Allosaur
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A good reason to block someone the very first time they start hedging about the usefulness of generative AI is that this keeps you from seeing them 6 months later shrieking about why quantum theory demands they eat their family.
September 8, 2025 at 5:03 AM
A good reason to block someone the very first time they start hedging about the usefulness of generative AI is that this keeps you from seeing them 6 months later shrieking about why quantum theory demands they eat their family.
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I think realistic video generation is pretty much as close to the classical 'intrinsically evil technology' as you can get. It has no benign applications for which an alternative tech isn't superior, and all the things it is better at doing are cartoonishly malevolent.
January 18, 2026 at 5:56 AM
I think realistic video generation is pretty much as close to the classical 'intrinsically evil technology' as you can get. It has no benign applications for which an alternative tech isn't superior, and all the things it is better at doing are cartoonishly malevolent.
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the only good thing about this part of the horrible shooting story is that it may turn out to be a gut shot for the carcass of @cbsnews.com and that's great. and unlike the ICE goon CBS has real internal bleeding.
January 16, 2026 at 4:20 PM
the only good thing about this part of the horrible shooting story is that it may turn out to be a gut shot for the carcass of @cbsnews.com and that's great. and unlike the ICE goon CBS has real internal bleeding.
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If you work for ice please understand that your kids will laugh at a character based on you dying in an action movie before the end of the decade. They’ll be in movies for really little kids. Like Phineas and Ferb shit. There will be an action figure of you with a detachable head
January 17, 2026 at 8:40 PM
If you work for ice please understand that your kids will laugh at a character based on you dying in an action movie before the end of the decade. They’ll be in movies for really little kids. Like Phineas and Ferb shit. There will be an action figure of you with a detachable head
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Grok is so much worse than you think.
January 17, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Grok is so much worse than you think.
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The Trump admin is moving to quickly deport two men who witnessed, they say, ICE guards choke a fellow detainee to death.
The admin moved to deport men right after they spoke the Washington Post.
This is the death that the medical examiner has already ruled likely homicide.
wapo.st/4qR1T1U
The admin moved to deport men right after they spoke the Washington Post.
This is the death that the medical examiner has already ruled likely homicide.
wapo.st/4qR1T1U
DHS seeking to deport two men who said fellow ICE detainee was killed
The two men’s eyewitness accounts of the Jan. 3 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp differ from the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the incident.
wapo.st
January 18, 2026 at 12:10 AM
The Trump admin is moving to quickly deport two men who witnessed, they say, ICE guards choke a fellow detainee to death.
The admin moved to deport men right after they spoke the Washington Post.
This is the death that the medical examiner has already ruled likely homicide.
wapo.st/4qR1T1U
The admin moved to deport men right after they spoke the Washington Post.
This is the death that the medical examiner has already ruled likely homicide.
wapo.st/4qR1T1U
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I'm sure everyone will be SHOCKED to hear that the videos do not show the whole "people came out and attacked ICE with snow shovels" thing that ICE claimed was what happened. This was not a remotely defensive gunshot.
Videos add new detail to 2nd Minneapolis ICE shooting in a week minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/16/v...
Videos add new detail to 2nd Minneapolis ICE shooting in a week • Minnesota Reformer
Two videos add new details to what happened before and after an immigration agent shot a man in the leg in the Hawthorne neighborhood in north Minneapolis Wednesday night. One video, a livestream of a...
minnesotareformer.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:07 AM
I'm sure everyone will be SHOCKED to hear that the videos do not show the whole "people came out and attacked ICE with snow shovels" thing that ICE claimed was what happened. This was not a remotely defensive gunshot.
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I keep thinking about them saying "haven't you learned [from Renee Good's murder]" and... they don't understand why people are still coming out after they've shown they can and will kill us, because they're cowards, and they don't understand what it's like not to be a coward
January 17, 2026 at 10:22 PM
I keep thinking about them saying "haven't you learned [from Renee Good's murder]" and... they don't understand why people are still coming out after they've shown they can and will kill us, because they're cowards, and they don't understand what it's like not to be a coward
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This is for a Creative Writing Workshop, so I like to remind the students that they have some skin in the game.
January 18, 2026 at 2:38 AM
This is for a Creative Writing Workshop, so I like to remind the students that they have some skin in the game.
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No, these are very serious comments.
ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell.
And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.
ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell.
And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.
January 17, 2026 at 11:16 PM
No, these are very serious comments.
ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell.
And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.
ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell.
And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.
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...it's January 16th
January 18, 2026 at 2:28 AM
...it's January 16th
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I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My picture was used in child abuse images. AI is putting others through my nightmare | Mara Wilson
I was a child actor, exploited by strangers on the internet. Now millions of children face the same danger
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:20 AM
I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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He gave a bunch of Nazi salutes and out came the super soakers (pic from Mpls subreddit)
January 17, 2026 at 10:58 PM
He gave a bunch of Nazi salutes and out came the super soakers (pic from Mpls subreddit)
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We are months away from this all collapsing.
The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren't enough skilled workers in the US, such as electricians, to keep up (Caroline Haskins/Wired)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
January 18, 2026 at 1:13 AM
We are months away from this all collapsing.
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You do not, should not, accommodate Nazis. A "difference of opinion" or the "right to speak" or "reasonable debate" stops when you're dealing with a Nazi. Run them out on a rail.
