(Obviously Tucker doesn't have a job; it's my job to witness him)

If your job is _only_ to say opinions then when your opinions turn out to be extra wrong you cannot have that job anymore

Seriously, the fact that you can become a millionaire by saying opinions about the material world--literally claiming to predict the future--then be constantly, predictably, embarrassingly wrong as hell, then just be like Oh noes I was wrong! and go on your merry millionaire way does not make sense

Tucker Carlson Says He Is ‘Tormented’ by His Past Support for Trump

Fuck what's that word for a phenomenon adapted unto the rejection of its justification? Like, its current form is an insult to its original forming? Its very being is nullified by drift if you know what I mean? Ship of Theseus in Greek, right, and simulacra or some shit in French? Or right! Punditry

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Ability Immolation
Assimilation Imperative
Arbitraging Infinity
Advertising Immanence
Absolutism Incarnate
Amplified Incoherence
Ablative Inference
Application Infatuation
Averageness Idolatry
Apprehension Immunity
Annihilated Imagination

This article was good but we need a civilizational reset on headline writing. It is basically ad copy that lies by default, positions the product as contemptible, and doesn‘t drive engagement at all

Guy I Punched When He Took My Keys Won’t Pay for My Uber

I Decompiled the White House's New App The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

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last line: "Is any of this illegal? Probably not. Is it what you'd expect from an official government app? Probably not either."

NOR SHOULD YOU. the government should not act like a rapacious tech company capturing your data because ~*~investor storytime~*~

English is a living language, and we should welcome neologisms, as adding to the riches of the vocabulary.

But not "winningest"

The stupidity of that outcome vis a vis the current level of psychosis happening on LinkedIn is very annoying and bad for everyone in the world, except Sam Altman and maybe Peter Thiel. But that doesn't mean we won't end up somewhere cool. It just means 95% of the current AI vision is horseshit. 5/5

I think it'll do that. AI/agents will expensify/enshittify as soon as a critical mass of workers can't work without them. Then we'll cut costs and find standard ways of instructing the agents that minimize the back-and-forth. They'll almost be like some kind of "program" for the agent to follow. 4/5

"Agentic" coding is fundamentally just a yet-higher-level programming language. It may not look like that now, and I guess could reach some escape velocity and become something qualitatively different. Just as likely, it descends to earth as costs limit what's practical to work with day-to-day. 3/5

For about seventy years, since Grace Hopper started working on COBOL, computer programming has become what it is by growing more and more "high-level." My dad started out programming big timeshared machines in assembler, typing literal blocks of hexadecimal. I write python that looks like poems. 2/5

"AI really is very good at coding. Agents will write most of the code in the future."

Again, the stupidity of this hype cycle comes down to computer programming now being broadly interesting and relevant to everyone in the developed world, without a detailed understanding spreading in tandem. 1/5

It‘s true that he is always wrong but on the other hand he is also a terrible writer

'Right' and 'left' subjectivities reconverge in the precise inversion of networked media's broadcast technology (terminal irony) yielding post-discursive consensus calibrated by meta-material rather than rhetorical contest and that is why I drink

It's a neat argument because he's not leaning at all on the quality of the homily's prose or the creativity required to write it, but the intersubjective exchange it consummates.

On the bright side, I remain hopeful that most kids out there are making appropriate use of these tools by prompting them to output lists of obscure regional names for human genitals, phonetic spellings of the sounds of various types of fart, and unsparing takedowns of each others' moms

The student writes about a unifying human need, good or ill, for validation. They witness it in a small child. They reveal their own feelings by offering them as an assessment for the reader to accept, reject or sit with. The algorithm tells them to replace all that with a creepy, legalistic evasion

But really, this "improvement" computed by the llm is such hilariously worse writing. It substitutes a couple solid germanic words with $10 synonyms for no reason, enforces and leads with the passive voice, and can't even call out the sentence fragment. It also misses, and erases, the original point

It is enraging that schools pay degenerate linkedin addicts for algorithms that gaslight students into writing down their thoughts in the form of press releases. Because that would be such a good writing exercise! They could simply pass out old @theonion.com clips and get a unit or two out of it

This isn't what SCOTUS *said* (they said nothing) BUT the Court's "passivity"-deciding not to decide or say anything - helps the executive branch aggressively characterize & implement the Court's orders.

My draft paper "Passive Vices" goes into this (Law Review editors- it's looking for a home!)

The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.

SO GOOD! "the idea that my political ideology is synonymous with hating technology is confusing. Every leftist I know has a hard-on for high speed rail or mRNA vaccines. But the “left is missing out” blog positions generative AI as the only technology that matters." -- @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social

“Get in loser we’re doing cartesian dualism with a bachelors degree in math“

AI is basically looksmaxxing for The Mind instead of The Body and that’s why it sucks so hard

Floristry coach: Time to put the pedal to the metal bitches

Assistant floristry coach: Yes, and the petal to the medal!