“The moral of the story is: Never trust an A.I. system… Never trust a chatbot, because it’s a puppet whose strings are being pulled behind the scenes.”

does this mean that i'm a blueskyist?

hits different right now.

"It’s amazing how many Americans put more than their best foot forward when they are trying to convince a bank to back their mortgage."

i have an idea. why don't we let him debate?

"the fact that Apple/Google exempt Uber and Lyft from the 30% app tax means that they – and they alone – can provide competitive ride-hailing services." ~Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/09/01/f...

“As always, the hardest part of this project, as with any project, was understanding the data model and the business logic, and parsing out those objects correctly. The second-hardest was aligning elements in CSS.” @vickiboykis.com is a wonderful tech writer. vickiboykis.com/2025/01/23/y...

that it's September and i still haven't done so many things i haven't done feels like a terrible failure.

“Being Donald Trump” what a fascinating film.

you know they genuinely care if they ask about your use cases.

one way to understand why very rich people so often go mad is to realize they have long been surrounded by the kind of persuasive but truth-indifferent sycophantic affirmers that OpenAI and its peers have only recently made accessible to the rest of us.

to understand what’s actually going on you have to play the weird revolution record, but backwards, it’s tricky.

oh fuck. @chrisdillow.bsky.social's is a typepad blog too. stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com ( typepad is shutting down arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025... )

A nice indie web search engine, marginalia-search.com via Manav Rathi, Viktor Löfgren

if he's dead it's only because he's got a canny knack for what would make him popular.

"As is often said — and is ever true — Republicans would be content with a dung heap, as long as they are at the top of that heap." www.technologyasnature.com/2025/08/30/c... (warning: doomsterish)

i really don’t want a superpower or a cheat code. i just want to do a good job.

what if they — Vance and his shadowy backers — arranged the whole thing?

we all have a second amendment right to our sandwiches now.

which 2020s new tech will be remembered as more transformative, GPT or GLP?