I’m increasingly convinced the AI hype train is just people who don’t understand other people’s jobs being convinced AI will take them (but their own jobs will be safe). Clearly all architecture is is drawing some lines and labeling rooms, right?
December 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I’m increasingly convinced the AI hype train is just people who don’t understand other people’s jobs being convinced AI will take them (but their own jobs will be safe). Clearly all architecture is is drawing some lines and labeling rooms, right?
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Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser compares AI to 'mad cow disease' and says execs pushing it aren't very creative people
🎙️ Virgin Radio UK
🎙️ Virgin Radio UK
December 1, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser compares AI to 'mad cow disease' and says execs pushing it aren't very creative people
🎙️ Virgin Radio UK
🎙️ Virgin Radio UK
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The President has found one weird trick to finally get people to say the United States is going to be a real problem in this World Cup
November 30, 2025 at 2:06 AM
The President has found one weird trick to finally get people to say the United States is going to be a real problem in this World Cup
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Guy did nothing but post. But my god was his good at it. Luther tier.
November 30, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Guy did nothing but post. But my god was his good at it. Luther tier.
Housing theory of everything dictates that this is also tied to the death of walkable communities. The browsable bookstore depends on people popping in for a look more than the big box bookstore with row upon row of Kamala’s bio.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Housing theory of everything dictates that this is also tied to the death of walkable communities. The browsable bookstore depends on people popping in for a look more than the big box bookstore with row upon row of Kamala’s bio.
Did we not have a whole thing about illegal orders less than a week ago?
The silence from national level Democrats on the murder being committed in our name by the US military is getting more and more deafening by the minute
November 29, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Did we not have a whole thing about illegal orders less than a week ago?
Blue MAGA really needs to stop with this stuff. Afghan refugees have plenty of reasons to do something awful because of things that are out in the open.
I fucking guarantee you that the shooter was told he would have to do a favor for Donald Trump if he was granted asylum. I guarantee it
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Blue MAGA really needs to stop with this stuff. Afghan refugees have plenty of reasons to do something awful because of things that are out in the open.
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The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
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No one shld lose sight of the fact that the Guard was only in DC as part of an extended political messaging stunt. The shooter is guilty for the attacks/carnage. Donald Trump is responsible for them. This is the collateral damage of Trump abusing his powers as President.
Pirro: "These Guardsmen and all who are here to protect the District are the line that separates a civilized society from a barbaric one."
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
No one shld lose sight of the fact that the Guard was only in DC as part of an extended political messaging stunt. The shooter is guilty for the attacks/carnage. Donald Trump is responsible for them. This is the collateral damage of Trump abusing his powers as President.
Dire traffic jams + bus lane enforcement could actually be great for urbanism.
Robotaxis will tranform cities more than we yet realise: my latest for @economist.com
— The tech will get cheaper. Dire traffic jams unless cities learn to love congestion taxes
— Denser city centres (few parking lots), but also more sprawl
— Cycling gets safer
www.economist.com/finance-and...
— The tech will get cheaper. Dire traffic jams unless cities learn to love congestion taxes
— Denser city centres (few parking lots), but also more sprawl
— Cycling gets safer
www.economist.com/finance-and...
November 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Dire traffic jams + bus lane enforcement could actually be great for urbanism.
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one thing I will say, optimistically, is that as many people as there are who are absolutely addicted to losing, there are some people — some I’m not usually in agreement with — who seem to be sick of it
November 27, 2025 at 12:57 AM
one thing I will say, optimistically, is that as many people as there are who are absolutely addicted to losing, there are some people — some I’m not usually in agreement with — who seem to be sick of it
Why don’t people just join a library?
These are pretty naked -- and therefore instructive -- examples of the sorts of defenses that people offer to try and get off the hook
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Why don’t people just join a library?
Can I sneer that the utility isn’t particularly high?
scorn was an effective weapon for the monkey jpeg NFT shit because it was effectively a status good, generative AI is a tool that millions get utility out of daily and you can't sneer your way out of that.
