Peter Swimm
@peterswimm.com
Founder @toilville
https://www.toilville.com/
https://www.toilville.com/
wild if this happened today
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
wild if this happened today
If you want to relive what it was like for me as a fetus about to be born, watch this with a low pass filter set to like 100hz
"WBBM Channel 2 - New Year's Eve: Chicago Style (Part 1, 1979/1980)"
youtu.be/1arzoS0qU58
youtu.be/1arzoS0qU58
WBBM Channel 2 - New Year's Eve: Chicago Style (Part 1, 1979/1980)
YouTube video by The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV)
youtu.be
January 1, 2026 at 4:36 AM
If you want to relive what it was like for me as a fetus about to be born, watch this with a low pass filter set to like 100hz
you know how normal people think of better comebacks after the fact, i’m like that but for realizing my comeback came too hard and made it worse.
December 31, 2025 at 9:51 PM
you know how normal people think of better comebacks after the fact, i’m like that but for realizing my comeback came too hard and made it worse.
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Today is the last day that you can repost this image
December 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Today is the last day that you can repost this image
llms aren’t a real trend until we get a hollywood teen sex comedy about it
December 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM
llms aren’t a real trend until we get a hollywood teen sex comedy about it
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This ICE job posting reads like a video game ad. Which is almost certainly by design.
December 31, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This ICE job posting reads like a video game ad. Which is almost certainly by design.
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BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.
December 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.
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Thinking about the way that some people are absolutely, genuinely convinced that genAI is going to solve every problem and usher in a new golden age of prosperity etc. in direct relationship with the ways in which a lot of political leaders aren't meaningfully articulating a positive "future"
December 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Thinking about the way that some people are absolutely, genuinely convinced that genAI is going to solve every problem and usher in a new golden age of prosperity etc. in direct relationship with the ways in which a lot of political leaders aren't meaningfully articulating a positive "future"
what’s the bright side
There is a dark side to the model-maker’s stunning growth
OpenAI’s cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
There is a dark side to the model-maker’s stunning growth
econ.st
December 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
what’s the bright side
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the only "2fa" i wanna deal with is 2 fuckin' 'amburgers
December 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
the only "2fa" i wanna deal with is 2 fuckin' 'amburgers
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I say this in defense of therapy and therapists, which often get positioned as people to have a nice chat with- first as if having a good chat isn’t a great skill, but more so as if that’s ALL therapy is and that’s all it takes to be a therapist. Just like I will defend an artist from AI-
December 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I say this in defense of therapy and therapists, which often get positioned as people to have a nice chat with- first as if having a good chat isn’t a great skill, but more so as if that’s ALL therapy is and that’s all it takes to be a therapist. Just like I will defend an artist from AI-
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Battery pack storage costs for WindWaterSolar are dropping so low that they eliminate the argument for using fossil fuels or nuclear moving forward.
Battery pack prices for stationary storage now down to $70/kWh in 2025, a 45% decrease in just one year.
www.ess-news.com/2025/12/09/b...
Battery pack prices for stationary storage now down to $70/kWh in 2025, a 45% decrease in just one year.
www.ess-news.com/2025/12/09/b...
BNEF: Lithium-ion battery pack prices fall to $108/kWh, stationary storage becomes lowest price segment - Energy Storage
According to BNEF, battery pack prices for stationary storage fell to $70/kWh in 2025, a 45% decrease from 2024. This represents the steepest decline among all lithium-ion battery use cases and and ma...
www.ess-news.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Battery pack storage costs for WindWaterSolar are dropping so low that they eliminate the argument for using fossil fuels or nuclear moving forward.
Battery pack prices for stationary storage now down to $70/kWh in 2025, a 45% decrease in just one year.
www.ess-news.com/2025/12/09/b...
Battery pack prices for stationary storage now down to $70/kWh in 2025, a 45% decrease in just one year.
www.ess-news.com/2025/12/09/b...
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I didn’t even catch that but this person’s right! This is for a - if they’re paying the full $30-per-sear cost - $84,000 per annum contract. Microsoft made $27bn in profits in its last quarterly earnings. These are piss poor numbers! They’re desperate!
bsky.app/profile/regu...
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Microsoft offering training credits for a 200 seat order of a single product is near unprecedented. They are buying business to inflate the numbers.
Yeah man you call it “training funds” I call it “paying your customers to use your product”
www.theinformation.com/articles/app...
www.theinformation.com/articles/app...
