Reid Southen

It's been brutally cold here, but it's warmed up just enough to alert us to bats in the bedroom wall as they squeak and scratch their way around. They're protected, so we're neighbors until we can evict them in the spring, lol, joy.

No crypto in Canton: Town blocks data centers and crypto mining operations Canton’s makeshift town hall in a tiny trailer was bursting at the seams Wednesday night with citizens united against data centers and cryptocurrency mining.

For my money, the way thousands of regular people are self-organizing to resist data centers is one of the most cautiously hopeful stories going right now.

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I'm so sorry. If I find a way, I'll let you know. Assuming it's even a setting, they intentionally make it impossible to figure out where it's located.

I vaguely remember that but never came across it so it must have totally slipped my mind.

I'm just about fucking done. I downloaded my data last year in anticipation of nuking my account and I'm about half a second from midnight.

Facebook just took my girlfriend's profile photo with both of us in it and presented AI generated videos of us together without consent in any way shape or form. Unbelievably pissed off, what the fuck.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

Today I picked up Brave New World, 2010 Odyssey Two, 2061: Odyssey Three, and a collection of HG Wells with some work I haven't read yet.

I frequent my local used book store and buy books even when I don't need them because my kink is supporting small businesses, especially those that deal in art and literature.

Only one Olympic pair, the Czech brother-sister pair of Daniel Mrázek and Katerina Mrázeková, skated to AI music. But they ran into a problem — the first time they asked AI to spit out a 1990s song, it plagiarized the lyrics to an actual awesome 1990s song, “You Get What You Give” by the New Radicals. (A true banger, maybe my favorite 1990s song, tbh.) The video is STUNNING, I have no idea how they thought they could get away with it. For the Olympics, they swapped that one out for a new AI song, which also sucks but isn’t directly stolen from anybody.

wild AI story from the Olympics
ice dancers were told to use songs "in the style of the 1990s." One Czech pair tried using AI to pump out a song to skate to, but their AI bot fully plagiarized "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals and they had to change it
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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Me checking to see if you've watched Mad God yet.

Soon to be consolidated into a single service.

I'm actually going to think of it this way from now on, that's perfect, thank you.

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If a sauce or a crumble touches my plate, I swear...

the most impactful thing Elon Musk has ever done or will ever do regarding science and innovation in this country is illegally cut billions of dollars of research funds for literally no reason

Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:

Blue cheese is a medieval prank that backfired and we're still paying for it today, no one can convince me otherwise.

Lol, you'd never guess in a million years what the video is.

Every American needs to watch this:

Just shit yourself, any article of clothing can become a conversation ender.

One of the cool things about crypto is there's no market close, so you can watch Bitcoin crash in real time at all hours.

I wanna keep doing this work, in any form (podcast! newsletter! movie? AI literacy class!). Pls msg me on Signal at nitasha.10 if you need someone who’s well-sourced in AI & SV, worked hard to understand the technology + ideas + players, cares about getting it right and informing the public

cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

He just tweeted it out …

With a big enough lens and adequate megapixels, almost every portrait contains a self portrait of sorts.

There's also this. I think Adobe probably dramatically underestimated how much Animate is used in productions still. You'd think they'd have that data, but rarely are they competent.

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