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Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
December 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
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No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
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Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
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Movie critic: This is one of the best films of the year!
Person who has not seen the movie: Really? The trailer is bad!
Person who has not seen the movie: Really? The trailer is bad!
September 24, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Movie critic: This is one of the best films of the year!
Person who has not seen the movie: Really? The trailer is bad!
Person who has not seen the movie: Really? The trailer is bad!
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is this good
In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.
September 19, 2025 at 5:25 AM
is this good
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It was never about FREE SPEECH. It was always about the protection of HATE SPEECH.
September 17, 2025 at 11:34 PM
It was never about FREE SPEECH. It was always about the protection of HATE SPEECH.
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I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point
September 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point
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OpenAI isn’t a business, it’s the sunk cost fallacy with the brake line cut.
September 6, 2025 at 3:49 AM
OpenAI isn’t a business, it’s the sunk cost fallacy with the brake line cut.
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F is for Fuck This
Orson Welles’ Lost Movie Will Use AI to Reconstruct Missing 43 Minutes
Orson Welles’ Lost Movie Will Use AI to Reconstruct Missing 43 Minutes
Since the rise of generative artificial intelligence in 2022, the technology has mostly been plugged into parts of the production pipeline as far as its deployment in Hollywood. Think visual effects, dubbing and storyboarding. As it stands, it’s mostly thought of as a tool to streamline certain processes and cut costs.
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September 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
F is for Fuck This
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LLMs are purely statistical engines that operate on purely formal objects (character strings). We can “train” an LLM to distinguish true from false or fact from opinion or warranted from baseless just as soon as we can figure out how to reduce semantics and epistemology to syntax (which is never)
August 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
LLMs are purely statistical engines that operate on purely formal objects (character strings). We can “train” an LLM to distinguish true from false or fact from opinion or warranted from baseless just as soon as we can figure out how to reduce semantics and epistemology to syntax (which is never)
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Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
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rightwingers love to make fascist art with ai generators, ai image generation is the aesthetic of fascism
August 15, 2025 at 11:31 PM
rightwingers love to make fascist art with ai generators, ai image generation is the aesthetic of fascism
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In light of Vanity Fair's recent idiotic decision, WaPo's offering its veteran critic a buyout, the NYT's "reassigning" three arts writers critics, etc., a lot of us are talking about the public's (and thus publications') lack of interest in criticism. It's part of a larger pattern of a war...
August 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
In light of Vanity Fair's recent idiotic decision, WaPo's offering its veteran critic a buyout, the NYT's "reassigning" three arts writers critics, etc., a lot of us are talking about the public's (and thus publications') lack of interest in criticism. It's part of a larger pattern of a war...
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It's always been genocide in Palestine. Waiting until it's complete to call it that is complicity.
August 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
It's always been genocide in Palestine. Waiting until it's complete to call it that is complicity.
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Microsoft can no longer deny it’s directly enabling the oppression and genocide of Palestinians by Israel.
“According to three Unit 8200 sources, the cloud-based storage platform has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in Gaza and the West Bank.”
“According to three Unit 8200 sources, the cloud-based storage platform has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in Gaza and the West Bank.”
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Microsoft can no longer deny it’s directly enabling the oppression and genocide of Palestinians by Israel.
“According to three Unit 8200 sources, the cloud-based storage platform has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in Gaza and the West Bank.”
“According to three Unit 8200 sources, the cloud-based storage platform has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in Gaza and the West Bank.”
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Revealed: Microsoft storing Israeli intelligence trove used to attack Palestinians
The tech giant developed a customized version of its cloud platform for Israel’s Unit 8200, which is housing audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians.
www.972mag.com/microsoft-82...
The tech giant developed a customized version of its cloud platform for Israel’s Unit 8200, which is housing audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians.
www.972mag.com/microsoft-82...
Microsoft storing Israeli intelligence trove used to attack Palestinians
Microsoft developed a customized version of its cloud platform for Israel’s Unit 8200, which is housing audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians.
www.972mag.com
August 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Revealed: Microsoft storing Israeli intelligence trove used to attack Palestinians
The tech giant developed a customized version of its cloud platform for Israel’s Unit 8200, which is housing audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians.
www.972mag.com/microsoft-82...
The tech giant developed a customized version of its cloud platform for Israel’s Unit 8200, which is housing audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians.
www.972mag.com/microsoft-82...
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"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
July 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
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July 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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My latest newsletter is about why being anti-genAI is to be pro-human.
It's about why it's time to fight. Why we need to fight. And it's about the cost of failure.
whatwelost.substack.com/p/people-are...
It's about why it's time to fight. Why we need to fight. And it's about the cost of failure.
whatwelost.substack.com/p/people-are...
People Are The Point
I... uh... I think I wrote a manifesto.
whatwelost.substack.com
July 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
My latest newsletter is about why being anti-genAI is to be pro-human.
It's about why it's time to fight. Why we need to fight. And it's about the cost of failure.
whatwelost.substack.com/p/people-are...
It's about why it's time to fight. Why we need to fight. And it's about the cost of failure.
whatwelost.substack.com/p/people-are...
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it's so cool that i get framed as a radical for saying these companies lose billions of dollars and their products don't do enough to justify any of this, and Roose gets framed as a luminary. I cannot wait for this bubble to pop because I have taken such detailed notes
July 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
it's so cool that i get framed as a radical for saying these companies lose billions of dollars and their products don't do enough to justify any of this, and Roose gets framed as a luminary. I cannot wait for this bubble to pop because I have taken such detailed notes
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The percentage of tasks AI "agents" are currently failing at may spell trouble for the industry... futurism.com/ai-agents-fa...
The Percentage of Tasks AI Agents Are Currently Failing At May Spell Trouble for the Industry
The best AI Agents are currently failing about 70 percent of the tasks assigned to them, as investments are expected to drop off a cliff.
futurism.com
July 6, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The percentage of tasks AI "agents" are currently failing at may spell trouble for the industry... futurism.com/ai-agents-fa...
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Hi everyone
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
June 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Hi everyone
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
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Teach a robot to fish and soon you won't remember how to.
June 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Teach a robot to fish and soon you won't remember how to.
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To be clear, no, he can't, because he's dead and he never agreed to this. Fuck everyone involved real hard. Right in the ear.
variety.com/2025/digital...
variety.com/2025/digital...
Orson Welles Can Now Be Your AI-Generated Tour Guide
Orson Welles is back -- as a disembodied AI-generated voice in location-based storytelling app Storyrabbit.
variety.com
May 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
To be clear, no, he can't, because he's dead and he never agreed to this. Fuck everyone involved real hard. Right in the ear.
variety.com/2025/digital...
variety.com/2025/digital...
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Of course, managers who try to replace their team with AI quickly find that it is completely incapable of passing the same test, for three reasons.
One is that AI can *do tasks* but expertise is not just a string of tasks.
Two is hallucination; the tasks it does do, it doesn't do well.
One is that AI can *do tasks* but expertise is not just a string of tasks.
Two is hallucination; the tasks it does do, it doesn't do well.
May 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Of course, managers who try to replace their team with AI quickly find that it is completely incapable of passing the same test, for three reasons.
One is that AI can *do tasks* but expertise is not just a string of tasks.
Two is hallucination; the tasks it does do, it doesn't do well.
One is that AI can *do tasks* but expertise is not just a string of tasks.
Two is hallucination; the tasks it does do, it doesn't do well.