J. Mackenzie Graham
@yesternaut.bsky.social
World famous bounty hunter. Corgi assistant. Writer and Illustrator. Longboarder. Award-winning sandwich maker.
Webcomic THE NEW YESTERDAY will return.
https://linktr.ee/yesternaut
👆 All my bullshit.
🇨🇦 Toronto
Webcomic THE NEW YESTERDAY will return.
https://linktr.ee/yesternaut
👆 All my bullshit.
🇨🇦 Toronto
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“Elbows up” means Canada standing up for the “rules-based international order” and publicly condemning violations of international law or arbitrary kidnappings of world leaders
January 3, 2026 at 4:38 PM
“Elbows up” means Canada standing up for the “rules-based international order” and publicly condemning violations of international law or arbitrary kidnappings of world leaders
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Jesus fucking christ
January 3, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Jesus fucking christ
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Just call this one the War Mayor and keep the mainstream numbering clean.
January 2, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Just call this one the War Mayor and keep the mainstream numbering clean.
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I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn't Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did?
Elon Musk’s chatbot has been “undressing” women and children in public. Journalists are letting xAI off the hook by pretending the bot is responsible.
www.readtpa.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:58 PM
I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
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The closest comparison for the Grok thing we can imagine right now is if cereal made a bunch of people ill and the news put a microphone in front of some cereal boxes at the grocery store and was like “well they didn’t admit guilt, not sure who else we can ask”
January 2, 2026 at 8:24 PM
The closest comparison for the Grok thing we can imagine right now is if cereal made a bunch of people ill and the news put a microphone in front of some cereal boxes at the grocery store and was like “well they didn’t admit guilt, not sure who else we can ask”
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This is an outrageous abdication of journalistic duty. Grok's apology was prompted by a human, as was its equally vehement self-defense. People are willingly hurling themselves into the AI trashbin at the bidding of oligarchs who will happily remove them from their jobs.
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X reut.rs/498SoUk
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X
Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this.
reut.rs
January 2, 2026 at 3:28 PM
This is an outrageous abdication of journalistic duty. Grok's apology was prompted by a human, as was its equally vehement self-defense. People are willingly hurling themselves into the AI trashbin at the bidding of oligarchs who will happily remove them from their jobs.
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what’s happening with grok and nudity spam requests should be a global wake up call about AI image gen and instead very few media outlets have even covered it yet
January 2, 2026 at 12:48 AM
what’s happening with grok and nudity spam requests should be a global wake up call about AI image gen and instead very few media outlets have even covered it yet
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Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.
December 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.
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Socialism is when no shoes.
January 1, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Socialism is when no shoes.
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Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.
January 1, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.
The correct movie to watch on New Year’s Eve is Strange Days and I’m tired of pretending it’s not.
January 1, 2026 at 4:47 AM
The correct movie to watch on New Year’s Eve is Strange Days and I’m tired of pretending it’s not.
People love to talk about what a disappointment Star Trek voyager was for its lack of serialized storytelling, as if Picard didn’t live an entire separate life in one episode only to never mention it again.
January 1, 2026 at 4:40 AM
People love to talk about what a disappointment Star Trek voyager was for its lack of serialized storytelling, as if Picard didn’t live an entire separate life in one episode only to never mention it again.
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There was a time about 20 years ago where lying, annoying and sometimes dangerous ads like this were only seen much on seedy third-party sites & random blogs, instead of being featured at the top of YouTube app with priority as common practice. The intolerance for this sort of manipulation has gone.
December 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
There was a time about 20 years ago where lying, annoying and sometimes dangerous ads like this were only seen much on seedy third-party sites & random blogs, instead of being featured at the top of YouTube app with priority as common practice. The intolerance for this sort of manipulation has gone.
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Rockstar Games union busting should probably be a bigger deal
December 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Rockstar Games union busting should probably be a bigger deal
Guys, we need James Gunn to wake tf up and cast Lee Pace as Batman before it’s too late.
Play him like his character in Halt & Catch Fire: bisexual/ace neurodivergent with a special interest so strong he doesn’t have time for all the cuties that want to get with him.
Play him like his character in Halt & Catch Fire: bisexual/ace neurodivergent with a special interest so strong he doesn’t have time for all the cuties that want to get with him.
December 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Guys, we need James Gunn to wake tf up and cast Lee Pace as Batman before it’s too late.
Play him like his character in Halt & Catch Fire: bisexual/ace neurodivergent with a special interest so strong he doesn’t have time for all the cuties that want to get with him.
Play him like his character in Halt & Catch Fire: bisexual/ace neurodivergent with a special interest so strong he doesn’t have time for all the cuties that want to get with him.
He isn’t a sorcerer.
Sorcerers have innate powers. Wizards learn magic from books and shit.
But there is a magic user type that takes power from a higher being.
He’s a Warlock.
Sorcerers have innate powers. Wizards learn magic from books and shit.
But there is a magic user type that takes power from a higher being.
He’s a Warlock.
December 29, 2025 at 4:38 AM
He isn’t a sorcerer.
Sorcerers have innate powers. Wizards learn magic from books and shit.
But there is a magic user type that takes power from a higher being.
He’s a Warlock.
Sorcerers have innate powers. Wizards learn magic from books and shit.
But there is a magic user type that takes power from a higher being.
He’s a Warlock.
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"Prompt Thieves in the Al Art Community"
AI sloppers (is that a term?) crying that their prompts are being stolen is more beautiful than anything AI could produce
December 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
"Prompt Thieves in the Al Art Community"
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AND ANOTHER THING, WHILE I'M AT IT:
ENOUGH WITH THESE BULLSHIT CLAIMS THAT AI CAN REPLACE HUMAN TRANSLATORS!!!
Translation is *not* the science of finding the perfect definition of a word from a foreign language and putting that definition into the text.
Translators translate, of course. But!
ENOUGH WITH THESE BULLSHIT CLAIMS THAT AI CAN REPLACE HUMAN TRANSLATORS!!!
Translation is *not* the science of finding the perfect definition of a word from a foreign language and putting that definition into the text.
Translators translate, of course. But!
December 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
AND ANOTHER THING, WHILE I'M AT IT:
ENOUGH WITH THESE BULLSHIT CLAIMS THAT AI CAN REPLACE HUMAN TRANSLATORS!!!
Translation is *not* the science of finding the perfect definition of a word from a foreign language and putting that definition into the text.
Translators translate, of course. But!
ENOUGH WITH THESE BULLSHIT CLAIMS THAT AI CAN REPLACE HUMAN TRANSLATORS!!!
Translation is *not* the science of finding the perfect definition of a word from a foreign language and putting that definition into the text.
Translators translate, of course. But!
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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
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
December 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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*.
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This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
December 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I haven’t seen any AI today. That feels good, man.
December 28, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I haven’t seen any AI today. That feels good, man.
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Networking is a LinkedIn Wanker term and we shouldn’t use it
#thediscourse
#thediscourse
December 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Networking is a LinkedIn Wanker term and we shouldn’t use it
#thediscourse
#thediscourse
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This is a brilliant thread. It rips up a woefully inadequate guide to AI for teachers. In fact, the thread rips up the manual, stomps on it, and then throws it in the dumpster.
Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social.
I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI.
A few thoughts for your consideration...
I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI.
A few thoughts for your consideration...
Read about Commonsense Guardrails for Using Advanced Technology in Schools aiinstruction.org/sites/defaul...
December 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
This is a brilliant thread. It rips up a woefully inadequate guide to AI for teachers. In fact, the thread rips up the manual, stomps on it, and then throws it in the dumpster.
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