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Can I sneer that the utility isn’t particularly high?
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big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor
The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.
www.utilitydive.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
They should really be expelled from polite society but I’m increasingly realizing that this is what polite society is and maybe also what accelerationism is?
Fuck Olivia Nuzzi. Fuck Ryan Lizza. Fuck the elite media ecosystem that enables those psychopaths.
November 27, 2025 at 1:23 AM
They should really be expelled from polite society but I’m increasingly realizing that this is what polite society is and maybe also what accelerationism is?
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“USians” is “sportsball” but for geopolitics
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
“USians” is “sportsball” but for geopolitics
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Lord, I have seen what you have done for others. I humbly ask you to do the same for me 🙏🏾 🙏🏾 🙏🏾
Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Lord, I have seen what you have done for others. I humbly ask you to do the same for me 🙏🏾 🙏🏾 🙏🏾
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If your argument involves referring to Americans as “USians” it doesn’t matter how cogent the rest of your point may be tbh
November 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
If your argument involves referring to Americans as “USians” it doesn’t matter how cogent the rest of your point may be tbh
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I don‘t think the public will become less transphobic but i do think culture war shit against such a small group is essentially a luxury good and with a bad economy they’ll stop giving a shit.
I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.
November 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I don‘t think the public will become less transphobic but i do think culture war shit against such a small group is essentially a luxury good and with a bad economy they’ll stop giving a shit.
Good thread. What about guys who were Mets for a very short time but were Real Mets?
Recently, Mark Canha and Jesse Winker.
Farther back? Having trouble thinking of any established guys, am just thinking of homegrown over-achievers like Agbayani.
Recently, Mark Canha and Jesse Winker.
Farther back? Having trouble thinking of any established guys, am just thinking of homegrown over-achievers like Agbayani.
Other guys can play for the Mets, and are never actually Mets. Like Glavine. Tom Glavine was on the Mets for 4 years, but at no point was he a Met.
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Good thread. What about guys who were Mets for a very short time but were Real Mets?
Recently, Mark Canha and Jesse Winker.
Farther back? Having trouble thinking of any established guys, am just thinking of homegrown over-achievers like Agbayani.
Recently, Mark Canha and Jesse Winker.
Farther back? Having trouble thinking of any established guys, am just thinking of homegrown over-achievers like Agbayani.
Tfw you think a guy was a solid 21ish win guy and he was a 7.2 win guy.
Troy O'Leary
LF-RF
Debut: 1993 - Retired: 2003
BOS - MON - CHC - MIL
LF-RF
Debut: 1993 - Retired: 2003
BOS - MON - CHC - MIL
Troy O'Leary at baseball-reference.com
Career stats of Troy O'Leary
baseball-reference.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Tfw you think a guy was a solid 21ish win guy and he was a 7.2 win guy.
Interesting back and forth here today: should childcare be considered a necessity? Working in the utilities space, I see this similar to energy poverty. Yes, if you have limited means you can lower the heat to 58 degrees and bundle up. But that’s also something we should seek to avoid.
Families are routinely forced to mitigate the circumstances of economic hardship, including relying on family for childcare. Acting like that’s an unrealistic expectation and choosing to fully fund every living metric to assess poverty standards instead is going to result in skewed numbers.
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Interesting back and forth here today: should childcare be considered a necessity? Working in the utilities space, I see this similar to energy poverty. Yes, if you have limited means you can lower the heat to 58 degrees and bundle up. But that’s also something we should seek to avoid.
This, plus they produce bad work.
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
This, plus they produce bad work.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
Green tech use case: extremely clear, near-free energy.
GenAI use case: rather vague, powerful search engine and analyst-level analysis?
Welp.
GenAI use case: rather vague, powerful search engine and analyst-level analysis?
Welp.
America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.
November 23, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Green tech use case: extremely clear, near-free energy.
GenAI use case: rather vague, powerful search engine and analyst-level analysis?
Welp.
GenAI use case: rather vague, powerful search engine and analyst-level analysis?
Welp.