Jelani McCoy

The marketing folks who made and approved the ad have never looked underneath the hood of their car lol

I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I think this is the longest paragraph I’ve ever seen! The length of it made me feel unnerved halfway through the eternal paragraph

Heists in the year of our lord 2025?? This will be a movie in a few years

Two announcers, Jason Garrett and Dan Hicks, stand in front of a sign that reads "Big Turd" thanks to how they are blocking it

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

Tesla Cybertruck sales are flatlining Sales are down 63 percent in the third quarter

oh no www.theverge.com/news/798889/...

NIL has definitely bright parity back to college football. I’m here for it and hope it continues to increase parity

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

BREAKING

A federal judge that the Trump admin's policy targeting pro-Palestinian students for deportation violated the First Amendment.

His blistering, 161-page ruling starts with a threat he received in chambers and his response.

It’s almost like an AI designed to generate text with do the exact task it’s designed for with impunity regardless of truth in whatever is generated.

Thick Boi

Eagles: 20 Chiefs: 10 Refs: 7

Opinion | I Was Supposed to Debate Charlie Kirk. Here’s What I Would Have Said.

Hasan Piker in the New York Times: "I was supposed to debate Charlie Kirk. Here’s what I would have said"

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

Jeffrey Epstein Email Trove Reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secrets A cache of 18,000 messages obtained by Bloomberg News reveals Maxwell’s deep ties and involvement with the disgraced financier and sex offender.

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails.

It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚

Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!

Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

The Browser Company is being acquired by Atlassian in an all cash deal. Mergers and Acquisitions are back in full force. A lot of acquisitions in the technology industry over the past few week. Add another tally.

Screenshot of the guardian profile on Threads

Screenshot of guardian posts on threads

Millions of followers ≠ engagement. @theguardian.com has 1.4m followers on Threads with almost no engagement. On Bluesky, links can get 3–4x more clicks than likes.

The real question isn’t “how many followers do you have?” but “what kind of engagement do you get?”

Some of us have lost the plot

Chatbots aren’t telling you their secrets LLMs make things up — including about themselves.

*tapping this sign over and over*

can't have bad numbers if there are no numbers

In my line of work I rarely if ever send emails. I wish I had the opportunity to send emails to people. My inbox is just filled with Jira Ticket updates and spam

This is exactly how the world was sold on smart assistants a decade ago when Siri, Google Assistant, and Alexa were hitting mass adoption. Look how that turned out in reality vs what vision we were sold. AI is the newest rendition.

I'm so tired of hearing that we need to "teach our students how to use AI" when the thing they most need to use it is a critical-thinking skill set that can only be acquired by NOT using it. I'm tired of hearing that it's inevitable. I'm tired.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

I never believed two companies would collaborate for the benefit of mankind

That’s about what it costs me to fill up my F-150 with premium fuel. It’s got a 36 gallon gas tank