Jim Nauer

I was recently bummed out thinking that I might have to soften my anti-A.I. stance given its widespread adoption by the porn industry. However, I appear to have overlooked the crucial detail that a new technology needs to be SUCCESSFULLY adopted by the porn industry to really catch on.

JWZ's explanation (to his mother) of what all of these "rogue AI" incidents really are is exactly correct: www.jwz.org/blog/2026/10...

There does seem to be an interesting subset of folks who seem huffily annoyed that creators might want to be compensated for their stolen work by the people whose intentional acts of theft has literally allowed to become billionaires, I mean, how dare we, right

fun fact: The Treaty of Tripoli, 1796, Signed by Prez John Adams, includes: "As the government of the United States of America is *not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion*, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of [Muslims].." Just saying.

Pete "Kegsbreath" is an utter piece of shit of a human being. And I really wish our politicians weren't so busy aiding & abetting his destruction of our armed forces.

Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.

This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY

The Common Rule is a federal policy requiring that human experimentation be conducted only when consent is freely given. The rule exists to protect vulnerable populations from "undue influence" via powerful incentives. RFK Jr wants to redefine or do away with the term "undue influence."

A school banned all clubs rather than allow a gay-straight alliance. Students sued & won. - buff.ly/QVKA1rN

The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘white, angry old man’s’ advice to go back where they came from.

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

every job deserves comfort, dignity and safety! 🫡

In all of history, every person who said, "We're coming for the books" was a villain.

"are there any bad @stephencollins.bsky.social cartoons?" No, of course not, I've been laughing at this one for three minutes

Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

you stupid mother fucker (markwayne not eugene) we tricked the entire world into sending their smartest hardest working people here and then tricked those same people into staying permanently instead of going back to their home country you are BLOWING UP OUR SPOT

Ray Stevens - "The Mississippi Squirrel Revival" (Music Video) youtu.be/K16fG1sDagU?... via @YouTube

Now this is an interesting consequence. If the Federal Trade Commission is not independent of and so subject to the whims of the current administration, the US/EU deal on data privacy has been violated, and companies in the EU must accelerate the de-Americanization of their services immediately.

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

Alan Rickman didn't get dropped from a great height on the count of "one" when he'd been told he would go on "three" so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable".

Steve Jobs predicted cities would be designed around this device, which was "as big a deal as the PC." Jeff Bezos called it "one of the most famous and anticipated product introductions of all time." don't let our tech lords fool you into believing they can predict the future.

people who work and invest in AI frequently ask me why their work polls so badly

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

“Bubble” is just the word you use to say “community” when you don’t like the people in the community.

If there was a Pulitzer Prize for Best Social Media Post of the year, this would be my nomination.

Crap. My lawnmower, which hasn't been used in 5 years, started up :-( . So I had to do Serious Yard Work instead of procrastinating some more until I could get it repaired or replaced... #procrastinationfail

Man, remember the movie War Games? With Matthew Broderick? It had that flashing list of tested wargame strategies, all of which led to mutually assured destruction? They thought of everything!

unrelenting

is that still the original Vanna White on Wheel of Fortune, or is Vanna White a title that can be passed down like Dread Pirate Roberts?

I'm not sure about you, but I think the collapse of US hegemony, a global price spike and recession, and a new ground war in the Middle East are far worse than drag queens reading books at the library.

"China can deploy huge folding mobile photovoltaic generation systems to quickly deliver clean electricity to construction sites and places hit by natural disasters in remote regions. Tech-bros babble on about mini nuclear power plants."

HODL! HODL! (j/k ... IMO it's still overvalued by an order of magnitude. Maybe two.)

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Best video I've seen all year.

"[The product that we sell] impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average." Researchers at Anthropic, the company that makes the popular Claude Code AI, on the effects of their product: arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

Today I learned that the European Union has a "Senior Diplomat For Science." The current one is retiring soon, and in her retirement speech said, "The United States has taken to its leadership position in the sciences with a wrecking ball." sciencebusiness.net/news/horizon...

There's a bit in Benn Jordan's video about it where he reads the Flock corporate statement outlining that their cameras don't do that to an actual flock camera youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo?...