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adr from that place you know. He/they
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New episode to brighten your weekend or make it way worse depending on your personal opinion of us and what we do! It's po-mo time! Plus, vote for the next book! Pop over to the discord to let us know what to read next! Link is at the blog woo! #FinishIt finishitpod.com/2026/01/31/e...
Ep. 349. Skateboard Champion: Post Mortem Gamma Ray Days
Get comfy! Hang out! Take it nice and easy and let’s dig our way back through this last adventure! Fantasy Finish It! Who Wins the Book? What book will be next? Go vote for your fave when you…
finishitpod.com
January 31, 2026 at 4:39 PM
New episode to brighten your weekend or make it way worse depending on your personal opinion of us and what we do! It's po-mo time! Plus, vote for the next book! Pop over to the discord to let us know what to read next! Link is at the blog woo! #FinishIt finishitpod.com/2026/01/31/e...
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"So Canada is pulling away, and our European allies may too. The tricky part is figuring out what comes next. Whatever it is, it almost certainly won’t be better for America than the relationships we had until a year ago. But it might be better for everyone else."
Important perspective:
Important perspective:
New in PN: Trump blames Canada
"It isn’t just Trump that Canada can’t trust. It’s us, the American people. Trump may have low approval now, but his numbers were even worse after J6 and we still returned him to power. At this point, no one can have faith that everything will go back to normal."
"It isn’t just Trump that Canada can’t trust. It’s us, the American people. Trump may have low approval now, but his numbers were even worse after J6 and we still returned him to power. At this point, no one can have faith that everything will go back to normal."
Trump blames Canada
And tears our closest international relationship apart.
www.publicnotice.co
January 31, 2026 at 3:25 PM
"So Canada is pulling away, and our European allies may too. The tricky part is figuring out what comes next. Whatever it is, it almost certainly won’t be better for America than the relationships we had until a year ago. But it might be better for everyone else."
Important perspective:
Important perspective:
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Holy shit -- Joe Dante is digitizing a rough cut of GREMLINS from VHS
Alleged to be two and a half hours long (theatrical cut is 106 minutes)
Alleged to be two and a half hours long (theatrical cut is 106 minutes)
January 31, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Holy shit -- Joe Dante is digitizing a rough cut of GREMLINS from VHS
Alleged to be two and a half hours long (theatrical cut is 106 minutes)
Alleged to be two and a half hours long (theatrical cut is 106 minutes)
MySpace was *huge* until it wasn't. I'm not sure why people think any social media network - X or otherwise - will continue to be MySpace.
January 31, 2026 at 3:11 PM
MySpace was *huge* until it wasn't. I'm not sure why people think any social media network - X or otherwise - will continue to be MySpace.
The *point* of AI is to eliminate labour and I don't see how people dance around that honestly. It's whether or not you view that as a good thing and just *how* you view that as a good thing that matters.
January 31, 2026 at 3:04 PM
The *point* of AI is to eliminate labour and I don't see how people dance around that honestly. It's whether or not you view that as a good thing and just *how* you view that as a good thing that matters.
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genuinely weird thing about "students can't engage with feature films!"...we rarely say "kids can't understand 18th century light opera anymore"! the 7th art is, what, 50-80 years past it's prime era, it is not universally relevant just like panoramic painting and vaudeville ain't
January 31, 2026 at 1:12 PM
genuinely weird thing about "students can't engage with feature films!"...we rarely say "kids can't understand 18th century light opera anymore"! the 7th art is, what, 50-80 years past it's prime era, it is not universally relevant just like panoramic painting and vaudeville ain't
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Guys, the purpose of tailscale is to keep idiots *off* your network
January 30, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Guys, the purpose of tailscale is to keep idiots *off* your network
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OpenAI says it's going to retire GPT-4o. Again.
This time, the move to sunset 4o comes amid a wave of lawsuits alleging that the sycophantic model pushed users into delusional and suicidal spirals, upending lives and causing psychological harm, self-injury, and death.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
This time, the move to sunset 4o comes amid a wave of lawsuits alleging that the sycophantic model pushed users into delusional and suicidal spirals, upending lives and causing psychological harm, self-injury, and death.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Amid Lawsuits, OpenAI Says It Will Retire "Reckless" Model Linked to Deaths
OpenAI will retire GPT-4o, an especially sycophantic version of its chatbot linked in lawsuits to multiple deaths, next month.
futurism.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:34 PM
OpenAI says it's going to retire GPT-4o. Again.
This time, the move to sunset 4o comes amid a wave of lawsuits alleging that the sycophantic model pushed users into delusional and suicidal spirals, upending lives and causing psychological harm, self-injury, and death.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
This time, the move to sunset 4o comes amid a wave of lawsuits alleging that the sycophantic model pushed users into delusional and suicidal spirals, upending lives and causing psychological harm, self-injury, and death.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
@acidlich.bsky.social hey, a chum over on the masto remembers being fond of and good at calculus but has gotten rusty, and would like recs for "fun/friendly" books on the topic. Got anything?
January 30, 2026 at 7:01 PM
@acidlich.bsky.social hey, a chum over on the masto remembers being fond of and good at calculus but has gotten rusty, and would like recs for "fun/friendly" books on the topic. Got anything?
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I wrote about Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw and Moltbook, the fascinating, weird and sometimes even useful social network for digital assistants to swap tips and gossip with each other simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/...
Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It’s an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger …
simonwillison.net
January 30, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I wrote about Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw and Moltbook, the fascinating, weird and sometimes even useful social network for digital assistants to swap tips and gossip with each other simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/...
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Me every morning in this fucking country
January 30, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Me every morning in this fucking country
Earlier this month I wrote to @aslamrana.bsky.social in #Hamont Centre asking him to consider moving off of X. I clearly identified myself as a constituent in the first sentence, and it was in no way a form letter - everything I wrote myself. Got an auto reply. Nothing else.
