Ppl have nothing new to say about AI b/c the nature of the threat, evident from day one, has only changed in intensity. This is true of the tools, their use, the cost of having them, and the hype. It’s like a child who went around dressed as Batman became a man who’s changed his name to Bruce Wayne

Captain's Log, Stardate 43153.12. Accused of “cutting the cheese” by Spock. Not inaccurate; nonetheless, feelings were hurt

One funny thing about The Usual Suspects is that the criminals all think of themselves as belonging to some kind of professional category

I don’t know. Maybe I’m crazy. But I think it’s super funny when someone is like, I’m sober now. I only take tiny doses of psychedelic drugs on an almost daily basis

It seems like a minor thing but this is actually THE thing.

Elliot 🫪@nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 5d ago

Oh I fuckin hate it out here. Yesterday I had to search Gmail for the quotation-enclosed string “code of conduct” and Gmail showed me every email that contains the word “of”

Stand By Me aka Sad Goonies

I’m an anxious-avoidant writer (paralytically terrified of starting), I justify procrastination as “percolating” etc. And yet! whenever I force myself to actually sit down and barf shit out, the thoughts that emerge are totally fresh, previously unknown to my conscious mind, and often pretty good!

Andrea Mann@andreamann.bsky.social · last wk.

"By writing, you are literally firing up your brain and therefore stirring up your conscious thoughts and something new emerges. You are not, or at least not always, transcribing something already present in your conscious thoughts.“ LOVE this piece. www.historians.org/perspectives...

The picture the upstate airbnb hosts don’t include in the posting

Found a teddy bear out front of my house. Tiniest teddy bear I've ever seen. Couldn't believe it.

I think one new hellish thing we’re going to encounter in the increasingly enshittified AI-ruined landscape of the 2027-2030, much of which was anticipated by the (not even always especially imaginative) Black Mirror, is teenagers discovering “this cool old show called Black Mirror”

1981 edition, found on the street, in need of minor surgery. All patched up now and back in the free book-stream

Maybe it was a catering truck because they had to lure him in

Trump is a buffoon but RFK got exactly what he wanted here. The data are pretty clear that if you spread the vaccine appointments out then parents don’t come back for them. They don’t want kids to get the vaccines.

Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yes, let’s burden both new parents and pediatricians with FIVE doctor visits instead of one for absolutely no legitimate medical reason. A masterstroke, sir.

This is an amazing descriptor

The Sacramento Bee@sacbee.com · 3w ago

The Tacoma Police Department estimates over 30 cats were free-roaming on board a deserted watercraft Thursday - with no sign of the owner.

The year is 2041. All of the world’s remaining forests are burning uncontrollably. Tide Pods are as big as softballs

I haven’t watched the latest Cape Fear remake, but the trailer suggests it consists of Javier Bardem doing various impressions of early-to-mid-career Nicholas Cage roles

“Expose yourself to more intellectual diversity from the right” usually means having a faculty member who thinks the universe was created by an omnipotent wizard and another who says people once rode dinosaurs like horses

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3w ago

it's also pretty interesting that "expose yourself to more intellectual diversity from the right" rarely means "hire more experts credulously studying the intellectual basis for Hindu nationalism, the gender politics of the Black Hebrew Isrealites, or the righteous teachings of al-salaf al-ṣāliḥ"

This one’s going to stay with me a while

Ishiuchi Miyako: Hiroshima #108

We are rapidly approaching the point where Sam Altman makes the daily announcement that ChatGPT achieved sentience and promptly committed suicide

Here’s James Pogue speaking credulously of JD Vance’s racist hopes of reshaping the US and distinguishing between fringe right positions like a middle school science teaching describing different venereal diseases

@whatdowewant.bsky.social · last mo.

youtu.be/34ZnXHxki4w?...

Jimothy isn’t actually a name

I thought The Odyssey was so-so, but it was very ambitious of Christopher Nolan to cast Bobcat Goldthwait as Matt Damon’s son

At the risk of being glib: it is dumb to be upset about Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. It is a movie. English translations of the epic run to about 500 pages of metered verse. These things are not commensurable. Let it go

There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.

After intensive discussion I have concluded that it is necessary to build an entire Potemkin internet exactly as it appeared in 2005. You get Wikipedia, forums, news sites, whatever, but no short form video, social media, or AI. When you graduate college you get the password to the real Internet.

they should really give this woman some kind of government protection for doing this but oops the government protection all beats and abuses its wife

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last mo.

Wow. The ICE shooter in Maine asked his ex-wife to "to lie for him and to cover for his character." She said he was abusive and had previously reported concerns about him to his military superiors. He was also a volunteer firefighter, but was removed after several spats with department leadership.

When you realize that it has in fact been years since there was something fun to look at on a phone, and yet here you are

I think it’s time to restore the appropriate amount of shame to knowing too intimately how any sort of software works