Massive Corporation

Couldn't personally verify this, but TTRPG devs check your stuff. It wouldn't be the first time the boulder of society-scale problems has rolled downhill into where we build our houses.

Itch, if you have to relocate to Canada, there are people here that will help you.

The AI industry just dropped some numbers that should terrify every executive who's betting their company's future on AI agents. Carnegie Mellon researchers put these systems through real workplace tasks, and the results are brutal. OpenAI's flagship GPT-4o? Failed 91% of the time. Amazon's Nova? A catastrophic 98% failure rate. Even Google's best-performing agent failed 7 out of 10 basic office tasks. While VCs poured $131 billion into AI this year alone, the dirty secret is that these systems can't even handle tasks your intern could complete. Are we witnessing the most expensive tech failure in history, or is there something deeper going on here? The numbers don't lie, folks. While Silicon Valley has been screaming about AI agents replacing all of us, Carnegie Mellon just published the most comprehensive study yet on how these systems actually perform in real workplaces. The results should be a wake-up call for every business leader who's been drinking the AI Kool-Aid.

Prediction by me: after lighting a trillion dollars on fire for so-called ‘AI’ with negative ROI, our stock market and economy will collapse. It’s only a question of when, not if.

www.youtube.com/live/9ELXACQ...

CMU paper:
arxiv.org/pdf/2412.14161

Yo Dawg, I heard you like potatoes, so we put potatoes on your potato!

News paper clipping: 'There is no ethical way to use the major Al image generators. All of them are trained on stolen images, and all of them are built for the purpose of deskilling, disempowering and replacing real, human artists. - MOLLY CRABAPPLE, artist and activist

A dozen or so hay bales fattening up before rolling south.

One year ago today 🌿

Hay bales starting their migration south in North Park. Once huge herds of these covered the plains, today their numbers are greatly reduced. These are done fattening up before their long journey rolling south.

A frame from the 1960s Spiderman cartoon. Text above it quotes the theme song "Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can". Underneath the image, text reads "Canonically, Spiderman can inject digestive juices that dissolve the target into a protein slurry he can consume to sustain himself."

You may not like it, but it's cold hard logic.
#spiderman

If "AI" was as valuable as they say it is, they wouldn't be selling it to you. They'd be using it themselves in secret to make the next Minecraft, the next Avatar, the next Hello Kitty and then they'd sell that to you.

They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.

I'd play this video game

Bad Internet Bills All of the bad internet bills. One website.

If you want to get involved in fighting these here, check out @fightforthefuture.org's "Bad Internet Bills" campaign as a starting point.

www.badinternetbills.com

Yo #BC, your Marmot's so fat when it sits around Kamloops Park, it sits AROUND Kamloops Park!

Promote your friends' bands/books as much as you would your own it is so good for your soul.

Educators, you have to resist AI. That includes LLMs for "research" as well as AI classroom assistants. Advocate for admin to spend that money on your classrooms, not by handing it over to some weird tech bro who wants to buy another yacht.

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.

Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.

arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

YouTube video by blueskdragonFX Patlabor 2: Unnatural city

Thinking about this scene from Patlabor 2 for reasons

There are a couple of kids in my nephews's class who weren't born in the US, and the class has decided (w/o teacher input) that if ICE shows up in they're all going to pretend not to speak English. 10yos reinventing "I am Spartacus" because they don't want their friends to get disappeared.

💙🤍🩷

This is the innovation economy I want

and yes, this is a bunnyhug

Episodes

1959 • Martha Graham and George Balanchine

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business.

You’re in organized crime.

"From the delicate strands
between minds
we weave our mesh
a blanket to warm the soul"

Lady Deirdre Skye, The Collected Poems

Finally submitted a piece today for a book on AI.

Feels great to get that done, but it's also kinda awkward wanting to use what I just wrote about 4000 times a day to put a cold dose of reality on AI hype conmen posts.

I hope it gets read, the world needs a lot more AI criticism.

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

artists support each other when systems will not. there's little safety net. it is resilience. artists are not your competitors. artists are your peers, mentors, and the ones who will defend the ability to create sustainably.

to those who struggle to continue drawing,
you are an artist.

"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.

And we need spreadsheets...

so many spreadsheets

I think most people will mainly be shocked to find out that some Supreme Court justices know what recusal is.

Because some sure as hell don't!