If you outsource your thinking--your mind itself--to a tech platform, the people who control that platform can slowly degrade its functionality while squeezing you for more and more revenue, like a juicy little money orange, the playbook they've run everywhere since the latter half of the 2010s.
January 31, 2026 at 1:23 PM
If you outsource your thinking--your mind itself--to a tech platform, the people who control that platform can slowly degrade its functionality while squeezing you for more and more revenue, like a juicy little money orange, the playbook they've run everywhere since the latter half of the 2010s.
In other news, water remains wet.
You can’t outsource thinking and reasoning and believe that it’s going to improve acquisition and understanding of information.
You can’t outsource thinking and reasoning and believe that it’s going to improve acquisition and understanding of information.
“We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.”
Props to Anthropic for studying the effects of their creation and reporting results that are not probably what they wished for
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
Props to Anthropic for studying the effects of their creation and reporting results that are not probably what they wished for
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com
January 31, 2026 at 1:08 PM
In other news, water remains wet.
You can’t outsource thinking and reasoning and believe that it’s going to improve acquisition and understanding of information.
You can’t outsource thinking and reasoning and believe that it’s going to improve acquisition and understanding of information.
Yes! Generalising, in my career I've learnt much more from things going wrong than going right. You outsource that, you lose almost everything, including the space for insight and invention.
January 31, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Yes! Generalising, in my career I've learnt much more from things going wrong than going right. You outsource that, you lose almost everything, including the space for insight and invention.
Hence the constant desire to outsource the governments aims to the private sector through regulation, rather than taxation, in a costly and inefficient way that ultimately makes us poorer. The only major tax the government did raise was just a frankly craven way of...
January 31, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Hence the constant desire to outsource the governments aims to the private sector through regulation, rather than taxation, in a costly and inefficient way that ultimately makes us poorer. The only major tax the government did raise was just a frankly craven way of...
When you take inspiration from a source and shamelessly rip it off to make a new thing in your game, then you are a living part of the most noble and necessary act of the human condition: the perpetuation and advancement of culture itself.
If you outsource to AI, you help commit cultural suicide.
If you outsource to AI, you help commit cultural suicide.
Okay, so, this is gonna be a bit different from my usual thread, but I think y'all may still appreciate it. Writers, worldbuilding folks, GMs, please drop whatever tips or advice you think is gonna be great for others like you.
Players? C'mere, I've got a tip for you-
#TTRPG
Players? C'mere, I've got a tip for you-
#TTRPG
January 31, 2026 at 12:19 PM
When you take inspiration from a source and shamelessly rip it off to make a new thing in your game, then you are a living part of the most noble and necessary act of the human condition: the perpetuation and advancement of culture itself.
If you outsource to AI, you help commit cultural suicide.
If you outsource to AI, you help commit cultural suicide.
If the BBC are happy to outsource their political shows to entertainment outfits like Mentorn, they need to be better at regulating them.
January 31, 2026 at 12:13 PM
If the BBC are happy to outsource their political shows to entertainment outfits like Mentorn, they need to be better at regulating them.
At that point, truth becomes optional. You don’t have to like your enemy, and you don’t have to be neutral. But you never outsource your conscience to someone else just because they are useful. 2/3
January 31, 2026 at 12:10 PM
At that point, truth becomes optional. You don’t have to like your enemy, and you don’t have to be neutral. But you never outsource your conscience to someone else just because they are useful. 2/3
No "creative" angles to hide the thinning BaldingAI keeps the process clinical and organized. By using BaldingAI, you outsource the "worry" to the app. Check in once a month. Follow the prompts. Store the photos. Close the app and live your life.
January 31, 2026 at 11:30 AM
No "creative" angles to hide the thinning BaldingAI keeps the process clinical and organized. By using BaldingAI, you outsource the "worry" to the app. Check in once a month. Follow the prompts. Store the photos. Close the app and live your life.
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You can't outsource everything, but you can outsource web hosting-related tech support.
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You can't outsource everything, but you can outsource web hosting-related tech support.
Here's what I mean 👇🏻
shubhamdavey.com/wpx-review/
January 31, 2026 at 11:30 AM
You need a better web hosting solution than you know.
You can't outsource everything, but you can outsource web hosting-related tech support.
Here's what I mean 👇🏻
shubhamdavey.com/wpx-review/
You can't outsource everything, but you can outsource web hosting-related tech support.
Here's what I mean 👇🏻
shubhamdavey.com/wpx-review/
My thoughts exactly.
For now, they outsource by sending them to unsafe countries and “prisons.” Not that ours is safe 😞
For now, they outsource by sending them to unsafe countries and “prisons.” Not that ours is safe 😞
January 31, 2026 at 11:15 AM
My thoughts exactly.
For now, they outsource by sending them to unsafe countries and “prisons.” Not that ours is safe 😞
For now, they outsource by sending them to unsafe countries and “prisons.” Not that ours is safe 😞
You have to outsource adrenaline and having your fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses triggered through the safe environment of media, and your general life is safe as fuck compared to ours.
