Joe Griffin
@thejoegriffin.bsky.social
Writer, editor, screenwriter, journalist. Based in Dublin.
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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Let’s interview Sam Altman’s nannies about whether they’re using ChatGPT
December 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Let’s interview Sam Altman’s nannies about whether they’re using ChatGPT
"Just so we're clear, this frankincense is your birthday and Christmas present."
December 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Just so we're clear, this frankincense is your birthday and Christmas present."
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Jimmy Fallon doing a softball interview with a sociopath who's actively making the world worse? Truly can't believe this, a moment entirely without precedent.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Jimmy Fallon doing a softball interview with a sociopath who's actively making the world worse? Truly can't believe this, a moment entirely without precedent.
Like many people, I was raised without the assistance of a misinformation machine.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Like many people, I was raised without the assistance of a misinformation machine.
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I can’t tell you how frustrating it is trying to explain to a coworker that believes humans learn and speak the same way LLMs do. He honestly believes we learn to think and speak thru developing a lifelong statistical model of words. And it just makes me so blueberry.
This is a perfect explanation of why 'AI' that exists is nothing like and can never be anything like the 'AI' of science fiction that the grifters want us to believe this 'AI' is.
December 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I can’t tell you how frustrating it is trying to explain to a coworker that believes humans learn and speak the same way LLMs do. He honestly believes we learn to think and speak thru developing a lifelong statistical model of words. And it just makes me so blueberry.
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It was only posted to Twitter, so I grabbed it before it (hopefully) gets deleted.
December 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
It was only posted to Twitter, so I grabbed it before it (hopefully) gets deleted.
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Job ads should have a "how many clicks before I see the salary" number next to them.
Making job applicants pretend they aren't interested in the salary is such a bizarre fantasy to indulge. We should be able to call it a religion and tell them it's inappropriate at work.
Making job applicants pretend they aren't interested in the salary is such a bizarre fantasy to indulge. We should be able to call it a religion and tell them it's inappropriate at work.
December 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Job ads should have a "how many clicks before I see the salary" number next to them.
Making job applicants pretend they aren't interested in the salary is such a bizarre fantasy to indulge. We should be able to call it a religion and tell them it's inappropriate at work.
Making job applicants pretend they aren't interested in the salary is such a bizarre fantasy to indulge. We should be able to call it a religion and tell them it's inappropriate at work.
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This sent me to Linda Fiorentino’s Wikipedia page. I was always intrigued by what happened to her career and remembered her reputation as being “difficult”. Reading it, I see where some of the “difficulties” may have stemmed from.
December 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
This sent me to Linda Fiorentino’s Wikipedia page. I was always intrigued by what happened to her career and remembered her reputation as being “difficult”. Reading it, I see where some of the “difficulties” may have stemmed from.
Good god.
In *addition* to it being ugly AI slop with gross images and atonal singing, its message is ugly, too.
In *addition* to it being ugly AI slop with gross images and atonal singing, its message is ugly, too.
McDonald's has released an AI-generated Christmas ad
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
Comments have been turned off on YouTube
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
Comments have been turned off on YouTube
December 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Good god.
In *addition* to it being ugly AI slop with gross images and atonal singing, its message is ugly, too.
In *addition* to it being ugly AI slop with gross images and atonal singing, its message is ugly, too.
I'd forgotten who he was.
To save you asking google, he's that pharma businessman who wanted to be president earlier this year.
To save you asking google, he's that pharma businessman who wanted to be president earlier this year.
"Gareth Sheridan went to Tucker Carlson's Christmas party" is already crazy, but "Gareth Sheridan took a photo with the world's most famous antisemitic conspiracy theorist, then voluntarily posted it on the Internet" is blowing my fucking mind
December 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I'd forgotten who he was.
To save you asking google, he's that pharma businessman who wanted to be president earlier this year.
To save you asking google, he's that pharma businessman who wanted to be president earlier this year.
I haven't seen that show Landman, but I hope the opening credits song is The Rembrandts singing "oil be there for you".
