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“In just nine days, Grok posted more than 4.4 million images. A review by The Times conservatively estimated that at least 41 percent of posts, or 1.8 million, most likely contained sexualized imagery of women.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
Musk’s Chatbot Flooded X With Millions of Sexualized Images in Days, New Estimates Show
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:57 PM
“In just nine days, Grok posted more than 4.4 million images. A review by The Times conservatively estimated that at least 41 percent of posts, or 1.8 million, most likely contained sexualized imagery of women.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
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Every example of ai being useful begins with "okay imagine you're in a situation, and you are very dumb"
January 15, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Every example of ai being useful begins with "okay imagine you're in a situation, and you are very dumb"
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There is no law preventing Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Microsoft from deciding tomorrow that any solution their AI creates for you or your business belongs to them and you are required to license the answer or share the revenue you make from building it
December 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
There is no law preventing Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Microsoft from deciding tomorrow that any solution their AI creates for you or your business belongs to them and you are required to license the answer or share the revenue you make from building it
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no amount of screaming Don’t Build The Torment Nexus is gonna stop them from building the Torment Nexus. so we have one option which is “Make it extremely shameful and socially costly to voluntarily use these devices”
January 21, 2026 at 9:50 PM
no amount of screaming Don’t Build The Torment Nexus is gonna stop them from building the Torment Nexus. so we have one option which is “Make it extremely shameful and socially costly to voluntarily use these devices”
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This is like a bat signal
Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)
January 21, 2026 at 10:04 PM
This is like a bat signal
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Check this one fact out:
"In 2024, the total installed electricity capacity of the planet—every coal, gas, hydro, and nuclear plant and all of the renewables—was about 10 terawatts. The Chinese solar supply chain can now pump out 1 terawatt of panels every year."
"In 2024, the total installed electricity capacity of the planet—every coal, gas, hydro, and nuclear plant and all of the renewables—was about 10 terawatts. The Chinese solar supply chain can now pump out 1 terawatt of panels every year."
January 21, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Check this one fact out:
"In 2024, the total installed electricity capacity of the planet—every coal, gas, hydro, and nuclear plant and all of the renewables—was about 10 terawatts. The Chinese solar supply chain can now pump out 1 terawatt of panels every year."
"In 2024, the total installed electricity capacity of the planet—every coal, gas, hydro, and nuclear plant and all of the renewables—was about 10 terawatts. The Chinese solar supply chain can now pump out 1 terawatt of panels every year."
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Minimum wage job: a mistake can cost you a hand
Medium wage job: a mistake can cost a million dollars
CEO: You can set $70 billion on fire making a mistake, name your company after it, and barely even remember doing so the next day
Medium wage job: a mistake can cost a million dollars
CEO: You can set $70 billion on fire making a mistake, name your company after it, and barely even remember doing so the next day
January 21, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Minimum wage job: a mistake can cost you a hand
Medium wage job: a mistake can cost a million dollars
CEO: You can set $70 billion on fire making a mistake, name your company after it, and barely even remember doing so the next day
Medium wage job: a mistake can cost a million dollars
CEO: You can set $70 billion on fire making a mistake, name your company after it, and barely even remember doing so the next day
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completely unironically, this is how we'll know
Everyone in his inner circle would be insider trading trading on his death on Kalshi before turning the plane around
January 21, 2026 at 4:11 AM
completely unironically, this is how we'll know
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Everyone in his inner circle would be insider trading trading on his death on Kalshi before turning the plane around
January 21, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Everyone in his inner circle would be insider trading trading on his death on Kalshi before turning the plane around
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Any person or organisation paying for these products is not paying because the products satisfy a purpose.
They are paying because they *hope* & *believe* that someone will *find a way* for them to satisfy a purpose.
They are paying because they *hope* & *believe* that someone will *find a way* for them to satisfy a purpose.
October 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Any person or organisation paying for these products is not paying because the products satisfy a purpose.
They are paying because they *hope* & *believe* that someone will *find a way* for them to satisfy a purpose.
They are paying because they *hope* & *believe* that someone will *find a way* for them to satisfy a purpose.
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As an artist, I was told that NFTs were the future and that I needed to get with the times or be left behind.
As a gamer I was told that the Metaverse was the future, and I should start getting into it now, or be left behind.
These are the same people telling me that AI is inevitable.
As a gamer I was told that the Metaverse was the future, and I should start getting into it now, or be left behind.
These are the same people telling me that AI is inevitable.
