George White
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Visited the Ruth Asawa retrospective at MoMA. Spectacular.
December 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Visited the Ruth Asawa retrospective at MoMA. Spectacular.
The Soccer Hooligan Peace Prize is a real honor, sir
December 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The Soccer Hooligan Peace Prize is a real honor, sir
Johnson's Congress will of course be remembered for their groundbreaking work on fully stocking the National Gaslight Reserve.
Mike Johnson: "We've had one of the most productive Congresses in the history of the institution."
December 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Johnson's Congress will of course be remembered for their groundbreaking work on fully stocking the National Gaslight Reserve.
How humiliating. Claiming that a near octogenarian works more than you do when every media appearance of this supposed hard worker is him catatonic in public.
VARNEY: Do you work 18 hours a day?
MIKE JOHNSON: More. More. And I have to, because President Trump works 21 hours a day.
MIKE JOHNSON: More. More. And I have to, because President Trump works 21 hours a day.
December 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
How humiliating. Claiming that a near octogenarian works more than you do when every media appearance of this supposed hard worker is him catatonic in public.
If there's a way to attack black folks, directly or indirectly, Trump will do it. Straight up racist shit all day long.
"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:01 AM
If there's a way to attack black folks, directly or indirectly, Trump will do it. Straight up racist shit all day long.
This "Weekend At Bernie's" reboot is WILD
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This "Weekend At Bernie's" reboot is WILD
Doggerel, rhyme, or verse
The question is now
For LLMs, which is worse
The question is now
For LLMs, which is worse
this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Doggerel, rhyme, or verse
The question is now
For LLMs, which is worse
The question is now
For LLMs, which is worse
@profanity.accountant how am I fucking doing here
November 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
@profanity.accountant how am I fucking doing here
That is some genuine, Grade-A American-made ahistorical fascist bullshit right there
this extremely fashy Trump cult of personality ad featuring Kristi Noem ran this morning on Fox & Friends
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
That is some genuine, Grade-A American-made ahistorical fascist bullshit right there
I have long felt that two core challenges need to be addressed:
1. Level off the top: tax the rich!
2. Raise the floor: more benefits for everyone else!
Showing that the real poverty line is much higher than the calculation suggests makes #2 a priority.
1. Level off the top: tax the rich!
2. Raise the floor: more benefits for everyone else!
Showing that the real poverty line is much higher than the calculation suggests makes #2 a priority.
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I have long felt that two core challenges need to be addressed:
1. Level off the top: tax the rich!
2. Raise the floor: more benefits for everyone else!
Showing that the real poverty line is much higher than the calculation suggests makes #2 a priority.
1. Level off the top: tax the rich!
2. Raise the floor: more benefits for everyone else!
Showing that the real poverty line is much higher than the calculation suggests makes #2 a priority.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
Trump is a monster. An absolute nightmare with zero regard for decency.
Trump: "Instead of pardons, some of my more enthusiastic staffers were already drafting the paperwork to ship Gobble and Waddle straight to the Terrorist Confinement Center in El Salvador."
November 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Trump is a monster. An absolute nightmare with zero regard for decency.
NO
(To both the question posed on the cover and to the embarrassing frame of Killer Bobby as anything but a dangerous crank who's been given access to the tools to harm millions)
(To both the question posed on the cover and to the embarrassing frame of Killer Bobby as anything but a dangerous crank who's been given access to the tools to harm millions)
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
NO
(To both the question posed on the cover and to the embarrassing frame of Killer Bobby as anything but a dangerous crank who's been given access to the tools to harm millions)
(To both the question posed on the cover and to the embarrassing frame of Killer Bobby as anything but a dangerous crank who's been given access to the tools to harm millions)
"THe Harder They Come" was a constant listen for kid me. It was in heavy rotation from the minute I learned to drop the stylus.
Rolling Stone ranked Jimmy Cliff's 'The Harder They Come' original soundtrack as one of the 500 greatest albums of all time: "This album took reggae worldwide."
Read more: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Read more: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
November 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
"THe Harder They Come" was a constant listen for kid me. It was in heavy rotation from the minute I learned to drop the stylus.
We are heading to NYC in a couple of weeks just to see the Ruth Asawa show at MoMA.
