matt klinman

raising children in the Liminal Space

Agree, but isn’t it already?

I think the key is diminishing these platforms substantially as far as the amount of time, attention and resources they get.

They are an organ in the body of the internet, essential and provide an important function but if your body became 90% kidney you’re fucked.

My crazy idea is social media should make income from referral links to other websites that are monetized through ads, subscriptions or purchases.

This alligns incentives so social is subservient to the open web and primarily for jokin and sharing and linking to places that actually make things.

i'll never forgive them for making Lars Ulrich the most correct person who ever lived

Jeffery Epstein: Bad Pedophile

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person. 'Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile' is in select theaters October 2.

To find a theater near you, visit: theonion.com/badpedophile

yeah i think that's exactly it lol. but i'll any chance to watch sex house with a crowd!

Hey! Nah, the Epstein doc was made by the very talented current Onion staff, but we’re all excited to see it next week (and stoked they are pairing with Sex House!)

The Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile title screen

A very big Onion announcement:

The Onion has spent the last two months working on a masterpiece.

It's a documentary titled Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile.

It's so good, in fact, we were set to release it in theatres nationwide on October 2nd.

Then two weeks ago, Charlie Kirk was shot.

Why Jimmy Kimmel Was Cancelled A backroom battle leads to a culture war scalp

Link to the larger piece open.substack.com/pub/houseofs...

A quoted source in the article: Brendan Carr is trying to lift what's called the national media cap so that stations like Nexstar and Sinclair and Gray TV can buy up more TV stations to basically to grow and better compete with big tech entities in the streaming services. Broadcasters have a long time been allies of Republicans, however, ironically, the biggest opponent of this effort is OAN and Chris Ruddy of Newsmax, because they are cable networks and they do not want conservative media outlets to grow and compete with them. They would rather just compete with Fox News and let the Sinclairs and the Nexstars just never be big enough to fight. The problem is that Chris Ruddy is very tight with Trump. This is all an audience of one dynamic.

Author's commentary now: So, Carr and Ruddy are competing for Trump’s attention on a vision for the media future. This battle has more to do with why ABC affiliates gladly served up Kimmel’s head on a platter than anything Jimmy said this week. Kimmel’s scalp is a gesture from Carr and merger-desperate affiliates that suggests a network TV scenario where pro Trump voices aren’t completely shut out. Apologies for being terminally millennial, but it reminds me of the “Get a gift, give a gift,” kidnapping of Hungry Man in The Wire. Yes, Jimmy Kimmel is Hungry Man in this scenario.

You can argue with Ethan's larger take in this (lord knows I am) but this is very interesting from his source. It indicates this wasn't just Nexstar sucking up to Carr but Carr sucking up to Trump to win for his bros over the Newsmax guy.

It's all just fucking royal intrigue bullshit now.

WGA Statement on ABC's Decision to Pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

your machine is responsible for the things that it does! if you can’t control it you can’t just let it loose to kill people!

I'm not just saying this because I work here: Sex House is arguably the best work of art on YouTube.

"Whoa whoa, I just make the Sexy Official Kendall Jenner robots, program them seduce stroke victims and children and then run billion dollar marketing campaigns to promote them. It's not my responsibility if you use it!"

A flirty Meta AI bot invited a retiree to meet. He never made it home. Impaired by a stroke, a man fell for a Meta chatbot originally created with Kendall Jenner. His death spotlights Meta’s AI rules, which let bots tell falsehoods.

This is an incredibly well done piece. I know a member of the family involved and I don't know how you can read it and not seethe with rage, particularly if you have someone vulnerable in your life that this could happen to.

Truly fuck Meta and fuck Mark Zuckerberg. www.reuters.com/investigates...

@youranalogbuddy.bsky.social

YouTube video by Black Sabbath - Topic Snowblind (2021 Remaster)

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looking close there is a (tiny) disclaimer saying that. but that could just be on all of them. there is no author given and the UI strongly implies it was posted by Anthropic. how can you actually tell or even know this one was?

(not trying to dispute, now criticizing the way Anthropic features)

screenshot of a feature in claude called "anthropic office simulator" where you can talk to 3d representations of the founders. it looks like shit.

i asked the dario amodei avatar "how many layers deep in your own bullshit do you have to be to make something like this." the avatar responded "Dario Amodei: Ha! You know, it's like quantum tunneling through layers of complexity - sometimes you need just enough 'bullshit' potential energy to break through the barriers of what's possible. With Constitutional Al, we're actually trying to minimize the bullshit by teaching Claude to reason about its own responses. It's like creating a system with built-in error correction - the deeper we go into" I cut it off after that. then there are some prompt questions it prompts me with that are dumb fluff bullshit "Can Al have imposter syndrome? Have you considered training Claude on memes? Has Claude ever surprised you? What's the weirdest edge case you've encountered?"

claude has a feature where you can talk to the founders of anthropic in a janky 3d environment?

what the fuck is going on in norcal right now? how high on yourself do you have to be to even conceive of this as a "cool idea" to put out in the world

maybe this whole type of website is flawed and we should make fucking new ones

a chat from Anthropic's Claude 4 Opus AI Bot where I prompt it to write 10 Onion headlines and the first one it gives me is one of the most famous Clickhole headlines. (Clickhole is a spinoff of The Onion). The subtext here is that these models are obviously trained on copy-written material.

i always ask the new ai's to write 10 onion headlines to see if they are getting better. They always suck but I'll give them another chance by prompting them to write good ones and just got this from Claude 4

feels like these training sets are more auditable for IP than these companies claim...

HoS: Matt Klinman Podcast Episode · House of Strauss · 05/16/2025 · 1h 44m

Podded with Strauss and it's UNPAYWALLED. We talk ATTENTION DOLLARS and a grand solution to the Fin-Syn/ creator economy issues beguiling Hollywood and the internet.

Also some primo Matt and Ethan arguing if you're into that shit.

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Eyy thanks! someone’s gotta

christ, i get it, the guy with no friends is in charge of friendship. but why does this loser’s perpetually delayed catharsis have to keep impacting MY life

Not to get all yakov smirnoff but the main innovation of silicon valley is that you are actually the tool and its using you. The billionaires harnessing you can wield you for good or for evil, it just depends how wise they are. (None so far are wise).

At some point someone will point out that movie studios ARE putting tons of money into marketing movies to you, but maybe, just maybe the black box social platforms and digital ad auctions they dump money on simply lie to them about who sees the ads.

hastily done ai-assisted photoshop of mark zuckerberg with a chinese flag instead of the american flag

anyway tl;dr of the hearing

hearing ended mostly with the committee talking about how insane the gag order is and all talking about how pissed they are at Mark for lying to them so much. Hawley then challenged Mark to come testify.

can't say enough how impressive Sarah Wynn-Williams is and how this feels like a new moment.

had to snag the truly dramatic moment when she discusses how she can get docked 50k for any statement she says against Facebook or anything a senator or their aides might say.

Sarah reveals Meta has also threatened her with a $50k fine any time one of the Senators repeats what she says. Which is fucking nuts.

Blumenthal points out they are then putting pressure on them not to speak or that will harm Sarah. To which Sarah says "Please don't worry about harming me." Jesus.