Like I need anyone who uses this shit for emails like I promise you, if you can write a prompt you can write an email like "oh no I need to fluff it up" like fuck you, no. No one wants to read that shit. Email like you're a grandparent, no one cares. They'll even secretly love you for it!
Also, you know, just fuckin' read a book, it ain't gonna kill you and you might even have fun with it
I know for a fact - because I check these things - that "AI" will give you an inaccurate summation of my work as often as it will get things right, because, all together now, "AI" is an autocomplete, not an actual intelligence. It doesn't read anything. It guesses from its training data.
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 23h agoAxios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
At long last, we have asked the Torment Nexus its opinion on the classic sci-fi story Don't Ask the Torment Nexus for Its Opinion
J. Michael Straczynski@straczynski.bsky.social · 2d agoThe standalone book of Harlan Ellison's I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST SCREAM is taking preorders, with writing essays by Harlan, and since MOUTH was the first AI story, for fun we fed it into an AI system and asked for its opinion. The reply is fascinating. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/harla...
I think people have largely come around on "billionaires are antithetical to democracy and thus need to be destroyed" but I'll do it one further: extreme concentrations of wealth are both inevitable outcomes of, and *utterly destructive to*, capitalism itself. There's no greater market distortion!
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and large language models. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich."
*sighs as I exit the time machine* I'm here to stop a children's book.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d agoHarry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’
And you just know that the media will run with "NHS waste millions defending trans cases" instead of "crackpot forces NHS to legal action" because that's what they did in the Peggie case already
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3d agoI remember being dismissively assured it wasn’t true, that this crank zillionaire is funding basically unlimited vexatious litigation
I don’t like when people think Being A Dick is the same thing as Having Balls. It’s not. Not even close. In fact there’s a Vas Deferens between them.
Once again "there's aluminum" is not a strong argument for going to the Moon. If there were bars of gold on the Moon's surface, it would not be worth it to get them. Why don't these articles ever talk to an economist? Or just a boring person? fortune.com/2026/08/06/p...
‘Pure insanity’—Elon Musk details SpaceX’s plan to turn the moon into its newest manufacturing site | Fortune
SpaceX’s SEC filings describe lunar satellite factories, electromagnetic launchers, and robotic mineral mining. The founders building space equipment say the science checks out—even if the timeline do...
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Turns out that after almost two decades of being an avid Android early adopter, what Google needed to do to make me wary of updating my cellphone was promising me more AI crap.
Holding WorldPride in a country with a trans bathroom ban is a bad idea
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 4d agoWorldPride would bring visitors, celebration and opportunity to London. But that's not why I'm backing our bid. For me, it's about the message it sends: that everyone deserves the freedom to be themselves, and that our diversity remains one of London's greatest strengths.
I support Zohran in demonstrating to the United States the appropriate treatment of all citizens.
May Poseidon judge Zuck for this breach of the Pact of the Sea. May his boat be denied safe harbor. May the Kraken claim that which he holds dear.
Michael Love@elkmovie.bsky.social · last wk.I’m on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son; our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht - which was closer - and they repeatedly refused to respond. (There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this)
I’m so tired of this Not only is it trans erasure, they’re all black related too
ToonHive@toonhive.bsky.social · 4d agoDisney has now shelved three episodes featuring storylines centered on transgender characters and gender identity. The episodes, from ‘Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur,’ ‘The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder,’ and ‘Win or Lose,’ were either cut from release or have since leaked online.
I love how all these terrible companies massively increasing their spending in response to expected infinite growth forever is somehow my problem and I need to be understanding as they ruin all the shit I pay money for.
Brent/Barb 🏳️⚧️@vibrent.bsky.social · 6d agoI’m just so tired of everything trying to make money any other way than by doing the thing it was meant to do.
My autocorrect tried to change "not" to "BLT" and I have to wonder what my phone's dictionary has been smoking to hallucinate this hard.
I would like to see more companies admit this - being a public company no longer means running a successful, thriving business. It strictly means delivering growth to investors, every single quarter, who do not care at all about the product the company sells or the people who produce it.
Hannah 'Pichy' Stockmann@hpichystockmann.bsky.social · 6d agoSavage.
Grok got so horny that the head of product at twitter got fired
This is literally Nazi shit. This is what the Nazis did. If you support this, you are a Nazi, and if that makes you upset, then STOP BEING A FUCKING NAZI
NPR@npr.org · 10mo agoThe White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