So excited, we already bought the book at the MFA, after seeing the amazing work of Rachel Ruysch and Martin Puryear.
So excited, we already bought the book at the MFA, after seeing the amazing work of Rachel Ruysch and Martin Puryear.
November 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
We are heading to NYC in a couple of weeks just to see the Ruth Asawa show at MoMA.
So excited, we already bought the book at the MFA, after seeing the amazing work of Rachel Ruysch and Martin Puryear.
So excited, we already bought the book at the MFA, after seeing the amazing work of Rachel Ruysch and Martin Puryear.
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Reposted by George White
Checking in on MechaHitler
November 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Checking in on MechaHitler
This is probably bad news for the "human in the loop" theory for checking and correcting machine behaviors and outputs.
Humans aren't guaranteed effective guardrails in human-AI collaboration because it's a SYSTEM and the parts influence each other; the human component doesn't stand alone.
Humans aren't guaranteed effective guardrails in human-AI collaboration because it's a SYSTEM and the parts influence each other; the human component doesn't stand alone.
Paper suggests users are “unaware of the extent of the AI’s influence, rendering them more susceptible to it … a mechanism wherein AI systems amplify biases, which are further internalized by humans, triggering a snowball effect where small errors in judgement escalate into much larger ones.” (2024)
How human–AI feedback loops alter human perceptual, emotional and social judgements - Nature Human Behaviour
Glickman and Sharot reveal a human–AI feedback loop, where AI amplifies subtle human biases, which are then further internalized by humans. This cycle, observed across various domains, leads to substa...
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This is probably bad news for the "human in the loop" theory for checking and correcting machine behaviors and outputs.
Humans aren't guaranteed effective guardrails in human-AI collaboration because it's a SYSTEM and the parts influence each other; the human component doesn't stand alone.
Humans aren't guaranteed effective guardrails in human-AI collaboration because it's a SYSTEM and the parts influence each other; the human component doesn't stand alone.
Trump has produced spectacular examples of utter failure, embodied, that in turn end up being new units of measure. For example, we were gifted a new unit of time, the Scaramucci.
Now we have the Halligan, the mass of a cubic meter of incompetence.
Now we have the Halligan, the mass of a cubic meter of incompetence.
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Trump has produced spectacular examples of utter failure, embodied, that in turn end up being new units of measure. For example, we were gifted a new unit of time, the Scaramucci.
Now we have the Halligan, the mass of a cubic meter of incompetence.
Now we have the Halligan, the mass of a cubic meter of incompetence.
Why would they even make this available?!
We are so cooked
We are so cooked
"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Why would they even make this available?!
We are so cooked
We are so cooked
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The first edition of Conversational Design is available as a free download. I think more people should read it before they go making every interface into chatbots.
www.mulebooks.com/conversation...
www.mulebooks.com/conversation...
Conversational Design — MULE BOOKS
The interaction design book that explains why chatbots tend to suck
www.mulebooks.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The first edition of Conversational Design is available as a free download. I think more people should read it before they go making every interface into chatbots.
www.mulebooks.com/conversation...
www.mulebooks.com/conversation...
Sadly, I will be out of town for MICE this year. Seems like I'm going to something awesome with this @alexandragallant.com reading.
Really excited to share that I will be part of the Science Comics Carousel at MICE this year on December 6th from 1-2PM. I'll be reading from my new comic, BRAINS, which is a love letter to the brain and a giant middle finger to AI and I hope to see you there! mice2025.sched.com/event/2Bdqa/...
November 17, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Sadly, I will be out of town for MICE this year. Seems like I'm going to something awesome with this @alexandragallant.com reading.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Relearning a 3D printing lesson you'd think I would have gotten by now: shitty old filament makes it very hard to get good prints.
I've got two semi-ancient reels of PLA that I'd like to use up, but it just fails.
I've got two semi-ancient reels of PLA that I'd like to use up, but it just fails.
November 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Relearning a 3D printing lesson you'd think I would have gotten by now: shitty old filament makes it very hard to get good prints.
I've got two semi-ancient reels of PLA that I'd like to use up, but it just fails.
I've got two semi-ancient reels of PLA that I'd like to use up, but it just fails.