Spooky Ilya

Once again, if you are a senior researcher spreading doom to junior researchers, shut up shut up shut up. It’s your job to figure out a path forward, even in high uncertainty times. Come back when you have something constructive.

I wrote a new piece yesterday, called "Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob", about my escalating rage at AI-generated text. It includes a framework for thinking about when AI involvement is fine -- just another tool -- and when it lands as a violation. charity.wtf/p/confession...

if I achieve nothing else, at least I’ve achieved my own aphorism

not really surprised to learn that terminal stupidity and racism is the reason i can’t walk into a CVS and just buy a toothbrush without flagging down the one person who might be in the store dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...

yeah same

it’s a discourse thermonuclear weapon, but I do *wonder* how many of the Americans who are vocally outraged by calls to collectively sanction/punish/disempower red states…..also throughly believe in collective punishment for Israel over its war crimes in Gaza.

Gift link for this excellent article from the indomitable Chris Gottlieb about, as she puts it, “the largest, most invasive arm of government that systematically flouts constitutional protections without challenge” slate.com/news-and-pol...

one side's voters care about sexual assault and one side's voters don't and while I understand that "impossible to say whether this is good or bad" is the standard for the paper of record I think it's clear which side has the moral high ground here

you miss one hundred percent of the shits you don't post

I can basically make this in my sleep now because it’s stupid easy, cheap, and all my friends swarm upon it like piranhas cannibalizing a cow www.seriouseats.com/classic-bech...

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding bikes, yet 66% of people did so while driving. And perhaps even more importantly, if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid.com

Hot Take: Clavicular (as influencer) doesn't exist. He is far more popular with people who hate him than people who like him. He's a perfect package of trainwreck, ideologically repulsive, fascinating, threatening, and confusing. He's a hypersalience smoothie but his actual audience is tiny.

California should do this too @asmmarcberman.bsky.social @scottwiener.bsky.social

I was wondering why I always seem to get off the mark in my car faster than everybody else when the light changes nowadays, and then I realized it’s almost certainly because I never look at my phone when I’m driving. Which is a little terrifying to contemplate.

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time. This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

I think our society really is grossly underestimating how important visible accountability is for social cohesion. May we re-learn this lesson.

make incompetence shameful again

95% of the internet in 2026 is short-form portrait-orientation videos on social media apps which are actually screenshots of text posts from other social media apps

When we finally send all the politically tone deaf consultants used by elected Democrats into the sun, I hope we can also end the practice of endlessly selling around lists of donors’ email addresses to spam them with every two bit house candidate’s campaign list

It’s funny how the same media elites have spent the last decade mewling and puking about how everyone who isn’t a hateful MAGA ingrate “lives in a bubble.”

LOL - dashare.zone ADMIN

How is there no button emoji? This is an outrage.

Looking forward to seeing how America's Childcrusher GTX 5000 pickup truck driver demographic reacts to this

a nice thing about places with climates like California: you spend way less time huddling in the warmth with other mucus-emitting people and way more time outside

Today East Bay Assemblymember Bauer-Kahan introduced the "E-Bike Accountability Act", proposing mandatory registrations & license plates for all Class 2 & 3 e-bikes. Learn more & join us in opposition to this counter-productive proposal by signing our petition at bikeeastbay.org/SayNoToEbike...

OpenAI exec James Dyett calling out the cowardice

Call your reps. Let them know that if they vote for ICE funding, you will not vote for them ever again. Representatives need to feel the heat. NO on ICE funding. No excuses.

Genuinely insane we are living in a world where the Danish have to deploy a battlegroup to protect themselves against America. Makes my blood turn molten, honestly

this is legitimately an insane thing to think when looking at your child

I have come to despise cleverness in political messaging. No bon mots. No highlighting hypocrisy. I want leaders with the subtlety of an anvil

Yes, I am a single issue voter

I feel pretty misunderstood by people living in rural areas, and yet mysteriously, this isn’t considered a problem. I’m sick of putting up with this idiotic display of obeisance to chucklefucks simply because they live in rural areas.

I think Democrats should focus on kitchen table issues, like not having a secret police force arbitrarily murdering civilians and having laws actually mean something.

no, being a real shitlord to people who you find annoying on social media from the comfort and convenience of your own home is not actually praxis, much as you may wish it were so

Driver Perfectly Describes Pedestrian They Couldn't See.

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

This is nothing like Iraq. That was a catastrophe and moral atrocity, but also, Bush was incredibly popular, spent a year securing broad public support, received congressional authorization. Trump is very unpopular, has not bothered to build any case, and is doing this illegally and unilaterally.

A few months ago I got the story of a duck who aspires to curling greatness stuck in my brain and simply couldn't get it out until I did this