Theodor Adobo
@minimasuburbia.bsky.social
Three robots in a trench coat acing your Turing test
This, exactly. He also seems bent on speed running Bush's fever-dream grand strategy of cascading regime change in our backyard, just with fewer resources, less effort, and zero commitment to democratic rule.
January 5, 2026 at 6:31 PM
This, exactly. He also seems bent on speed running Bush's fever-dream grand strategy of cascading regime change in our backyard, just with fewer resources, less effort, and zero commitment to democratic rule.
Freezin'
Rests his head on a pillow made of concrete
Again
Rests his head on a pillow made of concrete
Again
November 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Freezin'
Rests his head on a pillow made of concrete
Again
Rests his head on a pillow made of concrete
Again
This means you may need to downgrade your views of the entire tech industry. Which I would recommend. I'd do the same, but not sure if that elevator can go any lower.
Maybe this is unfair, but any time anyone says "compute" as a noun I downgrade my views of their analysis.
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This means you may need to downgrade your views of the entire tech industry. Which I would recommend. I'd do the same, but not sure if that elevator can go any lower.
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Who needs spotify when you've got *checks notes* 60 thousand records, 2 turntables, and 150 undergrads with nothing better to do.
It's very cool! Especially a good college radio station with a big, eclectic vinyl collection and different DJs every couple hours curating their whims, it's just the best. I'm lucky to have wxyc (UNC Chapel Hill) nearby, they have an app for easy streaming anywhere too.
October 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Who needs spotify when you've got *checks notes* 60 thousand records, 2 turntables, and 150 undergrads with nothing better to do.
Orthography dies in darkness
Washington Post editorial board: Right-wing idiots who also cannot spell.
October 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Orthography dies in darkness
If anything, I think this incentivizes deeper research, cultivation of sources, leakers - in other words, reporting over stenography.
They thought they could muzzle the Pentagon press corps by slapping conditions on access to the building, but I suspect it will backfire, as the in-person press conference/struggle sessions are the clearest channel the DoD spox get to the public.
There's a lesson here for the WH press corps.
There's a lesson here for the WH press corps.
News stories show that reporters may have left the Pentagon, but they haven't stopped working
Dozens of reporters stationed at the Pentagon walked out this week and surrendered their access badges rather than sign on to new rules imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth they said would restri...
apnews.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
If anything, I think this incentivizes deeper research, cultivation of sources, leakers - in other words, reporting over stenography.
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Some folks were worried that they'd sic thugs on the protestors or declare martial law. Instead they posted AI videos and complained.
These people have no juice. Their supporters are cowards. They are are all bark and no bite. They collapse when we push back. Remember that.
These people have no juice. Their supporters are cowards. They are are all bark and no bite. They collapse when we push back. Remember that.
October 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Some folks were worried that they'd sic thugs on the protestors or declare martial law. Instead they posted AI videos and complained.
These people have no juice. Their supporters are cowards. They are are all bark and no bite. They collapse when we push back. Remember that.
These people have no juice. Their supporters are cowards. They are are all bark and no bite. They collapse when we push back. Remember that.
Showing it would be nice, but they don't even bother to say whether it worked
Who cares if it wrote 11,000 lines of code - why can’t we see this app it supposedly built?
Also why have neither of the Anthropic spokespeople actually tried to use it to write software in this way? Is it because it doesn’t work?
Also why have neither of the Anthropic spokespeople actually tried to use it to write software in this way? Is it because it doesn’t work?
September 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Showing it would be nice, but they don't even bother to say whether it worked
I'll believe it when I see it, but worth noting that this is what *success* looks like for the AI companies. So the progression goes: build the slop bot > get everyone laid off > ?????
September 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I'll believe it when I see it, but worth noting that this is what *success* looks like for the AI companies. So the progression goes: build the slop bot > get everyone laid off > ?????
Lol. A ”growing concern” that also just happens to be core to the entire platform.
Holy shit. This is like Himmler writing the same thing.
When Rufo is publicly writing articles about how bad "racialism, anti-Semitism, and conspiracism" are on the right... you know it's bad christopherrufo.com/p/the-conser...
Also it's hilarious to write this article without mentioning Trump's role. The fish rots from the head.
Also it's hilarious to write this article without mentioning Trump's role. The fish rots from the head.
September 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Lol. A ”growing concern” that also just happens to be core to the entire platform.
The Liquid Glass UI is replaced by Dirty Water, which looks like someone smeared mud across your iPhone
What's going to be revealed at tomorrow's Apple event? Wrong answers only. Shitpost from the heart. You can do it. Make me proud!
September 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The Liquid Glass UI is replaced by Dirty Water, which looks like someone smeared mud across your iPhone
But has he paid his legal bills yet?
(AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday he’s awarding former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, announcing the honor two days after his political ally was badly injured in a traffic accident.
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September 2, 2025 at 1:58 AM
But has he paid his legal bills yet?
Slightly diminish a band: Gravel
Slightly diminish a band: Wolf Procession
Slightly diminish a band: Vampire Saturday
August 13, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Slightly diminish a band: Gravel
Roses are red
Good deeds are vaunted
Good deeds are vaunted
water left in a glass overnight tastes bad because it gets haunted
July 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Roses are red
Good deeds are vaunted
Good deeds are vaunted
My worry too. I don't see how we get out of this without some kind of lustration, truth and reconciliation, de-MAGAfication or similar, but I don't see the Dems as currently constituted having political will for any of those.
But lustration usually follows existential collapse of either the party or the polity.
