TLP:Fred 🦇☠️💾✨️

a fun fact about this quote is that it isn't by Orwell, Kipling, Churchill, or any of the other people it's oft attributed to, but right-wing news columnist Richard Grenier in 1993.

professorbuzzkill.com/2022/04/11/p...

I, perhaps naively, really thought NFTs would be the end of this increasingly horrid cycle.

Like, tech can do incredible things, if we support it towards that direction! but no, the investments just go towards a new grift-cycle.

The real generational divide is between those who know about the Church of the SubGenius and those who do not

Generative AI: Not Even Once

eh, Quittrs never wn.

The very existence of commercially available glasses with Internet-connected cameras sold by Meta, a company built entirely on hiding the costs of services in negative privacy externalities, is an indictment of U.S. tech law and policy. This is an unfixable product from a fundamentally bad company.

one of the worst downsides of widespread cloud computing is you can no longer smash the computer with a bat when necessary.

there's only one "responsible classroom use of AI"

is that good?

Josh Barro on Twitter saying "I'm sorry, who decided that males have a right to play in girls' sports leagues? Some people just made this shit up and decided it was a civil right."

It makes me really sad that Ken White (who I genuinely respect) still podcasts with a transphobic motherfucker like Josh Barro.

If you subscribe to Serious Trouble, your money is funding this.

NB: If I had wanted to tag folks, I would have. So please don't do so for me.

and what I'm realizing is there isn't actually a "SCOTUS decision", just a SCOTUS denial of cert, leaving the Copyright Office's "human authorship" requirement in place as-is, so I think they're right on the "no ©️ if solely AI-written" claim.

US not veering into a new, endless war, Pentagon says By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali, Doina Chiacu and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) - The Pentagon played down concerns on Monday that the U.S. attack on Iran risked plunging the United States

but I was assured by a credible polygon that it wouldn't veer.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

well that's one way to get banned from Thursday Wrestling Night at The Cock.

firmly same, on RTJ. They're great in larger mixes or small doses, but don't have quite enough stylistic range to hold up for an entire album-length listen

a great tune, and one of the best music videos of the era imo.

there's a pretty good writeup a friend sent me on this, and I haven't read the recent SCOTUS decision on AI copyright yet, but this looks broadly right to me on the reasons why this "clean room" rewrite idea doesn't hold ©️ water:

tuananh.net/2026/03/05/r...

I did this in an MR2 one time.

It was that or put my pal in the frunk.

from the same industry that brought you "infected, malicious software because someone bought and reworked an upstream dependency nobody would fund into a virus"

introducing "just rebuild the software using this non-deterministic stack with specs you don't understand"

pervasive peeking, cavernous creeping, vociferous voyeurism

why can’t we just return to spiritualism? pay a couple ladies to knock on a table with their knees instead of whatever the fuck this is

hell yeah!

‘Ancient hatreds’ and it’s Mark Sykes and Francois Georges-Picot carving up the Middle East with a ruler in 1916

TIL Glenn Beck still exists. I sort of assumed he'd evaporated after the peak mid-00s neocon moment passed.

Some of us most certainly didn't, until now.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

a collage of these three tweets https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzrkcsk3xc24 https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzsgnvof4c2n https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzubxv6q722o

i for one am shocked that the "i go in the pool to cool down, why can't my phone?" guy is bad at programming and offloading his job to the anthropic api

sorry that a ThinksLeader blogpost that seamfully transitions into an unironic "there’s definitely a reflection point about the state our industry here." tangent also happens to be the best collection of these works of art.

The worst volume control UI in the world A group of bored developers and designers has decided to start a thread on reddit to figure out who can come up with the worst volume…

this gives me flashbacks to the Worst Volume Control thread

uxdesign.cc/the-worst-vo...

the theater kid to lawyer pipeline is the least fake-sounding thing.