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dan solomon
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senior writer at Texas Monthly. wrote the YA novel The Fight For Midnight (it’s about abortion bans). i’m really a very complicated kinda guy. he/him
absolutely underrated
November 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“hello softbank i would like one trillion dollars for my ‘turn a photo of anybody into a pro wrestler’ machine please” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it i guess
November 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
exactly, it’s cute to tell the computer to make you a picture of robocop doing something funny and to show your friends what you got it to do, and then that gets boring after a little while and then you don’t need generative AI anymore
November 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
i know there are not trillions of dollars in hyping under the hood improvements and that was what dictated the rollout of all of this rather than the technology being mature enough to sell, but still, i just think about it
November 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
honestly she wondered the exact same thing when they offered her the gig but cashed the check anyway
November 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM
(now the videos are just about the existence of the company’s product, good use of resources everybody)
November 30, 2025 at 12:31 AM
larry summers told me he thought it was really funny too
November 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
solid joke
November 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
like taking the generous position that this is real and not a troll, and that this person is young and immersed in some subculture that tells him this is cool and good and he should be using this stuff, i hope that he realizes you can just appreciate music without doing any of this nonsense
November 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
oh dear
November 27, 2025 at 1:28 AM
it’s gonna be one of those things where they all jump together i think
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Reposted by dan solomon
If you are interested in whether Briles has taken responsibility for the failures under his tenure at Baylor, consider that two years ago, during the only time he's been under oath, he lied about basic things like whether he wrote his own memoir: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
The Most Puzzling Moments From Art Briles’s Testimony in the Baylor Title IX Lawsuit
The former head football coach was called to testify on Thursday—and made some surprising assertions.
www.texasmonthly.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM