Jeff McMahon

I regret to inform you that it’s much easier to legally win an election by lying to people with a complicit media than to engage in conspiracies that would require hundreds if not thousands of accomplices.

The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, a backlash over AI models in Vogue, and more.

Analysts show that capital expenditures on AI were so big over the last 6 months they added more to the GDP than *all consumer spending*. That growth is offsetting pain from the tariffs and slow job growth.

So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?

A creepy almost-life-sized doll from “Longlegs.”

Everybody wants to interview the computer generated dead child, but when I show up at a funeral with one of my custom life-sized ventriloquist dolls and try to offer the same service, it’s always “police” this and “loaded shotgun” that.

He’s never successfully built anything, why start now

Better than building a party from scratch

This is definitely getting torn down.

Texas House Dems response to Abbott mailchi.mp/texashousede...

The catastrophe of knowledge work waits to be beautiful again, and interesting, and modern From "Mad Men" to the AI era, the problems of underconsumption.

I wrote about why the vibes feel so weird for knowledge workers right now. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-catast...

Sounds about right

Oh, that’s right. For just such occasions as when your girlfriend’s dad is Mark Wahlberg.

Also the Transformers movie where Mark Wahlberg keeps an info card on him with every state’s age of consent

Yeah but this caddy just got his uncle’s factory a defense contract.

Had to do this twice

Badonkadonkshka

Probably more accurate to say that it may not be their #1 priority

I mean, upset about the results, yes, but not the legality.

Democrats aren’t upset about 2024 election results because there has been no plausible evidence of fraud.

Our apologies to future historians and archaeologists for giving them so much garbage to sort through.

Before somebody jumps in, I don’t mean literally everything.

🎶everything’s getting worse all the time🎶

the cool thing is, huge corporations have invested billions into AI, hoping it will pay off. so, if we manage to bully AI out of most spaces, those corporations will also lose billions of dollars. it's the best two-for-one special i can think of.

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

Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

Best way to eliminate it is to make everyone hate it.

I used AI to add a munchkin hanging themselves into the background of every scene in The Wizard of Oz

I don’t believe you.

Death cult

It’s a joke. At your expense.

Oh wow, now that I’ve looked at your profile, you suck ass in a multiplicity of ways.