Russell Brandom

Bojack Horseman is really the neigh plus ultra of animal puns

Saw a Cybertruck in consular parking outside the Iraqi embassy

Be honest: when is the last time you punned on the bodies of your nurses the harpies of the Bronx.

A week? A month? Get on my level.

You need to be Howl-maxing. If you're not reading Allen Ginsberg's Howl at least twice a week, you're going to lose out to the people who are.

The best guide to spotting AI writing comes from Wikipedia | TechCrunch Wikipedia's guide to “Signs of AI writing” is a great resource for learning to spot LLM-generated prose.

Identifying AI-generated writing is not as hard as it looks techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/t...

This whole Nuzzi situation is making me appreciate what a good writer Emily Gould is.

Unfortunately, loving doesn't scale, so they've had to focus on being loved.

Why a lot of people are getting hacked with government spyware | TechCrunch Government surveillance vendors want us to believe their spyware products are only used in limited and targeted operations against terrorists and serious criminals. That claim is increasingly difficul...

NEW: I tried to explain why there are so many victims of spyware, despite the fact that its makers have been telling us for years that the tech is only intended to be used in limited cases.

There are several reasons, including how the spyware systems are designed, and how powerful they are.

Elon Musk uses Grok to imagine the possibility of love | TechCrunch After Tesla shareholders approved a new compensation package that could be worth $1 trillion, CEO Elon Musk appears to be celebrating with a normal weekend on his social media platform X.

At last, we have sufficiently advanced technology to allow men to be loved techcrunch.com/2025/11/09/e...

Another unrealistic body image for women

The three genders (pig, bear, rabbit)

Folks, you can’t just tweet that some specific change has made you leave New York. It doesn’t count unless you write the whole essay.

Hard to imagine this level of success for Zohran without the reemergence of Allison Crutchfield as a creative force. Indeed, many analysts are already calling this "the Snocaps wave."

I love the overcoat!

Get his ass, Ishmael

Rhonda Santis

Meta has an AI product problem  | TechCrunch Meta's AI spending is starting to make Wall Street nervous.

Meta is spending billions on AI — but so far, there’s no plan for how to make money from it techcrunch.com/2025/11/02/m...

For dysfunctional people, being smart is often like gunning the engine of a broken car. Energy goes to the wrong places and the broken things get more broken.

Institutions can work this way too, or whole societies.

Katha Pollitt Reads “Six Days, Some Remembering” by Grace Paley Katha Pollitt reads “Six Days, Some Remembering” at the 2007 event A Tribute to Grace Paley: An Evening of Readings and Remembrance.

It's important to remember that there is, as Grace Paley wrote, "a whole huge country of the bad and the unlucky and the self-hurters, a country with a population greater than that of many nations in our world."

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These are all smart young ambitious people they’ve only been exposed to a very specific subset of the world’s intelligent people.

One of the most touching things about AI discourse is the absolute certainty that putting more intelligence into the world will make society richer and happier.

People see it as so obvious that it’s hardly even discussed.

Tag yourself, I'm _oo_.

OpenAI completes its for-profit recapitalization | TechCrunch OpenAI has completed its recapitalization, splitting the AI lab into a for-profit corporation nested inside a non-profit foundation.

The OpenAI conversion includes a provision for independent verification of AGI, if the company ever thinks they have achieved it techcrunch.com/2025/10/28/o...

I would be curious for that number too! Of course much harder to measure

Strengthening ChatGPT’s responses in sensitive conversations We worked with more than 170 mental health experts to help ChatGPT more reliably recognize signs of distress, respond with care, and guide people toward real-world support–reducing responses that fall...

Source link here: openai.com/index/streng...

An underrated part of the OpenAI blog post is this level-set:

"Mental health symptoms and emotional distress are universally present in human societies, and an increasing user base means that some portion of ChatGPT conversations include these situations."

Can't argue with that!

OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly | TechCrunch OpenAI released data on just how many of ChatGPT's users are facing mental health challenges, and how its addressing them.

That is a lot of suicidal users! techcrunch.com/2025/10/27/o...

"Is there a timeline, a regulatory environment, in which the internet does not turn into a highly efficient manufacturer of niche suicide cults? I find it hard to imagine."