staring blankly into the abyss

I remember finding King’s post very shocking & it’s sad to remember that at the time, it felt like a dangerous but fringe sentiment, not the Republican Party’s default setting

The latter grandfather would abandon his family for months at a time, leaving them to survive off of handouts from friends and neighbors.

The former briefly became mayor of the tiny town I grew up in, dying too young and almost undoubtedly from the decades of toxic chemical exposures at work.

Farmer and, later, electrician at a pulp mill. Farmer and, later, manual laborer at a zinc smelter.

Carney Prompts:

ChatGPT, write a statement about Iran that's factually inaccurate, internally incoherent, but that will somehow make everyone mad? Make sure to sprinkle in some references to my 'rules based international order' speech that will make it seem about half as clever as everyone thought.

Monstrous inexcusable grotesque bloodlust

Taking a break from writing a book about monstrous men doing monstrous things in the past by opening up the website that directly injects the worlds horrors into my eyeballs.

seems bad

My favorite Italian city, by a long shot.

The water wars, long prophesied, has arrived.

Why ‪@why.bsky.team‬ Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff. In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast

in case you ever wondered why bsky breaks all the fuckin time and is increasingly a pile of jank

bsky.app/profile/why....

When you click the "beautify slide" AI feature in Google Slides.

NOT A JOKE

Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another.

A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.

What privacy? Meta's smart glasses are filming unwitting naked people Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are a privacy nightmare, with footage of naked people, sensitive information, and violent acts captured and seen by Meta's AI and an army of employees.

Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI

lol

A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

The Sugar Refinery, Vancouver. Some of my best Vancouver memories happened there, I still miss it.

Carney calls for 'rapid de-escalation of hostilities' in the Middle East to protect innocent civilians | CBC

In new comments, Mark Carney misled and lied about Iran’s nuclear program and the history of negotiations — blaming failures on Iran, rather than Trump’s withdrawal.

He condemned Iran for its retaliatory strikes, but not the US and Israel for their initial attacks in violation of international law.

This guy can't help but be insufferable.

BREAKING: Guy who hasn't released even one good song in nearly 30 years blames CIA, woke.

Good reminder of how voters feel about political parties abandoning pretty much all of their principles.

📈Oil prices are spiking after escalation around Iran.

🥣 Food prices likely next.

1/2 the world’s calories depend on synthetic fertilizer made from fossil #gas – 1/4 of that trade passes through the Strait of Hormuz.

This is a food access issue.

👉 #FuelToFork
ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...

This is obscene, ghastly, unacceptable.

had a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane

Costco Connection magazine just published a full article about why and how to stop your car

People gambling on Polymarket about a war planned with Claude AI is the most dystopian thing I've seen in awhile.

Side effects include "sloughing off," "necrotizing jowl," "ultra-jaundice," and "skin flaps."

Text from Tehran

A huge pet peeve is randos who post

"Important breaking news thing. - NYT (or whatever)"

but with no link to the source or screenshot or anything.

Feels like the chances that the person just made the whole thing up is pretty of high.

Even the chumps who *helped Trump's corrupt goons write their AI policies giving handouts to the big corporations* have figured out that they killed constitutional democracy and the rule of law. Whoops! Wonder if they're going to do anything about it other than ... post on Substack.