Would you love me if I was a computer worm?
December 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Would you love me if I was a computer worm?
I keep seeing reddit comments along the lines of "well, everyone is using AI for code, so who cares" and they just all make me want to scream.
December 22, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I keep seeing reddit comments along the lines of "well, everyone is using AI for code, so who cares" and they just all make me want to scream.
As someone who gets a lot of marketing email I keep seeing this and I'm glad that someone has done a write-up about it.
LLMs suck for a number of different ways, but I think that the marketing absorption of all machine learning techniques into the "Ai" term is one of the lesser seen impacts.
LLMs suck for a number of different ways, but I think that the marketing absorption of all machine learning techniques into the "Ai" term is one of the lesser seen impacts.
To capture funding and ride the wave of the AI bubble, a variety of institutions (commercial and otherwise) have pivoted to calling their machine learning applications "AI."
The paper I am linking below explains what's going on here. But there's also more to it than that!
The paper I am linking below explains what's going on here. But there's also more to it than that!
December 19, 2025 at 2:17 AM
As someone who gets a lot of marketing email I keep seeing this and I'm glad that someone has done a write-up about it.
LLMs suck for a number of different ways, but I think that the marketing absorption of all machine learning techniques into the "Ai" term is one of the lesser seen impacts.
LLMs suck for a number of different ways, but I think that the marketing absorption of all machine learning techniques into the "Ai" term is one of the lesser seen impacts.
I regret to inform you that there are multiple slashfics on AO3 that involve Jake from State Farm.
December 18, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I regret to inform you that there are multiple slashfics on AO3 that involve Jake from State Farm.
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I'm told that HHS has just terminated all funding agreements with the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"
Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"
December 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I'm told that HHS has just terminated all funding agreements with the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"
Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"
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Washington’s refusal to regulate AI is a corruption story. Just ask Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson.
December 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Washington’s refusal to regulate AI is a corruption story. Just ask Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson.
Yes, pipe dream was exactly like this.
pipe dream, print ad (1991) archive.org/details/vgce...
December 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Yes, pipe dream was exactly like this.
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"maybe hating AI shouldn't be your whole personality"
Well at least I still have a personality instead of letting the slop box generate one for me
Well at least I still have a personality instead of letting the slop box generate one for me
December 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"maybe hating AI shouldn't be your whole personality"
Well at least I still have a personality instead of letting the slop box generate one for me
Well at least I still have a personality instead of letting the slop box generate one for me
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If this doesn't convince you to get off Google, I'm not sure what will.
Also, help me get off Google!
Also, help me get off Google!
December 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
If this doesn't convince you to get off Google, I'm not sure what will.
Also, help me get off Google!
Also, help me get off Google!
I just finished reading Christopher Ruocchio's "Empire of Silence" and went to go look to see what the next book in the series was.
Turns out there 7 (!!) more books and the most recent and final was released last week!
Turns out there 7 (!!) more books and the most recent and final was released last week!
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I just finished reading Christopher Ruocchio's "Empire of Silence" and went to go look to see what the next book in the series was.
Turns out there 7 (!!) more books and the most recent and final was released last week!
Turns out there 7 (!!) more books and the most recent and final was released last week!
Seen at my local Barnes & Noble
November 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Seen at my local Barnes & Noble
I'm on the NYC subway for the first time in forever and there are ads for AI shit all over the place. Ugh.
November 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I'm on the NYC subway for the first time in forever and there are ads for AI shit all over the place. Ugh.
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bad photoshop feels so much more dignified now because of ai
November 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
bad photoshop feels so much more dignified now because of ai
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now that they've stopped making pennies, americans should update our sayings:
* you can't put your two cents in, you must now put your five cents in
* nickel for your thoughts?
* a nickel saved is a nickel earned
* nickels from heaven
* worth every nickel
* penny-pinchers are now nickel-misers
* you can't put your two cents in, you must now put your five cents in
* nickel for your thoughts?
* a nickel saved is a nickel earned
* nickels from heaven
* worth every nickel
* penny-pinchers are now nickel-misers
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 AM
now that they've stopped making pennies, americans should update our sayings:
* you can't put your two cents in, you must now put your five cents in
* nickel for your thoughts?
* a nickel saved is a nickel earned
* nickels from heaven
* worth every nickel
* penny-pinchers are now nickel-misers
* you can't put your two cents in, you must now put your five cents in
* nickel for your thoughts?
* a nickel saved is a nickel earned
* nickels from heaven
* worth every nickel
* penny-pinchers are now nickel-misers
Bleh.
I started to watch some Netflix show the other day and when I returned the next day to continue I realized that it had started me on the most recent season instead of one of the FOUR previous that I haven't watched.
I started to watch some Netflix show the other day and when I returned the next day to continue I realized that it had started me on the most recent season instead of one of the FOUR previous that I haven't watched.
November 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Bleh.
I started to watch some Netflix show the other day and when I returned the next day to continue I realized that it had started me on the most recent season instead of one of the FOUR previous that I haven't watched.
I started to watch some Netflix show the other day and when I returned the next day to continue I realized that it had started me on the most recent season instead of one of the FOUR previous that I haven't watched.
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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I'm not sure why I expect anything better of the NYT these days. It wasn't always this bad... was it?
As always, there are zero demands, expectations, or criticisms of the far right authoritarians. Only Democrats/The Left/Those Liberal Academics Must (Not) Do Things. No one else has agency in 🇺🇸 politics, least of all the party/people overseeing the worst Article I constitutional crisis in history.
September 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I'm not sure why I expect anything better of the NYT these days. It wasn't always this bad... was it?
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Dog behavior is eternal
September 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Dog behavior is eternal
I just was really confused reading the words "time bomb" in a Wikipedia article and thinking to myself "like a bomb that can send you back in time?" before my brain turned back on and I rejoined reality.
September 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I just was really confused reading the words "time bomb" in a Wikipedia article and thinking to myself "like a bomb that can send you back in time?" before my brain turned back on and I rejoined reality.