Dylan Wilbanks
@dylanw.social
You may remember me from Twitter. Still talking about UX stuff. Funemployed. @khuh.bsky.social Mondays @ noon Pacific. Defend trans kids.
I interviewed last year with a company that does this AI for police stuff and got rejected, which I now consider a blessing because I don’t have to think about how their software is probably getting people jailed for hallucinating transmogrify.
About 18 seconds into this news story the reporter says the police AI report writing software erroneously wrote that someone turned into a frog. Yet this is the headline they’re going with.
January 1, 2026 at 6:36 PM
I interviewed last year with a company that does this AI for police stuff and got rejected, which I now consider a blessing because I don’t have to think about how their software is probably getting people jailed for hallucinating transmogrify.
It finally hit me that Geese is scratching the same Neutral Milk Hotel / Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti in the big music critics and that's why it bounces off me. It's just... ok. It ain't the Strokes.
December 31, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It finally hit me that Geese is scratching the same Neutral Milk Hotel / Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti in the big music critics and that's why it bounces off me. It's just... ok. It ain't the Strokes.
It's cold here today. Guess I need to run some AI queries to warm things up
December 31, 2025 at 10:38 PM
It's cold here today. Guess I need to run some AI queries to warm things up
It feels so dated now, but it blew my mind when I was 10 and was “they can make videos like THAT?”
It’s hard to explain how massive videos were in the 80s. How mind blowing. How utterly over the top.
youtu.be/oJL-lCzEXgI?...
It’s hard to explain how massive videos were in the 80s. How mind blowing. How utterly over the top.
youtu.be/oJL-lCzEXgI?...
December 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
It feels so dated now, but it blew my mind when I was 10 and was “they can make videos like THAT?”
It’s hard to explain how massive videos were in the 80s. How mind blowing. How utterly over the top.
youtu.be/oJL-lCzEXgI?...
It’s hard to explain how massive videos were in the 80s. How mind blowing. How utterly over the top.
youtu.be/oJL-lCzEXgI?...
It’s like they turned @themountaingoats.bsky.social “This Year” into a slasher film
That time that Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani were being pursued by a memory-altering tiger, and their plans to kill it before year-end
December 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
It’s like they turned @themountaingoats.bsky.social “This Year” into a slasher film
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The people who freaked out when strangers showed up to daycares because pedophiles abducting kids or whatever are now strangers showing up to daycares and not getting why they look awful doing it
Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.
December 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The people who freaked out when strangers showed up to daycares because pedophiles abducting kids or whatever are now strangers showing up to daycares and not getting why they look awful doing it
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Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.
December 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.
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Remember to stock up on lemons today for your New Year Lemon Pig-making needs! 🍋
December 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Remember to stock up on lemons today for your New Year Lemon Pig-making needs! 🍋
I said Shedeur Sanders has shown himself to be a a mediocre NFL QB, and someone jumped in my replies screaming that he was the worst and how dare I suggest he be GOOD
by calling him mediocre
Some people just have bees in their bonnets I guess
by calling him mediocre
Some people just have bees in their bonnets I guess
What’s the funniest reason someone got mad at you on Bluesky this year?
December 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I said Shedeur Sanders has shown himself to be a a mediocre NFL QB, and someone jumped in my replies screaming that he was the worst and how dare I suggest he be GOOD
by calling him mediocre
Some people just have bees in their bonnets I guess
by calling him mediocre
Some people just have bees in their bonnets I guess
OFFICER! ARREST THIS PERSON FOR CRIMES AGAINST COMMON DECENCY
Everyone: "When I see someone talk about MTG, it's never the one I want it to be about."
Me: Here, hope that helps
Me: Here, hope that helps
December 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
OFFICER! ARREST THIS PERSON FOR CRIMES AGAINST COMMON DECENCY
We're dealing with something akin to "dry drunk" behavior in Gen Z -- they're not involved in any fundamentalist institutions, but they act like they are, even when they insist that's what they're not. They want purity and holiness and perfection. They want polar good and bad. They're mad at nuance.
The way people have started to speak about infidelity as a crime akin to physical or sexual abuse is wild. You can’t send the whole of France to jail.
