Richard Seddon

Batman towering over you, snapping the wooden stock of a shotgun in half with his bare hands as he says "This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it." The shotgun is labeled - fragmented where it has been snapped in half - "AI (even if you're making fun of it)"

Illinois is the first state to ban AI therapists Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed a bill banning AI therapists into law, the first in the nation.

Illinois has banned AI therapy, making it the first state to regulate the use of AI in mental health services.

www.engadget.com/ai/illinois-...

A ★★★½ diary entry for The Naked Gun (2025)

Just watched The Naked Gun (2025) and rated it 3.5 stars on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/rseddon/film/the-naked-gun/

#FilmSky

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In this household we do not skip the King of the Hill intro

I Can Still Make Cheyenne George Strait · Blue Clear Sky · Song · 1996

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Man I love king of the hill

Watched the first half of the new King of the Hill season. I hate the animation and Dale’s new voice feels very strange, but weirdly the show still feels very similar and has a lot of the same heart. Some pretty decent jokes too

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

One of the nice things about being at your job a long time is friends/contacts in other positions there. I’ve got a bunch of people who I can go to for certain things without having to go through the official channels.

Tyler, The Creator Clipse Ghost Gorillaz Linkin Park

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Tyler, The Creator (36) Clipse (12) Ghost (11) Gorillaz (11) Linkin Park (9). #myweekcounted 582 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue

A ★★ diary entry for What's Your Number? (2011)

Just watched What's Your Number? (2011) and rated it 2 stars on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/rseddon/film/whats-your-number/

#FilmSky

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I like the strategy of not letting Dersh have any of the pierogis. I think this is scalable.

China stays winning

As a long time Jimmy Fallon hater I’m being so smug about this

Oh my god is Ethan still crying about Hasan

"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"

Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.

RSS is making a comeback

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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The New York Times office was vandalized last night with red paint and spray paint saying "NYT Lies, Gaza dies."

Ain’t that right, sweet saint peter?

My cats are so good at killing spiders and I love them for that

Same

No news is good news has a different meaning now

God I hate the term vibe coding

Cockroach King Haken · The Mountain · Song · 2013

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Legitimately great casting. I feel like the early 2000s super hero movies, for all their faults, had fantastic casting across the board

It’s too late. I’ve already depicted you as the dumbfounded Nappa and myself as the badass unbothered Goku. It’s over

Without getting into the AI angle, I think dead people should be allowed to remain dead. You don't need to commodify everything. You don't get to claim something that belonged to a real person simply because he's not around to assert his likeness rights. We have film. We have memories. It's enough.