Mat Honan ✅

This is skin-crawling bad and morally upsetting in service of a cause I'm broadly on board with, but it won't be that long until we get AI animations of the victims of crimes being asked to speak as the dead for all sorts of things, facsimile paraded as truth, machine output as divine seance. No, no

The dead have a right to remain dead. An animated skin put over a computer model and given the same name as the dead son of grieving parents is a cursed golem and a full delusion. By interviewing the computer model, Acosta has asked us to accept this as true or real. Gun control deserves better.

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

watching you dildo brain cock suckers play w/ AI shit is like watching a dog paw at one of those puzzle boxes that you put treats inside of

Me three months ago:

It’s a very basic point. Good, more or less unquestioned economic data is like the instrument flight panel for the economy. For policy makers, markets, biz decision makers. Acts like these inject systemic and fundamental uncertainty at all those decision points.

Larry Kudlow's simping for Trump would make news anchors in Pyongyang blush

The NYT's Gaza Tempest Inside The Times, frustration is mounting as critics weaponize an update to a Gaza starvation story to cast doubt on its reporting and the broader humanitarian crisis.

"Starvation is real and happening in Gaza and the attacks over this photo and the editors’ note are just the latest instance that we have experienced where truthful, independent reporting gets weaponized." www.status.news/p/new-york-t...

Is Mark Zuckerberg flip flopping on open source AI? During Meta's second quarter earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg further acknowledged there could be a shift, though he downplayed the significance of it.

A year ago, Zuck pubbed a diff memo saying "Open Source AI is the Path Forward" today he said "safety concerns" might prevent superintelligence from being open source.
www.engadget.com/ai/is-mark-z...

Superintelligence is whatever we made it to be

How is it that the richest man on earth can share this kind of openly white supremacist and misogynistic trash and it be met with a shrug by the entire US elite?

The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest When the Cascadia fault line ruptures, it could be North America’s worst natural disaster in recorded history.

Pacific northwest Tsunami warnings have me thinking of this great, terrifying Kathryn Schulz piece tonight, and hoping that it what it describes remains far off in the unrealized future

www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

No man fuck this

San Francisco is a car city now. Sorry The city is embracing an identity it claims not to want.

San Francisco has been a transit/feet/bikes kind of city since cable cars ruled the Earth. But now transit use is down while car use is back to pre-2020 levels. It's not inevitable, but when cars get dominant in a city, they tend to stay dominant—a vroom loop.
sfstandard.com/2025/07/26/s...

Some wild assertions in the EPA's proposed rollback of the endangerment finding:

www.epa.gov/system/files...

I loved this movie. Seriously underrated

Is there a field biologist in the Portland, Oregon, area who wouldn't mind being in a bear suit for an hour in the woods on August 4. For science. DM me.

NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker Imminent termination of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer shocks polar scientists

The National Science Foundation plans to abruptly end operation of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer, the sole U.S. research ship capable of braving the farthest reaches of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. scim.ag/4mB8LOX

Journalists covering the aid air drops say they have been warned by Israel not to film Gaza from the air or the air drops will stop. (Do they not want us to see the scale of the damage?)

“International journalists have not been allowed inside Gaza.”

We watched Mononoke and Nausicaa a little too early for my kids and I regret it. Castle in the sky was solid choice. (And seconding Kiki’s.)

"The coldest winter I ever spent was the summer of 2025 in San Francisco" -Mark Twain

An unbearably sad statement from the Editorial Committee (SDJ) of the AFP news agency, please read:

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die.
AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip… /1

Since AFP was founded in 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, some have been injured, others taken prisoner. But none of us remember witnessing colleagues die of hunger".

— The outgoing Editorial Committee (Société de Journalistes, SDJ) of the AFP

Thank you

I saw it last night, by myself. Which is the way to see one of his films. Honestly I’m still not sure what to make of it.

I remain morbidly fascinated by people who talk to Grok on X. there's a really interesting outsourcing of thinking that's happening there (@grok, this true?) but in a way that very public and out in the open and sort of negates the point of social media? www.courtwatch.news/p/anger-over...

Today in very San Francisco problems, I just had to fire up the heater

my “canceling colbert is not part of the trump bribe” t shirt is raising many questions which are already answered by my t shirt

Is your family member or client at Alligator Alcatraz? We obtained a list The Trump and DeSantis administrations have refused to release a roster of detainees, none of whom seem to appear in ICE’s online database.

Bravo to the @miamiherald.com for publishing this list in full www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...