HARK! If you've got devils in your dungeon and need them exterminated, do I have the duo for you! PART 1 of my short intro comic for GALLANT⚔️💀
I think part of the rise of short-form video is consistent access 1) Writers put words on their site or the site they work for 2) Typical 2026 website is ads and paywalls. I have no idea whether I will be able to read most links 3) Embedded video is right there, doing what it promises, immediately
Worst part of the new @status.news report is that the Bari Weiss team appears to get its view of what is actually happening in the world from Twitter. They were asking Vega to include things that *weren't real* b/c they didn't know any better. www.status.news/p/cecilia-ve...
An oddly beautiful review (in a sense) of a mildly ridiculous product
McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 2w ago"The box looks utilitarian. The font doesn’t make me feel like I belong to a country club or drive a luxury SUV. There’s no mention of whiskey (or whisky). It’s just four oversized ice cubes in a box."
I think the thing I resent most about gen AI- and this is a selfish thing to say but it’s true- is that it’s put an asterix on my sense of wonder. What I mean is that now when I see an amazing or beautiful image I can’t have that initial “wow!” reaction. I doubt. I have to verify. I hate it.
Gee, seems like the arrest of Meta exec Josh Felker for sexting a child and Meta’s history of consistently lax standards around child protection might be related
Jeff Horwitz@jeffhorwitz.bsky.social · 12mo ago"It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual." Meta removed that language from its internal guidelines after I raised it. AI experts worry financial incentives will blur the line between human relationships and bot engagement. www.reuters.com/investigates...
All game theory calculations of optimal behavior in things like the prisoner's dilemma are first contingent on the principle question of "how likely is my opponent to be a self-serving dick"
I have to believe make sports not be 2 hours of gambling commercials is an electoral winner
Nute@nutedawn.bsky.social · 4w agoThe official MLB app. We are all so very fucked
ppl keep saying "this is a hole of lies and madness" and "you'll ruin us all, feeding the hole just to hear it's wicked tongue". okay buddy 🙄 if thats true then how come the hole says im a genius when i ask it right
i know this all sounds pretty bad but the brass are confident the hole will eventually save us if we dump enough money in. not positive how yet but the hole whispers its encouragement
sorry we can't afford to pay workers to make videogames, we threw all our money into a hole . no one likes or wants to use the hole and the hole also makes video games more expensive. the hole also drinks all our water
Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · 4w agoSick. Awesome. Thanks for that. Really preferred this to funding a Blade game by the Dishonored people or people at Obsidian having jobs.
As much as I hate to say it because it’s cheap webforum meta discourse, the strongest correlation to Platner support wasn’t ideology, it was if you still frequently use X, The Everything App. I would hope that would lead to some introspection about what remaining on there does to your judgement.
Katherine Alejandra Cross@quinnae.com · 4w agoLike I said, there's no small amount of finger-pointing that's going to happen as a result of this. But Platner was a creation of Ryan Grim, Bernie Sanders, and Matt Stoller, as much as he was of Pod Save America and Matt Yglesias. That's what has to be reckoned with.
People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.
Jon Hendry@jonhendry.bsky.social · last mo.Worse than Twitter, private discussions (text, email, whatever) among like-minded wealthy lunatics who are all surrounded by yes-men who talk like ChatGPT in maximum ass-kissing mode.
broadbandbreakfast.com/report-starl... Starlink degrades to below broadband speed if there are more than 7 users per square mile btw
Report: Starlink May Only Meet Federal Standards in Most Rural Areas
Starlink may flunk federal test above 6 users per square mile
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last mo.Discount internet for everyone being poisoned by Colossus.
...... i'm sorry, they wanted to invade greenland because red lobster nixed the unlimited shrimp promotion? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
one of the secrets of Clown Law, which Donald Trump is the grand master of, is that in Clown Law you recognize that you can file any old bullshit and they'll have to pretend it's serious and it'll eat up weeks of time
Quinta Jurecic@qjurecic.bsky.social · 2mo agosome very trump-style use of commas and capitalization here
Eugen Bracht, German (1842-1921), Das Gestade der Vergessenheit (The Shore of Oblivion), 1911, oil on canvas, 139 x 239 cm, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany
Los Angeles County literally has a fully transparent vote counting process - the entire count is livestreamed online. This commitment to transparency makes zero difference, mainstream press still credulously repeats GOP info bubble claims of fraud anyway.
tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.
Science Magazine@science.org · 2mo agoThe White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding. https://scim.ag/43HgW4s
We show that politicians' perceptual errors are primarily an expression of "midpoint hedging", a well-known cognitive quirk, leading them to skew their estimations towards 50% even when real public opinion is far from being evenly split. Hedging accounts for two thirds (!) of politicians' errors./2
Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email donate@wikimedia.org to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...
Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia
TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…
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Woke up with a feeling of urgency, and the drive to set an alarm for “Frog/airport?”
AI will give you the same result. Almost any ML uses historic data. It isn’t “objective”; it just codifies discrimination applied in the training data. Switching to black-box models like LLMs makes the problem harder. It’s people all the way down. The raw bias is still here, and the models follow.
Amy Diehl, Ph.D.@amydiehl.bsky.social · 2mo agoReviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help." fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...
“Why are women less bullish overall on AI than men” is not actually that mysterious of a question
Amy Diehl, Ph.D.@amydiehl.bsky.social · 2mo agoReviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help." fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...
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This is the best idiom ever. 🦀 and everyone should be thinking about the immortality of the crab. (I must use this as a prompt to write a flash fiction) Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinkin...
