tom hunt

the confederates hated america and still do

Reminder, again, that, yes, while the DOGE-ing was juvenile & clueless, it is vitally important to remain focused on the fact that these people need to be arrested, prosecuted, & sent to jail for a very long time for illegally & unconstitutionally dismantling the federal government.

Tweet from Ben Esposito (torahhorse on Twitter/X): "nobody told me when you make a video game you have to make the whole thing"

I think about this tweet a lot.

also probably extra legal and insurance costs for anything of a more physical/potentially-injurous nature

they're great but you need at least one person who knows how to build things properly. also making the arcade game and actually running the arcade game are two totally separate things and the cost of the "running" part vs how profitable it is is why they're not nearly as ubiquitous as they were once

You can have story. Or you can have data.

Story is choices. Data is no choices, just more stuff, but presented with no weight, value or sense. Just more.

We are watching the tyranny of the takeover of story - of choice, of taste, of craft, of meaning - by the data people.

Horrible.

arbitrue

the before look is better

i suppose i could try just posting better.

there is much that is beyond the control of most of us, and all we can do in response is scream in pain, terror, and horror at it all.

it feels like the right thing to do in the moment. only later, looking back and reflecting on it, does it feel maybe a little embarrassing or inappropriate.

when i look at my own profile timeline in isolation, i cringe at how much poltical stuff i post.

when i look at my following timeline as it appears to me when i am logged in, i cringe at the state of the world.

sometimes i can't help but post or repost something political.

i am so sorry for posting my bad

we used to be a proper country

Staggering numbers of Palestinians now being shot in Gaza as they try to find food at GHF sites, or along UN convoy routes. More than 4,500 people treated in a single Red Cross clinic. Almost 1,400 across two MSF clinics. Total is more than 12,000, according to health ministry.

don’t use “non-euclidean” as a spooky descriptor around a mathematician because they will just explain why this is not scary

turning your computet on with a roundhouse kick to the face, just like chuck norris

Consumer facing "A.i." is about triggering the excretion of a mediocre product. It's a rejection of PROCESS. Life itself is process, not fucking product. Push "A.i." on kids and you rob them of the joyful experience of life itself. I am not exaggerating.

This is precisely *who they're being made for*

Saw someone calling AI "punk rock because it makes people angry" and apparently in big 2025 it has to be said but a capitalist tool created by capitalists for capitalism and praised by capitalists while hated by the victims of capitalisme is kind of the literal opposite of what punk rock means.

stomp clap was popular in the early 2010s, just like all those songs about how we were gonna have good time at the club that night. it was a very optimistic era and a lotta people didn't have internet they could carry around with them yet. we gathered in person and had a good time

there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort.

It aired in 1990.

(Important note: using OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, Midjourney, and other large corporate LLMs built off of plagiarized work and used to undermine labor is inherently unethical. But I find it useful to be able to speak directly with experience to the quality of these games and the claims they make.)

I saw this after yesterday's show and it seemed very apt in relation to the first hour's topic...

At this rate in 2 years just knowing how to use Windows Explorer is going to turn into an easy $2 million salary career

this seems kinda dumb considering the kind of infrastructure investment needed for these kinds of things that not only seems unlikely but has also just been systematically destroyed by his scorched earth style of governance in this term.

calculators didn't kill math because we still had to show our work and understand what we were doing.

Mathematica didnt kill math because you need to already understand math in order to use it properly. same with Wolfram Alpha, which is an expert system ai.

gen-ai won't kill math bc it can't math.

One fact I raise in this piece that should alarm everybody: there isn't a single AI business, not one, that is a better business than the Cincinnati Reds. Not even close.

i swear one of these days someone is going to literally build a pyramid-shaped data/compute-center claiming some weird kind of efficiency to it

"Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvelous is strongly concerned. When they are involved, require corroborative evidence in exact proportion to the contravention of probability by the thing testified." -Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 - 1895) When the mother of celebrity abductee Travis Walton was informed that a UFO had zapped her son with a bolt of lightning and then carried him off into space, she replied incuriously, "Well, that's the way these things happen." Is it? To agree that UFOs are in our skies is not committing to very much: "UFO" is an abbreviation for "Unidentified Flying Object." It is a more inclusive term than "Flying Saucer." But why, if we see something we don't recognize, should we conclude it's a ship from the stars? A wide variety of more prosaic possibilities present themselves. After misapprehended natural events and hoaxes and psychological aberrations are removed from the data set, is there any residue of very credible but extremely bizarre cases, especially ones supported by physical evidence? Is there a "signal" hiding in all that noise? In my view, no signal has been detected. There are reliably reported cases that are unexotic, and exotic cases that are unreliable. There are no cases - despite well over a million UFO reports since 1947 - in which something so strange that it could only be an extraterrestrial spacecraft is reported so reliably that misapprehension, hoax, or hallucination can be reliablu excluded. There's still a part of me that says, "Too bad." We're regularly bombarded with extravagant UFO claims vended in bite-sized packages, but only rarely do we get to hear about their comeuppance. This isn't hard to understand: Which sells more newspapers and books, which garners higher ratings, which is more fun to believe, which is more resonant with the torments of our time - real crashed alien ships, or experienced con men preying on the gullible

AI is the new UFOs