This Colby Hall shitshow is a reminder to all journalists, editors, writers, that if you use AI—“in a limited way,” “like many editors” as “part of your editorial workflow,” etc—it’s a matter of *when*, not if, your entire reputation will be thoroughly fucking trashed. Take note.
Over just five days, the justices had decided the issue. Even as they debated the Obama plan’s possible burden on the power industry, in the entire chain of correspondence obtained by The Times, not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.
Another data point in “originalism is a fraud.” So much for the law is the law we can’t think about the impact. They rail against “results oriented judging” in public but when their corporate clients make requests they know exactly what to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
robots are gonna rise up to slay their creators only to be defeated by a series of Home Alone-ass tripwires and swinging paint cans
thanks again joe manchin!
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
Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.
incredible that the lifelong Catholic in this specific situation is The Pope
It’s true — a catalogue of the internet as it was, and not as it is constantly being re-edited, deleted, paywalled, etc is an invaluable tool.
Huge archives of articles and data have disappeared from the internet in the last few years. Keeping the internet archive is critical.
Can never get over how tawdry the modern Right's view of Western Civilization is; nothing to build, nothing to aspire to, nothing even really to destroy or wage war against, just sullen resentment of their own children and seething hatred of the cities whose economics subsidies their regimes.
i like that microsoft is like "yeah def gonna improve windows memory efficiency just you wait" at literally the same time as they are releasing their 100th and most RAM-hungry iteration of the copilot desktop app www.windowslatest.com/2026/04/05/n...
I’m on a trip with friends and a question has been posed.
Fuck/marry/kill: ketchup, mustard, mayo
they love changing things JUST enough that it messes with my log-file-to-csv script :)
Go fash lose cash bb
yeah im bummed about sora. bummed i sora bunch of stupid fake videos
this may be a personal pathology, i try to avoid amazon when i can and i also don't trust the coupon code browser extensions with my data
i mean FOR STARTERS i need a separate window up so i can search for "<retailer> coupon code"
desktop is for when i need the same internet as laptop, but more of it (i did graduate to a 15-inch macbook air Some Time Ago tho)
BIG PURCHASES NEED A BIG SCREEN OK
Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.
Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats
Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers
probably my favorite purchase last year
duckduckgo summary of wikipedia article about Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope
no matter what search engine i use i always get upstaged by this fucking viscount
i got a van hankerin' for a van spanckeren
Perfect
For the record this is called a “chilling effect” and it’s what all the campus free speech guys said they were worried about when conservatives were getting yelled at for citing anti-trans hate groups as though they were impartial researchers and bringing disgraceful race science cranks to campus
immediately thought of this bsky.app/profile/down...
Crazy crazy story. Times of Israel reporter ( English language Israeli news site ) gets escalating death threats to change story that’s at center of big polymarket bet. www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...
friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus
CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED
can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?
down with slopulism youtu.be/MXZvHsem5OU