mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Curator, writer, freelancer, uncle.
I write about the world wide web, and the Internet, and cyberspace, too. I curate the web as well, also.
I ❤️ personal websites, blogs, wikis, and internet oddities.
Emphatically on the left, but Democrats don't get a pass from me. It's no longer enough to be anti-*. We need systemic change.
Scone aficionado. George Costanza is a fashion icon. Communities, Not Markets. 🇵🇷
So Trump's ballroom is actually a military bunker underneath.
Why. Are. Rich. People. Building. Bunkers.
NVIDIA: Our new AI enhances game graphics!
The enhancements:
AI Is African Intelligence:
“It [Sex bot work] required a lot of creativity and fast thinking. Because if I’m talking to a man, I’m supposed to act like a woman. If I’m talking to a woman, I need to act like a man. If I’m talking to a gay person, I need to act like a gay person,” he told me at a coworking space I met him at in Nairobi. After doing this for months, he, like other data labelers, developed insomnia, PTSD, and had trouble having sex."
This is abuse.
https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/
Do y'all like Succession? Have I shared my Succession Theory of Everything?
How every character is an allegory for a specific American power structure or concept?
Okay, first. I just want to say that I love this show so damn much. I've never watched a show that begs for analysis as much as Succession. It's so well written it makes me not want to be a writer because who could ever top this show?
Okay, okay. Let me take a stab at this 😬 I can't promise it'll be as good as it is in my brain.
RE: @fromjason@mastodon.social
Yup, so looks like Rutger Bregman is an advocate-turned-corporate shill:
> Years ago, Bregman gained popularity for criticizing philanthropy as as a self-serving loophole the rich use to avoid paying taxes, but today his non-profit appears to be openly enticing wealthy philanthropists with promises of tax benefits.
I don't know who's heading up Anthropic's marketing/public relations department, but whoever it is, they know the system very well.
https://open.substack.com/pub/timschwab/p/he-built-a-brand-criticizing-billionaires
The MacBook Neo is held together by 68 screws, no glue, no adhesives.
Sounds like the right-to-repair lobby is making a huge impact(?) That, and maybe projects like Framework.
1. The Publix brand Jamaican beef patties are delicious. I mean, for a frozen food. The pastry is so flakey and it's all very flavorful.
2. The cover of The Sign of The Times by Sandra Hüller on Project Hail Mary is beautiful. I would totally listen to her cover if they release it.
3. Thunderstorm season is here. I love falling asleep to the rain.
Bluesky is microblogging for people who don't microblog, mixed with career capital-p Posters, and it's glued all together with liberalism's worst impulses.
And honestly, god bless you if this is not your experience. But I've never had fun scrolling BS. It's like a parody of liberal late-stage Twitter and Shrimp-Jesus Facebook. If they don't figure a way to make some homegrown celebrity posters soon, it's a wrap, I think. And I sincerely do not hope for that outcome because Meta benefits.
Leaving work early. Going to watch Project Hail Mary on IMAX letttssssss gooooo
Ed Zitron says the true inference cost of replacing a developer with AI is about the same as that developer's salary.
Meta acquired Moltbook, the AI agent social network that went viral because of fake posts:
"Moltbook is joining Meta Superintelligence Labs, a Meta spokesperson told us. Moltbook creators Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr will join the team as part of the acquisition. Deal terms were not disclosed."
Didn’t one of the founders already go to OpenAI? https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/meta-acquired-moltbook-the-ai-agent-social-network-that-went-viral-because-of-fake-posts/
The problem with the corporate world is everyone's reading the 48 Laws of Power before learning basic communication concepts.
Like, stop trying to amass an empire from your cubicle, Travis, and go read Bird by Bird so people can understand your emails.
Someone commented on my post on LinkedIn using the term "enterprise-grade AI" and I had such a visceral reaction like sucking a lemon.
Fostering an environment where the only tech we're allowed to criticize is the tech we immediately stop using makes us weird and territorial and guarantees we stop making objective observations. Because then it just becomes trying not to be a hypocrite.
Using Proton is still better than ad-tech email. That doesn't mean we don't call them out. It's not our job to protect them. It's their job to earn goodwill. And their rationalization was dog shit. That's on them.
You ever get the sense that Sam Altman is just a Sillicon Valley con artist who got lucky? Like, there's so many of them, one of them was bound to strike it big. He's just another Sam Bankman-Fried or an Elizabeth Holmes who knows the Y Combinator system well enough not to get caught.
CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements:
"The internal document relates to a “pilot” program CBP previously ran from 2019 to 2021, which would “aid in CBP’s targeting, vetting, analysis, and illicit network discovery processes,” it says."
Today’s fascist tools are just yesterday’s neoliberal business model under different TOS. https://www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-into-the-online-advertising-ecosystem-to-track-peoples-movements/
His name is Ben Baker. What a soggy-looking piece of shit.
Project Hail Mary was fantastic. Just a dope sci-fi with cool science and interesting characters. I loved it.
RE: @fabienmarry@mastodon.social
My new favorite thing.
Youtube ad with AI woman just straight up talking about fucking. Using the word “fucking.”
Grammarly using AI-versions of tech journalists is like when Jack released SeinfeldVision while Jerry was on vacation at the rich white guy country.
Godzilla Minus 1 was great and I might do a legitimate review later
I'm so hopeful that they can pull off a good Sinners sequel.
Either a brand new story with all new actors. Or maybe they pick up in the 90s where they left off. The former seems the most interesting.
RIP Mac Pro.
