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Think I might be done with this site for a bit.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Meta took down the No Kings organizing page today - the biggest day of protest this fall. They provided zero explanation. It stayed down for the entire afternoon until most of the protests were done. Outrageous. Put this on the January investigation list.

A bad update: we're getting reports of pro-No Kings creators who have been suspended today as well. And we still lack backend access to the official No Kings account. Stay tuned, will report news when I have it.

anthropic cares about safety as long as it is purely hypothetical safety that does not meaningfully impede their operations or profitability. they got into an argument with the government about a hypothetical one time but there is no evidence this has any practical impact

www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-pundit...

i wrote about the AI-generated boomer revenge stories that your parents are probably already listening to on youtube 1900hotdog.com/2026/10/upse...

That $366 million Elon is spending to try and convince voters that Congress should stay Republican? It's more money than McCain's 2008 campaign spent. But it's also, relative to Musk's net worth, the same as a household at the median income spending $32.

As someone who has been experimenting with running local models on GPU-less Raspberry Pi’s lately, can confirm—even smaller models that are ostensibly optimized for limited hardware environments are pretty near unusable.

Same. I guess the way I look at it is that Twitter ceased to be Twitter the moment Musk took it over, so deciding to leave was just acknowledging that reality. What good is clinging to clout among people I fundamentally don’t respect?

why does the media repeatedly demand Abdul El-Sayed answer for everything Hasan Piker says because of the time they did an event together, but not demand every Republican candidate answer for stuff Elon Musk, the largest GOP donor in '24 and '26, says?

this is what happens when every filmmaker in LA is out of work

*looking at the worst post of my life* I must not post. Reactive posting is the mind-killer. Dunking is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face the Bad Take. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. When the TL refreshes there shall be nothing. Only I remain.

Having a great time programming my own broadcast channels using ErsatzTV (ersatztv.org).

“Once everyone has…an ‘exceptionally capable personal agent,’ does anyone?” I’ve been saying this since the days of Waze routing everyone to the same shortcut, rendering it no longer a shortcut. Modern tech is obsessed with productizing these kinds of myopic “cheats.”

Tilly Norwood Moved To Trash Folder By Deranged Fan

Never forget that David Ellison's Skydance Media was originally created so he could be an actor. Skydance's first film was 'Flyboys' starring James Franco and... David Ellison. David and his daddy invested $60m to make Flyboys. It grossed $17m Here's a bit of David's acting:

After the Butlerian Jihad, Mentats will be required to run Fantasy Football leagues.

"South Korea has already run the experiment. Its law requires the National Assembly to vote on presidential impeachment by anonymous ballot, and that rule has now removed two presidents." [@andycraig.bsky.social]

We are pleased to announce that we now keep an eye on 100% of the things our superintelligent hacker demon does

Wow, @yudkowsky.bsky.social is so breathtakingly arrogant that he was able to one-up one of his followers comparing him to Jesus by writing a scene where he condescends to Jesus.

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

An annoying hallmark of these kinds of articles is the lack of specificity about “AI.” Many of the examples they cite are conventional ML applications that can be run on edge computers (not data centers), but I suspect most readers wouldn’t appreciate the differences between those and huge LLMs.

Oh god he’s doing the scene in “The Birdcage” with the Pirin tablets.

Step 1: Spent a fortune on them in the 90s/aughts. Step 2: Watch as they become obsolete, but keep your collection in a garage bin that you move from place to place for a decade. Step 3: Profit!

The EA/Rationalist people really are like a Silicon Valley version of HP Lovecraft’s cultists, who naively believe that their nihilistic anti-humanism and familiarity with arcane powers will save them when the Great Old Ones awaken.

Country singer Zach Bryan wore a “Free Palestine” shirt at his Gillette Stadium show in Massachusetts.

this reveals SO MUCH about legacy media

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

It’s October 1st

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

The “Brooks Brothers Riot” Court

I also highly recommend Neoreaction: A Basilisk (and this thread).