“AI might be a scenic path with no hills or hindrances, but it does not lead to the goal we’re chasing. It leads to a fucking desert.” mass-driver.com/article/from...

From human hands.

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1. I am not an AI researcher 2. "Doesn't just repeat back to you what you said" ... isn't what any chatbots do, nor what that metaphor was about. 3. For the millionth time, that paper was about LLMs, not "AI" and definitely not "AI agents" medium.com/@emilymenonb...

IEEE Spectrum@spectrum.ieee.org · 2mo ago

Emily Bender described #AI agents as “stochastic parrots” that can only repeat patterns they find in training data. The folks at @medialab.bsky.social were inspired to create a robotic parrot companion. This AI parrot keeps you on track, reminding you of tasks and challenging you.

Yes! when I make videos people say "oh you've just got so much talent!" No babe I have so much TRAINING. It really isn't natural to read like you speak it takes work!

Working in audio has ruined me, I guess I can’t watch social videos like this w/o wondering why a producer couldn’t help the reporter sound better The reporter did fine. But I’ve coached a ton of journalists & there are tricks to making them sound conversational www.instagram.com/reel/DZUfeNN...

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So I read the @wired.com story about long covid The argument seems to be: “no one wants to believe this minority of patients over here, and that’s hypocritical. But all these other patients over there are *hysterical* & I won’t even bother talking about their experience” Did I get that right?

We have guest writer Dr Elke Hausmann examining the controversial Levinovitz WIRED article which has sparked significant concern for its portrayal of Long Covid, recovery narratives, and brain retraining approaches. 🎙️Audio available open.substack.com/pub/longcovi...

1 in 6 “That’s how many patients with Covid-19 go on to develop long Covid, according to a study of nearly 458,000 patients at 58 hospitals” published in JAMA Network Open. “about twice the rate estimated by federal health officials.” www.statnews.com/2026/05/28/h... via @statnews.com

The latest developments on Ebola, hepatitis B, long Covid

Uganda closes its border, a Christian substitute for insurance, and more health news from Morning Rounds

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This is coercive. Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care www.404media.co/headway-ther...

‘Cracked Oura’ Is an App For Using the Oura Ring Without the Monthly Subscription www.404media.co/cracked-oura...

‘Cracked Oura’ Is an App For Using the Oura Ring Without the Monthly Subscription

On Thursday Oura announced the nearly $500 Ring 5. But what if you don't want to pay a monthly subscription to access your health data?

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“The reader’s attention, behavior, and personal data become a commodity, packaged and resold through a supply chain riddled with fraud, opaque middlemen, and unscrupulous actors.” www.cjr.org/analysis/dep...

The American Prospect decided to do away with programmatic ads. A month later, people are spending twice as much time on the site.

The American Prospect decided to do away with programmatic ads. A month later, people are spending nearly twice as much time on the site.

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I haven't listened to this episode, but the copy describing it in this newsletter is driving me nuts. "podcasting" does not equal "video talk show"!!!

I started this process before the Google I/o stuff, but I’m even more motivated now: I’m moving away from Gmail entirely, and transitioning to protonmail for everything. I’ll still have to use Google Docs for collaborative work, but I’m happy to work out of proton docs whenever I can

to wit: reading your work to see if you stole it from other writers in the aftermath of you having been shown to steal work from other writers is not bullying nor is it character assassination it is a foreseeable consequence of stealing another writer’s work

Every brand coming out with their “Pride collection” right now and doing literally nothing else for queer folks

Rick James Quote: Greed is a Hell of a Drug

ALT: Rick James Quote: Greed is a Hell of a Drug

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The lede of our Ben Shapiro story on Saturday and the lede of the @nymag.com story today washingtonpost.com/technology/2... nymag.com/intelligence...

How are we still doing this

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I read this entire article and could not for the life of me figure out why it was news. They picked a speaker, some students wrote a letter saying they don’t like the speaker. This is the sum total of what happened. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

What “distressing” ideas? How are they “cocooned”? It’s amazing how much publicity one can get by reinforcing cliches that accord so little with the experiences of so many of us who actually teach college students.

i've said it before but there needs to be serious congressional regulation of clerkships at the federal level

The Portland Fire played incredible tonight. So much guts. So much... fire! I love them. It's official.

Attention liberals: COVID anti-vaxxers are your fault for being "alienating" www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/o...

Regardless of what you think of this dinner or its attendees, the fact that the association then decided to resume dinner service is absurd. Go home. Work event over.

Julia Métraux@juliametraux.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Staying at a work event after gun violence is unbelievable to my brain.

Mr. Beast: Did you finish that employee handbook? Mr. Beast’s Bro Flunky: Sure did boss! Reeeeeallllll incriminating, just like you asked for

Joshua Erlich@joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 3mo ago

ok the Mr. Beast lawsuit, let’s go. step 1: don’t do this, or this, or this, or this

thoughts I've had recently: What if I made my own pole lathe? Or should it be a treadle lathe?

I suppose this is the opposite of "software brain" @reckless.bsky.social

Arielle Duhaime-Ross@adrs.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And listen, I am sure part of the attraction is a reaction to the *bad* AI vibes. I want very little to do with AI in general. so I find myself making things that AI could never — and a wooden spoon is certainly that. (I know I’m not alone in this.)

(don't tell my mom yet, but this is her mother's day gift)

Arielle Duhaime-Ross@adrs.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And listen, I am sure part of the attraction is a reaction to the *bad* AI vibes. I want very little to do with AI in general. so I find myself making things that AI could never — and a wooden spoon is certainly that. (I know I’m not alone in this.)

2026, for me, so far, has been the year of doing things with my hands. I’m still drawing. But now I’m also sewing, woodworking & wood carving — all while listening to a ton of audiobooks. Often that’s my whole evening with my spouse, who does puzzles next to me as I carve…

Excellent bunch of 4-panel comics about being trans and pregnant. Just lovely www.crucialcomix.com/comic/ex...

Excited to Love More: Moments from My Trans Pregnancy

Being pregnant is a journey—especially when you’re transgender.

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Did they really write this whole article without quoting a single deaf person? Did I miss it? And the article ends on the "promise" of erasing all deafness — something that many adult deaf people don't want! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/sc...

I’m very confused by Portland’s WNBA draft picks y’all. I wanna give em a chance but I also want to be excited about watching them play?