When you ask the AI hype merchants to show an example of gen AI actually in production solving a real user problem

Israeli drone operator, probably an Israeli 20-some year old you’ll run into somewhere in Europe or Thailand, dropped a bomb on a starving girl carrying water home to her family. He’s probably done this dozens of times. This time it’s on camera

Hey Matthew Yglesias are you sure youre not on the Left…cause you just got publicly owned

Eugenics is a hot field right now, apparently

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MONDAY NIGHT LINKS ARE UP --------------------------------- probably Daisy's media manifesto shitlibs get a new publication! The Argument Matt Bruenig bodies Matthew Yglesias three views on slop my talk at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) mikepepi.substack.com/p/monday-night…

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this type of stuff feels reductive, but at the same time we need to have a conversation about how this *is* a thing and there are real consequences. There is a correlation (causation, too?) among tech types and just a full on dead cultural life. The `two cultures` are real!

Classic Freddy @wiserexecutive

sad nytimes.com/2025/08/19/tec…

Guys who went all in on AI, AGI, vibe coding, LLM when the bubble pops PLEASE DO NOT KILL YOURSELF . Things will get better. I can show you how to think for yourself and have interests let’s hang out.

My conspiracy theory that I kind of believe is that refusing to use AI is part of staying human. Dreams and voice and thoughts and choices are what make you a person - why would you hand that over to machines.

I said two years ago it would be Hadoop 2.0, and it is. When Hadoop and Big Data were at the peak of hype, managers asked system administrators to connect old, unused laptops that were gathering dust in the basement into a network, install Hadoop on them, and start "crunching

SoundCloud

aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/…

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hmm i wonder if its the genocide