. You have to know failure in all its permutations. You have to fail. Because all they've ever done is win by following the instructions. And now those aren't working.

Someone recently messaged they appreciated my troubleshooting series over the years and wish I'd compile them. Telling the story of how you develop from incapacity. All the time you DON'T waste by failing, becoming a professional. Because at the fringes, knowing how to fail – is what others don't.

Being the person they have to call when the LLM hits its limit and they're running in circles is already the position I and some of my peers are already in. The problem here is the pipeline. You don't get to my capability, by replacing younger less experienced me with an LLM. This is gonna be bad.

Oof, the sycophancy problem in LLM's + triggering on any irrelevant details you feed them, recently led a P2 problem call down the wrong pathing for hours. The chatbot is never going to TELL you to step back and ask if this entire inquiry is irrelevant to larger goal. This is your moat. It's mine.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"

Love how, for the New York Times, using LLMs is just this value-neutral thing that everyone will eventually do, but being transgender makes you too biased to write about anything ever

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Democrats need to begin with the truth: "My opponents' intent is destruction of the public good and theft and murder of the people who live here, which poisons even the few facts they get right; therefore, there's no point in finding common ground; we should seek only to oppose and defeat them."

there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort. It aired in 1990.

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

Oh good: another binary reality for us to be split over. If you can see that AI is hopeless, if you know how it should be and isn’t - whatever your area of expertise, coding, writing, human legs - you will be driven mad that others can’t see it’s shit. And we can all argue about it and not get on.

All of Public Broadcasting needs help to weather the Trump CPB rescission, but if you're already a regular donor in a big media market, maybe pick a vulnerable station in a less-resourced region to support

My god these guys are such spectacular morons gizmodo.com/billionaires...

This is a laundry list of rhetorical strategies to defend the adoption of a given technology for the purposes of advancing an ideology & economic regime: inevitability, unquestioning praise of “innovation,” buy-in from concerned stakeholders, assurances that partnership is not capitulation. 1/n

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok

How do they manage to ruin EVERY day? Every single day I find out about something new that pisses me off

*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*

I wonder if one reason these guys don't care about AI hallucinations is that they've never actually finished a single book and routinely misunderstand what actually happens in them, and just generally glide through life in a Dunning–Kruger haze of bullshit and misplaced confidence

While I'm at it: Lisa Murkowski was *appointed* to US Senate, BY HER FATHER, after he resigned that seat to become Gov Truly inspiring story about opportunity in America Topped now by "poor little me" rationale for supporting a bill she knows is bad for America. And that she could have blocked.

This was removed from the bill this morning. Keep calling. Pressure is working.

News: The most recent GOP reconciliation bill no longer has the provision to ban Medicaid from being used on gender-affirming care The parliamentarian had disqualified the provision, but Republicans had left it on the text — it now has been removed

Not gonna lie, I’m kind of turned on right now

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

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The dismantling of the research apparatus that made America the science and tech giant it's been over the past century is the greatest own-goal in history. We haven't even begun to calculate or feel the losses

I'm going to start using "digital asbestos" as a term of art.

Here's an alternative view - Prof. Kreis says it's okay. He may be right! But I will never trust this administration and the "business need" language remains a huge red flag to me. I'm still calling my reps tomorrow morning to ask them to confirm what the hell's going on. bsky.app/profile/anth...

The website says that the National Archives at College Park will provide "access only for visitors with a legitimate business need." No mention of educational or artistic or informational uses. And do you trust Trump's people to decide what's a "legitimate business need"?

To the end of my days, I will not understand why industries that rely on this research are not losing their minds

"This fic is literally just porn, why do you care about the quality of the editing" unfortunately, both my brain AND my dick have strong opinions about verb tenses.

The public was 100% ready for trans rights just a few years ago. What we’re seeing now is a massive shift in public opinion after a coordinated and expensive propaganda blitz, one that Dems happily ignored. Trans rights aren’t new. We had them for years and everything was cool.

did not have "the pope starts the butlerian jihad" on my bingo card but i'm here for it

The conservative movement is lying about basically every empirical "debate" of our time, from climate change to voter fraud to vaccines. Why is it so impossible for reactionary centrists to contemplate the possibility they're lying about trans healthcare too?

Nothing sums up the state of affairs for transgender Americans quite like the US Supreme Court denying trans people life-saving healthcare at the same time that the Trump administration shuts down suicide prevention programs for LGBTQ people. These bastards want us all dead.

Why on earth would a protest movement against the worst president in US history begin by acknowledging that he's not so bad www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...

You know you can just not use AI, right? You can make a choice not to be part of this. Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it. You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.

I'll never get over how the best line in all of noir – "I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead, and the rest are bourbon" – doesn't come from Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, but Calvin and Hobbes

It’s June 1, so if you haven’t reserved your homosexual yet be advised that we’re into surge pricing now.

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