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I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.

18.10.2025 19:07 — 👍 11864    🔁 2645    💬 325    📌 359

What We Talk About When We Talk About AI (Part Four) - emptywheel LLMs are Lead Part 4- Delusion, Psychosis, and Child Murder (Go to Part Three) This installment deals with self harm quite a lot. If you’re not in a good place right now, please skip this. If you or s...

I wrote the next in my series about AI, and this one is rough.
Part 4 - LLMs are Lead
Delusion, Psychosis, and Child Murder
emptywheel.net/2025/09/04/w...

Serious, I do mean it, content warning; suicide, abuse, some dark shit. But also, this is very important to understand...

04.09.2025 19:46 — 👍 38    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 4

Mickey Mouse, as the sorcerer's apprentice, wearing the sorcerer's hat, using a magically animated broom to help him carry buckets of water.

Vibe Coding.

13.06.2025 21:31 — 👍 32    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

Merci! J'espère vraiment qu'ils vont en faire une nouvelle version pour l'automne, JN.1 commence à dater.

26.03.2025 14:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Et les vaccins ciblent quel(s)variant(s)? C'est encore JN.1?

26.03.2025 11:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Alexandre Avril side-eyes a comfy looking love seat

Look, France has its own couch fucker!

23.03.2025 12:38 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump » Le ministre de la recherche a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant que son or...

French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated.

Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

19.03.2025 17:37 — 👍 2092    🔁 1318    💬 107    📌 492

NOAA: The Biggest Little Agency in America - emptywheel What We are Quietly Losing in All the Tumult Last week the ghouls of DOGE came to gut NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) by firing all the probationary employees, because they were...

What We're Losing if DOGE kills NOAA
www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/06/n...

New from a very sad and worried me.

06.03.2025 15:13 — 👍 8    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 1

What We Talk About When We Talk About AI (Part Two) - emptywheel The Other Half of the AI relationship Part 2: Pareidolia as a Service When trying to understand AI, and in particular Large Language Models, we spend a lot of time concentrating on their architectures...

Come talk to me about this post in the comments www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/21/w... I want to know how people see themselves when they're working with AI tools.

...or talk to me here if you prefer, this just seems more ephemeral :)

21.02.2025 21:46 — 👍 0    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference: A Speech by Gaslight - emptywheel How Vance unsettled the Europeans While Musk was ripping through the US government like a 10 tonne toddler on cocaine, Vice President JD Vance was dispatched to the Munich Security Conference last wee...

Gaslighting, scolding, sneering, all while being an uninformed idiot, Vance hacks away at the transatlantic relationship in the Trump administration's ongoing campaign to alienate everyone in the galaxy except Putin. www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/18/j...

18.02.2025 21:56 — 👍 5    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

What We Talk About When We Talk About AI (Part one) - emptywheel A Normal Person’s Explainer on What Generative AI is and Does Part 1 – In the Beginning was the Chatbot “Are you comfortably seated? Yes, well, let’s begin.” *Clears throat theatrically* “Our experien...

What We Talk About When We Talk About AI

emptywheel.net/2025/02/14/w...
This is the first part of an explainer on artificial intelligence I've wanted to write for a while.

AI isn't magic. It's not thinking as we know it. It's a lot of vector math and statistics.

It's neat, but it's also not us.

14.02.2025 13:02 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0