Dining out with a reservation is now an excruciation of reminders and confirmations before the meal, and incessant nagging for “feedback” afterwards.

If you don't believe that this party is disastrously unequipped to handle the dire straits of this moment, I think you at least need to entertain the question, "What would change my mind?"

Look it's important to know that if Mamdani wins they'll say New York is a violent, lawless hellscape run by socialists, whereas if he loses they'll say New York is a violent, lawless hellscape run by socialists.

I was in a job once where an executive floated purchasing that surveillance software that watches what people do throughout the day. In retrospect I wish I asked if that means they would increase the pay for folks found to be working more than 40 hours.

I do not think “big tech” is bending a knee to anyone. They’re doing this because they want to do it and believe it’s right. They just have the social permission they always wanted.

It’s so bizarre to me that this is a permissible response from an elected official, even if it’s obviously farce. How is “I haven’t heard anything about a major governmental decision” any better than “Oh yeah I’m actually all for that”?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11mo ago

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts? MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

Coming around to the fact that, especially when it comes to community, processes are built for about 90% of the cases, to buy you the space and patience for the remaining 10%--the moments when you need to give people grace and make exceptions.

That classic lesson from The Terminator: Be the first to build the terminator

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 11mo ago

“If there's gonna be a terminator, let him be American.” Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice explains why she says the U.S. needs to “run hard and run fast” and win the tech race with China. 🎧 Listen to the latest episode of Bold Names: on.wsj.com/3WmWYs8

I admire Coates so much because I know I’m not as intelligent as he is. I don’t mean this as self-flagellation. He’s just brilliant. I often wonder if Klein can sense the same and needs the kind of message a lot of people want to hear because a large audience helps you avoid that truth.

Perry Bacon@perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

Really makes you start to process "AI is inevitable" not as clever marketing but as a threat

ASTRONAUTICAL@starwards.bsky.social · 11mo ago

"So... the bubble's about to burst, how should we spin it?"

CEOs are revolutionaries; who else could come up with such great ideas as “cut costs” and “raise prices”?

The more I hear people break down how they use AI agents and how revolutionary they are, the more it sounds like what they actually needed were more scalable processes.

Looking forward to him capitulating because the CEOs promise to donate fifty cents to his presidential campaign for every dollar they give republicans

Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This has been pushed to the background, but pay attention: Right now, a stack of bills aimed at reining in AI companies and big tech sits on Gavin Newsom's desk in California. These are the bills Silicon Valley and the GOP tried to ban outright. Now they await Newsom's signature—or veto.

"please rate your package delivery" i mean ill click the smiley face because i assume it impacts the poor bastard who delivered it but i must impress upon you that forcing both him and i into this situation is an act of utter inhumanity and furthermore that god frowns upon your deeds

A practical reason the vision for AI adoption seems unserious is the collective overestimation of our processes. You can tell an agent “Put X information into Y format and update Z tracker” but only if the information is documented, the format is consistent, and the tracker is up to date.

We have always been at war with Tylenol

People really be like “I’m an AI prompt expert” then type “please do not lie to me”

This feels a little like “pivot to video” in that I used to search something and get an article I could instantly control+f through for the information I want and now I need to wait as a disembodied voice stalls before it may or may not vaguely answer my question

Shacknews@shacknews.com · 11mo ago

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

I’d be very curious to know: How do these people define “immigrant”? What is an “immigrant” to them? Is it someone who moves to another country? How is that different than what we might call an “expat”? Is it about doing it “legally”? So we should make that process easier, right?

folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 12mo ago

"Anti-immigrant march" is such a telling phrase. An immigrant is just a person who exercises the freedom they are born with, which is recognised by all human rights legislation, and moves across imaginary lines on the ground. Being "anti-immigrant" means anti-movement, anti-freedom and anti-person.

FWIW, I’ve worked with some colleagues who proudly and consistently post on LinkedIn about how they’re AI-powered and I noticed absolutely 0 change in their output. Did they produce things faster? Did they make better things? Nope. That’s the kind of thing you’d notice working closely with someone.

This weekend I had this thought: I really don’t care about bipartisanship. “Bipartisanship” is like a restaurant telling me how they’re going to prepare my meal. Don’t care! Just bring out what I ordered please!

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Schumer on government funding: "Our position remains this: We want to keep the government open by engaging in bipartisan negotiation where we can address some of the grave harms Donald Trump has caused to our health care system and help Americans with the cost of living."

Creating an AI Wallet Inspector app

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 12mo ago

The “faith tech” industry is booming, as millions of people are turning to chatbots to confess their darkest secrets and seek spiritual guidance.

Hakeem, buddy, people may know who you are, but not for any reasons to be proud of

Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Following Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s criticism of Democratic leadership for refusing to endorse Zohran Mamdani, Hakeem Jeffries’ spokesman mocks: “Chris Van Who?”

Honest, serious question: What would Microsoft’s incentive be to reduce its revenue share? Microsoft—the company that now regularly lays people off and hikes its prices to increase its value—would give back the rights to IP it owns and profits it’s entitled to in order to…what?

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 12mo ago

This does not mean for even a second that Microsoft has agreed to reduce its revenue share, just that OpenAI "thinks they will." This is all timed to get investors to complete the $10.3bn employee share sale, to make it seem like the deal is done when absolutely nothing has changed.

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

I think an underrated booster of both AI use and positive AI rhetoric is the fact that a significant population of folks who were always competent and even very good professionals became headlining conference panelists overnight simply for even entertaining using it as a tool

I both believe as a political movement we need to better live our values of reform-over-punishment (see adrienne maree brown’s We Will Not Cancel Us!) and that repeating stuff like this and “middle America has been left behind” just makes these people expect to get their way with everything forever

LGBTQ Nation@lgbtqnation.com · 12mo ago

Pete Buttigieg says leftist “scolding” has alienated young men - buff.ly/8TpJIDZ

My favorite legacy from a past job is the crusade I went on against rescheduling recurring meetings that landed on holidays to the next day back, which just turns a 4-day workweek into a “get 5 days of work done in 4” workweek.

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Taking a day off = you have to do 25% more work every day for the rest of the week to catch up.