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!

No surprises here but still worth bookmarking.

Honest question: Is Grokipedia a wiki? Or just Grok output?

Easy to dunk on Grokipedia, but this article gets at some ideas that I think are particularly important. If I had more time for blogging this semester, I’d write something up on Ellul’s image vs. word dichotomy and how it aligns with Koebler’s thoughts here.

Honestly trying to figure out whether the reason I see Ellul everywhere is because I’m excited about a new scholar I’ve discovered or because his ideas are so well suited for the current moment. “We can be a leader or we can be left behind” captures the opt-in determinism of Ellul’s technique so dang well.

Of course, how the heck am I going to keep expressing concern about AI (through an Ellulian lens or otherwise) if the university has already decided that we’re all getting on board?

Universities are too platform dependent, and even those platforms are too dependent on the next layer of the stack. What a mess.

Some good observations worth bookmarking.

Technology, efficiency, and growing public and private power—this has Ellul written all over it. Gift link.

Who could possibly have anticipated this?

Finally got this book, so I guess I need to read it now.