Nick Richtsmeier
@nickrichtsmeier.com
The subtext is the text.
Former religion guy. Former finance guy. Former C-suite guy. Current and always lover of books, film, and paying radical attention.
Former religion guy. Former finance guy. Former C-suite guy. Current and always lover of books, film, and paying radical attention.
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Nick Richtsmeier
@nickrichtsmeier.com
· Nov 20
Make shit you love.
Well let’s call Bargatze as a one-and-done on the hosting thing.
September 15, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Well let’s call Bargatze as a one-and-done on the hosting thing.
Colbert Class. Always.
September 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Colbert Class. Always.
Reposted by Nick Richtsmeier
Funny idea, but this Emmys speech-shortening bit is a bust. Getting played off has been replaced by….getting shamed off?? Speeches deliver fun moments on these awards shows. Now everyone is just rushing through the same names.
September 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Funny idea, but this Emmys speech-shortening bit is a bust. Getting played off has been replaced by….getting shamed off?? Speeches deliver fun moments on these awards shows. Now everyone is just rushing through the same names.
Reposted by Nick Richtsmeier
said it yesterday but the people who commit this violence increasingly show us that they deeply understand how our information ecosystems process it. It appears to be part of the appeal for them. And yet the response doesn't really change. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
September 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
said it yesterday but the people who commit this violence increasingly show us that they deeply understand how our information ecosystems process it. It appears to be part of the appeal for them. And yet the response doesn't really change. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
He’s either the most sophisticated con man alive or he’s insane.
After watching Reddit's OpenAI and Anthropic communities, Sam Altman thinks social media cannot be trusted. And bots are to blame.
Sam Altman says that bots are making social media feel 'fake' | TechCrunch
After watching Reddit's OpenAI and Anthropic communities, Sam Altman thinks social media cannot be trusted. And bots are to blame.
techcrunch.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
He’s either the most sophisticated con man alive or he’s insane.
This is the most 2025 thing ever.
Facebook is trying to make 'pokes' the new streaks.
Facebook is trying to make 'pokes' happen again | TechCrunch
Facebook is trying to make 'pokes' the new streaks.
techcrunch.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
This is the most 2025 thing ever.
Reposted by Nick Richtsmeier
Given this it makes total sense to implement AI in schools K to university. Waiting for the institution-directed lawsuits from parents. Education administrators are prob feverishly drawing up waivers like one signs before bungee jumping.
News reports of deaths related to AI chatbots should be setting off alarm bells for all of us, writes Common Sense Media founder and CEO Jim Steyer. But the use of AI, including general-purpose chatbots like ChatGPT, for companionship is unacceptably risky for teens, he says.
AI Companies’ Race for Engagement Has a Body Count | TechPolicy.Press
News reports of deaths related to AI chatbots should be setting off alarm bells for all of us, writes Common Sense Media founder and CEO Jim Steyer.
buff.ly
August 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Given this it makes total sense to implement AI in schools K to university. Waiting for the institution-directed lawsuits from parents. Education administrators are prob feverishly drawing up waivers like one signs before bungee jumping.
OMG you guys. I know there’s still an election to win, but she won’t be in it? Madam “Everybody dies” is going back to wherever she came from?
Good things are possible.
Good things are possible.
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, an Iraq War combat veteran and Iowa’s first woman elected to Congress, is expected to announce next month she will not seek reelection.
https://to.pbs.org/3JEXQFB
https://to.pbs.org/3JEXQFB
Sen. Ernst of Iowa is expected to announce next month she won't run for reelection in 2026
As Senate Republicans work to maintain their majority in the chamber, Ernst is joining a wave of her peers making headaches for the party.
www.pbs.org
August 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
OMG you guys. I know there’s still an election to win, but she won’t be in it? Madam “Everybody dies” is going back to wherever she came from?
Good things are possible.
Good things are possible.
Oh thank god I’m so relieved. They fixed it. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Meta's chatbots will now be trained to not engage with teenage users on a number of sensitive topics, ranging from self-harm, disordered eating, or inappropriate romantic conversations, @mzeff.bsky.social has exclusively learned.