We have to outsource feeling safe in media bc our real life is a constant stress test on our sanity.
We have to outsource feeling safe in media bc our real life is a constant stress test on our sanity.
January 31, 2026 at 10:43 AM
You have to outsource adrenaline and having your fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses triggered through the safe environment of media, and your general life is safe as fuck compared to ours.
We have to outsource feeling safe in media bc our real life is a constant stress test on our sanity.
We have to outsource feeling safe in media bc our real life is a constant stress test on our sanity.
watched it again last year and it still holds up as uniquely entertaining. plus I recognized a lot of music video scenes that were simply shadow-animated by famed japanese outsource studio, TMS Entertainment
January 31, 2026 at 9:45 AM
watched it again last year and it still holds up as uniquely entertaining. plus I recognized a lot of music video scenes that were simply shadow-animated by famed japanese outsource studio, TMS Entertainment
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"Our core claim is simple: writing is thinking.
If we externalise it, we risk hollowing out a craft that once bound inquiry, responsibility, and credit together."
What we lose when we outsource scientific writing - LSE Impact […]
If we externalise it, we risk hollowing out a craft that once bound inquiry, responsibility, and credit together."
What we lose when we outsource scientific writing - LSE Impact […]
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mastodon.nu
January 31, 2026 at 7:42 AM
"Our core claim is simple: writing is thinking.
If we externalise it, we risk hollowing out a craft that once bound inquiry, responsibility, and credit together."
What we lose when we outsource scientific writing - LSE Impact […]
If we externalise it, we risk hollowing out a craft that once bound inquiry, responsibility, and credit together."
What we lose when we outsource scientific writing - LSE Impact […]
Hm. Maybe they outsource it?
January 31, 2026 at 6:25 AM
Hm. Maybe they outsource it?
It's really funny too considering in DB2 they outsource reclaiming the Garten to ASO when, if the game is to be believed, Kasim could have done that in one night while he slept 😒
January 31, 2026 at 5:48 AM
It's really funny too considering in DB2 they outsource reclaiming the Garten to ASO when, if the game is to be believed, Kasim could have done that in one night while he slept 😒
If you think things are bad now just wait. We do have outrageous debt & we need serious adults to deal with it but when the govt. can’t outsource its debt it has to make severe cuts OR just print money and WE have to deal with rampant inflation, 1929 or Venezuela. You decide!
January 31, 2026 at 5:35 AM
If you think things are bad now just wait. We do have outrageous debt & we need serious adults to deal with it but when the govt. can’t outsource its debt it has to make severe cuts OR just print money and WE have to deal with rampant inflation, 1929 or Venezuela. You decide!
Boogiepop Phantom #06
SB: Takashi Watanabe 渡部高志 x Tetsuya Endou えんどうてつや
ED: Mitsutaka Noshitani 熨斗谷充孝
AD: Hiro Asano 浅野ヒロ
Outsource: Magic Bus
~203 cuts
SB: Takashi Watanabe 渡部高志 x Tetsuya Endou えんどうてつや
ED: Mitsutaka Noshitani 熨斗谷充孝
AD: Hiro Asano 浅野ヒロ
Outsource: Magic Bus
~203 cuts
January 31, 2026 at 5:05 AM
Boogiepop Phantom #06
SB: Takashi Watanabe 渡部高志 x Tetsuya Endou えんどうてつや
ED: Mitsutaka Noshitani 熨斗谷充孝
AD: Hiro Asano 浅野ヒロ
Outsource: Magic Bus
~203 cuts
SB: Takashi Watanabe 渡部高志 x Tetsuya Endou えんどうてつや
ED: Mitsutaka Noshitani 熨斗谷充孝
AD: Hiro Asano 浅野ヒロ
Outsource: Magic Bus
~203 cuts
Boogiepop Phantom #05
SB/ED: Kenji Yasuda 安田賢司
AD: Kazuya Miura 三浦和也
Outsource: SHAFT
~233 cuts
SB/ED: Kenji Yasuda 安田賢司
AD: Kazuya Miura 三浦和也
Outsource: SHAFT
~233 cuts
