Tyler King

Chatbots are not recreating a personality or approximating the human experience. They’re not intelligent and they’re not thinking. This is a dramatization. It’s fiction.

I don’t fault a grieving family for searching for a way to heal but the whole genre of AI interviews is a fraud.

Stop toying with our emotions.

Exploiting human artists to call something AI is exactly how we got in this mess in the first place. With alt text:

Phase two of military AI has arrived Three open questions about the Pentagon’s push for generative AI.

"Military commanders are interested in AI’s potential to improve decision-making, especially at the operational level of war,” the authors wrote.

A state-sanctioned (un)accountability machine is going to be making choices on who gets to be America's next victim.

OPINION GUEST ESSAY Donor Organs Are Too Rare. We Need a New Definition of Death. July 30, 2025

*blinks* www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

Florida health officials warn about risks of raw milk after 21 infections linked to farm Florida health officials are warning people about the possible risks of consuming raw milk after 21 people, including children, in the central and northeast areas of the state were recently infecte…

Florida does not allow the sale of raw milk for human consumption. But people are buying products intended for animals/pets and giving it to their children, some of whom are now sick from bacterial contamination.

for years I was baffled by what people were complaining about re "debanking" until I realized that it was just standard anti-money-laundering practice

And now a judge has ordered Florida and federal government to clarify roles and authority: “Officials must provide by Thursday all written agreements and contracts showing who has legal custody of the hundreds of detainees at the facility…”

NASA’s Fission Surface Power Project Energizes Lunar Exploration NASA tasked commercial partners with developing concept designs for a small nuclear fission reactor that could generate electricity on the Moon and Mars.

Background: www.nasa.gov/centers-and-...

Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon This is the first major agency effort by the interim NASA administrator, who is also the Transportation secretary and a former Fox News host.

This is essentially a previous NASA proposal expedited on a new timeline to compete with Chinese return to the Moon. Also includes expedited timeline to replace ISS.

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From Reuters: www.reuters.com/world/americ...

I convinced my boss today to have the company start donating to our local station.
Most people don't even know that funding for them was cut. And most people are for helping out general services in their community.
My bosses wife even worked for the station previously.
Go and ask, every bit helps.

If there are any Texas dems in Chicago reading this, lmk if you want me to throw a total rager for y’all

Catholic Church cleared to hold mass at Alligator Alcatraz after long negotiation “The Church has ‘no borders’ for we all are members of one human family,” Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski said.

The Catholic Archdiocese of Miami has finally gotten permission to offer religious services to prisoners at the Everglades concentration camp. Answering the question of who controls the facility: Florida corrections and emergency management departments.

Plastics 'crisis' is costing $1.5tn in global deaths and injuries, report says Plastic production is set to triple by 2060, fueled by petrochemical-producing countries pivoting away from declining fossil fuel use — and toward plastic.

"Plastic production is on course to triple by 2060, less than 10% of it is recycled, and around 8,000 megatons now pollute the planet" - report from The Lancet just before the next UN plastics treaty talks begin in Geneva www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

Rwanda will vet deportees. Which sounds like this would include non-nationals.

Almost 40 Percent of Americans Trust Medical Advice From AI Chatbots A new survey finds that Americans are relying on ChatGPT and other AI programs to assess health symptoms and ask about medical treatments

Trust: 39%
Neutral: 31%
Distrust: 30%

Not great.

Exclusive | Staten Island Democrats embrace Zohran Mamdani, turn on Andrew Cuomo: ‘Voters have spoken’ Staten Island Democratic officials in the city’s most conservative borough are jumping on the Zohran Mamdani for mayor bandwagon in what critics are calling the political equivalent of a &#82…

New York f---- Post headline

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The Crone Zone: How to Get Older with Style, Nerve, and a Little Bit of Magic by Nina Bargiel. The cover is in shades of turquoise, purple, and orange and features images like a skull, knitting, a crow, a cauldron, and little jars.

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Governor Abbott Orders Texas Department Of Public Safety To Arrest Delinquent House Democrats

Governor Abbott Orders Texas Department Of Public Safety To Arrest Delinquent House Democrats

“We see hospitalizations every day,” said @tomaskenn.bsky.social, who is regularly in touch with the family members of more than a dozen detainees,” including one man who “had stage four hemorrhoid surgery last month and was reportedly sent back to Alligator Alcatraz, but there is no record of him.”

Alligator Alcatraz Security Job Postings Hint at Long-Term Facility State officials have repeatedly insisted the detention center would be temporary.

New: Florida officials have repeatedly insisted Alligator Alcatraz would be temporary.

But several job postings describe it as a “long-term” operation.

www.miaminewtimes.com/news/alligat...

Tech literacy is plummeting and it's not an accident. Big Tech thrives in low-information environments.

Begging journalists and media to publish more explainers like this. They’re not sexy or prestigious but audiences need, like, and, yes, even share them bc they’re a window into an otherwise opaque and confusing world that’s easy to caricature as the deep state

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

Exclusive: The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.
By @rhersher.bsky.social

🙃 "Grok, the chatbot made by Elon Musk’s Bay Area-based xAI and embedded in the social media site X, repeatedly told the site’s users that Hawaii’s tsunami warning had been canceled when it actually hadn’t .... Social media users reported similar problems with Google Search’s AI overviews."

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Like how Meta was attempting to obscure its scraping while torrenting porn.

I promise you they’re all doing it. Perplexity was sloppy enough to get caught.