do you think Rivers Cuomo uses Codex or Claude

are we sure Zitron isn’t tokenmaxxing

lol

Starting to think some of you need to go work in an office and play some ice breaker games so you can learn how to deal with people who are not strongly invested in politics and barely believe anything.

Trump has dismantled a hundred years worth of environmental protections and the Sunrise Movement's banner image in August 2026 is a photo of them protesting Kamala Harris.

Charts and graphs bad; uncited all caps single-sentence skeet good

Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ahhh.

Why did Bowling For Soup do a bad cover of this song in 2026 music.apple.com/us/album/in-...

In Too Deep by Bowling for Soup on Apple Music

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> Some articles also cite unnamed sources that don’t look like they came from the AI agent. Usually this is an unnamed Republican Senate staffer, operative, or strategist, in multiple cases described as “close to Senate leadership.” 👀👀👀 www.modelrepublic.org/articles/the...

The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI’s super PAC appears to be funding it. - Model Republic

An interview request from a bot posing as a reporter revealed an AI-generated news site with articles attacking AI industry critics. For the second time this month, we found links to Targeted Victory,...

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Since the Millennium Prizes aren't pinned to inflation, the value in solving them goes down every year they remain unsolved.

Country music is conservative-coded, and country music has infiltrated pop culture.

Every two years it’s either Democrats are too Leslie Knope, or Democrats aren’t Leslie Knope enough.

Every elected official does this. In many cases the elected officials you regard as ideological and policy mediocrities are quite good at it, which is why they’re handily releected. Also, well-known, publicly recognizable figures who spend a lot of time in media are often bad at it.

Cheryl Arbonies@lucasaurelius.bsky.social · 5d ago

I’ve always wondered why the democrats never just went ahead and formed community assistance groups. Have dedicated staff at their offices to help people navigate Medicaid or getting their paperwork for voting or getting food assistance. Is it illegal?

“panic soon spread through the community. With guns in hand, men began to keep night vigils on their properties, and the Botetourt County Board of Supervisors offered a $500 reward for the capture of the nefarious anesthetist.” www.legendsofamerica.com/mad-gassers/

This style of business email compromise and fraudulent ACH inbounds are rampant in politics. In Biden ‘20 we got so many requests to different departments sending fake invoices or wire instructions. We trained everyone on the verification processes, but it only takes one human to mess up.

Dave Levinthal@davelevinthal.com · 3d ago

ICYMI, in @notus.com: Already cash-strapped Democratic National Committee lost about $29,000 to this scammer posing as Chairman Ken Martin. www.notus.org/democrats/de...

AI... chairs... metaphors. On the one hand, Henry Winkler was right. On the other hand, Henry Winkler was playing Ebenezer Scrooge.

Schwarzenegger Hofstadter 🤝 escaping the formal system through the left margin

depths of wikipedia@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 3d ago

lmao

I’m tired of this topic but RTd this, because it’s an instructively hilarious example of a journalistic practice that I would describe as “misleading your readers by asking scary rhetorical questions very loudly, and then answering no to them very quietly.” Extremely common re: AI lately

This article is hilarious. First, panic over a reseller buying used books for destructive scanning by AI companies because they must be rare books, but turns out none are particularly rare, booksellers are happy to get rid of them, and the reseller has nothing to do with AI cos or digitization

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4d ago

‘More than just objects’: Australian book sellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI

“A computer makes searching fast, but it is not an intelligent way of negotiating an encyclopedia.”

brennan@brennan.computer · 4d ago

reading about early encyclopedias on CD-ROM and everyone dismissing them

I need to take ownership of my mistakes. I used computer. I think this happened because I'm a normal person. I know I've disappointed many of my fans who only watch my videos between praying and feeding the hungry. I'm sorry for being such a piece of shit

/me at the Computer History Museum, looking at dead computers "VAX'd?"

My genuine take is I’m glad the Republican Party has gone all in posting AI slop because it’s truly the dumbest use of AI in politics, and it shows they‘re maximizing a tactic that doesn’t move the margins. Meanwhile, Democrats are building agentic campaigns to actually make us better at the work.

Micah@rincewind.run · 4d ago

the president of the united states regularly goes on incredibly embarrassing unhinged posting sprees full of AI slop and somehow the entire political system just reacts like the This Is Fine dog

Dude. The soundtrack to Wipeout XL changed my life.

In 4th grade my class debated Puerto Rican statehood and the pro side was "my cousin is Puerto Rican" and the anti side was "How would you even arrange 51 stars on the flag" and I want to stress that this is the level at which the American public as a whole generally engages with issues.

even the bots are doing chart for dinner now smh

Every .gov@everydotgov.bsky.social · 4d ago

bls.gov Type: Federal - Executive Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics Washington, DC

bls.gov Type: Federal - Executive Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics Washington, DC

We spent decades treating the Turing test as a threshold for machine intelligence. Then language models crossed it so fast and so casually that everyone decided the threshold had never mattered.

Adverb@adverb.bsky.social · 5d ago

We really invented language models that are more verbally fluent than most famous scifi ai on spaceships (basically zero to hard to tell in five years) & people's response is to say how boring that is

We really invented language models that are more verbally fluent than most famous scifi ai on spaceships (basically zero to hard to tell in five years) & people's response is to say how boring that is

Not a kid, but I still make people hear this youtu.be/fKU0E2XGWII?...

The Federation - Mayhem (Madden Mix)

YouTube video by DarkManX16

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