Mita Williams

You gotta get off substack

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.

I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion

People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

Basically, the right-wing wants you to think that being racist is the most dangerous (and cool) thing you can do right now. Films like The People's Joker and Nirvanna The Band The Movie prove the most dangerous thing for algorithmic streaming platforms is actually copyright infringement.

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:

If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

An illustration showing cute fat rabbits piling into an underground burrow. There is text, part of which has been edited. The original text says "There are tunnels underground where bunnies are safe — safe" and the edited text adds "from emails"

Stay safe out there y'all

Paddington In the Superbowl Halftime Show

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1792

UofWinds 431, Week 07 2026: Community Lighthouses, What does it mean to make something, Simon Willison's Tools Good morning. I'm writing at my desk, surrounded by a trio of beverages: a coffee, water in a sticker covered YETI bottle, and a small thermos carrying the extras of a smoothie that I made yesterday. ...

UofWinds 431, Week 07 2026: Community Lighthouses, What does it mean to make something, Simon Willison's Tools:

www.uofwinds.com/431/

here's the link if you want to watch it. and you should 😉
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Fu...

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

Macbeth: SHIT

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

More links: magneticnorth.aedileworks.com/2020/02/23/w...

Amazon has been planning to turn consumer Ring cameras into their own private network was the plan all this time. They even planned the whole lost dog feature in 2019: www.cnet.com/tech/service...

Me holding copy of the book

You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽

www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r

Commenting on energy injustice is now the floor for any halftime act.

When he gave the Grammy to that young boy who made everyone think of Liam…even if that wasn’t actually Liam, it was just the perfect way of cutting through all the bullshit.

Every kid impacted by this administration’s cruelty is another Liam.

Holding us accountable for the shameful failure to restore power to PR

No Kings includes Draft Kings

OH MY GOD YOU GUYS HE SAID CANADA.

The political critique about the power crisis on the island! Benito!

I have amended my post about how I am now an electricity producer, to share this important development librarian.aedileworks.com/2026/02/04/h...

A summary of how the US's IMLS now funnels money from libraries to generate propaganda, although the author did not recognize the iconography of the "nihilist penguin"

See: trending.knowyourmeme.com/editorials/g...

I'm planning to write a follow up with actual numbers as generation rates depend on one's location

For what it’s worth, I found my path to public speaking from public writing.

Organizers get in touch and say, “we read this post and we’d hear more about it in the context of our audience”.

How I Generate Solar Power (and why) You can (and must) understand (and invest) in solar power now

Today is my blogging birthday.

To celebrate my 27th year of sharing what I know on the world wide web, I published this today:

librarian.aedileworks.com/2026/02/04/h...

YouTube video by Technology Connections You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

Let's do this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

I'm once again, reminded of these words: newsletter.galavantmedia.org/archive/o-wh...

A Click of Theseus
Plato's Allegory of the Traffic Light

dig if you will this picture