December 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
We're dealing with something akin to "dry drunk" behavior in Gen Z -- they're not involved in any fundamentalist institutions, but they act like they are, even when they insist that's what they're not. They want purity and holiness and perfection. They want polar good and bad. They're mad at nuance.
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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I don’t expect people to know all the bad stuff about every originally famous for non-political stuff person, and think people should react to the ignorance like an evil version of this XKCD, but I do want people to act like Ms. Roan when they’re informed instead of getting defensive/combative.
December 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I don’t expect people to know all the bad stuff about every originally famous for non-political stuff person, and think people should react to the ignorance like an evil version of this XKCD, but I do want people to act like Ms. Roan when they’re informed instead of getting defensive/combative.
"My 'AI is not a bubble' t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt"
December 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
"My 'AI is not a bubble' t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt"
Fun fact: Seattle is on target to end the year with ~40% fewer murders than last year and less than half of the 2023 peak
Another fun fact: You’d never know it from the local media
Another fun fact: You’d never know it from the local media
December 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Fun fact: Seattle is on target to end the year with ~40% fewer murders than last year and less than half of the 2023 peak
Another fun fact: You’d never know it from the local media
Another fun fact: You’d never know it from the local media
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wow, sorry. Deleting now. I didn’t know she was French
December 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
wow, sorry. Deleting now. I didn’t know she was French
Srsly they would flip when they discover restaurants in “flyover country” can close as 9 or even 8, while coffee shops may not open before 8am. Oh, and while there are some Michelin-level restaurants, there’s not exactly a French Laundry anywhere but Yountville
Good luck techbros
Good luck techbros
I would love to see a California tech-enhanced billionaire try to live somewhere else. I would watch the reality show about that.
December 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Srsly they would flip when they discover restaurants in “flyover country” can close as 9 or even 8, while coffee shops may not open before 8am. Oh, and while there are some Michelin-level restaurants, there’s not exactly a French Laundry anywhere but Yountville
Good luck techbros
Good luck techbros
Having burned through fake Norse mythology, they move on to the Crusades, an easy way to dump undesirables and zealots on other countries where Europe was not sending their best
Checks out
Checks out
Far-right groups are co-opting the aesthetics of the Crusades for their own objectives, transforming an obsession with feudal justice into a campaign for a White Christian nation.
Why We Should All Be Worried About "Crusadercore"
This online trend equips young, White men with a historically bastardized visual lexicon — one that gives new credence and religious authority to far-right bigotry.
hyperallergic.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Having burned through fake Norse mythology, they move on to the Crusades, an easy way to dump undesirables and zealots on other countries where Europe was not sending their best
Checks out
Checks out
Starting to look like Caleb Williams isn’t the bust the sports blowhards insisted he was
December 29, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Starting to look like Caleb Williams isn’t the bust the sports blowhards insisted he was
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Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys mocking people who wear masks while talking about What Is To Be Done is exactly what Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys are, it's the most Jon Stewart and pod saves guys thing possible.
December 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys mocking people who wear masks while talking about What Is To Be Done is exactly what Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys are, it's the most Jon Stewart and pod saves guys thing possible.
We’ve pulled drugs from the market with fewer linked suicides than ChatGPT has
Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
December 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
We’ve pulled drugs from the market with fewer linked suicides than ChatGPT has
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This is great, "Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death," a story where Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who administers the lottery from "The Lottery"
archiveofourown.org/works/733964...
archiveofourown.org/works/733964...
Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death - Anonymous - The Lottery - Shirley Jackson [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
December 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This is great, "Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death," a story where Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who administers the lottery from "The Lottery"
archiveofourown.org/works/733964...
archiveofourown.org/works/733964...
The lesson of Bridgette Bardot:
Live your life so that when you die, people talk about how hot you were, not how racist you were
Live your life so that when you die, people talk about how hot you were, not how racist you were
December 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The lesson of Bridgette Bardot:
Live your life so that when you die, people talk about how hot you were, not how racist you were
Live your life so that when you die, people talk about how hot you were, not how racist you were
How I’m walking out of 2025
December 28, 2025 at 8:02 AM
How I’m walking out of 2025