December 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I haven't seen that show Landman, but I hope the opening credits song is The Rembrandts singing "oil be there for you".
Emma Mackey as Ella McCay has to be the greatest case of "actor name resembling character name" since Annie Hall*.
*which starred Diane Keaton, whose real name was Diane Hall
*which starred Diane Keaton, whose real name was Diane Hall
December 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Emma Mackey as Ella McCay has to be the greatest case of "actor name resembling character name" since Annie Hall*.
*which starred Diane Keaton, whose real name was Diane Hall
*which starred Diane Keaton, whose real name was Diane Hall
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Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
December 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
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I think I now know what EXACTLY my process is for writing grimy & dark flavor text.
So, without further ado, here's "Mucking it up: How to transform shower thoughts into nihilistic nonsense" 🧵:
So, without further ado, here's "Mucking it up: How to transform shower thoughts into nihilistic nonsense" 🧵:
December 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I think I now know what EXACTLY my process is for writing grimy & dark flavor text.
So, without further ado, here's "Mucking it up: How to transform shower thoughts into nihilistic nonsense" 🧵:
So, without further ado, here's "Mucking it up: How to transform shower thoughts into nihilistic nonsense" 🧵:
I'm watching Boy Kills World and it's been quite some time since I've heard less intelligible dialogue.
December 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I'm watching Boy Kills World and it's been quite some time since I've heard less intelligible dialogue.
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Who has made this 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Who has made this 🤣
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The cultural impact of the Avatar films is that every time one comes out everyone has to participate in the cultural impact of the Avatar films discourse
December 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The cultural impact of the Avatar films is that every time one comes out everyone has to participate in the cultural impact of the Avatar films discourse
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President Connolly urges every community to ‘reach out the hand of friendship’ to migrants
www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
President Connolly urges every community to ‘reach out the hand of friendship’ to migrants
President Catherine Connolly has urged “every community” to “reach out the hand of friendship” to migrants, saying Ireland can “only be enriched” by their presence.
www.independent.ie
December 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
President Connolly urges every community to ‘reach out the hand of friendship’ to migrants
www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
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How to help an author? Read us, review us, put us on your wishlists, in your carts, heart us, add us to your Goodreads TBR, pop into your local bookstore and have them place an order, make a library request.
December 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
How to help an author? Read us, review us, put us on your wishlists, in your carts, heart us, add us to your Goodreads TBR, pop into your local bookstore and have them place an order, make a library request.
Crack a history book, dude!
Or at least watch the start of Ridley Scott's Napoleon, which features Marie Antoinette going to a guillotine.
Or at least watch the start of Ridley Scott's Napoleon, which features Marie Antoinette going to a guillotine.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Crack a history book, dude!
Or at least watch the start of Ridley Scott's Napoleon, which features Marie Antoinette going to a guillotine.
Or at least watch the start of Ridley Scott's Napoleon, which features Marie Antoinette going to a guillotine.
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I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
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LOTS of people still go to the movies! it's not their fault you spent a quarter of a billion dollars on one film and you need them all to see it three times for it to make a profit. spend less!
December 6, 2025 at 7:48 AM
LOTS of people still go to the movies! it's not their fault you spent a quarter of a billion dollars on one film and you need them all to see it three times for it to make a profit. spend less!
Some good insights here IMO
Here's the thing about Sydney Sweeney: she is famous but she is not popular.
I wrote about her attempt to clean up the good jeans controversy with too-late PR, and why her attempts to be a major star are faltering.
gossipreadingclub.substack.com/p/sydney-swe...
I wrote about her attempt to clean up the good jeans controversy with too-late PR, and why her attempts to be a major star are faltering.
gossipreadingclub.substack.com/p/sydney-swe...
Sydney Sweeney is Famous But She’s Not Popular, and That Matters
On her good jeans, non-apologies, and commercial failures. Sorry for more Sweeney Discourse.
gossipreadingclub.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Some good insights here IMO
I like the Home Alone movies, except for the "kids should befriend strange adults" message.
December 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I like the Home Alone movies, except for the "kids should befriend strange adults" message.