Not sure how we get there from here just yet.
Not sure how we get there from here just yet.
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July 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
My worry too. I don't see how we get out of this without some kind of lustration, truth and reconciliation, de-MAGAfication or similar, but I don't see the Dems as currently constituted having political will for any of those.
👇Exactly. Jan Gross called this the privatization of state power and argued it was a defining feature of Stalinist rule.
Guys, this is a standard staple of every authoritarian regime ever
You call the Secret Police on your neighbour for listening to Radio Free Europe to stop them mowing the lawn on Sunday morning
You call the Secret Police on your neighbour for listening to Radio Free Europe to stop them mowing the lawn on Sunday morning
"gig workers call ICE on their immigrant coworkers who they view as competition" is a pretty concise summary of the 21st century, cybourgeoisie class warfare as a way to discipline labor.
sourcenm.com/2025/07/11/r...
sourcenm.com/2025/07/11/r...
July 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
👇Exactly. Jan Gross called this the privatization of state power and argued it was a defining feature of Stalinist rule.
No one tell him who funded the NCSA where he worked on Mosaic
Notable how the racism has infected and corrupted their view of other issues too. This is a preposterous and exactly backwards understanding of the relationship between the NSF, universities, and "American innovation."
July 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
No one tell him who funded the NCSA where he worked on Mosaic
Grok discovers Imipolex G
What do you think is more likely, that Musk’s Nazi robot has made new discoveries in materials science or that Musk can’t tell when he’s being told scientific-sounding gibberish?
July 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Grok discovers Imipolex G
I mean, at the age where they'd have a phone, kids are typically on Chromebooks all day, so parents can email them. That's the quick fix. It'd be much better if they weren't on Chromebooks all day, but that's a bigger conversation.
I'm very pro banning phones in schools but you do probably need some kind of tech-fix to allow parents used to being able to instantly contact to continue to do that. it's a stupid concern but stupid concerns frequently dictate policy, so.
July 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I mean, at the age where they'd have a phone, kids are typically on Chromebooks all day, so parents can email them. That's the quick fix. It'd be much better if they weren't on Chromebooks all day, but that's a bigger conversation.
We need impersonation on a mass scale, doing the most Keystone Kops shit imaginable - stuck on rooftops, locked in portapotties. Is that four ICE guys chased up a tree by a dog? Who the fuck knows…
we are at some point going to have some truly absurd allegations of impersonating a federal officer
just saw a group of masked men stuffing masked ICE agents into an unmarked car, who were saying "we're ICE we're ICE!" but the abductors shouted to the crowd "no we're ICE!" no one knew who was ICE, so no one in the crowd said anything.
June 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
We need impersonation on a mass scale, doing the most Keystone Kops shit imaginable - stuck on rooftops, locked in portapotties. Is that four ICE guys chased up a tree by a dog? Who the fuck knows…
Ah yes, that famous principle embodied in the Declaration of Independence... PLUR
(3) When Terry Moran of ABC News asked "What does [the Declaration of Independence] mean to you?" Trump responded:
"Well, it means exactly what it says. It’s a declaration—it’s a declaration of unity and love and respect, and it means a lot and it’s something very special to—to our country."
Huh?
"Well, it means exactly what it says. It’s a declaration—it’s a declaration of unity and love and respect, and it means a lot and it’s something very special to—to our country."
Huh?
No Kings: Stand Against Trump’s Un-American Birthday Bash
He claims it’s about the Army, but it’s really about him.
www.thebulwark.com
June 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Ah yes, that famous principle embodied in the Declaration of Independence... PLUR
Some snark in the replies, which I agree with, but there’s truth here, too, and not just because I’m an introvert. Especially interesting since along some axes, our communities are growing more homogenous, but maybe that doesn’t guarantee real friend opportunities…
The real reason Americans aren’t having more kids is that people are aware that each additional kid means a different groups of kids’ parents you have to build years-long superficial relationships with.
June 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Some snark in the replies, which I agree with, but there’s truth here, too, and not just because I’m an introvert. Especially interesting since along some axes, our communities are growing more homogenous, but maybe that doesn’t guarantee real friend opportunities…
A commitment to . . . science funding?
Contra Ro Khanna, I don't think the Democrats should offer amnesty to putschists and mass murderers in exchange for short-term political advantage www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
June 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A commitment to . . . science funding?
And that points up the real existential risk of AI: not a superintelligence devouring us for paperclips, but Clippy with access to the nuclear codes
New: A DOGE staffer developed an AI tool to review Veterans Affairs contracts.
But there was a slight hitch.
It hallucinated the size of those deals.
For example, it concluded that more than a thousand contracts were each worth $34M, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.
But there was a slight hitch.
It hallucinated the size of those deals.
For example, it concluded that more than a thousand contracts were each worth $34M, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.
DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts
We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...
www.propublica.org
June 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
And that points up the real existential risk of AI: not a superintelligence devouring us for paperclips, but Clippy with access to the nuclear codes
Absolutely. I also can't help but wonder how his family feels about him. Fodder for a future "Chud Elegy"...
My sense that JD Vance secretly hates his family grows every time he opens his mouth.
“Social solidarity is destroyed when you have too much migration too quickly,” JD Vance tells our columnist Ross Douthat in this episode of “Interesting Times.” “That’s not because I hate the migrants or I’m motivated by grievance. That’s because I’m trying to preserve something in my own country.”
May 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Absolutely. I also can't help but wonder how his family feels about him. Fodder for a future "Chud Elegy"...