“I have a responsibility… not to put garbage in the world. … If you start trying to figure out what it is that people want, you are doing what AI does. The idea of AI precedes AI itself…. It’s why they remake the same five movies every 10 years. It’s why they have a formula for what a movie is.”
Meta is logging its workers’ every keystroke to train the AI that will replace them.
Extract what workers know. Model it. Cut the workers.
This is happening because governments are letting it happen. On this. On Palantir. On facial recognition.
Inaction is still a choice. And someone is making it.
When my father felt life had dealt him an unjust blow, he would ask, “Why would this happen to a nice man like me not bothering anybody?”This is like that.
In a nutshell. 😊
Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.
Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.
Completely agree. There was nothing restrained about his behavior in Congress when Democrats asked questions. He is, in fact, one of the most arrogant members of this administration without even the hint of willingness to consider his actions.
Perfect comment.
Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The index of consumer sentiment isn't broken; models that try to predict it just don't have the right input variables. I fix that and find that, yes, high nominal price levels explain why the vibes are so off. It's the prices, stupid
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-14...
That is genuinely funny.
ICYMI I wrote about Eric Swalwell, who rose through the Democratic Party for more than a decade despite preying on women in what was considered in Washington an open secret, one that could have been closed by colleagues who endorsed him instead.
prospect.org/2026/04/12/e...
As we await the Hungarian election results, it’s worth remembering that Orban first rode to power using the same antisemitic Soros conspiracy theories that fuel MAGA. The US consultant who gave him the idea (Finkelstein) got his start selling Goldwater and then Reagan in the US.
GAME CHANGER: Montana just found the "exit ramp" to kill Citizens United. They aren't waiting for the Supreme Court—they’re going around them. 74% of voters are on board and corporate lawyers are PANICKING. This is how we win. 🏔️💸 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/army-secre...
Yes, absolutely—and preferably avoid TACO for situations in which chickening out is by far the best solution. I don’t like it generally: chickening out is a negative gesture, a foolish failure of nerve. This is not that. When Trump backs away from his worst impulses, why goad him for doing so?
Trump, and the Republicans who backed him through this latest disgrace, all spent decades pretending to believe Iranian government threats to wipe enemies off the map make Iran uniquely evil. Hope it’s clear to everyone now that they’re all the same species of scumbag.
I think an error people make is that Trump never facing consequences is not a thing that extends to the people around him. He may never pay for his actions but that aura doesn’t cover anyone else, supporter or opponent
If they can’t escape Microsoft Outlook, then there’s no hope for the rest of us.
This is astonishing, when it’s all spelled out.
The Beatles were still together the last time the Democratic presidential candidate won the majority of the white vote in America. They had not yet released Sergeant Pepper. The US had not yet landed on the moon.
samuelj.substack.com/p/the-last-d...
Too stupid?
This is right.
They are such pretty little birds.
Yes, I’m absolutely sure that democracy is currently imperiled by the lack of diverse viewpoints in academe. Or I would be so convinced if I wanted to ignore income inequality and the concerted backlash to racial and gender progress of the last 50 years.
Trump had committed 10 lifetimes worth of misdeeds before he ever declared his candidacy. There was no excuse to vote for him ever.
SF + City Lights: You’re legendary.
Sorry you’re driven crazy by the continued presence of three progressive voices.
Bernie has been important to AOC and Mamdani. That doesn’t fill either of their seats, I know. But I’m not troubled by their ages if they are still important voices in the Dem party. It isn’t as though there’s a surfeit of those.
That’s perfectly said. Yes, they are standing squarely in the way.
Poster in DC
Spotted in DC
I’m now committed to contacting any company on this list whose products I’ve purchased and letting them know I won’t be doing that again. Thanks for this work!
