AI Guy Asks AI To Help Him Read Difficult Books

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 23h ago

Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

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One of the reasons I suspect kids aren't reading is that they continue to force them to read Ayn Rand in school. In 2026. What the fuck. I might stop reading too if that was a formative experience.

It's the principle of the thing, you see. The principle being "YOU DON'T GET TO TELL ME WHAT TO DO FUCK YOU"

dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 20h ago

this guy’s personal wealth is roughly the gdp of portugal. he could personally cover healthcare of every person living in the state of illinois for a year and still be one of the tenth richest people alive. he’d be just as rich as he was two years ago.

The guys name is basically John Doe, too. Should be an obvious red flag for potential false ID when it's such a common first and last name.

Kevin Collins@kwcollins.bsky.social · 21h ago

Birthdate and name matches are causing US Citizens to get arrested in error by ICE as they board airplanes. This is the same level of rigor they're bringing to claims of fraudulent voting, and is obvious as an error-prone method to anyone who has taken an introductory stats class.

She read a news story of a man charged with murder & historical sexual assaults. She realized *he* was the man who had sexually assaulted her in the 90s. The article said to contact police if you had information, so she did. And this set off a nightmare of incompetency & harm by Ottawa Police.

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I hope this guy sues delta for a hundred billion dollars

Kathy@kathleena.bsky.social · 20h ago

"It was supposed to be a routine work trip to Las Vegas, but a Delta agent told him the airline was working to upgrade his seat. He just needed to board last." So the Delta agent lied to help ICE grab him.

“Fantasy author” is a fake job created by Big Hat to sell big black hats.

i have just received word that 86-year-old james cromwell was cruising around the recent #STLV in a mobility scooter decked out as zefram cochrane’s uss phoenix

jfc

Comic Book Club@comicbookclub.bsky.social · 19h ago

Five years after Image Comics cut ties with writer Warren Ellis after accusations of sexual coercion, he's back with a new graphic novel.

if woke 3.0 or whatever sweeps in one advantage it would have over the reactionaries is, the list of people needing to be hauled out of their homes and put on trial is like, comparatively tiny. few billionaires, trumps family and cabinet, etc. -- dont have to declare war on whole states like they do

The failure of Biden and Garland to seriously lay down the hammer after J6 on both the insurrectionists, and more importantly, the politicians who enabled them will go down as a failure on par with the failure of reconstruction. A historic fumble I will go to my grave thinking this.

rich traditions@helldude.bsky.social · 19h ago

if woke 3.0 or whatever sweeps in one advantage it would have over the reactionaries is, the list of people needing to be hauled out of their homes and put on trial is like, comparatively tiny. few billionaires, trumps family and cabinet, etc. -- dont have to declare war on whole states like they do

The CEO of IBM has started saying some of the same stuff as Ed Zitron, take that as you will.

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Every day I'm more vindicated than the last. They were sending me death threats for this.

I'd recommend to anyone with a webcomic to just get their own website if you can. The online landscape changes so fast in its ability to dick over small artists that having your own pernament base that's known to your audience is important.

Kenny Meyers@kennym.bsky.social · 2d ago

Webtoons going all in on AI.

It feels like we're in the part of Plague Inc. where the virus (gen-AI companies) is purposely making sure its symptoms are hidden (keeping the price low) so that it can infect Madagascar (get full market saturation) before it starts killing people (raises the price by multiple orders of magnitude)

I didn’t even see this had been announced. I was lead writer on this one! And Saber replaced me with ChatGPT midway through development. All the passenger voices were AI too. Either they changed direction at some point or they’re not disclosing it on Steam

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I’ve been hearing since like episode 2 of YGOTAS that I’m “not as funny as I was before” so you’ll have to understand that anyone who attempts to say shit like “the videos got worse when she trans’d her gender” is firing a peashooter at level 100 armor.

i dated a snapewife. it was 2009, less than a year after i detransitioned. she was 15 years older than me and became incensed when i didn't want to have more sex. i guess it never occurred to her that detransitioning might be traumatizing! anyway. harry potter fans. same as they ever was.

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Every line of dialogue here is incredible. Truly one of the best "trying to hide that I'm a giant lizard" scenes in all of cinema.

Lady Emily ☄️@ladyemily.nebula.tv · yesterday

There's a scene in Amazing Spider-Man where Peter visits Dr. Connors to be like "do you know how a predator could track a lizard?" and Connors lizardly says "Nooo because lizards are the top predator there is" and then asks Peter to leave but then Connors leaves his own lab and Peter stays behind

Your work will be called "porn" the moment it is convenient to power to define it that way. Solidarity is our only useful option.

Bruno Dias@brunodias.dev · yesterday

if you are any kind of creative or artist or writer you *have* to understand sex workers and porn/erotica artists/authors as being members of the same class as us. to the extent society recognizes a difference between "legitimate" art and porn, it's only as a tenuous, convenient, temporary fiction.

plz allow me to bless your timeline with 20 seconds of a 3-month-old puppy making a valiant effort to befriend a frog

I have known Rob for twenty years and I've only met him twice, though both times I've slept on a bed in his studio apartment (once in NY and once in London). Rob is the best. If you can help him stay in the UK, you should. He and his partner have built a wonderful life there!

Rob Berg@robwillb.bsky.social · 2d ago

In 2 months, I'm going to have exorbitant immigration fees to pay so I don't get kicked out of the UK, my home for the past nearly-10 years, so I've set up a GoFundMe. If you're able to either donate or share, it would be so enormously helpful, thank you! www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-st...

Damn man, we had a manga cafe open up in the greater Los Angeles area which had been something I intended to visit, and now the guy who operates the cafe says he's pro AI, so I guess I'll never visit the cafe after all.

you don't hear about tech guys microdosing stuff anymore. i am assuming this is because the intrusive thoughts won

I don't think they will. I think WB and maybe eventually Paramount are fully prepared to lose a ridiculous amount of money on Harry Potter, because the old incentive structure of "profits and losses" has gone haywire and ideological bullshit is an acceptable practice.

OneWingedSparrow@onewingedsparrow.bsky.social · yesterday

Honestly for me it's making is inevitable cancellation at season 3 or 4 funnier.