Andrew Hinton 😷🧡

Hey @mozilla.org @firefox.com ? If you're going to use the term "AI" & Only that term to refer to any & all of the machine learning & "generative" stuff you've put in your browser, then you gotta give us a way to search settings by whole word only. But also don't just bundle all that under that term

The burning oil refinery in Tehran tonight.

This ancient city of 10 million people is being annihilated by the US and Israel.

(🎥 BBC Verify)

All we are is dust in the MIDI

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

As evidence, the filing notes a list Mr. Fox compiled of what he called the “craziest” and “other bad” grants, which he planned to highlight on DOGE’s X account. He used three dozen keywords, including “L.G.B.T.Q.,” “BIPOC,” “tribal,” “ethnicity,” “gender,” “equality,” “immigration,” “citizenship” and “melting pot.” (A majority of the two dozen grants deemed “craziest” related to L.G.B.T.Q. subjects.)

In identifying grants to eliminate, DOGE employees also searched for terms like “BIPOC,” “tribal,” “ethnicity,” “gender,” “equality,” “immigration,” “citizenship” and “melting pot.”

"A majority of the two dozen grants deemed “craziest” related to L.G.B.T.Q. subjects."

The prompt was simple: “Does the following relate at all to D.E.I.? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’” The results were sweeping, and sometimes bizarre. Building improvements at an Indigenous languages archive in Alaska risked “promoting inclusion and diverse perspectives.” Renewal of a longstanding grant to digitize Black newspapers and add them to a historical database was “D.E.I.” So was work on a 40-volume scholarly series on the history of American music.

"The DOGE employees did not appear to question ChatGPT’s judgments, and continued hunting for unacceptable projects."

Hahahaa I knew it

Why Language Models Hallucinate. A paper released by OpenAI in September of 2025.

Back in September, OpenAI released a paper showing that ChatGPT will always make things up.

Not sometimes. Not until the next update. Always. It's how the system fundamentally works. Which means there is no "fix."

Years before the show stetted, I was driving from PA to NC listening to the audio book when that scene happened — had to pull over to the shoulder of I-81 to let it sink in.

If some people are beautiful because they are so fascinatingly ugly, there must be people who are ugly because they are so fastidiously beautiful [that they] have achieved technical excellence at the expense of erotic charisma.

—Becca Rothfeld on the phenomenon of Looksmaxxing, in The New Yorker

Bebe does good alt text 🏆

Dark-haired white woman in a sequined bathing suit kind of costume and high heels, grinning at us. She’s standing/posing in front of a giant clock, pretending to adjust the minute hand. It looks like it’s a photo from maybe the early 1950s or late 1940s.

Me, approaching my microwave and stove this evening.

“He gotta know how to dress”

No he don’t…

You looking for someone that spends their free time fantasizing about chivalry and saving the day

That’s the one that’s gonna pay off a mortgage

I think we need people to start listening to new experts that said this many years ago

If your understanding of the process is limited to the fidelity cascade, this LOOKS like a huge breakthrough.

We've been having the same conversation with design systems for the past 10-odd years. "Wow this lets us skip to high fidelity, we're so productive now!"

WRONG!

Holy mackerel! Fishtown man schools neighborhood on fun fish facts.

Niall Paredes, a 32-year-old Fishtown resident, educates his neighbors on various species of fish through posters around his neighborhood.

Go get em

@upmasingh.com and Taylor Kicking off @wiadphilly.bsky.social!

Hold up that’s this weekend?
I am not ready.

“Cathode Ray Toilets ftw”
- R Mutt, 2026

Cannot be stated enough until it somehow gets through to people who’ve been hoodwinked by all this

again and again... there is NO SUCH THING, no such thing, NO SUCH THING as automation as presented by AI companies!

1/n

The most scathing critics of Silicon Valley circa 2014 barely scratched the surface of the treachery these companies have shown.

Providing your products to criminal regimes planning to use them to violate human rights on a massive scale is a choice!

Evidence Grows That Google's AI Overviews Have Eviscerated the Media Industry Google's AI overviews have eviscerated the media landscape, with some top publications losing up to 97 percent of their web traffic.

Welp. The internet had a nice run.

Some outlets have lost over 90% of their traffic since the "AI" summaries rolled out.

"...the four worst-hit publications [now] get less monthly web traffic combined than the r/ChatGPT subreddit gets on its own."

Based on the many comments:

I’d like to apologize to those for whom this post reminded them of their own advanced age. 😅

And to those who learned Pink Floyd’s guitarist is indeed an extraordinarily beautiful man, I say “you’re welcome.” 😁

Based on the many comments:

I’d like to apologize to those for whom this post reminded them of their own advanced age. 😅

And to those who learned Pink Floyd’s guitarist is indeed an extraordinarily beautiful man, I say “you’re welcome.” 😁

Happy #WIAD to all who celebrate 😍

Ohhhh … of course thank you …. Deleted

🤔To estimate how long it might take Iran to "surrender unconditionally," maybe we can use Afghanistan as a proxy?

Afghanistan's army was 100K people. Iran's is 600K. So maybe we should look at how long it took to get Afghanistan to surrender unconditionally, and then multiply that by 6?

"Anthropic has much more in common with the Department of War than we have differences."

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