Ari
@arithmetc.bsky.social
Mean to the right people and angry about the right stuff. Ex-software engineer and product designer building Desk Job Design Lab in Brooklyn as a community space for hands-on making in an increasingly synthetic world.
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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“We have been following the slow growth in revenues for generative AI over the last few years, and the revenues are neither big enough to support the number of layoffs attributed to AI, nor to justify the capital expenditures on AI cloud infrastructure”
www.fastcompany.com/91435192/cha...
www.fastcompany.com/91435192/cha...
AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is
Big spending on artificial intelligence puts pressure on jobs, as gloomy narratives about the future of work are ironically making new graduates less employable.
www.fastcompany.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
“We have been following the slow growth in revenues for generative AI over the last few years, and the revenues are neither big enough to support the number of layoffs attributed to AI, nor to justify the capital expenditures on AI cloud infrastructure”
www.fastcompany.com/91435192/cha...
www.fastcompany.com/91435192/cha...
Pretty much exactly where I thought I’d be at almost 30 years old, sitting in a workshop watching Mythbusters and waiting for my open studio guests to arrive 😊
November 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Pretty much exactly where I thought I’d be at almost 30 years old, sitting in a workshop watching Mythbusters and waiting for my open studio guests to arrive 😊
How did this story get ZERO national coverage?
November 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
How did this story get ZERO national coverage?
My therapist said he’d been reading Ed Zitron and I told him an intervention is now scheduled for the first 15 minutes of our next session (and recommended he familiarize himself with a more intellectually-curious class of AI critics like @parismarx.com and @timnitgebru.bsky.social)
November 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
My therapist said he’d been reading Ed Zitron and I told him an intervention is now scheduled for the first 15 minutes of our next session (and recommended he familiarize himself with a more intellectually-curious class of AI critics like @parismarx.com and @timnitgebru.bsky.social)
There’s a feral cat convention happening outside my workshop, they meet here literally every day around noon I swear 😂
November 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
There’s a feral cat convention happening outside my workshop, they meet here literally every day around noon I swear 😂
It’s seriously insane to have a comment section full of irony posters who can’t tell this is synthetic text, I thought ya’ll saw ChatGPT everywhere
yeah, this is either the Most Online 50-Year Old Ever or, more likely, his incredibly disgusting 22-year-old groyper assistant
November 3, 2025 at 5:17 AM
It’s seriously insane to have a comment section full of irony posters who can’t tell this is synthetic text, I thought ya’ll saw ChatGPT everywhere
This was entirely LLM generated and it’s obvious:
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(1) a list that’s too long and symmetrical
(2) sentence structure and tone that doesn’t vary at all
(3) discordant combo of meme and academic vocab (soy-faced vs torpor)
(4) zero emotional pacing: it’s angry but…weirdly smooth?
(0) emdash
(1) a list that’s too long and symmetrical
(2) sentence structure and tone that doesn’t vary at all
(3) discordant combo of meme and academic vocab (soy-faced vs torpor)
(4) zero emotional pacing: it’s angry but…weirdly smooth?
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
November 3, 2025 at 5:11 AM
This was entirely LLM generated and it’s obvious:
(0) emdash
(1) a list that’s too long and symmetrical
(2) sentence structure and tone that doesn’t vary at all
(3) discordant combo of meme and academic vocab (soy-faced vs torpor)
(4) zero emotional pacing: it’s angry but…weirdly smooth?
(0) emdash
(1) a list that’s too long and symmetrical
(2) sentence structure and tone that doesn’t vary at all
(3) discordant combo of meme and academic vocab (soy-faced vs torpor)
(4) zero emotional pacing: it’s angry but…weirdly smooth?
That’s because he used LLMs to write this.
So, I know that Roberts is pretty out there, but that doesn't read to me like it was written by a 51-year-old. It has a certain Millenial cadence to it (but I guess it still got published under his name regardless, even if he had help from a ghostwriter).
November 3, 2025 at 5:01 AM
That’s because he used LLMs to write this.
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TRUMP: And for the sharp narrow ledge around the extremely deep bathtub? What do you think we should use for that?
SLIP-AND-FALL ATTORNEY PRETENDING TO BE AN INTERIOR DESIGNER: Oh marble for sure man
SLIP-AND-FALL ATTORNEY PRETENDING TO BE AN INTERIOR DESIGNER: Oh marble for sure man
October 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
TRUMP: And for the sharp narrow ledge around the extremely deep bathtub? What do you think we should use for that?
SLIP-AND-FALL ATTORNEY PRETENDING TO BE AN INTERIOR DESIGNER: Oh marble for sure man
SLIP-AND-FALL ATTORNEY PRETENDING TO BE AN INTERIOR DESIGNER: Oh marble for sure man
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I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
October 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
If you’re in Brooklyn and want to come make stuff and watch Mythbusters, I’m hosting a craft night next Tuesday: luma.com/f9ebstd5
Office Hours: Craft Night, Mythbusters & Popcorn · Luma
Join us at the first open studio night for Desk Job Design Lab, a new creative community and prototyping space in Industry City! Bring a project you're working…
luma.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
If you’re in Brooklyn and want to come make stuff and watch Mythbusters, I’m hosting a craft night next Tuesday: luma.com/f9ebstd5
I think this VC newsletter that showed up in my inbox today sums up their attitudes pretty well. They know they are inflating a bubble!
October 22, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I think this VC newsletter that showed up in my inbox today sums up their attitudes pretty well. They know they are inflating a bubble!
Great read: Fiddling with depreciation like this is, like all financialization, a way of moving costs into the future (and profits from the future into the present).
As Luxemburg taught us, capital needs an outside to eat. It can be geographical.. or it can be temporal, eating the future.
As Luxemburg taught us, capital needs an outside to eat. It can be geographical.. or it can be temporal, eating the future.
read this post. One of the accounting fuck fuck games in AI is fiddling the depreciation. The Nvidia cards die in 12-18mo. Amazon, Meta, Google all depreciating at 4-6 *years*. This makes *huge* difference in earnings per share.
blog.dshr.org/2025/10/depr...
(the bitcoin miners also pulled this)
blog.dshr.org/2025/10/depr...
(the bitcoin miners also pulled this)
October 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Watering the demolition to try and tamp down the lead and asbestos dust because they didn’t follow the correct abatement protocol
October 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Watering the demolition to try and tamp down the lead and asbestos dust because they didn’t follow the correct abatement protocol
I hope Mamdani makes Curtis Sliwa rat czar so he can unleash his feral cat plan and do photo-ops with his 17 cats
October 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I hope Mamdani makes Curtis Sliwa rat czar so he can unleash his feral cat plan and do photo-ops with his 17 cats
Hope this precludes any future Nathan Fielder projects and we just get double the Tim Robinson but I don’t think we’ll get so lucky
Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness
October 20, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Hope this precludes any future Nathan Fielder projects and we just get double the Tim Robinson but I don’t think we’ll get so lucky
How did I miss the US President opining about going to hell
October 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
How did I miss the US President opining about going to hell
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every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
October 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world
October 9, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world
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Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got
- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford
- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford
October 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got
- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford
- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford
Think of what his information diet has looked like
September 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Think of what his information diet has looked like
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Any reason you’re not posting this fucking insane clip everywhere?
September 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Any reason you’re not posting this fucking insane clip everywhere?
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all the people doing weepy statements and performative bullshit for a dead nazi might as well just put out a press release saying “please don’t kill me”
September 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
all the people doing weepy statements and performative bullshit for a dead nazi might as well just put out a press release saying “please don’t kill me”