I don't know how Severus looks more like Eminem than Eminem, yet here we are.

Pro-tip: follow Trond on Mastodon too :-)

Google logo for eath day 20206

Google having a celebration of Earth day whilst building massive data centers for AI and wasting stupid amounts of eneergy and water is sick. And not in the good way.

Is it a common thing among Moby Dick alumni to get the impulse to shout "HAST SEEN THE WHITE WHALE?" at random intervals?

“Are you a member?”
“No”
“Do you want to become a member?”
“No”

Also, Vivaldi.

To which I can only say I will take full control of how I consume content by never using Inoreader again!

Well today I got an email from Inoreader with the subject "Choose your AI platform for Intelligence", encouraging me to "Take full control of how [I] consume content with Inoreader Intelligence!".

Ok cool so I tried Inoreader a while back to escape from enshittification and ensloppification and go back to reading a handful of blogs the old way.

“From Bad to Worse: Evaluating Conference Abstracts in the Age of Bullshit”

Here's a pro-tip if you're submitting talks to conferences. You don't have to state how long the talk is in the abstract. It's redundant. But if you do, get it right. Otherwise. You know. It might look bad.

The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...

"Don't be evil." => "Don't be overtly evil." => "Don't be Bond-villain evil." => "Surely we can't be that evil, is there no end to the depravity?" => "MUAHAHAHAHA"

If the industry didn't want us to grow into full-time trolls it should have been a better industry.

“Don’t be evil.”

Google motto, 2000-2018

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

It's a unique blend of envy, distrust, suspicion, contempt and fear.

Some days the task of preparing a face to meet the faces that you meet seems unreasonable, insurmountable, almost inhuman.

"The whole he can endure; at the parts he baulks." (Moby Dick)

The non-reader has a special hatred for the reader in their heart.

Docs: we recommend using pbj with sandwich in crust mode.

"In the rest of the developed world, the contest between brain and bowel was long ago resolved in favour of brain. In America the dispute still splits the nation." -- Martin Amis

The "What a week, huh? Captain, it's Wednesday" Tintin meme, but with the text "What a Wednesday, huh? Captain, it's noon".

Hjertelig takk!

Blog post: einarwh.no/blog/2026/04...

Meanwhile I'll be somewhere else, tapping into the vast reservoir of human-written texts, with no Turing game in sight.

But maybe all the AI slopheads ever read these days is slop, and so they assume that it's the same for everyone else. It's not.

HAVE YOU HEARD OF BOOKS? Do you think I'll run out of books to read before I'm dead? There are enough books in my local library to last me many lifetimes over, and I can assure you that I will read ALL OF THEM before I return to your text with a fine-grained comb. I wouldn't wait.

AI slopheads also seem to think that escape is impossible, because soon ALL TEXT WILL BE SHIT. That's not only obviously wrong, it also speaks volumes about the slopheads themselves.