Bookmarking this so that I can return to it and quote the man verbatim when necessary. Gift link.

Good on the publisher, and what a dumb world we live in. Also, “narco terrorist” reminds me of the poli sci class I had where we spent an entire day (week?) talking about the difficulty of clearly defining terrorism. It was mostly an abstract conversation, even with a GWOT backdrop, but I feel like it was preparing me to detect nonsense from this DoD.

Flock continues to suck.

Powerful read on the need for (and absence of) hope this Advent for immigrant Christians.

If one idea from Ellul has made the most impact on me, it’s his fierce criticism of attitudes of inevitability.

Some real cathartic rage in here.

I genuinely don’t know what legal liability for generative AI products should look like, but arguing that the onus was on the kid and his family because of TOS strikes me as incredibly shitty, not to mention falling back on “look, we have a mission to benefit humanity by building AI, have you taken that into account?”

This just makes me want to dig my heels in further.

Dammit, now is not a great time to be looking for a replacement ebike. And it looks like Rad is going under, too? Ugh.

Beautiful and damning post.

Hope this isn’t a canary for Lexington’s coal mine.

This provides some helpful context, including confirming my suspicion that Twitter!Grok works differently than Base!Grok when it comes to these weird episodes.

Le sigh.

Sometimes, AI news gets so depressing that it loops back around to hilarious.

I’m glad we never started down this rabbit hole, but that’s not to claim that I’m a superior parent for not ever using YouTube Kids. As Johnson says, it’s capitalism all the way down, and all parents are stuck in scary media ecosystems in one way or another.

Very happy for Linkletter, but it’s shameful that Proctorio got away with as much nonsense as it did.

There are many terrifying things happening right now, but let’s not forget about this spectacularly dumb thing that is also, somehow, continuing.

What a terrible time we’re living in. Good for these clergy, and let us all remember that they aren’t even seeing the worst of the inhumanity currently so popular.

Appreciate the work the Kernel is doing here.

I am so very tired. So very, very tired.

Really enjoyed listening to this on my way in to campus today.

What. The. Hell.

Nick Fuentes is bad news, and I’m glad some in the GOP are recognizing that.

Adding some nihilism to my Tuesday morning, just for fun.

Good interview, and yet another thing reminding me that I need to read my copy of the book!