Adam Riggio

I suspect they don’t appreciate the irony

1/9. In 2020 Iran did try to interfere with the presidential election.

Can this stop being relevant?

I’m fascinated to know what the decision making processes are in Palantir, not only because the company is openly evil, but just as much because some of their decisions seem to obviously stupid

Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir

If you run a company whose entire value proposition is the ability to see patterns, predict outcomes, and connect dots that others miss, you'd think someone in the building might have flagged that…

And I’m here for it

bluesky: the headline

Not to say that generative AI systems aren't useful for some purposes. But it's quite silly that we should replace such very basic tasks with Gen AI just because Sam Altman says so on the Tonight Show

What I find especially weird about pitches to use generative AI in everyday business is that you can write an email based on a prompt. I can win any race with a prompt writer writing an email my damn self.

The global wellness industry, at $6.2 trillion a year, is 4 times larger than the global pharmaceutical industry.

Also, the Bill Cosby et al moment was probably my favourite single joke from Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie

One thing I’ve come to appreciate about Norm Macdonald’s comedy is that he showed how funny moral clarity can be. His Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee talking about Bill Cosby is probably my favourite example. The people miss you, Norm

The biggest effect I see from people still spending time on X—which many deny or don't even notice—is how it shifts their perception of what's normal. Such as:

Actively anti-trans is speaking like a normal person
Objecting to Nazi symbols turns off the working class
Epstein knew a bunch of Jews
etc

This is a fascinating & informative piece about how the conspiracist influencers of the modern far-right eat each other over the bizarre webs of ever-proliferating content they need to spin to keep their cashflows running

Well shit. Now I am disappointed

Fair point about the Platner thing.

Whether he knew who Peters was or not, just being on Twitter makes this kind of thing a lot more likely. You're constantly being exposed to white nationalists there and you might not even realize it. Get out now and avoid the collateral damage.

He's not right to dismiss it out of hand, but I understand that hostile attitude to criticisms of the COVID vaccine. After going through the conspiracist climax of 2022, it took me a long time to dial down my suspicion that anyone pointing out problems with vaccines was priming for indoctrination

I hope your employer health plan includes mental health therapy because it’s necessary for modern journalism

I'm waiting for some news about a job opportunity that I hope will be positive, but until then, I'm working on my fiction writing. It's something that keeps me feeling productive & engaged when my career is in this liminal space between a downsizing sector & grasping for new potentials

My wife keeps telling me I'm autistic but would an autistic person separate their jelly beans by color or collect and organize tens of thousands of comic books or get really anxious and agitated if routines and schedules get disrupted? I don't think so.

Evergreen.

Shoddy People The redemption of disgrace.

Our culture needs more eloquent denunciations. It’s some of the most fun reading about the rotting stank of political corruption in the USA

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/shoddy-peo...

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube.

As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

After Tumbler Ridge, the Carney government needs to lead on AI regulation Time and time again, Big Tech has shown itself either unwilling or unable to act in a manner that prioritizes user safety and well-being, opting instead for maximizing profits (or in the case of OpenA...

A big problem with Canada's approach to AI policy is that it's trusted the boosting from the AI industry more than rightful criticisms. OpenAI's obfuscation around safety after Tumbler Ridge should shake AI Minster Evan Solomon's naïveté

www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/25/o...

Sargent's objective tone understates how radical & dangerous the growth of ICE & CBP is: This is a massively-funded, fully-armed paramilitary force recruited largely from white supremacist militias whose purpose is the violent suppression of the populace of the United States

They Built Stepford AI and Called It “Agentic” Women’s “ick” for AI isn’t technophobia or a gap to close. It’s wisdom to act on.

Fascinating insights on why women tend to be turned off by AI assistants, how its roots are in the choices & design goals that place AIs in the “wife function” of our lives

abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

Someone who believes in weird health science conspiracies, for example, without actually knowing anything about the history of vaccine development & disease research, is building their ontology without empiricist epistemology. Understanding existence without learning about what exists

You can’t have a functional ontology without an empiricist epistemology. This is actually a very politically radical statement

any democratic politician saying other democrats are talking about “pronouns” too much is laundering republican bigotry and lying to you to try and appear more moderate than democrats at large

Zohran Mamdani Wants to Reclaim Efficiency From the Right New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani is trying to demonstrate that the public sector can match or even surpass the private sector in excellence. It’s high time the Left reclaimed the value of “efficienc...

A major goal for 21st century socialists is demonstrating that dedicated, ethical public servants can run government services better than bloated, greedy consultancies & private contractors who bleed our tax dollars for profiteering on crap deliveries

jacobin.com/2026/02/zohr...