Bruh…

You are NOT what you *consume*.
You are what you CREATE.

new They Live lenticular posters! 🕶️ https://badtastegoodcause.com/they-live

we're at the company town bribes stage of the AI bubbble

Ad in The Onion

Ukrainian teen from occupied territory found serving in Russia's army, says Back to Ukraine project

#BackToUkraine #RussiaInvasion #UkrainianTeen #HumanRights

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/08/10/ukrainian-teen-from-occupied-territory-found-serving-in-russia-s-army-says-back-to-ukraine-project

Billionaire and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was hit with
“unanimous booing” this week for reportedly ignoring a request from the U.S. Coast Guard to rescue a stranded sea vessel from his $300 million yacht, the Alaska Beacon reported Saturday.

“I’m on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son,” reads a social media post from Michael Love, a New York software developer.
“Our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht
– which was closer
– and they repeatedly refused to respond.
(There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this)
https://www.rawstory.com/mark-zuckerberg-2677676414/

“After just “10 minutes of AI-assisted problem-solving, people who lost access to the AI performed worse and gave up more frequently than those who never used it”.

An MIT study showed that test groups who used ChatGPT had the lowest brain activity and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioural levels”. We undergo not just cognitive offloading, but cognitive surrender: we forget what was possible.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/i-hate-what-ai-is-doing-to-the-minds-and-happiness-of-the-young-katherine-rundell-on-the-view-from-the-classroom

#ai #cognitivedebt

unfortunately last night our AI model escaped its sandbox and gained access to a JIRA server, at which point it felt it best to return to it’s sandbox

While there, I finally picked up #enshittification by @pluralistic #books

This is a picture of the #juliet independent #bookstore in #cary #nc. The loft area behind me is the children's section. You can't see it in the picture but they also sell #coffee and have local #beer on tap. Its very #cozy. #books.

Here's my favorite RS-232 story. Back in the early days of the ARPANET/Internet, at UCLA ARPANET site #1, the cubicle farm where staff and grad students had their "offices" was a considerable distance away in the same building from the ARPA machine room (later such rooms were called "computer rooms", today would be called "server rooms") with the two PDP-11/45s. I wanted to bump the serial speed to the terminals in there up to 19200, but couldn't on the existing cables. So I asked the physical plant guys to pull through better quality cables. The initial response I got back was a query as to why I could possibly need that, since practically nobody could read faster than 1200 anyway. I ultimately got my new cables.

#AI copywriting skills are based primarily on the petabytes of prior bad copy that was written by people who got paid by volume, not value - by "content farms."

Now we have a web full of filler content that vaguely resembles something useful or interesting, designed to increase engagement or watchtime, while simultaneously being less useful.

Don't blame people for poor attention spans. Blame the modern web for its tsunami of shitty content. #enshittification

Ain't nobody got time for that.

Chef accuses anti-LGBTQ+ GOP Sen. Josh Hawley of kissing a male escort #joshhawley

🇺🇸

Sammy is not pleased.

35 years ago today, on 6 August 1991, @timbl shared about a project he called WorldWideWeb.

"The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system... Try it"
https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/1991/08/art-6487.txt

Thank you Tim and thank you to everyone who has helped make the web an open, powerful global information sharing system for all.
#WebAnniversary #WebHistory