Jamie Talbot

Genuinely couldn’t tell if a video of an explosion in a fireworks factory in Yolo County, CA was AI-generated fake news or not. Right down to the “LiveCopter” chyron.

(It appears to be real.)

Is Apple releasing an F1 movie?

Every single Democratic elected who represents NYC should be proudly endorsing Zohran Mamdami, who won the primary fair & square. They should be helping him however he & his team ask.

If they mealy-mouth it or, worse, stand with Cuomo, *they* will be why people hate the party.

Couch me inside.

April the 5th be with you.

(Nothing. I learned nothing.)

New LinkedIn post drops today:

What I Learned After Giving Up At Mile 19 Of 32 Of The Great Saunter

Trump is worse at economics than Liz Truss.

Calamitous ORTBO would be a good name for a Docker container.

Fitting, as they never ask “Why?”

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.

Fuck Chuck

Why you always lying?

This is in fact precisely the wrong way to use AI. A better approach:

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Jesus, Dan! 😑

In this LinkedIn post, I shall…

Just left a message for Hochul to please remove Adams. (212) 681-4580

The sign says little and achieves nothing.

It is useless, like the party that congratulates itself for such a shallow gesture.

This is not fighting.

They kind of look like an owl’s eyes.

All these Senate confirmations of truly terrible and unqualified humans really brings into perspective just how fucking awful the Matt Gaetz stuff must have been.

Really spit on that thang.

It’s less about this more recent horrifying trend of regression and exclusion, though I guess it does describe the preconditions of world-beating arrogance and self-deception.

Uncanny Valley is a great book about the weirdly hollow and shallow experience of living in the Bay Area during the 2010s techno-optimism boom. Really captures the vibe of that time well.

Yeah, a wonderful, brutal piece of lockdown art.

Use it for what it’s good for - helping with mundane tasks that you learned how to do a long time ago.

Use the time you save to get better at hard things: strategy, creativity, persuasion, empathy.

That’s what will give you an edge in a world where everyone gets a sophomore to do their work.

In the fullness of time, you’ll rely on something false and look foolish or worse.

What awards did Charlotte, NC win in 2023? Nope! Is this content copyrighted? Nope! How should I position this product in the market? Nope!

Anything requiring creativity, a spark of wit or warmth? Nope!

The value lies in simple, bounded tasks that you could do yourself, that are easy to check, which you can instead automate at scale, while you do other things.

Open questions with no provided context are a waste of time. If you don’t know the answer, you can’t be confident it is correct.

A pretty good rule of thumb is to never ask AI a question you don’t already know the answer to, or to do a task you couldn’t do yourself in less than a minute or two.

Basic summarization of an article? Fine. A more approachable version of this company name for an intro email? Fine.

I reckoned without the Spurs “defence”, of course. Rookie error.

Disappointed Núñez couldn’t complete an injury time hat trick.

Let us down again.