This is the White House "celebrating" the UGA women's tennis team ... by tucking them away behind a line of men that didn't do shit.
The writers of our timeline have really just said fuck it.
Every system that was regulated, either explicitly or implicitly, by the fact that they were effortful for humans (letters of recommendation, government filings, essays, or, as this paper finds, lawsuits) will break under a wave of AI.
“I used AI to combine the data from two excel lists and then send emails to people who were on one list but not another. Saved me so much time.”
My brother in academia, you just fucking discovered mail merge. Welcome to early nineties computing.
Plus, it is not like it gave you much of a choice. If you stay on the phone, this is an AI voice system which is the only way to update billing information because the website doesn't have a mechanism to do that.
Couple that with needing to yell to get various words to be recognized, uggh.
Bad AI systems are not just neutral, they are worse than nothing at all.
Was this close to canceling one of our subscriptions today due to how frustrating the "AI" phone chat system operated. Couple that with a terrible web site back end and it is a recipe for awful interactions.
I agree that too many big AI execs seem to primarily view humanity as a competing product, not as, you know, humans
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
Accepted OCT 2001, published Winter (JAN/FEB) 2002.
Sometimes it's better to be timely/lucky than good. Though If I may say so myself, this one is very good.
Daniel @mrtazz@chaos.social 2016: every line of code is immediately tech debt, the most important design paradigm is simplicity, l maintain a curated personal blog about minimalism 2026: haha I just have my stochastic labubu generate tons of code all the time, I don't even look at it. More is more. I regularly have nervous breakdowns about what it all means on all social media platforms Mar 30, 2026, 12:10 PM
Another fake AI layoff.
Snap’s management has grown revenue less than 30% in its last 3 fiscal years. Stock is down from $80 to $5 in 4 years.
That’s “fire the CEO” territory for a tech company.
Layoffs are a way to distract from managements disastrous performance.
Look, you are allowed to be a Catholic and say the pope got something wrong. But if you make a public statement like "Looks like the pope forgot a little thing called 'Just War Tradition' that says sometimes God *loves* war," then you are plainly too stupid to be in charge of wars, or anything else.
incredible that the lifelong Catholic in this specific situation is The Pope
hey everyone JD Vance thinks the pope should be careful when he (the pope) talks about Catholic theology
A classic throwback that seems particularly relevant:
ifunny.co/picture/agra...
Erica Payne, founder of @patrioticmillionaires.org: "Doing it around the edges is what got us this freak show in the WH sending out memes about him being Jesus & getting in a fight with the Pope in a country that prides itself on the separation of church and state. For heaven's sake! Enough already"
"So what do my miraculous sunglasses tell me? Many things. They inform me, in the voice of Princess Anna from “Frozen,” that my dog is a golden retriever mix (he is not) and that a tree I am looking at is probably an oak (it is not)."
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/m...
It’s hard to really explain how much hospital distances affect whether people live or die but a 10 km (~6 mi) increase in distance to the hospital increases the death rate for *everyone* in the community by ~1%, and as high as +10% per 10 km for certain conditions, and gets worse the farther it is
Trump posts meme of himself as pope.
Did everyone forget about this one?
I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.
Should have said unsurprisingly in the first post :)
Neat follow up also in the article that much smaller models aren't all that bad either and it is distinctively unclear if the frontier models are really that necessary:
aisle.com/blog/ai-cybe...
Shockingly, it turns out the Mythos announcement follows a predictable pattern as with many AI announcements:
pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/09/c...
Really love the AGI quip (A Guy Instead).
He has long been a danger to public health
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.
King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
He wasn’t wrong. He was just premature.
I'm just a boy, standing in front of the foreign policy community, asking them to stop describing Trump avoiding the single-dumbest policy option in favor of a still-very-stupid policy option as an example of the Madman Theory yielding results. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-beclow...
Okay so here’s my actual Bluesky-is-dying hypothesis:
The entire web is dying. Users aren’t going from BlueSky to another site (x/insta/threada/tiktok). Users are going to chatbots.
I know traffic to news sites has cratered (like 90%). My hunch is traffic to all the social platforms is down too.
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Arson: “At an internal all-hands meeting on Friday, NSF leaders announced that they would dissolve the agency’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences directorate based on the budget request, according to two NSF staff members who shared information anonymously in order to speak freely”
A modest proposal: Absent congressional authorization, presidential uses of force amounting to war should automatically raise the top 3 tax brackets by 50%. You know, to pay for the war.
