Dan Turner v.26

My kittens have hit that developmental stage of "wait am I guilty" face

This is awesome. University of California employees — Your retirement is invested with the private equity firm that owns ICE’s charter airline for Africa and Asia deportations. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It may be availability heuristic on my part, but this feels so of a piece with startups. For example, Uber ignored laws, too, "because we have to expand and make money somehow."

pretty stunning chart

The fact that these sentences always end with "... which we will cram with more work for them" and not "... so we moved to a four-day workweek" really illustrate the hollowness of some AI evangelists' promises that AI will deliver us to some kind of post-work utopia.

From Pill Mills to Prop Bets: Prediction Markets and Mobile Sports Betting Apps Are Fueling America’s Next Addiction Crisis Against the gamblification of the world.

I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis.

It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.

The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0

www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...

I haven't seen that one yet, but I have biked up to the North Bay and there has been an ongoing overpass action in San Rafael (with a frog) the last month or two.

Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous opinion: The subtractive bias we're ignoring

This brief and trenchant opinion piece by Claudio Nastruzzi describes the lexical and intellectual flattening resulting from applying LLM tools to prose, due to their tendency to return everything to the statistical mean of their training data.

www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/s...

Teenage me could not agree more

Bruno Redondo

Finished my Hands Off the Eizouken rewatch, so I'll check that out, thanks!

What beat do you hear at a potato rave?

Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz Utz

Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI' The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

Definitely a good personal plan. I give cats a little more leeway in terms of personality.

He harassed a friend of mine off the internet. So I'm not surprised.

Seen it too. And I've been trying to think about what becomes of acting or arguing in good faith in a culture where power propagates bad faith. Can't get a handle on it.

Diversity Is Our Strength This morning, Elon Musk – the world's richest man and a key ally to the president of the United States – posted the content below to the white nationalist chat room and CSAM emporium he owns There's ...

Elon's racist little post made me mad enough to write about it at CAMPAIGN TRAILS.

Proposal: if Elon Musk wants praise, sir, you could learn how to apologize sincerely.

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Sorry, Ms Marvel

Well gosh darn, now I'll have to watch it again

A photo of a cat under a bed with a rotisserie chicken with the caption: This is Beans. Beans stole a while rotisserie chicken off the counter. Not a piece. The whole chicken. Beans dragged it under the bed and growled at us for forty minutes. Beans is 9 pounds.

Become ungovernable

Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants

What does Epstein’s household economy reveal about the billionaire far-right? Melinda Cooper traces the disturbing logic connecting primal patriarchy, transhumanism, and the rule of masters over servants.
www.equator.org/articles/eps...

The Many Faces of Jeffrey Epstein - Lawyers, Guns & Money Ezra Klein interviews Anand Giridharadas and covers all the things I’ve been thinking I want to put into a post (gift link). If I have time, I’ll work through some of the points in detail in future po...

Again, I think it says more about the "systems around the rich ensure they cannot fail" than "Epstein gave good advice"

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/02/the-...

I might be in for that, too

I don't think they do that in Dark (to the point where I need to go to check a wiki), aside from one point where they try to explain it to someone and her reaction goes from "you're putting me on" to "YOU ARE ALL INSANE".

Still thinking about Exit 8. At a point, I thought the story was getting too obvious, and I'd have to settle for the extremely clever shot composition, but it got me in the end.

So, Colin, what's the license on this art? Creative Commons? Asking for people who might want to post this in public places. Dunno. Maybe there are some of them. Not me.

How many people knew what to say to him? And, nice spot.

No reports of billionaires leaving the local area