Meta updates chatbot rules to avoid inappropriate topics with teen users | TechCrunch
After a bombshell report on Meta allowing its AI chatbots to have sensual chats with minors, the company is updating its policies.
techcrunch.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Oh thank god I’m so relieved. They fixed it. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
I feel this. But I also find myself oddly relieved. We had a thesis that information access was the key to knowledge and wisdom.
Turns out intermediaries (like teachers and critics) and shared learning spaces where we have to test our learning and opinions against the thinking of others … matter.
Turns out intermediaries (like teachers and critics) and shared learning spaces where we have to test our learning and opinions against the thinking of others … matter.
I’ll never get over the fact that all the world information is now available to us at the click of a button and the result is that we have collectively become much, much stupider.
August 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I feel this. But I also find myself oddly relieved. We had a thesis that information access was the key to knowledge and wisdom.
Turns out intermediaries (like teachers and critics) and shared learning spaces where we have to test our learning and opinions against the thinking of others … matter.
Turns out intermediaries (like teachers and critics) and shared learning spaces where we have to test our learning and opinions against the thinking of others … matter.
I seriously can't believe that OpenAI's solution to its software facilitating suicide is to instead... have it call the cops.
August 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I seriously can't believe that OpenAI's solution to its software facilitating suicide is to instead... have it call the cops.
Why don’t we bring in two kids from each city and have them compete to the death to decide while we’re at it?
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding is the perfect opportunity to pit cities against each other. Why shouldn’t we get to play a part in choosing the site of the century’s most scrutinized nuptials? And why not televise it?
Cities Should Compete for the Swift-Kelce Wedding
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding is the perfect opportunity to pit cities against each other. Why shouldn’t we get to play a part in choosing the site of the century’s most scrutinized nuptials? And why not televise it?
www.vulture.com
August 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Why don’t we bring in two kids from each city and have them compete to the death to decide while we’re at it?
You know everything you need to know about where the monoculture is by the fact that we are re-platforming this woman who literally tortured people on TV for money.
Jillian Michaels has transformed from an apolitical wellness authority to an unfiltered political commentator and a defining voice of the MAHA era. She spoke to The New York Times about her transformation.
How Did Jillian Michaels End Up Here?
America’s toughest trainer was a proud Hollywood liberal. Now, she’s become a defining voice of the MAHA era.
nyti.ms
August 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
You know everything you need to know about where the monoculture is by the fact that we are re-platforming this woman who literally tortured people on TV for money.
Somebody needs to tell Ezra Klein that he doesn’t need to make being contrarian to whatever he perceives to be the conventional wisdom his whole personality.
In Opinion | “The commentariat consensus is that GPT-5 is a dud, a disappointment, perhaps even evidence that artificial intelligence progress is running aground. Meanwhile, I’m over here filled with wonder and nerves,” the columnist Ezra Klein writes.
Opinion | How ChatGPT Surprised Me
What if we come to love and depend on the A.I.s — if we prefer them in many cases to our fellow humans?
nyti.ms
August 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Somebody needs to tell Ezra Klein that he doesn’t need to make being contrarian to whatever he perceives to be the conventional wisdom his whole personality.
If you wanted another data point in how much Ted Sarandos hates movie theaters
‘KPop Demon Hunters’ topped the box office this week, we think? We’re pretty sure. Netflix isn’t sharing its box office receipts, so this is kind of guesswork.
KPop Demon Hunters Wins the Weekend Box Office
‘KPop Demon Hunters’ topped the box office this week, we think? We’re pretty sure. Netflix isn’t sharing its box office receipts, so this is kind of guesswork.
www.vulture.com
August 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
If you wanted another data point in how much Ted Sarandos hates movie theaters
Software is digitized values.
August 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Software is digitized values.
People looking for the morally superior neo liberal choice that can “win the center” are going to be chronically disappointed.
Obama works for Netflix now.
Obama works for Netflix now.
Newsom is not likely to be my first choice for a presidential candidate (to put it mildly); if I had to pick right now I'd go with Walz or Pritzker. But there is indeed a bit before 2028 and lots of things that need to be done between now and then.
August 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
People looking for the morally superior neo liberal choice that can “win the center” are going to be chronically disappointed.
Obama works for Netflix now.
Obama works for Netflix now.
