James
@9voltdc.bsky.social
Camera enthusiast, amateur filmmaker, coffee addict.
Nampa, Idaho
http://www.youtube.com/@NineVoltDigitalCinema
Nampa, Idaho
http://www.youtube.com/@NineVoltDigitalCinema
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The AI bros (who clearly don't understand AI) in the comments are hilarious. "ask stupid questions, get stupid answers". LLMs have no concept of how intelligent a question is, and they certainly were not designed to deliberately give stupid responses if they deem your question too stupid. 1/?
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
February 14, 2026 at 7:55 PM
The AI bros (who clearly don't understand AI) in the comments are hilarious. "ask stupid questions, get stupid answers". LLMs have no concept of how intelligent a question is, and they certainly were not designed to deliberately give stupid responses if they deem your question too stupid. 1/?
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Here’s @jp2e.bsky.social pointing out the obvious: Ring’s still partnered with Axon, which is still partnered with ICE www.theverge.com/report/87932...
Ring’s Flock breakup doesn’t fix its real problem
Birds of a feather
www.theverge.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Here’s @jp2e.bsky.social pointing out the obvious: Ring’s still partnered with Axon, which is still partnered with ICE www.theverge.com/report/87932...
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I wrote this piece about the dangers of AI relationships back in Oct, and here we are.
February 14, 2026 at 3:38 PM
I wrote this piece about the dangers of AI relationships back in Oct, and here we are.
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Meanwhile, the fire suppression fund IDL relies on to fight fires is nearly empty. The IDL director said there's about $1.2 million in the wildfire suppression fund. That isn't enough to even pay for the state’s up-front contracted aircraft costs, let alone pay the bills for an entire fire season.
Starting with the '26 #idahofire season, Idaho Department of Lands will be forced to hire fewer seasonal firefighters in the Eastern Idaho Fire Protection District.
The irony: Because #idleg is cutting funding available to IDL, the state will likely have to pay someone else to fight those fires.
The irony: Because #idleg is cutting funding available to IDL, the state will likely have to pay someone else to fight those fires.
New state budget cuts could hinder Idaho’s ability to fight wildfires, increase safety risk • Idaho Capital Sun
Idaho Department of Lands director Dustin Miller said the state should be investing in and modernizing its wildfire program, not cutting.
idahocapitalsun.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Meanwhile, the fire suppression fund IDL relies on to fight fires is nearly empty. The IDL director said there's about $1.2 million in the wildfire suppression fund. That isn't enough to even pay for the state’s up-front contracted aircraft costs, let alone pay the bills for an entire fire season.
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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Why? Because corporate hacks don’t think creativity is skill. They think they can generate placeholder content instead of imaginative work. “AI” isn’t real, can’t do useful tasks, and fails any test with quantifiable objective goals. So, they make slop, and call it art. They don’t see a difference.
February 12, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Why? Because corporate hacks don’t think creativity is skill. They think they can generate placeholder content instead of imaginative work. “AI” isn’t real, can’t do useful tasks, and fails any test with quantifiable objective goals. So, they make slop, and call it art. They don’t see a difference.
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“I once believed I could help the people building A.I. get ahead of the problems it would create. This week confirmed my slow realization that OpenAI seems to have stopped asking the questions I’d joined to help answer.”
OpenAI researcher quits over ChatGPT ads, warns of "Facebook" path
Zoë Hitzig resigned on the same day OpenAI began testing ads in its chatbot.
arstechnica.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:54 PM
“I once believed I could help the people building A.I. get ahead of the problems it would create. This week confirmed my slow realization that OpenAI seems to have stopped asking the questions I’d joined to help answer.”
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Yeah it is genuinely fucking scaring me the degree to which all our cultural output about nuclear war lately seems to present it as a Struggle That Humanity Will Emerge From Stronger. We honestly cannot allow that message to propagate in our fictions, because it *will* doom us. Nuclear War is not…
Threads director Mick Jackson has expressed worry over the upcoming remake’s focus on finding “hope even in the most challenging of times.”
“That one phrase worried me,” he tells Empire. “Hope is not part of nuclear war.”
Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
“That one phrase worried me,” he tells Empire. “Hope is not part of nuclear war.”
Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
February 12, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Yeah it is genuinely fucking scaring me the degree to which all our cultural output about nuclear war lately seems to present it as a Struggle That Humanity Will Emerge From Stronger. We honestly cannot allow that message to propagate in our fictions, because it *will* doom us. Nuclear War is not…
“Search Party feature, announced in a Super Bowl commercial, gives users reason to believe it's allegedly leading to a surveillance state disguised as a lost dog search tool.”
Ring Owners Are Returning Their Cameras - Here's How Much You Can Get - BGR
Several Ring camera owners are returning their cameras to Amazon, citing a potential breach of TOS where law enforcement is using footage without permission.
www.bgr.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:12 AM
“Search Party feature, announced in a Super Bowl commercial, gives users reason to believe it's allegedly leading to a surveillance state disguised as a lost dog search tool.”
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Good News: Paulina Borsook's "Cyberselish" will be reissued by Tin House books with a new introduction by....me!
I'll post the link when it's ready for pre-orders.
Never underestimate the power of a humble BlueSky thread!
I'll post the link when it's ready for pre-orders.
Never underestimate the power of a humble BlueSky thread!
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
February 11, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Good News: Paulina Borsook's "Cyberselish" will be reissued by Tin House books with a new introduction by....me!
