Abolishing ICE is uncreative. Keep it, reassign all employees to 6 months of therapy and then 6 months of casework-level social-work training, and then redeploy them to high-immigration areas for community building and support*. Meanwhile, send all their military gear to Ukraine.

GeoGuessr, but you get just a picture of a person and you have to guess where they're from.

If you scan a few pages of this heavily notation-laden paper explaining how LLMs can't be relied on to translate human language into code arxiv.org/pdf/2610.08144 you will be well prepared to appreciate my lightly notation-frosted blog post about why you shouldn't want them to. furia.com/log/527

We need a name for the kind of thing these AIs become, among us, when we allow them into our world.

We already have a definitive allegory of how AI agents ought to relate to human beings. They confer with us, and occasionally with each other. They take unique forms that express our natures. They do not really take material actions on our behalf. They cannot stray far from us...

You discover that your AI agents are being shaken down for bribes by the services they use. And paying them.

You have never in your life thought to yourself "I would like to manage my cookies".

The video of my appearance at All About Music is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg_Q...

Fireside ChatThe Future of Music Discovery: Algorithms, Playlisting & the Next Decade of Listening

YouTube video by All About Music

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If you have a good new idea about AI, OpenAI and Anthropic will probably copy it in a week. This is grim if you're a capitalist who doesn't already have lots of OpenAI and Anthropic stock, but quite intriguing if you have good new ideas and want them to reach people.

Sometimes casually commenting on a Reddit post is how you realize that you should both delete your comment and leave that subreddit.

I know a place.

Thanks, aisshole.

If you grew up under a castle on the hill, and you somehow got old enough to no longer routinely puke without thinking about your relationship to power, it's time for that now.

If you're curious about we do at Imbue, here's the latest thing we've been working on. imbue.com/product/studio

Studio: Your personal AI operating system

Customize a second brain for running your business and work. Chat with Studio about what kind of interface and tasks you want for email, Slack, Notion, GitHub, Calendar, etc, and Studio will make pers...

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Em dashes are only a problem if you use them as an eject lever to get you out of a crashing sentence instead of rewriting it because you're a word-generator and they didn't give you any way to ungenerate.

No smart people think he's smart.

If your idea of "triumph" includes filling an arch in the middle of your capital with drones and snipers to shoot at your own people, you have failed at humanity.

While I was in Mumbai for All About Music, I also got interviewed for Billboard India. billboardind.com/can-artists-...

Can Artists Game The Algorithm?

Glenn McDonald, a former Spotify data scientist, has spent years examining the listening behaviour of millions of customers to build algorithms that support music discovery. He’s distilled all his lea...

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What's the point of being Ed Sheeran if you still can't stand up for anything?

Measuring coding productivity by lines of code is, to be fair, exactly in the spirit of measuring prosperity by currency units moved.

I realize you were in line before me, but I got the Wordle in 2 today.

Bad technology can still be bad even if a few people have perverted it for decent ends.

Threat of annihilation is what they offer us when they fear that promises of utopia are becoming unconvincing.

I will pay Trump $5k to resign right now. I'll even let him sign the check himself.

The roombas are coming, but I can sell you a roomba to protect from you from the roombas.

API-based functions on everynoise.com are now operational again.

I expected to feel conspicuous, at this Indian music conference, for the shallowness of my knowledge of Indian music, but actually it's much more that I am not buying or selling anything.

Remedial humanity tip: the exciting thing about a cancer treatment is not how much money it could make.

I'm pretty sure we will come to believe that most of the ways we're currently trying to use AI were dumb, but it's also truly amazing that I can write instructions in English and they can be implemented in Turkish.