I’m not sure “for the terminally online” is the sick burn it once was. Macroculture is awash in incel language that started on 4chan, the valley girl accent made popular on TikTok is now standard media fare. Online culture is culture. Particularly as Trump decimated all other cultural engines.
*Snark feels like resistance if you are terminally online*
Newsom is the Democrat who is most adept at punching up at the current president, in no small part because he is in many ways cut the same vainglorious cloth. He knows where to punch. People are eating it up because they love a fight, and snark feels like resistance if you are terminally online.
August 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I’m not sure “for the terminally online” is the sick burn it once was. Macroculture is awash in incel language that started on 4chan, the valley girl accent made popular on TikTok is now standard media fare. Online culture is culture. Particularly as Trump decimated all other cultural engines.
The irony of a self-proclaimed "democracy defender" writing a post that is equal parts censorial and anti-intellectual while fascism rises.
Curious, my guy, what kind of democracy are you defending?
Curious, my guy, what kind of democracy are you defending?
It would be a huge step forward for Democrats and for general clarity in political writing if these terms went away. These came mostly from academic hothouses.
August 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The irony of a self-proclaimed "democracy defender" writing a post that is equal parts censorial and anti-intellectual while fascism rises.
Curious, my guy, what kind of democracy are you defending?
Curious, my guy, what kind of democracy are you defending?
A conversation I’m not seeing is how to shift parenting to prepare our kids for adulthood under techno fascism.
We’re focusing on:
- how to dissent
- how to prioritize your well-being/community over social standards
- how to recognize coersion
- the (non) ethics of digital platforms
We’re focusing on:
- how to dissent
- how to prioritize your well-being/community over social standards
- how to recognize coersion
- the (non) ethics of digital platforms
August 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A conversation I’m not seeing is how to shift parenting to prepare our kids for adulthood under techno fascism.
We’re focusing on:
- how to dissent
- how to prioritize your well-being/community over social standards
- how to recognize coersion
- the (non) ethics of digital platforms
We’re focusing on:
- how to dissent
- how to prioritize your well-being/community over social standards
- how to recognize coersion
- the (non) ethics of digital platforms
I'm happy to be in the grey fray about LLMs on a variety of topics.
But if you're talking about LLMs in healthcare - I'm out. There is no room for LLMs in healthcare. Zero. Zilch. None.
But if you're talking about LLMs in healthcare - I'm out. There is no room for LLMs in healthcare. Zero. Zilch. None.
August 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I'm happy to be in the grey fray about LLMs on a variety of topics.
But if you're talking about LLMs in healthcare - I'm out. There is no room for LLMs in healthcare. Zero. Zilch. None.
But if you're talking about LLMs in healthcare - I'm out. There is no room for LLMs in healthcare. Zero. Zilch. None.
This was just pitched on The Town, so credit where credit is due... but THE DUFFERS taking over TRANSFORMERS???
Let's make this happen.
Thanks, @mattbelloni.bsky.social for putting it into the water...
Let's make this happen.
Thanks, @mattbelloni.bsky.social for putting it into the water...
August 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This was just pitched on The Town, so credit where credit is due... but THE DUFFERS taking over TRANSFORMERS???
Let's make this happen.
Thanks, @mattbelloni.bsky.social for putting it into the water...
Let's make this happen.
Thanks, @mattbelloni.bsky.social for putting it into the water...
Hollywood is always impressed when man of a certain build can do anything beyond tripping over his own fat for laughs.
Paul Walter Hauser rose to fame playing “basement-dwelling fuckups” (his words). This summer, he’s showing off his range.
How Paul Walter Hauser Became Hollywood’s Swiss Army Knife
Paul Walter Hauser rose to fame playing “basement-dwelling fuckups” (his words). This summer, he’s showing off his range.
www.vulture.com
August 20, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Hollywood is always impressed when man of a certain build can do anything beyond tripping over his own fat for laughs.
Always love to see Sarandos pay a small price for his "no one likes going to the movies" bulshit.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Duffer Brothers Officially Move to Paramount With Exclusive Four-Year Deal
The ‘Stranger Things’ creators will create movie, TV and streaming projects for the studio, with a focus on tentpole films.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
August 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Always love to see Sarandos pay a small price for his "no one likes going to the movies" bulshit.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...