Glad to see that pure xenophobia is alive and well here in the Commonwealth

Glad a family member gifted me another year of The Onion in print, because it sure sounds like I’m going to need it to get through 2026.

Depressing read with interesting details about why Grok is bad at this.

This shooting is making me panicky, and I’m honestly trying to not read any more about it, but this is important.

Pair this with Emanuel Maiberg’s article I linked to earlier, and there’s a lot to think about.

I sometimes wonder if base Grok is less wild than integrated-with-Twitter Grok, but this is at least one way in which that’s not true.

Oof, this line:

what is clear to me from following this Telegram community for a couple of years now is that nonconsensual sexual images of real people, including minors, is the cost of doing business with AI image generators

I have largely abstained from the “AI misses the point of writing” discourse, but Cory knocks it out of the park here.

Bookmarking all these articles on Grok for rage fuel.

What a disaster.

Bel exemple du pouvoir des plateformes à déterminer « la réalité ».

Excellent writing on what’s going on over at Twitter.

Bookmarking because this is an important point.

Darkly hilarious.

So is now a bad time to need to sell a 2020 RadCity 4?

This is horrifying.

I missed the detail about Disney+ using some of the Sora output, and that makes this whole thing even more about labor exploitation.

I disagree with the copyright framing here (it’s a labor issue), but otherwise, I think this is a good take.

Involving Disney, who infamously stiffed Alan Dean Foster on Star Wars royalties, so clearly demonstrates how the underlying issue with generative AI isn’t copyright, it’s labor.

If these numbers are right, the first (“small”) installment alone could potentially be higher than the total of all my paychecks between being hired at UK and my eventual retirement—and this is just a severance pay package.

Oof, what a read.

I think this is dumb, I feel strongly that “Mormonism” is larger than LDS institutions, and I’m pleased that the EFF has weighed in on this.

ProPublica does good work, and I haven’t been reading enough of them lately.

That this article talks up (and uncritically repeats) purported advantages of surveillance and only briefly acknowledges privacy concerns is a real failure. Reporting needs to do better so that we can walk back surveillance instead of sleepwalk into more of it. Gift link

Are we willing to pay this price in order to have some neat image generation tools? (I’m not.)

This sucks—and even more so because the Reddit company is willing to play nice with AI to get their pretty penny.