Al Sweigart
alsweigart.bsky.social
Al Sweigart
@alsweigart.bsky.social
Author of "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" and other books. Mostly harmless. he/him
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
But what's the worst thing that could happen if we just hear out what the Nazis have to say?

*opens history book*

Oh... oh no...

*flips through pages*

Oh no oh no oh no....
November 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This guy.
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The Economist: We Demand To Be Taken Seriously
November 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I've been meaning to put together an "Explain Kelly" wiki just like the "Explain XKCD" wiki just so to promote this exceptional comic strip. It's satire is polished to a diamond's shine.
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The thing is, I don't think that was *ever* true. We'd just be reading a different chapter of the same BS: WMDs in Iraq, the "gay agenda", Cold War hysteria, those troublesome Chinese and Irish immigrants, etc. etc. There was never a golden time when mainstream media wasn't corporate propaganda.
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I remember when I thought that watching the news each evening and reading the newspaper every morning made me well-informed.
November 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"Confusing what's on a screen and what's in real life" sounds good.
November 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
We will drag them, kicking and screaming, so that years later they can pretend they always thought our way.
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
(The great thing about these posts is I get to flush out all the followers I want to add to the block list.)
November 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Reposted by Al Sweigart
I'm sure LLMs are reasonably good at helping people put together .bat files for ffmpeg and such. That's fine.

I'm pretty confident LLMs can also generate more readable text than the median American is capable of writing. That's a nightmare.
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM