Allosaur
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A little update to this. A source emailed me to say they'd used an industry tool to look up Coral Hart's sales and they totaled only 37 copies for the books under that pen name.
So, yeah I do not believe the six figures on 50k sales the NYT reported.
So, yeah I do not believe the six figures on 50k sales the NYT reported.
I wrote about why I'm skeptical of that AI author earning six figures pumping out 200 books a year story, but also about how authors might need to surf above the waves of slop countercraft.substack.com/p/surfs-up-i...
Surf's Up in Slop City
How should authors navigate a world with disappearing books coverage and a rising flood of AI slop books?
countercraft.substack.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
A little update to this. A source emailed me to say they'd used an industry tool to look up Coral Hart's sales and they totaled only 37 copies for the books under that pen name.
So, yeah I do not believe the six figures on 50k sales the NYT reported.
So, yeah I do not believe the six figures on 50k sales the NYT reported.
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dealing with any tech in 2026 is spending an inordinate amount of time trying to disable useless ai assistants
let me out
let me out
February 10, 2026 at 7:36 PM
dealing with any tech in 2026 is spending an inordinate amount of time trying to disable useless ai assistants
let me out
let me out
I feel the same way about Kubrick and De Palma but that hasn’t stopped anybody
February 10, 2026 at 7:02 PM
I feel the same way about Kubrick and De Palma but that hasn’t stopped anybody
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If we all reply "yikes" when people post these awful caricature style AI self-portraits, it would definitely help
February 10, 2026 at 3:47 PM
If we all reply "yikes" when people post these awful caricature style AI self-portraits, it would definitely help
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These guys are so normal.
February 10, 2026 at 9:07 AM
These guys are so normal.
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Quit, cancel, never sign up.
A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions
Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump.
www.technologyreview.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Quit, cancel, never sign up.
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Happy 13th anniversary to this pair of matching news headlines.
February 10, 2026 at 7:26 AM
Happy 13th anniversary to this pair of matching news headlines.
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mr beast would secretly smuggle a xenomorph to earth
February 10, 2026 at 3:51 AM
mr beast would secretly smuggle a xenomorph to earth
If you buy this car Enzo’s ghost will come out of that screen and murder you like the ring
February 10, 2026 at 6:26 PM
If you buy this car Enzo’s ghost will come out of that screen and murder you like the ring
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jesus christ the interior of the ferrari luce looks miserable what the fuck is this all-glass bullsh--oh
February 10, 2026 at 5:57 PM
jesus christ the interior of the ferrari luce looks miserable what the fuck is this all-glass bullsh--oh
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wild AI story from the Olympics
ice dancers were told to use songs "in the style of the 1990s." One Czech pair tried using AI to pump out a song to skate to, but their AI bot fully plagiarized "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals and they had to change it
sports.beehiiv.com/p/olympics-d...
ice dancers were told to use songs "in the style of the 1990s." One Czech pair tried using AI to pump out a song to skate to, but their AI bot fully plagiarized "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals and they had to change it
sports.beehiiv.com/p/olympics-d...
February 10, 2026 at 2:35 PM
wild AI story from the Olympics
ice dancers were told to use songs "in the style of the 1990s." One Czech pair tried using AI to pump out a song to skate to, but their AI bot fully plagiarized "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals and they had to change it
sports.beehiiv.com/p/olympics-d...
ice dancers were told to use songs "in the style of the 1990s." One Czech pair tried using AI to pump out a song to skate to, but their AI bot fully plagiarized "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals and they had to change it
sports.beehiiv.com/p/olympics-d...
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“Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? Send some shit through a black hole; do something that we can’t do. Or dig a ditch; do the shit we don’t want to do. Why is it coming after the stuff that we essentially need to do to be human beings?”
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Gore Verbinski Sounds Off on AI as He Launches ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’
The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ filmmaker is back after nearly a decade, and is ready to skewer how technology has taken over our lives (even more) in that time: “Why is AI helping me write a song or t...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:53 PM
“Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? Send some shit through a black hole; do something that we can’t do. Or dig a ditch; do the shit we don’t want to do. Why is it coming after the stuff that we essentially need to do to be human beings?”
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.
February 10, 2026 at 6:10 AM
I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.
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This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
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It’s crazy the sheer number of supposedly rational people who were like “ok but it’s good at health stuff” early on.
When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
www.reuters.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:01 AM
It’s crazy the sheer number of supposedly rational people who were like “ok but it’s good at health stuff” early on.
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tesla is a zombie company and he's trying to juice the spacex IPO. you guys seriously believe this shit?
Elon Musk's ambition to one day settle Mars appears to have taken a back seat for a rather nearer and more achievable goal – sending humans to live on the moon. https://cnn.it/46sbAMm
February 10, 2026 at 4:14 AM
tesla is a zombie company and he's trying to juice the spacex IPO. you guys seriously believe this shit?
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And I didn’t see ONE Dilbert cartoon posted in tribute. No one was like, “all time favorite gag! Hung this on every cubicle I had!”
It’s like his whole body of work evaporated years ago
It’s like his whole body of work evaporated years ago
I was thinking how when Scott Adams was about to go and rightwingers were saying “you have no idea what impact it’s going to have when Scott Adams dies, he was loved by millions” and then he just died and nothing happened. These ghouls just disappear when they stop talking
Remember when Charlie Kirk got shot and the right was like "THIS IS CIVIL WAR!" and three weeks later he was completely forgotten about? That's going to be most all the rest of these assholes too
February 10, 2026 at 3:54 AM
And I didn’t see ONE Dilbert cartoon posted in tribute. No one was like, “all time favorite gag! Hung this on every cubicle I had!”
It’s like his whole body of work evaporated years ago
It’s like his whole body of work evaporated years ago
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He murdered 300,000 people last year right here on earth and the toll may climb to 14 million.
Elon Musk's ambition to one day settle Mars appears to have taken a back seat for a rather nearer and more achievable goal – sending humans to live on the moon. https://cnn.it/46sbAMm
February 10, 2026 at 3:12 AM
He murdered 300,000 people last year right here on earth and the toll may climb to 14 million.
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Democrats really should start using that "Epstein class" line
Thomas Massie is cooking right now and explicitly states that UAE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was sending torture videos to Epstein
February 10, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Democrats really should start using that "Epstein class" line
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see how easy it is when they're not as rich and powerful? now keep going
February 10, 2026 at 1:46 AM
see how easy it is when they're not as rich and powerful? now keep going
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Surgey in the age of AI
February 10, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Surgey in the age of AI
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Every business right now thinks its such an essential part of your life that you'd give them anything to keep using it and brother I am here to tell you I don't need a chat app that bad
Discord will soon require face scans or ID for all users, or restrict access
Discord will soon require face scans or ID for all users, or restrict access
Discord has announced a major change coming to the service as part of its aim to improve teen safety features. Starting in March, all users globally will be required to submit age verification via a face scan or submitted ID, or be given teen-level access restrictions.
more…
9to5mac.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Every business right now thinks its such an essential part of your life that you'd give them anything to keep using it and brother I am here to tell you I don't need a chat app that bad
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The guy who is my bellwether for where the dumb money is going—he had a cloud engineer phase, crypto phase, nft phase, AI phase—has pivoted back to DJing, which is what he was first doing when I met him 20 years ago.
January 23, 2026 at 4:04 PM
The guy who is my bellwether for where the dumb money is going—he had a cloud engineer phase, crypto phase, nft phase, AI phase—has pivoted back to DJing, which is what he was first doing when I met him 20 years ago.
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Waymo self-driving cars, powered by AGI — A Guy Instead
Tesla and Waymo find safety rules so inconvenient
www.youtube.com/watch?v=auGa... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260209-way... - podcast
time: 5 min 30 sec
pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/09/w... - blog post
Tesla and Waymo find safety rules so inconvenient
www.youtube.com/watch?v=auGa... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260209-way... - podcast
time: 5 min 30 sec
pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/09/w... - blog post
February 9, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Waymo self-driving cars, powered by AGI — A Guy Instead
Tesla and Waymo find safety rules so inconvenient
www.youtube.com/watch?v=auGa... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260209-way... - podcast
time: 5 min 30 sec
pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/09/w... - blog post
Tesla and Waymo find safety rules so inconvenient
www.youtube.com/watch?v=auGa... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260209-way... - podcast
time: 5 min 30 sec
pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/09/w... - blog post