Lmfao 😂 Jake Lang is experiencing the finding out phase in Minneapolis.
January 18, 2026 at 1:42 AM
You do not, should not, accommodate Nazis. A "difference of opinion" or the "right to speak" or "reasonable debate" stops when you're dealing with a Nazi. Run them out on a rail.
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I think we’re nearing the end of civilization
January 18, 2026 at 1:57 AM
I think we’re nearing the end of civilization
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reflective vest over cammo uniform lol something something signifier degradation
Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military
January 18, 2026 at 12:34 AM
reflective vest over cammo uniform lol something something signifier degradation
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If an artist tells you they trained their own GenAI, they're lying to you. It takes billions of pairs and hundreds of thousands of dollars in compute time to generate even the dumbest model.
What they're doing is taking an existing model -- trained on stolen work -- and training it on their work.
What they're doing is taking an existing model -- trained on stolen work -- and training it on their work.
January 17, 2026 at 10:53 PM
If an artist tells you they trained their own GenAI, they're lying to you. It takes billions of pairs and hundreds of thousands of dollars in compute time to generate even the dumbest model.
What they're doing is taking an existing model -- trained on stolen work -- and training it on their work.
What they're doing is taking an existing model -- trained on stolen work -- and training it on their work.
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And one more thing. Students. If you have a professor who is, for some reason, outsourcing their own job to ChatGPT....drop the class.
If they tell you to "ask ChatGPT" for sources, drop the class.
Because they apparently don't know their own discipline well enough to teach it.
If they tell you to "ask ChatGPT" for sources, drop the class.
Because they apparently don't know their own discipline well enough to teach it.
January 17, 2026 at 11:00 PM
And one more thing. Students. If you have a professor who is, for some reason, outsourcing their own job to ChatGPT....drop the class.
If they tell you to "ask ChatGPT" for sources, drop the class.
Because they apparently don't know their own discipline well enough to teach it.
If they tell you to "ask ChatGPT" for sources, drop the class.
Because they apparently don't know their own discipline well enough to teach it.
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I say this as someone who has been actively researching GenAI ethnographically for the last few years.
The idea that ChatGPT is some kind of unfair leg up is Silicon Valley propaganda. It's really not and it is more recognizable than you might think.
The idea that ChatGPT is some kind of unfair leg up is Silicon Valley propaganda. It's really not and it is more recognizable than you might think.
a woman is sitting on a bed with the words you can say " no " written above her
ALT: a woman is sitting on a bed with the words you can say " no " written above her
media.tenor.com
January 17, 2026 at 10:49 PM
I say this as someone who has been actively researching GenAI ethnographically for the last few years.
The idea that ChatGPT is some kind of unfair leg up is Silicon Valley propaganda. It's really not and it is more recognizable than you might think.
The idea that ChatGPT is some kind of unfair leg up is Silicon Valley propaganda. It's really not and it is more recognizable than you might think.
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I have some more bad news.
If an admissions committee even suspects you used ChatGPT for your application letter, they'll almost certainly decide not to waste a precious admissions spot on you.
Instead they'll give it to, you know, someone who actually likes to write and knows how to do it.
If an admissions committee even suspects you used ChatGPT for your application letter, they'll almost certainly decide not to waste a precious admissions spot on you.
Instead they'll give it to, you know, someone who actually likes to write and knows how to do it.
I have some bad news. One, if you need to use ChatGPT for your graduate application letter, you are not ready for graduate school.
Two, no, not "everyone is doing it" and those who don't do it aren't "losing out." ChatGPT is not an advantage.
Two, no, not "everyone is doing it" and those who don't do it aren't "losing out." ChatGPT is not an advantage.
An impressive number of graduate applications this year used the phrase “curiosity-driven approach” 🤔
January 17, 2026 at 11:03 PM
I have some more bad news.
If an admissions committee even suspects you used ChatGPT for your application letter, they'll almost certainly decide not to waste a precious admissions spot on you.
Instead they'll give it to, you know, someone who actually likes to write and knows how to do it.
If an admissions committee even suspects you used ChatGPT for your application letter, they'll almost certainly decide not to waste a precious admissions spot on you.
Instead they'll give it to, you know, someone who actually likes to write and knows how to do it.
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DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account.
Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.
Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.
January 17, 2026 at 6:57 PM
DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account.
Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.
Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.
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Tubi, in summation.
January 17, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Tubi, in summation.
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every pitch for AI goes
*lame demonstration*
....now, *imagine if this didn't suck!*
All it will take is another 50 billion dollars and all the water in the Colorado river basin!
*lame demonstration*
....now, *imagine if this didn't suck!*
All it will take is another 50 billion dollars and all the water in the Colorado river basin!
January 17, 2026 at 9:56 PM
every pitch for AI goes
*lame demonstration*
....now, *imagine if this didn't suck!*
All it will take is another 50 billion dollars and all the water in the Colorado river basin!
*lame demonstration*
....now, *imagine if this didn't suck!*
All it will take is another 50 billion dollars and all the water in the Colorado river basin!
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"Rugged individualism", from early XXI century "rugged", meaning "scammed by a cryptocurrency"
January 17, 2026 at 3:19 PM
"Rugged individualism", from early XXI century "rugged", meaning "scammed by a cryptocurrency"