A mutual who was pretty consistently trash talking AI on LinkedIn just announced their new position at Suno. It’s rough out there folks.

Thiel appears to have suffered LLM psychosis while trying to get AI to write himself into a Dan Brown fanfic novel

Snow map for Boston showing areas of 0-1 and 1-2, but the title says "FUCKS LEFT TO GIVE THIS WINTER (through tuesday)"

Updated Totals #boston #snow

I'm not jesus, this isn't the footprints thing

In his defense, that could totally be a different guy named J.D. Vance

Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ Have it your way?

Please fuck off with this bullshit, thank you!

Cape Cod Demon Hunters

New rule should be that if you compare the energy needs of a human being to those of an algorithm to justify the latter, you get tossed in The Pit

I sincerely hope Obama said that stuff about aliens existing just to see if Trump would take the bait to avoid being one-upped on knowing stuff.

Coexist bumper sticker, but it's all tech logos (Chrome, Open AI, Edge, X, Indeed, Shazam, Tesla)

Bumper sticker for the worst kind of guy you know

And thank you to @killthecomputer.com and @junlper.beer for the fine postmortem commentary!

Bar graph depicting approximate live viewership of the half time shows (Bad Bunny's NBC Broadcast, and Kid Rock's TPUSA Youtube stream, respectively). The Bad Bunny bar graph surpasses the 100 million viewer limit of the graph and has smashed through the title of the graph, throwing letters askew while the Kid Rock bar graph doesn't quite break the Puppy Bowl viewership threshold of ~6 million viewers. In the background in faint letters, it says "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE"

The final Puppy Bowl viewership numbers are in, so I can confidently post this now:

A Kid Cuisine box, but instead it says Dad Cuisine featuring Pre-Nibbled Oat Bars, Crust Removed from Sandwich, Leftover Cereal Milk (Now with Random Floatie Bits!). The character on the box is riding a ferris wheel and saying "Dad will finish it!". Other parts of the box say "Don't let that go to waste!", "It's still good, I'll eat it.", and Room Temp - It's probably fine.

For all the dads out there.

It's because they were worried I'd make a worse version of this:

You ever have half a beer and stare into your cat's eyes to gain knowledge about the universe?

Hey Sam, it's next year now. Any of those novel insights yet?

It’s weird that you can’t sleep at your job but you can poop and pee there

You mean Posh Homme

Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.

Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

Rage Against the Machine liner notes that has an Actions page with a bunch of organizations and links for political action

If you're a musician in 2026 and not using your platform to do something, well here are some RATM liner notes from 1999

They could start with making one functional mail client instead of two versions of a dysfunctional mail client.

I’ve had some friends in the past couple years say they don’t go out to protest because they don’t think it does anything, but the people of Minnesota have given us a solid example of how important it is to exercise that right persistently during a time when that right is threatened.

James Hetfield in sunglasses angrily pointing at the 4th wall

“They are minerals, Jesus Marie!”

The woman walking up to them with the folded flag is quite an image

It's real bad. My phone is suddenly so choppy

It's wild that they'll send any hypochondriac with internet access their medical test results days before the doctor calls to explain them.