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A painting of a bird beside the text "I expected bullshit, just not this much bullshit"

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Ha! Just last night I was reading the part of that old story where Abelard and Vera sample the thermal vent ecosystem to seed Europa #dejanu

Katherine Hepburn in Keeper of the Flame. This is so on point. 🎯

We can’t even keep the next-character-predictors from making stuff up, despite feeding them the entire world of text. So how well is this going to go for the next-voxel-predictors?

Guess they’ll need call centers full of human operators that help them out of the breakfast nook, like the robocars do

Please take a moment to listen to this woman.

Very cross-section-of Mayan-fireworks vibe. Calling Earthling @ziyatong.bsky.social 🌏

What, did you inject your Doggerland scenario reports into the common crawl training data?

Sloppolalia, newspew, agitproph, latentism, the new ecstatic, Minsky’s folly

History does not repeat, but it rhymes, so they say. Impossible to read this story without hearing the snarl of a rising evil hissing between the lines

All speech, no freedom

Sad news today…fare thee well Bobby Weir, wheel to the storm and fly

On a brighter(?) note, I’m obsessively refreshing people.well.com/conf/inkwell... waiting for the 2026 #SOTW to kick off

It’s an entire industry maxxing out on the s-curve of gratuitous computing, and meanwhile the new cadre of Claytonian disruptors have moved on to nuclear slop farms and network states

“Be there, will be wild!”

This should have been an inflection point in the trajectory of American democracy, a turn toward recovery. But instead it seems the Biden years were a dead cat bounce before the crash into depravity.

Brilliant, congratulations! Hope this recognition further amplifies your voice amid the chaos

JAMES MERRILL CHRISTMAS TREE From loes torn hamin Had been fed, looked after, kept still, Meant, I knew— of course I knew - That it would be only a matter of weeks, That there was nothing more to do. Warmly they took me in, made much of me, The point from the start was to keep my spirits up. I could assent to that. For honestly, It did help to be wound in jewels, to send Their colors flashing forth from vents in the deep Fragrant sables that cloaked me head to foot. Over me then they wove a spell of shining — Purple and silver chains, eavesdripping tinsel, Amulets, milagros: software of silver, A heart, a little girl, a Model T Two staring eyes. Then angels, trumpets, BUD and BEA (The children's names) in clownlike capitals, Somewhere a music box whose tiny song Played and replayed I ended before long By loving. And in shadow behind me, a primitive IV To keep the show going. Yes, yes, what lay ahead Was clear: the stripping, the cold street, my chemicals Plowed back into the Earth for lives to come — No doubt a blessing, a harvest, but one that doesn't bear, Now or ever, dwelling upon. To have grown so thin. Needles and bone. The little boy's hands meeting About my spine. The mother's voice: Holding up wonderfully! No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today's Dusk room aglow For the last time With candlelight. Faces love-lit, Gifts underfoot. Still to be so poised, so Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

What even is a person anymore? Aren’t we all upload avatars now, or projections of memecoin moguls, or something?

Not that it needs any explanation, but to me it looks like a holographed souvenir baseball in the remains of a petrified catcher’s mitt. Artifacts from some future I suppose.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:

Jefferson Airplane
Cowboy Junkies
Opeth
Pat Metheny
Steven Wilson

An underwater ocean scene with rock ledges, sandy bottom and an ancient temple, still frame from a demo video by worldlabs.ai

The uncanny valley in 2025: beautifully rendered, navigable generated 3D worlds, but water doesn’t flow, wind doesn’t blow, light doesn’t change, and there’s nobody home. Super impressive, but disturbingly sterile.

Image from demo video by worldlabs.ai

Air traffic controlled chaos atm, trying to fly into a blue city (SFO). Heckuva job, Duffy

SqueezyJet…the F Bus…Kash Kat Klub… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”

It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

When I joined Samsung in 2012 the mission was to revolutionize mobile design across hardware, software and especially services. They have had many good design leaders over the years. The problem is not design; it is a fundamental corporate culture gap.

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

For the sake of posterity I thought I'd do a thread on all the epically stupid things Trump has done in recent days.

1) Let them eat ballroom

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

AI and the Rise of Techno-Fascism in the United States Will powerful new tools be used to promote democracy or undermine it?

When tech is built to replace and not empower people, the future of work & democracy is at risk.

@garymarcus.bsky.social sounds the alarm about unchecked AI and discusses how we can reclaim tech for the public good. #GoodLife https://bit.ly/4nBRcPh

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?