January 20, 2026 at 9:39 PM
As an artist, I was told that NFTs were the future and that I needed to get with the times or be left behind.
As a gamer I was told that the Metaverse was the future, and I should start getting into it now, or be left behind.
These are the same people telling me that AI is inevitable.
As a gamer I was told that the Metaverse was the future, and I should start getting into it now, or be left behind.
These are the same people telling me that AI is inevitable.
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I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
www.irishtimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:19 AM
I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.
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I always feel roguish to make such a basic point, but bias is an intrinsic feature of _data_, and transitively of any system of analysis or decision-making based on data.
The fact that this point has to keep being demonstrated over and over for more complex systems is crazy-making to me.
The fact that this point has to keep being demonstrated over and over for more complex systems is crazy-making to me.
"Drawing on a 20.3-million-query audit of ChatGPT, we map systematic biases in the model's representations of countries, states, cities, and neighbourhoods. From these empirics, we argue that bias is not a correctable anomaly but an intrinsic feature of generative AI”.
ht: Dagmar Monett
ht: Dagmar Monett
The silicon gaze: A typology of biases and inequality in LLMs through the lens of place - Francisco W. Kerche, Matthew Zook, Mark Graham, 2026
This paper introduces the concept of the silicon gaze to explain how large language models (LLMs) reproduce and amplify long-standing spatial inequalities. Draw...
journals.sagepub.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:47 AM
I always feel roguish to make such a basic point, but bias is an intrinsic feature of _data_, and transitively of any system of analysis or decision-making based on data.
The fact that this point has to keep being demonstrated over and over for more complex systems is crazy-making to me.
The fact that this point has to keep being demonstrated over and over for more complex systems is crazy-making to me.
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i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory
January 20, 2026 at 5:02 PM
i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory
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Microsoft CEO says AI “risks becoming a speculative bubble unless its use spreads beyond big tech companies and wealthy economies.” Brother you’re the one building this dogshit, we’re three years and hundreds of billions in, how have you not worked it out?
www.ft.com/content/2a29...
www.ft.com/content/2a29...
January 20, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Microsoft CEO says AI “risks becoming a speculative bubble unless its use spreads beyond big tech companies and wealthy economies.” Brother you’re the one building this dogshit, we’re three years and hundreds of billions in, how have you not worked it out?
www.ft.com/content/2a29...
www.ft.com/content/2a29...
“[AI] could have massive effects without necessarily translating to economic gains, a phenomenon known as the Solow Paradox, named after […] Robert Solow who correctly predicted “that by 1987 the effects of the PC revolution can be seen everywhere, except in the productivity statistics”
“One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”
AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst
AI may or may not excel at a lot of things, but from an economic standpoint, it's definitely not making us more productive.
futurism.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:22 PM
“[AI] could have massive effects without necessarily translating to economic gains, a phenomenon known as the Solow Paradox, named after […] Robert Solow who correctly predicted “that by 1987 the effects of the PC revolution can be seen everywhere, except in the productivity statistics”
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“One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”
AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst
AI may or may not excel at a lot of things, but from an economic standpoint, it's definitely not making us more productive.
futurism.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:52 AM
“One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”
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We must not blame the bus driver, a Frenchman is both the frog and the scorpion.
January 20, 2026 at 8:27 AM
We must not blame the bus driver, a Frenchman is both the frog and the scorpion.
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Finally we've reached the 'Frenchmen kidnapping buses full of people and hurtling onwards into the long dark night' bit of the collapse of civilization. This is what we were promised. This I can be a part of.
January 20, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Finally we've reached the 'Frenchmen kidnapping buses full of people and hurtling onwards into the long dark night' bit of the collapse of civilization. This is what we were promised. This I can be a part of.
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Oh dear CBS has FOIA'd the full text exchange between Trump and the Norwegian PM
January 19, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Oh dear CBS has FOIA'd the full text exchange between Trump and the Norwegian PM
If it wasn’t for my direct superior (bless her heart) I‘d probably have a performance goal this year along the lines of „Find a way to use AI to increase your team’s efficiency by 10%“
And I think at that point I‘d just have ChatGPT write my resignation 💀
And I think at that point I‘d just have ChatGPT write my resignation 💀
January 19, 2026 at 1:13 PM
If it wasn’t for my direct superior (bless her heart) I‘d probably have a performance goal this year along the lines of „Find a way to use AI to increase your team’s efficiency by 10%“
And I think at that point I‘d just have ChatGPT write my resignation 💀
And I think at that point I‘d just have ChatGPT write my resignation 💀