I found the dumbest take on AI. A real champion of bad takes

Over the last decade, Smart Communications has emerged as a pioneer in the privatization of prison services, a market that's constantly finding new ways to squeeze money out of incarcerated people and their families — one of the US’s poorest demographics. jacobin.com/2025/03/prison…

vibe coding, where 2 engineers can now create the tech debt of at least 50 engineers

Converting COBOL to Java is expensive and risky, but at least it will run slower.

BREAKING: the Trump administration has announced a new policy of “sakoku,” banning almost ALL foreign trade except for a small Dutch enclave; said to be looking at confiscating and destroying firearms to protect traditional samurai class

I always knew Salvatore would go places

“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory 👉🏻 cato.org/sites/cato.org…

#AI slopaganda comes from "a circle of AI firms, VCs backing those firms, talking shops made up of employees of those firms, and the long tail is the hangers-on, content creators, newsletter writers and ‘marketing experts’ willing to say anything for cash" ft.com/content/242187…

Vox just invented a new type of chart crime

Tell me you hate understanding data without telling me you hate understanding data

So, we're getting drone surveillance. Great.

the Marathon alpha released recently and its environments are covered with assets lifted from poster designs i made in 2017. Bungie Joseph Cross

Spotted in Greenwich

what's the point of satire when journalists can just interview people

When we get to 2028 and AGI hasn’t yet been achieved and LLMs are causing psychiatric problems and undermining democracy and cybercrime is an epidemic, insidious microtargeted ads are everywhere, nobody trusts anything, colleges no longer work, and climate change is worse, will

A "Labour" government have just legalised corporate theft and thrown every arts sector worker in the country under the bus, just to look like cool guys to the tech giants. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…