January 30, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Earlier this month I wrote to @aslamrana.bsky.social in #Hamont Centre asking him to consider moving off of X. I clearly identified myself as a constituent in the first sentence, and it was in no way a form letter - everything I wrote myself. Got an auto reply. Nothing else.
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I like my McNuggets to come in two varieties: Chicken and HOT DOG! (1991)
January 30, 2026 at 3:15 PM
I like my McNuggets to come in two varieties: Chicken and HOT DOG! (1991)
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This issue has become more, not less, central to me. We now see many hundreds of studies about AI that pit "doing a task" against "not doing a task," measure the fact that skill isn't grown as much in the second condition, and extrapolate from that to dire cognitive decline narratives. I disagree.
Learning and task solving strategies aren't the same as immutable abilities; the conflation of the two bothers me a lot because it creates a worldview in which any learning loss is irredeemable and people who face adversity are punished for inevitably suffering its effects.
January 30, 2026 at 1:09 PM
This issue has become more, not less, central to me. We now see many hundreds of studies about AI that pit "doing a task" against "not doing a task," measure the fact that skill isn't grown as much in the second condition, and extrapolate from that to dire cognitive decline narratives. I disagree.
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It is a valid position to take to say "I will never use AI in my research and writing." You know what you mean and your values.
It gets into trickier territory when we say "the humanities should never use AI." Literacy about this history and limitations of a commercial application are badly needed.
It gets into trickier territory when we say "the humanities should never use AI." Literacy about this history and limitations of a commercial application are badly needed.
January 30, 2026 at 12:49 PM
It is a valid position to take to say "I will never use AI in my research and writing." You know what you mean and your values.
It gets into trickier territory when we say "the humanities should never use AI." Literacy about this history and limitations of a commercial application are badly needed.
It gets into trickier territory when we say "the humanities should never use AI." Literacy about this history and limitations of a commercial application are badly needed.
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Some hard truths for provincial separatists:
* A province doesn't "belong" to its provincial government.
* A province doesn't "belong" to the people who live there.
* A province belongs to all of Canada and Indigenous treaty members.
* Referendums have no legal status in Canada.
#cdnpoli #ableg
* A province doesn't "belong" to its provincial government.
* A province doesn't "belong" to the people who live there.
* A province belongs to all of Canada and Indigenous treaty members.
* Referendums have no legal status in Canada.
#cdnpoli #ableg
January 30, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Similar thing with Singapore, except I think it's not an outright ban but some sort of big cash surcharge for a citizen to go into a casino.
til that monaco - famous for its casinos - doesn't let its own citizens gamble
wonder why that is
wonder why that is
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission will draft new regulations governing the burgeoning market for so-called event contracts, removing obstacles for companies that oversee wagers on politics and sports, the agency's leader said on Thursday.
January 30, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Similar thing with Singapore, except I think it's not an outright ban but some sort of big cash surcharge for a citizen to go into a casino.
Also, "China, IL" remains the single finest depiction of academia in any tv show I have ever seen, and I have worked in academia for over 30 years.
January 30, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Also, "China, IL" remains the single finest depiction of academia in any tv show I have ever seen, and I have worked in academia for over 30 years.
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I don't know why they need to make short AI films about the American Revolution when the perfect one was created 18 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRo...
George Washington
YouTube video by unvmebad86
www.youtube.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:47 PM
I don't know why they need to make short AI films about the American Revolution when the perfect one was created 18 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRo...
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Looking for examples of speculative fiction where part of the story (doesn’t need to be the main plot) involves forms of design or making that are significantly different than what we do now. Best example I have now is the Robot & Monk books by Becky Chambers #bagsabbatical
January 28, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Looking for examples of speculative fiction where part of the story (doesn’t need to be the main plot) involves forms of design or making that are significantly different than what we do now. Best example I have now is the Robot & Monk books by Becky Chambers #bagsabbatical
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If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …
January 29, 2026 at 6:46 PM
If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …
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Microsoft and Blackrock have "have largely given up on organic adoption [of AI] by consumers. They have moved on to a new dream of forced adoption mandated by government and managerial coercion."
Fascinating piece here on what Davos can teach us about the AI industry by @mattseybold.bsky.social
Fascinating piece here on what Davos can teach us about the AI industry by @mattseybold.bsky.social
"You have to use it. You have to trust it.": Forced Adoption of AI is The Subtext of Davos
Authoritarianism is the AI Bailout; But If AI Doesn't Need a Bailout, Does it Need Authoritarianism?
theamericanvandal.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Microsoft and Blackrock have "have largely given up on organic adoption [of AI] by consumers. They have moved on to a new dream of forced adoption mandated by government and managerial coercion."
Fascinating piece here on what Davos can teach us about the AI industry by @mattseybold.bsky.social
Fascinating piece here on what Davos can teach us about the AI industry by @mattseybold.bsky.social
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And many university admins are pushing GenAI as a generalist tool that doesn’t require disciplinary expertise to be central to any and all decisions about its use. It’s the ultimate banking model of education, bundled into stanches of junk bonds, with the hope students won’t notice a difference.
About half-way down, this article suddenly kicks into a pointed critique of ed-tech ... well worth reading!
archive.md/PHqyF
archive.md/PHqyF
January 29, 2026 at 8:12 AM
And many university admins are pushing GenAI as a generalist tool that doesn’t require disciplinary expertise to be central to any and all decisions about its use. It’s the ultimate banking model of education, bundled into stanches of junk bonds, with the hope students won’t notice a difference.
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How? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.
January 28, 2026 at 1:12 PM
How? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.