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If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
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December 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
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I was an editor at Eater until my boss told me we were being sold to Vox so I quit and I made the right call lmao
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
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December 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I was an editor at Eater until my boss told me we were being sold to Vox so I quit and I made the right call lmao
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I thought of a couple C- jokes for this but the overwhelming feeling is just how sad some peoples lives are. We live in a world full of wonders and amazing experiences and this is all some people have, this is what they think life is. They have a profound emptiness.
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December 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I thought of a couple C- jokes for this but the overwhelming feeling is just how sad some peoples lives are. We live in a world full of wonders and amazing experiences and this is all some people have, this is what they think life is. They have a profound emptiness.
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"please someone get AI to do this" is the most pathetic fuckin sentence i have ever read. take a good look at how far the AI revolution has taken us. from "could someone please record this ten second bit and lay it over existing moon landing footage" all the way to "please SOMEONE get AI to do this"
December 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"please someone get AI to do this" is the most pathetic fuckin sentence i have ever read. take a good look at how far the AI revolution has taken us. from "could someone please record this ten second bit and lay it over existing moon landing footage" all the way to "please SOMEONE get AI to do this"
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Conflating machine learning tools with GenAI and LLMs are such a favorite of these bad faith arguments, too. Like, machines studying X-rays to better understand cancer is not the same thing as Open AI swallowing all my books via piracy to regurgitate sentences that sound similar. It's just not.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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I promise there is no situation on this earth where you will ever, ever need to know what bill maher thinks
October 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I promise there is no situation on this earth where you will ever, ever need to know what bill maher thinks
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Developing a strategy to outwit the other Pokemon trainers in Z-A that I call "having six Pokemon"
October 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Developing a strategy to outwit the other Pokemon trainers in Z-A that I call "having six Pokemon"
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Or position 3: Fuck off with your bad faith arguments meant to make yourself feel better
There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.
Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.
Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.
October 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Or position 3: Fuck off with your bad faith arguments meant to make yourself feel better
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October 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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September 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
August 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
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there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort.
It aired in 1990.
It aired in 1990.
August 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort.
It aired in 1990.
It aired in 1990.
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RSS is the *real internet*
It's what really enables podcasts to exist, not Spotify.
It's what really enables podcasts to exist, not Spotify.
Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.
Here’s how to use RSS.
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Here’s how to use RSS.
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Curate your own newspaper with RSS
Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read
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July 31, 2025 at 9:55 PM
RSS is the *real internet*
It's what really enables podcasts to exist, not Spotify.
It's what really enables podcasts to exist, not Spotify.
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this is another great demonstration of how AI generators have zero intelligence or understanding of the prompts they're asked to generate
The fucking head of fucking XBox Graphics used a fucking "AI" slop image to hire new engineers but couldn't tell that the fucking screen on the fucking monitor is facing backwards.
July 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
this is another great demonstration of how AI generators have zero intelligence or understanding of the prompts they're asked to generate
Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.
July 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.
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You might be surprised to learn that this game has been getting trashed on YouTube by people saying things like, "bUt wHaT aBoUt WhItE fArMeRs iN SoUtH aFrIcA?!"
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June 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
You might be surprised to learn that this game has been getting trashed on YouTube by people saying things like, "bUt wHaT aBoUt WhItE fArMeRs iN SoUtH aFrIcA?!"
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Newsletter: There is nothing inevitable about artificial intelligence, outside of the media's continued deference to the power. For a better tech industry - and a better world - the media must become more accountable, more sincere, and fight for the truth for the public.
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June 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Newsletter: There is nothing inevitable about artificial intelligence, outside of the media's continued deference to the power. For a better tech industry - and a better world - the media must become more accountable, more sincere, and fight for the truth for the public.
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www.wheresyoured.at/sic/
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in the last week, every one of these pop-culture accounts have been like "hey, i recognize all this shit from Andor" and I got to say that I don't mind that at all
"Fascism doesn't just take down the oppressed, it doesn't just come for the people it's trying to control; it inevitably destroys the people who have worked the hardest to build it"
— #Andor creator Tony Gilroy
— #Andor creator Tony Gilroy
June 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
in the last week, every one of these pop-culture accounts have been like "hey, i recognize all this shit from Andor" and I got to say that I don't mind that at all
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I know I keep posting about/bouncing off of these points but y'all, LLMs, LRMs, whatever dumb acronym the technofeudalists are using are literally designed to do this. And I don't mean in the "insidious companies trying to manipulate us way" (real as that is). It's literally how the algo works.
“‘You think you are talking to an objective confidant or guide, but actually what you are looking into is some kind of distorted mirror — that mirrors back to your own beliefs,’ said Matthew Nour, a psychiatrist and researcher in neuroscience and AI at Oxford university.”
The problem of AI chatbots telling people what they want to hear
OpenAI, DeepMind and Anthropic tackle the growing issue of models producing responses that are too sycophantic
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June 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I know I keep posting about/bouncing off of these points but y'all, LLMs, LRMs, whatever dumb acronym the technofeudalists are using are literally designed to do this. And I don't mean in the "insidious companies trying to manipulate us way" (real as that is). It's literally how the algo works.
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AI is a parasite that is built on *stealing* (aka "training on") the scholarship of professors. The idea that it might have an enlarged role in higher education is terrifying.
“‘Our vision is that, over time, A.I. would become part of the core infrastructure of higher education,’ Leah Belsky, OpenAI’s vice president of education, said in an interview.” 🫠
Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.
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June 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
AI is a parasite that is built on *stealing* (aka "training on") the scholarship of professors. The idea that it might have an enlarged role in higher education is terrifying.
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My favorite part of SGF was when the Splitgate dude said he wanted to "Make FPS Great Again" and then announced a battle royale mode with Imagine Dragons playing.
June 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
My favorite part of SGF was when the Splitgate dude said he wanted to "Make FPS Great Again" and then announced a battle royale mode with Imagine Dragons playing.