I would like to know how many people have used copilot just long enough to ask how to remove copilot. After their incessant ai push, I fully switched back to libreoffice because I would rather have to deal with formatting issues than with their bs.

Groundhog's One Second

So what happens in one second?

I've noticed the Angel Studios people sure don't mind editing out the parts of the Bible they don't like. Family value apparently includes altering God's words to make it less uncomfortably gay and/or transactional about sex.

I will contribute to the campaign of the candidate that promises to tear this thing down.

Silicon Valley and the Trump administration are betting the entire American economy on the continued growth of AI, a mission that’ll require spending billions of dollars on datacenters and new energy infrastructure. These researchers are tracking their physical imprint with an interactive map:

A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News. Homicides in NYC... 1990: 2,262 1993: 1,927 1998: 629 2001: 649 2013: 335 2019: 320 2021: 488 2024: 382 2025 (as of 12/28): 302

That's just under one third of the US population, by the way.

This was arguably the worst year I've been alive, in a global sense. My loved ones have suffered. Everyone has suffered. The government is a horror and we've all been forced to pay for war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity, and a blatant conspiracy to protect rich rapists.

Yeah it's a matter of time before this dude gets caught with like a hard drive full of [redacted].

Do any historians use Linux? If so, do you have a favorite distro/software setup? Asking because I'm truly getting fed up with Microsoft, and am thinking of switching back over, at least on my laptop. #academicsky #histsci #skystorians #historians

My dearest wish from Audible, which is apparently too much to ask, would be to block authors from the recommendations. I'm really, truly sick of seeing J K Rowling's insipid nonsense. The only reason I have for seeing the new audiobook is to note all the actors whose future work I will be avoiding.

I really don't understand the Mass Effect: Andromeda hate. It's honestly a really good game.

Dearest Google; There will never be a time when I want to "dive deeper in AI Mode." Not least because AI mode is inherently more shallow than reading for my fucking self. Second, you are steadily making your products more and more into unusable trash. Please go bankrupt. All the Love, Me

The law doesn't have much to do with morality. I was a criminal until the courts decriminalized being gay in 2003. If they change their mind, I'll be a criminal again. Knowing that has always kept me from caring much about what's legal or not.

It is wild to get this much pure, unhinged vitriol from someone for saying something you didn't say, but that's the internet for you. It's interesting to see someone tell the version of yourself that they have made up from scratch to kill itself. Feels very 2010s 4chan.

Oh man, remember when people thought capitalism would allow you to own things?

I've been pretty damn poor my entire life. Grew up in the projects and in a failed industrial city with vanishing job prospects. I've never, ever been tempted to take up a job that would have forced me to torture someone. I know anecdotes aren't data, but I really don't buy the narrative.

One interesting element of public responses to ai is that it's increasingly clear you can't actually separate the art from the artist. Why? Because most people understand that there is value in the existence of the artist. AI isn't just cheating, it's dull. It adds nothing. Human effort does.

I think it must be comforting to think that Trump has singularity created the circumstances we are in, and his absence will fix it. It takes the pressure off everyone else to think he's uniquely horrible and responsible for everything. Maybe him and a few advisors. That's dangerous thinking.

I was listening to all the Stephen King audiobooks in order of publication but I think I've hit my lifetime maximum for the Stand so I'm taking a break to listen to another old favorite: The Stress of Her Regard, by Tim Powers.

Honestly disappointed with Popehat on this one. He's not stupid or evil, but he's carrying water for fascists here. Right wing ideology thrives by turning liberal ideals and institutions in on themselves in defense of their own destruction.

Make a Bond movie casual Casino Normale

This is a really useful tactic for trolls. Say something isn't true and demand evidence to the contrary. Reject all sources provided by defining anyone who would take that position as inherently biased. Circular logic is airtight because it's circular, and therefore airtight.

It's always a wild time when historians start to argue about which kind of history (military, in the last few days) are more important, which are dead or dying, or don't have enough institutional support, etc. It's mostly just a game of tug of war over our miniscule departmental budgets.

Imagine if Reuters reported on other crimes like this. "A local man held up a bodega at gunpoint this afternoon, horrifying customers and raising questions about the legality of his claim to the money he took out of the register. A bullet from his gun was found inside the torso of the cashier..."

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

Would love to know if any of the federal agents who have participated in this massive campaign to protect rapists and pedophiles from justice is the reason they joined, or if it's just a side perk for them.

So "heterodox" she wraps back around to outright fascism.

Because sometimes the megayaght is the Washington Post, and the people who should be reporting about it are financially incentivized to let it happen.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Incredibly frustrating listening to the "AI Unscripted" Moving the Needle podcast produced by the University of Maryland, Baltimore. There's this implication that both students and faculty who refuse to use AI are just being stubborn or need to give it a try. It's not green eggs and ham, Mary!

Trump putting his name on everything, frantically trying to convince everyone how awesome he is, is probably the most pathetic thing I've ever seen in my life. Never forget that for all the damage they do, these supposedly powerful men are also the most miserable and desperate for approval.

Kinda loving how many historians of science I'm finding on this app because we're pretty much entirely on the "what the fuck are you talking about" side of the LLM-as-research-surrogate side of three big online discourse right now

Here is the hard problem with using an LLM for research: You CAN MAKE an LLM useful by pairing it with a strict external data set and using prompt headers that reduce false positives and hallucinations and force it to check everything and not guess at answers, BUT....

Imagine being this arrogant and uninformed. AI is absolutely not equivalent to the internet, and anyone doing serious research in any field should be extremely wary of relying on such a profoundly, irreparably unreliable tool.

JD Vance makes me want to apologize for being white, so I guess he's failed on that front.

I will concede that Brandon is correct on that first point. Nobody is forced to use any features in word. For example, I no longer use any features in word because last year I switched to libreoffice, specifically to get away from the AI features in word.

It's really upsetting because if you do have this discussion with university administrators, you can get everyone to acknowledge how problematic it is and then they do it anyway. We are all in a race to be the first off the cliff.

This honestly warms my heart

Except I don't actually trust the Democrats to undo it. They haven't shown any interest in my lifetime in undoing the damage done by Republicans, claiming they don't want to "apear political."

Yeah, I fully expect the Democrats to fail miserably when he's gone. It will be in keeping with their pattern of failing miserably when he's alive.

Replaying mass effect and I'm really amused at how much the series turned into Battlestar Galactica over time...

It isn't the ai I hate, it's the people who decide to make it as intrusive as possible in all corners of our inescapable digital lives. There are times when, looking at the hellscape these fuckers are trying to force on us all, I do literally wonder what my threshold will be before suicide.

David Brooks being exactly who he seems to be

I hate this country.

People keep telling me the worst Democrat is better than the best republican, and no. Bastards are bastards regardless of which jersey they wear.

Lol that was fast

I truly never want to hear about "following our nation's laws" from anyone ever again. The Temu Reich dances a tarantela on the law daily. The federal courts don't follow them. Police don't follow them. Congress doesn't care. The US has no laws. Just state funded gangs.

"At least he's not a republican."