Christopher Little

Incredible words from Zelenskyy, a leader who uses honesty as a weapon. What a stark contrast to an American president who treats it as an obstacle. History will remember the difference. Slava Ukraini!

The entire tech sector is at most 10% of the US economy: portal.usqbc.org/us-sector/te... "Big tech" is closer to 3%: itif.org/publications... Meta alone is 0.66%. Those are big numbers, arguably too big! But a lot less than 40%.

New court documents show that Meta has been explicitly scheming to control the scientific narrative about their social media platforms

I think the lesson from Lula is not never talk about the opposition; it's articulate a positive vision that's basically, We Can Just Do Things. That's why Mamdani-ism is so popular - voters have an intrinsic sense that their electeds have agency they're not using

Remember the South Park episode where they stopped refugees from time traveling back to South Park by creating a better present? That’s exactly how building the future works.

first prompt of vibe coding: hell yeah, i have god at my fingertips after a day vibe coding: i am the project manager for a group of schizophrenic amnesiacs

"You can't block someone just for being annoying!" Those are actually the most important people to block

Important message for anyone who doesn't want to spend all their time online being annoyed. That's not a life. No one wants that.

Lot of folks (self included) expressing despair that despite aggressive prosecuting fascists ("doing everything right") Brazil was still going to get Bolsonaro-ed and the fact this guy gtfo-ed as quickly as he did should be a big signal for the AOC DOJ to go *hard* in 2029.

Meta suspended @nokingscoalition.bsky.social’s account for over an hour during one of the largest protests in U.S. history. Democratic AGs are demanding answers.

What’s wrong with DHH is that he’s a racist but tech bros also HATE the way GDPR sets even the tiniest limits on how much data they can scrape And my dude, look up French power stations

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“mom what do you love about me?” [pulling out her phone] “lol idk let’s find out”

No, they were middle-aged men wearing powdered wigs, elaborately embroidered hostess jackets, silk hose, and shoes with enormous buckles and substantial heels. In other words, our Constitution was written and signed by drag queens.

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

Yes, it's *absolutely* like scam emails. And they're generated by people who aren't readers themselves, otherwise they'd know better than to do this. Like unironically trying to sell a colour-by-numbers book page covered in crayon in an art gallery.

This analyst's report from Apollo about AI uses the term "S&P 493" to refer to the "S&P 500 minus the Mag 7" - because if you take out the AI companies, the S&P 500 is tanking. www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...

destroying continuous habitat has hugely harmful impacts on wildlife & unchecked this can end up destroying biodiversity 😔

Relatedly, what does it mean for a model or a theory to be successful? Most people claim prediction is enough. But is empirical fit really everything we want and also all it's cracked up to be? Can you answer that for your own work if you work with models?

First, automation is not what you think! No system which is automated has within it machines or processes that require no human oversight. Automation is actually not what you seem to think if you think the OP statements. It may be time to engage with psychological research in this area!

When first reported, 2025’s jobs reports added up to 1.2 million new jobs. After revisions, the economy added just 116,000 — 90% less.

The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!

It is wild how as a group they are all united with the psychological defect of projection.

all of this has always been about getting back at the uppity women who wouldn’t fuck them

The best part of Suleyman's essay calls out Anthropic's circular logic, as others have done (Ted Chiang's most recent piece comes to mind). Train a model with 'what if AI will develop interests, claim rights, or even do crimes?' and you will get a model that capably plays the part. Basically this:

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

wow, no.

If we're going to have a new, good internet, a post-American internet that truly disenshittifies America's defective tech exports and replaces them with robust, transparent digital public goods, we need to make reverse-engineering legal again.

We need to repeal the law that bans jailbreaking iPhones, so that a would-be alternative app store can raise capital and pay programmers and tech support staff and salespeople to assemble rival catalogs of software and help customers figure out how to get up their phones to use it.

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

“.. It was the second time in two years that the president authorized billions of dollars in bailout money for farmers harmed by his administration’s policies.” @nytimes.com #KSsen www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/b...

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

the poverty of these peoples imaginations. they made something that can do some things and kind of also sucks a lot. they have to dream up reasons as to why this thing should and will make them trillionaires. and this is what they come up with. you can slave away in a factory in the matrix

It's not a new trick, they've been doing it for years, you can tell the money spigot's been turned back on any time Jill Stein starts showing up again in your social media feeds

We already have flying cars. They're called helicopters. They're really expensive and there are good reasons you have to have a pilot license and work with air traffic control to fly them. Putting jets on a sedan is not going to result in a better vehicle or transportation experience in any way.

heathermeeker.com/2026/10/13/p... ‘“What proprietary software does everyone use, and does everyone hate? Now replace it with a more modern product that is easier to use, doesn’t lock in price increases, and has less bloat” […] first answer would probably have been the Adobe Creative Cloud.’

Yesterday I provided my immune system with the latest enemy intel and let me tell you it is working VERY hard on those cellular combat drills right now 🫠

Digital sovereignty is as real as real can be. It just has nothing to do with AI. AI isn't load-bearing. Boring-ass tech monopolist cloud software *is*...and we can *not* trust it: pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3... eof/