The anti-anti-AI labeler showing the AI Haters list that I got put on months ago.
The Overzealous Anti-AI Blockers list I got put on sometime last year.
Feeling smug that my tiny podunk account got on this list months ago without ever interacting with that guy or knowing they existed. 😎 Also feeling smug for being on two of these lists, one of which claims isn't a blocklist but for documentation purposes only.
Last night, after an hours-long public hearing, Monterey Park became the first city in California to pass an ordinance permanently banning data centers.
The city council voted unanimously to declare data centers a public nuisance, and to "prohibit all data centers within city limits."
My story:
And unless they've changed attitudes in the past 3 years, the guys running the research org or whatever it is weren't too receptive or kind to valid critiques of their software/service not working.
nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2024...
www.reddit.com/r/aiwars/com...
A post from The Glaze Project: "Happy Monday. Today we're making a few updates/announcements. First up: our nonprofit ETCH is alive on the web. etch-humanity.org ETCH: Ethical Technology and Computing for Humanity. ETCH is not another AI nonprofit. It is a nonprofit that explicitly prioritizes people over AI.
I saw someone repost Karla's post about this on my timeline, so it's a good time to remind you all that Glaze/Nightshade has been proven to be busted for several years now (arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...), so I don't have expectations for whatever this new thing is to work as advertised, either.
Akira's influence is everywhere.
SCENE: DINNER TABLE, NIGHT
WIFE: Honey, I have exciting news...!
*PREGO logo on the jar morphs into PREGGO, sauce changes to a pinkish vodka sauce*
HUSBAND: Oh, my GODDD!
*HUSBAND tears up, covers mouth with hands, then realizes...*
HUSBAND: I...is it mine...?
*Sauce jar turns into squid ink*
3 characters amidst the ruins.
Aretha illustration by former Nintendo Power artist Shuji Imai / 今井修司:
You've probably seen APA Hotels everywhere in Japan—over 900 properties with that orange-and-black logo. What you might not know: the budget chain places books in guest rooms denying the Nanjing Massacre, written by the founder himself.
buff.ly/oQHF9jj
anyway support your local indie press to learn about cool shit 15 months before it goes viral / becomes a hidden gem or whatever
Pretty frustrating that the New York Times is crediting AP with uncovering the existence of Aadam’s archive when I reported on it 15 months prior. chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...
Not saying that this wasn't a gen eh-eye fuckup at all, but usually gen eh-eye fuckups leave some kind of evidence that it was used, and I haven't seen anyone pointing that specific evidence out so far, other than blind assumptions that it was used here.
Gen eh-eye sucks, and people who use gen eh-eye suck too, but don't be lazy and share posts without looking into them just because they confirm your biases. I haven't seen any postmortem analyses (so far) saying "Oh wow, yeah this is spaghetti code, no wonder it crashed" or anything like that.
A post and quote-post from a popular Bluesky user talking about Bluesky's postmortem of their recent outage. "Some people have misunderstood this. We literally saw how Claude itself, coded by Claude, turns one API call into a DOS of thousands upon thousands of API calls done in the sloppiest fucking way possible. This postmortem shows Bluesky vibecoded a function to DOS itself, in a similarly stupid way." The quote post is another post by the same person linking to a Bluesky postmortem report. "The postmortem of the *last* big outage shows that it was because they DOS'd themselves through vibecoded slop."
I'm seeing folks share this post, and I'd like to point out (because I actually read the post they link to) that the postmortem doesn't actually say anything about the code being gen eh-eye-generated. This guy's saying "Well Bluesky devs use gen eh-eye, so therefore this must be gen eh-eye slop!"
I think everyone who was a student during this time has at least a couple fun memories of drunk/prank calling the answering machine that handled this phone line and hoping you'd get in the paper the next day (or the day after, I forget what the lead time was).
I realized while reading this that next year's going to be the 10th anniversary for a lot of deaths that made everyone think at the time that 2017 was a terrible year (which seems quaint now).
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...
Picture of Sakuragi from the Slam Dunk comic. His hair is close-cropped and red like Rodman's in the mural, and the Shohoko uniform is the same red, black, and white like the Chicago Bulls uniforms.
Close-up of Rodman's part of the mural. His red hair is practically the same shade of red as Sakuragi's. The rest of the mural is greyscale, so the red really jumps out.
Lest anyone doubt where Inoue got inspiration for Sakuragi's look from...
The back of the old Bigsby & Kruthers warehouse in downtown Chicago with a huge mural featuring Michael Jordan, Dennis Rodman, and Ryne Sandberg dressed in suits. Rodman's is missing the sleeves and his arms are folded to show off his biceps.
The same mural taken years later, with Rodman replaced by Joe Mantegna, and Ryne Sandberg's was redone into a different pose and made bigger.
Not the point of this article about public art in Chicago, but it reminded me of the famous Jordan & Rodman mural on the back of the old Bigsby & Kruthers building I'd see when I took the train into Ogilvie Station, but I don't remember Montegna replacing Rodman.
chicagoreader.com/visual-arts/...
Support the arts, support the weirdos, support the weirdos' arts.
Screenshot of Aaron's post and his reply — the first post shows his avatar and display name properly, but the reply is just a generic blank circle head, and the display name is his full Bluesky handle instead. In other words, the sites using the ATProto protocol are still busted.
Also funny: even though I know this was you, I still compared the two account handles to make sure I wasn't reading an imposter. 😆
My Notifications page, with a red "! Forbidden" bar a the top, and "No notifications yet!" in the center. Normally, there would be notifications.
Relatable.
I'm not really a fan of any kind of "made by humans" labeling as some kind of anti-AI gesture because it's just empty platitudes to begin with, but also people and companies can easily get lawyerish about the semantics — "i.e., "designed" by humans while not addressing the other production aspects.
30 years ago today, Principal Skinner purchased fast food to disguise as his own cooking at an unforgettable luncheon with Superintendent Chalmers.
#TheSimpsons episode “22 Short Films About Springfield” first aired April 14, 1996.
I don't know how the work was split up on a 3-person byline, but it's been disappointing to see one of those reporters go from doing good HK coverage during the protests to joining the "Is eh-eye/prediction markets good for weather forecasts?" shill.
Bloomberg headline: "Weather Prediction Markets Are Booming. Can They Improve Forecasts? From Kalshi and Polymarket to niche scientific platforms, traders are predicting the weather — and climate experts are debating the results."
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Lost film of French cinema pioneer retrieved from US attic.
The battered wooden trunk had been in the family for a century -- shifted from attic to barn to garage as it was handed down through the generations. No one knew a cinematic treasure was inside
u.afp.com/SEqT
Sorry, last follow-up I swear: I was looking up Village Voice and forgot they got the same fate since Street Media owns LA Weekly and VV (through subsidiaries), and Wired wrote up about it a couple years ago if you're curious to learn some more details.
www.wired.com/story/zombie...
I would too! In early-2000s college life the entertainment/dining sections were very helpful in showing things going on around town that the major papers weren't covering, and they were still very useful even post-college with a more established internet, too.
Also that's crazy (and awesome) that EBX shuts down for 10 years then comes back, I'd love to see more of the dead alt-weeklies do the same. Otherwise, it's nice to see sites like Coyote and L.A. Taco keep some of that vibe alive!
