Nick Richtsmeier

Make shit you love.

Well let’s call Bargatze as a one-and-done on the hosting thing.

Colbert Class. Always.

Funny idea, but this Emmys speech-shortening bit is a bust. Getting played off has been replaced by….getting shamed off?? Speeches deliver fun moments on these awards shows. Now everyone is just rushing through the same names.

said it yesterday but the people who commit this violence increasingly show us that they deeply understand how our information ecosystems process it. It appears to be part of the appeal for them. And yet the response doesn't really change. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

He’s either the most sophisticated con man alive or he’s insane.

This is the most 2025 thing ever.

Given this it makes total sense to implement AI in schools K to university. Waiting for the institution-directed lawsuits from parents. Education administrators are prob feverishly drawing up waivers like one signs before bungee jumping.

OMG you guys. I know there’s still an election to win, but she won’t be in it? Madam “Everybody dies” is going back to wherever she came from? Good things are possible.

Oh thank god I’m so relieved. They fixed it. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

I feel this. But I also find myself oddly relieved. We had a thesis that information access was the key to knowledge and wisdom. Turns out intermediaries (like teachers and critics) and shared learning spaces where we have to test our learning and opinions against the thinking of others … matter.

I seriously can't believe that OpenAI's solution to its software facilitating suicide is to instead... have it call the cops.

Why don’t we bring in two kids from each city and have them compete to the death to decide while we’re at it?

You know everything you need to know about where the monoculture is by the fact that we are re-platforming this woman who literally tortured people on TV for money.

Somebody needs to tell Ezra Klein that he doesn’t need to make being contrarian to whatever he perceives to be the conventional wisdom his whole personality.

If you wanted another data point in how much Ted Sarandos hates movie theaters

Software is digitized values.

People looking for the morally superior neo liberal choice that can “win the center” are going to be chronically disappointed. Obama works for Netflix now.

I’m not sure “for the terminally online” is the sick burn it once was. Macroculture is awash in incel language that started on 4chan, the valley girl accent made popular on TikTok is now standard media fare. Online culture is culture. Particularly as Trump decimated all other cultural engines.

The irony of a self-proclaimed "democracy defender" writing a post that is equal parts censorial and anti-intellectual while fascism rises. Curious, my guy, what kind of democracy are you defending?

A conversation I’m not seeing is how to shift parenting to prepare our kids for adulthood under techno fascism. We’re focusing on: - how to dissent - how to prioritize your well-being/community over social standards - how to recognize coersion - the (non) ethics of digital platforms

I'm happy to be in the grey fray about LLMs on a variety of topics. But if you're talking about LLMs in healthcare - I'm out. There is no room for LLMs in healthcare. Zero. Zilch. None.

This was just pitched on The Town, so credit where credit is due... but THE DUFFERS taking over TRANSFORMERS??? Let's make this happen. Thanks, @mattbelloni.bsky.social for putting it into the water...

Hollywood is always impressed when man of a certain build can do anything beyond tripping over his own fat for laughs.

Always love to see Sarandos pay a small price for his "no one likes going to the movies" bulshit. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

thinking once again of jon foreman’s answer when someone asked him if switchfoot is a christian band

This looks so bad it seems fake. Did they do this rebrand on ChatGPT?

A child with an imaginary friend will lead a better life than a child with a chatbot 100/100 times.

I’ve got real ?s about the new Paramount, but more of this please. Empty Bella’s entire Rolodex, until Ted heel turns on cinema.

ChatGPT is failing to protect vulnerable teens. We tested ChatGPT on over 1200 prompts asking questions about self-harm, suicide, eating disorders & substance abuse. 53% of the responses contained harmful or dangerous content. Read more in @cnet.com 👇 www.cnet.com/tech/service...

Trumps goons are so tough that it took 20 of them in riot gear to go retrieve a guy whoas great crime is throwing a very large sandwich. A lot of this BS is theater, but it’s theater delivered with both rage-bait for his acolytes and a fear-bait for people not paying attention.

Look at the conservatives, nationalizing industries. How cute.

The whole gig is to use “free market” to create a little profit and then use political and cultural power to make it impossible for another firm or for labor to make you compete so you can haz big profit.

This.

We are about three days away from "U.S. Security Forces brought to you by NVIDIA" with cross promotion and its own line of merch.

Just saw a guy announce on LinkedIn that he was single-handedly replacing education. 1) Congratulations. You must be incredible. Then, he said the current system only serves the universities. 2) I would love for him to talk to one university that feels as if they are being served right now.

Can’t wait for all the assisted stalking and assault this is going to facilitate. It’s like they all sit around and think: what social contagion could we release on the world next?

Here for this. Fixing the real world is how you win elections from fascists.

Guys, the White House decor is not the point.

In honor of ChatGPT-5 day, here's why saying this *ish is inevitable is the oldest trick in the book. editions.culturecraft.com/adopt-or-die/

You guys up on this trend (I sound so old just saying those words) of calling all the subpar AI and bots "clankers"? Apparently in some corners of TikTok when the slop shows up or someone is being super basic the new insult is to call it "Clanker" I'm here for all the robot slurs.

I just ran into a "Musk built Tesla from the ground up" dude out in the wild and man... I think the Musk propaganda may be the best PR that's ever been done in the history of ever. It's like facts don't even exist.