Ugh, *yes. *

And I really do sympathise with the urge to avoid being seen as extreme (imagine being percieved! by people!) but that urge leads so many clued-in folks to pose the problem of bullshit engines as a halved-loaf problem when it's a halved-baby situation, and the opposition isnt going to give anyone credit for being nice in the newspaper.

High-theta in-ethics a+ sneer

Semiotic voids.

You really nailed it here; they're human slop chefs.

Doctorow says that we have to believe people when they say that LLMs are helpful for their work. Do we also have to believe people who say that alcohol makes them better drivers?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/how-to-burst-the-ai-bubble-strike-at-its-roots/

If you place your head in the beam line, that's updating your pions

Following proton's recent development has been like seeing a friend become way too interested in gas station drugs

Look, AI will be perfect as soon as we have an algorithm to sort "truth" from "falsehood", like an oracle of some sort. They'll probably have that in GPT-5, right?

Fyre Festival as a Service

self-dodging bullet

Turkey has a big opportunity here to corner the market for non-mechanical turks

Common DragonCon W. The whole con was a lovely reprieve from the bullshit-industrial complex.

I use subscription services to get the best letters of the alphabet.

For example, I use WinnrWinnrChicknDinnr to get access to the letter W (upper AND lower case!) for only $69 a month!

No idea why they needed my SSN, but look I'm not some pleb that uses free letters.

Where are the bed sheets?

Also, where are the family photos? Framed art? Kid drawings?

Edit: Cobra Commander and the Baroness at home in a GI-Joe movie directed by Michael Bay circa 2008.

Edit2: Evil Sean Astin

Edit3: I've never seen a three-piece suit with dungarees. It's the mullet of suits: business on the top, party on the bottom.

I'm sorry, I'm being awfully mean and petty on the internet today.

They did it. They automated the fucking Vogons.

::: spoiler spoiler I don't think so, Tim. :::

Those comments are appalling. good god

Maybe its because I'm descended from hillbilly dirt farmers and so I had an unusually grounded upbringing, but I'm floored that so many educated people can be so lost in cloud cuckoo land.

It feels unreal, or maybe like an out-of-control prank. The sort of thing that drives a man to develop a curly mustache and paint melty clocks.

Part of me still refuses to believe that they're serious.

What if the Technocracy Movement fucked NASCAR

What if Nazis but the uniforms are Gildan instead of Hugo Boss

What if fascists were stopped with atomic wedgies instead of atomic bombs

This guy's all dip and no chips

It's crazy how these guys will burn billions of dollars and boil the oceans to speak to their invisible friends, when all you really need is a tea candle and 3 cc of mouse blood.

People without an imagination trying to imagine what a prosthetic imagination would look like