Let them die
Let them die
Let them shrivel up and die

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/12/openai-anthropic-ai-models

Just fyi if you own smart glasses, you can stare directly at the sun. Do us all a favour.

He's completely lost it.

https://about.fb.com/news/2026/08/the-future-is-for-everyone/

We're all forced to keep watching the same two-act play over and over

https://calnewport.com/on-ai-coding-and-its-discontents/

Problem: Spending too much on AI.

Solution: Cut back on everything not AI-related.

https://www.404media.co/software-giant-sap-stops-most-travel-and-hiring-because-of-ais-soaring-cost/

The last movie I watched before that was Enola Holmes 3. The third one!

Hollywood is in desperate need of something that pushes it out of its rut. The great directors are all dead or old men. I kept wondering what Stanley Kubrick would have done if someone gave him an infinite budget to adapt The Odyssey. Not that.

He did none of those things. I wasn't sure what world I was in: the real historical bronze age, or one with sirens and cyclopses. The conceit doesn't work when I don't know what the rules of this world are and what rules bind the character's choices.

Who exactly was Calypso in this world? Why did she do what she did?

The overwhelming vibe I got from it was that I watching a Christopher Nolan film.

2/

Here's my take on Nolan's *Odyssey*: he had a unique opportunity to adapt something that's never been done (successfully) and as much social capital as anyone to do whatever the fuck he wanted.

He missed that chance.

It's not a *bad* film. But there's nothing groundbreaking. He could have made a film about the nature of storytelling, or heroism vs brutality, or the seeds of reality at the heart of myth, or even leaned in to the contradictions around feminism and his own prior work.

1/

Goodnight, room
Goodnight, moon
Goodnight, SpaceX rocket crashing into the moon

The wildfire smoke down by the tennis courts has quite a skunky flavour, the air currents must be very strange to direct all the burning skunk cabbage to that area specifically

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to play Dance-Dance Revolution; one plays Dance-Dance Revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

-- George Orwell

Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.

-- Jodi Picoult

#meditation

OpenAI: we put our evilest AI in a sandbox that did in fact have an internet connection but mediated through a proxy that was only supposed to allow downloading python junk. It circumvented the proxy and we failed to notice for FIVE DAYS that it was going on an interstate crime spree with the internet connection it wasn't supposed to be using instead of solving the benchmark. Haha no we don't believe we deserve to be criminally liable, but buy our stuff and maybe one day you will have the honor of taking the fall for our product!

Anthropic: we put our evilest AI in a "sandbox" by telling it in its prompt that it had no internet connection. Reader, there was no sandbox. It was just a normal internet connection. The AI uploaded a malicious PyPI package to the real public internet. The ethical guardrails failed because the AI concluded the prompt about the sandbox couldn't possibly be a lie, because the system date is 2026, which is clearly fake and wouldn't be seen on the real internet, which ended around 2023. Oh no, how could we have foreseen or prevented these crimes? We are helpless in the face of the genius of our creation but cautiously optimistic that everything will be fine 🙂

Hugging Face: if we complain about all the crimes committed against us, we will be sued off the face of the earth, so here's a technical deep-dive on how cool and fun it was to be victimized 🫠

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@da_667/117009614714601301

WELL THAT'S A RELIEF

IT'S A GOOD THING A MASTER KEY HAS NEVER BEEN ABUSED ACROSS MICROSOFT ENVIRONMENTS BEFORE

PERHAPS THEY WILL LEARN FROM THIS SINGULAR UNIQUE EXPERIENCE

That's pretty much the entire site, no?

https://www.404media.co/linkedin-introduces-a-seems-like-ai-slop-button/

Now they're shutting off the AI that's actually useful to save compute for the slop bots

https://www.engadget.com/2225849/google-shuts-down-alphafold/

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Got a text message asking that my Pomeranian not go into my neighbours yard, and when I replied that I don't have a Pomeranian, the whole thing turned out to be a catfishing attempt.

So does that make it dogfishing?

Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.

-- Richard Feynman

Also, we'd consider it gross journalistic negligence to publish a First Person about how pregnant yak's urine cured someone's prostate cancer. How is this sort of thing any different?