December 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I didn’t even catch that but this person’s right! This is for a - if they’re paying the full $30-per-sear cost - $84,000 per annum contract. Microsoft made $27bn in profits in its last quarterly earnings. These are piss poor numbers! They’re desperate!
bsky.app/profile/regu...
bsky.app/profile/regu...
ok i’ve seen it all: a boot camp to be a board member.
December 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
ok i’ve seen it all: a boot camp to be a board member.
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You're not the audience for the MTG glow up happening because you (as an individual) would never be in an actual position to make common cause with her or to reject her in some nebulous "coalitional" political way. This is the elite speaking to other elites to shape elite opinion.
December 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
You're not the audience for the MTG glow up happening because you (as an individual) would never be in an actual position to make common cause with her or to reject her in some nebulous "coalitional" political way. This is the elite speaking to other elites to shape elite opinion.
this isn’t really two issues
December 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
this isn’t really two issues
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Don't forget that Ilya cited this as THE
usecase he was most excited about.
usecase he was most excited about.
December 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Don't forget that Ilya cited this as THE
usecase he was most excited about.
usecase he was most excited about.
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Given chatbots are intransparent & not reliably governed by knoweable rules, there’s no expertise we could build to assess 1). These systems are stochastic regurgitators & slop creators. When students develop critical thinking skills, they will naturally not want to use them
Maybe also of interest:
Maybe also of interest:
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
Cite as: van Rooij, I. (2025) AI slop and the destruction of knowledge. This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curio…
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Given chatbots are intransparent & not reliably governed by knoweable rules, there’s no expertise we could build to assess 1). These systems are stochastic regurgitators & slop creators. When students develop critical thinking skills, they will naturally not want to use them
Maybe also of interest:
Maybe also of interest:
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Again so we are super SUPER clear
The party got a report telling them to choose voters over donors and they said “no thanks”
The party got a report telling them to choose voters over donors and they said “no thanks”
The Democratic National Committee has decided not to publish its report on mistakes made during the Democratic Party's 2024 presidential campaign.
December 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Again so we are super SUPER clear
The party got a report telling them to choose voters over donors and they said “no thanks”
The party got a report telling them to choose voters over donors and they said “no thanks”
my dad would tell this joke so
maybe it’s real www.wearethemighty.com/articles/the...
maybe it’s real www.wearethemighty.com/articles/the...
December 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
my dad would tell this joke so
maybe it’s real www.wearethemighty.com/articles/the...
maybe it’s real www.wearethemighty.com/articles/the...
the joe rogan podcast is like being stuck at a friends house while his older brother is helping you score weed and you have to hang out a bit afterwards so you don’t burn a bridge as a service.
Yeah, this dum dum is talking about chicken pox.
Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.
Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.
December 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
the joe rogan podcast is like being stuck at a friends house while his older brother is helping you score weed and you have to hang out a bit afterwards so you don’t burn a bridge as a service.
This is the threat of using things like GenAI to vibe out conclusions based on data.
What if the data is massively flawed?
What if the data is massively flawed?
"40 percent of MRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity"; "Since tens of thousands of fMRI studies worldwide are based on this assumption, our results could lead to opposite interpretations in many of them.”
www.tum.de/en/news-and-...
www.tum.de/en/news-and-...
40 percent of MRI signals misinterpreted
Interpretation of numerous MRI data may be incorrect: blood flow is not a reliable indicator of brain activity.
www.tum.de
December 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is the threat of using things like GenAI to vibe out conclusions based on data.
What if the data is massively flawed?
What if the data is massively flawed?
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As protests surge nationwide, AI surveillance tools, biometric identification, and mask bans are creating new barriers for disabled people seeking to safely exercise their First Amendment right to peacefully assemble, argues Tech Policy Press Fellow Ariana Aboulafia.
Surveillance Tech Heightens Chilling Effects for Disabled Protestors | TechPolicy.Press
AI surveillance, mask bans, and biometrics threaten disabled people’s ability to exercise their right to assemble peaceably, argues Ariana Aboulafia.
buff.ly
December 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
As protests surge nationwide, AI surveillance tools, biometric identification, and mask bans are creating new barriers for disabled people seeking to safely exercise their First Amendment right to peacefully assemble, argues Tech Policy Press Fellow Ariana Aboulafia.