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submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Newsletter: I am sick and god damn tired of everybody pretending that generative AI is the next big thing. The media is complicit in accepting fantastical nonsense - both in the numbers put out by OpenAI and the silly jobs created by Anthropic - and it has to stop. www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/

submitted 3 days ago • 96 comments

Bikes are the best, you can’t tell me shit when I’m out riding on a nice day, I’m out here like “Wheeeee! Oh the empire is falling? Bring it on, mothafuckaaaaas! I’ve got a BIKE!”

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

submitted 9 days ago • 660 comments

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

submitted 14 days ago • 8489 comments

So yeah, Google is an abusive monopolist. Again. I wonder what Gemini thinks the remedy should be? (Don't ask!) 😂 https://apnews.com/article/google-illegal-monopoly-advertising-search-a1e4446c4870903ed05c03a2a03b581e

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

This is how dictators act. Trump illegally deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a brutal El Salvador megaprison. Now, he's flouting a 9-0 Supreme Court order to bring him back. Hell no. Due process for all is the core of our democracy, and I’m fighting to defend it. Kilmar must come home.

submitted 15 days ago • 59 comments

Remember this isn't even the guy that the Supreme Court is insisting be brought back. This is ANOTHER guy picked up and shipped to the gulag for no reason.

submitted 15 days ago • 18 comments

Casey Newton seems to be literally making the argument that the only way to know what's "true" about genAI is to ask the companies *who have sunk billions of $$* into gaslighting, er I mean convincing the public they need AI. Is he really that stupid?! Furthermore, does he think we're that stupid?!

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I distinctly remember during the Obama years the big conspiracy theory was that he wanted to be a dictator and would finagle his way into getting a third term. Projection = confession!

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

submitted 30 days ago • 10899 comments

I am blown away. 😲

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I just don't know how Big Tech regains credibility after the coming crash. They've gaslit and lied so much, it's shocking. GenAI has them truly exposed.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie is a really really fun movie! It's a shame it was mishandled so poorly by the studio. Despite both critics and audiences loving it, it hasn't been making much money. Hopefully it picks up a bit of steam after […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

me in the national security team group chat

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

So-and-so is one of the good billionaires— —let me just stop you right there. *There are no good billionaries.* Someone who is a billionaire has successfully utilized a system that is rigged in their favor and has not taken radical steps to un-rig it. Boo on them.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

I hate to be the well actually guy in the room, but well actually, genAI is fascist technology and when you support these services—especially OpenAI—you are supporting fascism. With "progressive" friends like Mark Cuban, who needs enemies? 😂

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

everything started going downhill when people replaced “surfing the web” with “scrolling social media”

submitted 42 days ago • 8 comments

This is what we in the biz like to call the “FO” part of FAFO. Also in related news: “Tesla's $700 Billion Nightmare: Short Sellers Strike Gold as Musk Faces Consumer Revolt” 🤡 #blog 🔗 https://jaredwhite.com/links/20250318/tesla-fafo

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Inbox: Lime gives 1 million rides in Seattle so far this year.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

This essay by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social approaches a level of horrendously frightening I have rarely encountered since reading “1984”…and is perhaps even more petrifying because—unlike the fiction of 1984—this nightmare is actually happening. 😱 jaredwhite.com/links/202503...

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

submitted 45 days ago • 1039 comments

Me: “Lizard people is a silly conspiracy theory. It's total nonsense. There's no such thing as lizard peop—” *sees a picture of Stephen Miller* Also me: “I take that back.”

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

New video showing a cyclist cycling over a Tesla Cybertruck parked in a bus lane.

submitted 45 days ago • 89 comments