January 31, 2026 at 5:03 AM
Boogiepop Phantom #05
SB/ED: Kenji Yasuda 安田賢司
AD: Kazuya Miura 三浦和也
Outsource: SHAFT
~233 cuts
SB/ED: Kenji Yasuda 安田賢司
AD: Kazuya Miura 三浦和也
Outsource: SHAFT
~233 cuts
Boogiepop Phantom #04
SB/ED: Jouhei Matsuura 松浦錠平
AD: Takaaki Fukuyo 福世孝明 x Yuuichirou Miyake 三宅雄一郎
Outsource: Triangle Staff
~254 cuts
SB/ED: Jouhei Matsuura 松浦錠平
AD: Takaaki Fukuyo 福世孝明 x Yuuichirou Miyake 三宅雄一郎
Outsource: Triangle Staff
~254 cuts
January 31, 2026 at 5:03 AM
Boogiepop Phantom #04
SB/ED: Jouhei Matsuura 松浦錠平
AD: Takaaki Fukuyo 福世孝明 x Yuuichirou Miyake 三宅雄一郎
Outsource: Triangle Staff
~254 cuts
SB/ED: Jouhei Matsuura 松浦錠平
AD: Takaaki Fukuyo 福世孝明 x Yuuichirou Miyake 三宅雄一郎
Outsource: Triangle Staff
~254 cuts
Boogiepop Phantom #03
SB/ED: Masahiko Murata 村田雅彦
AD: Masahiro Sekiguchi 関口雅浩
Outsource: Triangle Staff
~268 cuts
SB/ED: Masahiko Murata 村田雅彦
AD: Masahiro Sekiguchi 関口雅浩
Outsource: Triangle Staff
~268 cuts
January 31, 2026 at 5:02 AM
Boogiepop Phantom #03
SB/ED: Masahiko Murata 村田雅彦
AD: Masahiro Sekiguchi 関口雅浩
Outsource: Triangle Staff
~268 cuts
SB/ED: Masahiko Murata 村田雅彦
AD: Masahiro Sekiguchi 関口雅浩
Outsource: Triangle Staff
~268 cuts
Boogiepop Phantom #02
SB: Kenji Yasuda 安田賢司
ED: Mitsuhiro Yoneda 米田光宏
AD: Jou Tanaka 田中穣
Outsource: SHAFT
~300 cuts
SB: Kenji Yasuda 安田賢司
ED: Mitsuhiro Yoneda 米田光宏
AD: Jou Tanaka 田中穣
Outsource: SHAFT
~300 cuts
January 31, 2026 at 5:02 AM
Boogiepop Phantom #02
SB: Kenji Yasuda 安田賢司
ED: Mitsuhiro Yoneda 米田光宏
AD: Jou Tanaka 田中穣
Outsource: SHAFT
~300 cuts
SB: Kenji Yasuda 安田賢司
ED: Mitsuhiro Yoneda 米田光宏
AD: Jou Tanaka 田中穣
Outsource: SHAFT
~300 cuts
Boogiepop Phantom (MADHOUSE)
Director/SB check: Takashi Watanabe 渡部高志
Assistant director: Kenji Yasuda 安田賢司
#01
SB: Takashi Watanabe 渡部高志 x Kenji Yasuda 安田賢司
ED: Kenji Yasuda 安田賢司
AD: Shigeyuki Suga 須賀重行
LO correction: Takamitsu Kondou 近藤高光 x Takaaki Fukuyo 福世孝明
Outsource: Triangle Staff
~250 cuts
Director/SB check: Takashi Watanabe 渡部高志
Assistant director: Kenji Yasuda 安田賢司
#01
SB: Takashi Watanabe 渡部高志 x Kenji Yasuda 安田賢司
ED: Kenji Yasuda 安田賢司
AD: Shigeyuki Suga 須賀重行
LO correction: Takamitsu Kondou 近藤高光 x Takaaki Fukuyo 福世孝明
Outsource: Triangle Staff
~250 cuts
January 31, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Boogiepop Phantom (MADHOUSE)
Director/SB check: Takashi Watanabe 渡部高志
Assistant director: Kenji Yasuda 安田賢司
#01
SB: Takashi Watanabe 渡部高志 x Kenji Yasuda 安田賢司
ED: Kenji Yasuda 安田賢司
AD: Shigeyuki Suga 須賀重行
LO correction: Takamitsu Kondou 近藤高光 x Takaaki Fukuyo 福世孝明
Outsource: Triangle Staff
~250 cuts
Director/SB check: Takashi Watanabe 渡部高志
Assistant director: Kenji Yasuda 安田賢司
#01
SB: Takashi Watanabe 渡部高志 x Kenji Yasuda 安田賢司
ED: Kenji Yasuda 安田賢司
AD: Shigeyuki Suga 須賀重行
LO correction: Takamitsu Kondou 近藤高光 x Takaaki Fukuyo 福世孝明
Outsource: Triangle Staff
~250 cuts
Did they handle the port or outsource? If they outsourced, might have been a budget thing. Lower cost to do one version, something like that. Not great, but I'd understand that.
January 31, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Did they handle the port or outsource? If they outsourced, might have been a budget thing. Lower cost to do one version, something like that. Not great, but I'd understand that.
Daddy Blue’s birthday yesterday. Learned last year he hasn’t had his fave black forest cake since the NQ-mother died. Enthusiastically told NQ-sis I’d make him one this year; was least I could after all he’s done for us &c. Now waiting for local cake shop to open to outsource production.
January 31, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Daddy Blue’s birthday yesterday. Learned last year he hasn’t had his fave black forest cake since the NQ-mother died. Enthusiastically told NQ-sis I’d make him one this year; was least I could after all he’s done for us &c. Now waiting for local cake shop to open to outsource production.