I'll post the link when it's ready for pre-orders.
Never underestimate the power of a humble BlueSky thread!
I'll post the link when it's ready for pre-orders.
Never underestimate the power of a humble BlueSky thread!
“How strong the aroma.
The freshly peppered nostrils
Of new capsaicin sommeliers
Panic spritzed and catching bouquets accidental
Of Authority's Signature Scent”
The freshly peppered nostrils
Of new capsaicin sommeliers
Panic spritzed and catching bouquets accidental
Of Authority's Signature Scent”
How+L (Poem for Minneapolis)
YouTube video by Janeen McCrae
youtu.be
February 11, 2026 at 3:46 PM
“How strong the aroma.
The freshly peppered nostrils
Of new capsaicin sommeliers
Panic spritzed and catching bouquets accidental
Of Authority's Signature Scent”
The freshly peppered nostrils
Of new capsaicin sommeliers
Panic spritzed and catching bouquets accidental
Of Authority's Signature Scent”
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HBD Laura Dern, daughter of actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, BOTD in 1967, turning 59 today. Her best performance is and always will be in David Lynch's "Inland Empire" (2006)
February 10, 2026 at 7:43 PM
HBD Laura Dern, daughter of actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, BOTD in 1967, turning 59 today. Her best performance is and always will be in David Lynch's "Inland Empire" (2006)
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New video is up! Finally a new photography video on my all new photography channel. In this video I take you along for a photo walk in a nearby bird preserve.
youtu.be/SuZ3CrNKP28
youtu.be/SuZ3CrNKP28
What photography and field recording have in common
YouTube video by Lilly Schwartz Photography
youtu.be
February 10, 2026 at 6:27 PM
New video is up! Finally a new photography video on my all new photography channel. In this video I take you along for a photo walk in a nearby bird preserve.
youtu.be/SuZ3CrNKP28
youtu.be/SuZ3CrNKP28
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Beauty sleep.
PhotoGrid D5
Patrick Sweeney
@photopatricksweeney
PhotoGrid D5
Patrick Sweeney
@photopatricksweeney
February 10, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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Incredible @miasato.bsky.social dive into Epstein's intense SEO and reputation cleanup operation, which waged constant war on Google Search and Wikipedia www.theverge.com/report/87608...
Jeffrey Epstein’s digital cleanup crew
“i want the google page cleaned,” Epstein wrote in 2010.
www.theverge.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Incredible @miasato.bsky.social dive into Epstein's intense SEO and reputation cleanup operation, which waged constant war on Google Search and Wikipedia www.theverge.com/report/87608...
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No. We're not doing redemption arcs.
"I think the left has it much more correct than the nationalist right,” Bundy told The Atlantic.
Ammon Bundy is fed up with federal overreach again. This time, it’s about ICE
"I think the left has it much more correct than the nationalist right,” Bundy told The Atlantic.
www.oregonlive.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:03 AM
No. We're not doing redemption arcs.
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the most indoors
Finally, a Halftime Show That Represents Real America!
Isn’t Bad Bunny an American artist? Don’t millions of people love his music? At the Turning Point USA alternative show, we forget about all that.
www.theatlantic.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:43 AM
the most indoors
Ignorant adults feed children shit tainted milk, leading to hospitalization for kidney failure.
Raw milk related outbreak leaves two children hospitalized in Ada County, product pulled from shelves
Nine Ada County and one Canyon County residents are seriously ill after consuming raw milk contaminated with E-coli. That includes two children hospitalized.
www.boisestatepublicradio.org
February 6, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Ignorant adults feed children shit tainted milk, leading to hospitalization for kidney failure.
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Published my first piece at @wired.com today, about a string of AI thrillers that have bombed (most recent being the hopelessly naive Chris Pratt vehicle 'Mercy'), the backlash to Darren Aronofsky's YouTube slop take on the American Revolution, and a grotesque nostalgia-bait Super Bowl ad:
Hollywood Is Losing Audiences to AI Fatigue
Entertainment about or made with artificial intelligence has been missing the mark with viewers over the past year.
www.wired.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Published my first piece at @wired.com today, about a string of AI thrillers that have bombed (most recent being the hopelessly naive Chris Pratt vehicle 'Mercy'), the backlash to Darren Aronofsky's YouTube slop take on the American Revolution, and a grotesque nostalgia-bait Super Bowl ad:
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worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
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Kid Rock’s song about loving underage girls resurfaces ahead of TPUSA Super Bowl show www.pennlive.com/entertainmen...
Kid Rock’s song about loving underage girls resurfaces ahead of TPUSA Super Bowl show
The song has a verse about liking girls underage and 'statutory' being 'mandatory.'
www.pennlive.com
February 4, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Kid Rock’s song about loving underage girls resurfaces ahead of TPUSA Super Bowl show www.pennlive.com/entertainmen...
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ICE officers and senior Trump administration officials have repeatedly suggested that DHS is building a "domestic terrorists" database with information on US citizens protesting ICE’s actions in recent weeks.
"Capture it all": ICE urged to explain memo about collecting info on protesters
Sen. Markey: Database of peaceful protesters, if it exists, should be shut down.
arstechnica.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:04 PM
ICE officers and senior Trump administration officials have repeatedly suggested that DHS is building a "domestic terrorists" database with information on US citizens protesting ICE’s actions in recent weeks.