NATE!

I used to have a really long and carefully crafted discussion about chatbots in my syllabus but if I am correctly understanding what he means here I think I can delete all that and just say, "Sam Altman let them use ChatGPT to kill people and you can personally do something about that."

Fellow educators take note, especially those whose administrations are actively trying to make OpenAI's products regular parts of classroom instruction.

Look, Sam can frame this any way he wants, but if he's saying that ChatGPT is going to be used to kill people, the college students who make up his core user base aren't going to follow him there. Students who are desperate or insecure enough to cheat still possess basic decency and compassion.

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

A screenshot from Bethesda's game Starfield with a spaceman in the foreground and a planet with vertical rings in the back. There's also an image of the orange cartoon cat Garfield superimposed on it. It's Starfield Garfield. That's the whole joke, unfortunately.

I don't know guys, the PS5 port of Starfield just looks kind of weird to me for some reason, not sure I can place it

A screenshot of a duck duck go search for "flag with no meaning" in which the search engine's top result is the yellow snake "don't tread on me" bullshit gadsden flag

lol good work duck duck go

ICE agents dressed in faux military fatigues

ICE agents in blue uniforms wearing tshirts and cargo pants.

ICE agents in 2012 vs. ICE agents in 2025. ICE gives us nothing to be nostalgic for but putting these Cobra Commander cosplay goons back into tshirts and frumpy cargo pants would be a start

One panel comic with one person saying to another: Philip K Dick, Ray Bradbury. Like so many others in tech, I draw inspiration from completely misunderstanding those authors

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

- furiously transcribing this onto the flyleaf of my copy of the lyric book -

I've wanted to cover this song for, like, a decade, and I know what an absolutely BANANAS choice it is to try to do all the parts of a song like "Christmas Unicorn" yourself. My "version" even ended up being about ten minutes longer than the original, and again, I'm sorry, I don't know what happened

You're the Christmas Unicorn, Too, by Hermeticist 2 track album

Look, I don't know what to tell you. I don't particularly have a lot of time on my hands. I just kind of can't stop myself when an idea like this strikes me, and Sufjan Stevens' Christmas albums always get me through this dark and horrible time of year
clownschooldropout.bandcamp.com/album/youre-...

Edmund - The Rambling Nathan Schmidt rereads The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the first book in C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, and comes to terms with the ways in which he grew up to become Edmund Pevensie, the ...

the-rambling.com/2023/04/06/i...

"I always liked Aslan a little better than Jesus...While the image that Jesus conjured up in my head was a blurry amalgamation of Jim Morrison and Allen Ginsberg (without the glasses), Aslan was always crystal clear: the golden hair; the strong, soft paws; the sexy, sonorous tone of his voice."

Edmund - The Rambling Nathan Schmidt rereads The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the first book in C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, and comes to terms with the ways in which he grew up to become Edmund Pevensie, the ...

I think I've definitely shared this before, but if you are thinking about the 75th birthday of Narnia, as I am, you might enjoy this piece I wrote about re-reading The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe after leaving the church as an adult.
the-rambling.com/2023/04/06/i...

Interim Report, March 1979, by Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan 10 track album

I'm always down for dancing about architecture and this absolutely hits the spot: warrington-runcorn-cis.bandcamp.com/album/interi... #musicsky

catch me on this pod like Bartholomew Cubbins

YouTube video by Ray Lynch - Topic Pastorale / Ray Lynch

This is a straight-up #dungeonsynth song, like, I have heard these exact textures on dungeon synth albums. In 1986, Ray Lynch predicted the exact aesthetic that a certain type of indie game soundtrack would be going for, and he did it on an album called Deep Breakfast
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8mE...

This isn't my campus newspaper anymore but it's still great to know that nobody stops the IDS. Without their persistent coverage of our unionization efforts, we would not have been successful at demanding raises for grad workers. Network journalists could learn a lot from these brave students.

Claims about the "inevitability" of generative AI prove how accustomed we've become to a magic hat economic model in which one in every thousand hats contains a rabbit, but if we want our money to mean anything, we have to collectively pretend that all of them do. 999 invisible rabbits.

If ChatGPT cost $4.99 a month I would never see another chatbot-generated essay

ChatGPT: so popular, hardly anyone will pay for it : If you build it, they will come and expect the service to be free

This is what I've been saying, put more clearly by an actually knowledgeable journalist. If you want to Have A Company, you have to Sell A Product. A lot of companies take a while to turn a profit, but all the ones who do have one thing in common: selling a thing
www.theregister.com/2025/10/15/o...

...What are they going to do when the appetite for slop deteriorates? As the novelty of image generation wears off and they pivot to video, what's the next step? Virtual slop reality? At some point you have to actually provide a usable product that doesn't rely solely on 21st-century attention spans

Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks How tech companies and government officials handle local impacts will shape the industry's future in the U.S.

"Some AI is being used to make images and videos online" is perhaps the funniest possible way to respond to "What are the benefits of AI?" Yes, these things are primarily sausage grinders that feed the products of human arts and culture back to us as slop...

www.npr.org/2025/10/14/n...

This is super cool and interesting; also props to Dr. Tegos for knowing that people would be bored and trying to help (although I wonder how effective this tactic ultimately was)

Two guys in driving helmets sticking out of the top of Herbie the living car from the movies, a classic VW bug with a 53 on his hood. One of the guys is spitting out water because of my amazing joke.

I had to break it off with Herbie....he was just so high maintenance

Equinoctial melancholy

There should be a name for the specific kind of seasonal affective disorder that comes from the fact that fall doesn't happen anymore and it's going to be eighty degrees in October. I guess the word for this is eco-grief but I want a word that captures specifically how much I miss fall.

Peña, by Compilations 15 track album

Perfect morning working music; also the CD came in a square wooden box like a cajón 🤩
secretstashcomps.bandcamp.com/album/pe-a

If the Incredible Hulk eats a giant, Hulk-sized sandwich with his big green mouth, does Bruce Banner have to try to pass a Hulk-sized green poo poo later? Does Bruce Banner worry about this? Cuz I guarantee the Hulk is not worried about this for a second