James Lyden
@jameslyden.com
Raconteur, triathlete, strategist. Lived 15 years in Las Vegas after the lawyer said he could get me 10. I make hot sauce; try some at http://prairiefireprovisions.com
AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our civilization and our descendants will be digging it out for generations: pluralistic.net/2026/04/08/p... 36/
Pluralistic: Process knowledge (08 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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I have a joke about Tantalus. It's, like, right there.
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 3w agoI came up with a joke about Sisyphus but I kept having to start over
A more recent favorite with this kind of narrator: Tony Tulathimutte’s “Our Dope Future”, which if you have any interaction with tech bros, you MUST read joylandpublishing.com/fiction/our-...
Our Dope Future
Waddap! So this is sort of a long one, but I figured all you good folks might help me get a couple things straight that have been nagging at me recently. I (37M) am a serial entrepreneur, inventor, an...
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All that needs to be said about LLM-based content generation is said here:
This is important to say as a matter of both truth and political messaging: There is nothing less manly than being obsessed with other people's genitals and trying to police who's manly enough. The proper response is not "That's not appropriate." It's "Get lost, you loser, you creep, you pervert."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoStephen Miller: "All I can say about Talarico is Texas is not going to elect an individual- I can't call him a man, who knows what gender he is- but they're not going to elect an individual, an entity, who's said the thing he loves most are trans children. He's a bizarre, totally unelectable human."
Man, these Reflecting Pool pictures are getting wild.
For Vogue, I talked to Ramell-Correen Frederick, aka Cheeks, who embroidered Knicks gear in the streets of Brooklyn after Game 5. He uses a 104-year-old hand-crank, chainstitch embroidery machine that he named Jessica.
The New York Artist Embroidering Knicks Merch on the Street
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I just got off the phone with him, story running later today. He was (unsurprisingly) fantastic. Keep an eye out!
Brazil about to kick off against Morocco; I'm wondering how festively decorated Bolsonaro's hospital room must be
I hope the Slovakian defender was able to take his ankles back to the bench for repairs
Dobber@dobberhockey.bsky.social · 2mo agoIvan Stenberg is going to be a top 3 pick, but is making a strong case to be the #1 overall. What a goal! 👀😳🚨 Does he end up in San Jose? Vancouver? Or? #NHL http://dlvr.it/TSkfJf
Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis@kendrawrites.com · 3mo agoQuote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap
Never met Tony Peters, don’t know who he is, but a million years ago on Facebook he posted this and I don’t think anyone’s ever put it better.
Nighthawks, by Edward Hopper (American, 1882–1967) 1942 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111628
"What Fallon offers is a standardized production of 'fun' that feels increasingly like a desperate plea to ignore the crumbling world outside the studio walls."
The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon
Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.
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Uhhh holy crap y’all someone is trying to backdoor get age verification for computers though the ILGA. This is a bad bill. It cannot be allowed to pass. www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...
From the illinois community on Reddit: Fight back against Illinois operating system age verification
Explore this post and more from the illinois community
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Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.
This is my 17th year of shaving my head for St. Baldricks and Team Space Monkeys to raise money for the fight against pediatric cancer. You can donate at www.stbaldricks.org/participants...
James Lyden | A St. Baldrick's Participant
I'm shaving my head to raise money for childhood cancer research and stand in solidarity with kids fighting cancer! Make a donation to support my fundraising efforts!
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I do not like this gen AI I do not like what it implies I do not want it in my art I do not think it makes you smart I do not want it in my games I do not like its goals and aims I do not want it in my books I do not like the way it looks I do not like it, I don't care I do not want it anywhere
After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account
Our national project of elite impunity
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I once saw someone respond to a video of a guy advertising a cryptocurrency by asking “if this is going to give him a 10,000% return why is he telling everyone online about it instead of just quietly investing all his money?” and it’s the most obvious question but it goes for a lot of shit nowadays
There was a rotation about who could get behind the wheel and I came up first on the first day of spring semester having driven nothing more elaborate than a Sears lawn tractor, once. None of us in that loaner Camry with dual brakes died that day in 1991 and it's a miracle
Andrea Grimes@andreagrimes.com · 6mo agookay one of my best friends just told me her driver's ed teacher was named wait for it Mr. Streetman ... and now, because the horrors are horroring, I wish to hear from Bluesky about all your great and bad and terrible and fun driver's ed stories
Matthew Broderick, whose most famous role involved playing a sociopath who disregarded the rules and was adept at technology, is here endorsing AI
