Phil Santiago

Google quietly updated its privacy policy to allow data from your Gmail, Drive, and Photos to be used for targeted ads, provided you've enabled certain AI personalization features alternativeto.net/news/2026/1...

Re: Brazil.

New thing to get into a tense debate about with my three year old. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

A little troubled by the Musk documentary discourse implying that the only way a documentary can be profitable is if it's about a subject that doesn't make you upset.

Mamdani bought out three theaters to show the new documentary Once Upon a Time in Harlem for free this weekend. You know what, I’m sick of yall and your fancy mayor. Sick.

Timnit Gebru and Emily Bender say the latest AI breakthroughs and hacking scares aren’t what they seem.

Been getting the kids into Magic School Bus. I thought for sure the oldest would get scared at Arnold's head getting frozen on Pluto, but he took that in stride. But then he did get freaked out at Ralphie's white blood cells trying to eat the bus.

Modern dinosaur propaganda keeps saying "birds are dinosaurs," but humanity knew about birds first. It feels like we should be making the point that "dinosaurs were birds."

Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave MVP last skirmish: Inyoni.

NEWS: the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders have unionized and the Cowboys have agreed to recognize the union

On Oct. 7, ICE officers detained Isaac Gallegos, an Honduran asylum seeker with no criminal record, at an annual check-in appointment. His family hope for a miracle to bring him home www.wunc.org/race-class-c...

YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING

Seeing Elizabeth Holmes get jazzed, not about any breakthroughs in medical science, but from pitching to someone with money and getting them on board an idea with the slimmest chance of success made me recognize her. “Oh. She has LinkedIn Brain.” www.philthepill.online/linkedin-bra...

Verdict on You Can See Everything: A fascinating reflection on the nature of documentary itself with a lot of DNA from The Rehearsal. I went in with a lot of buzz in my ear about how it stacks up as an experience to narrative feature films and that was a bit too much hype. Still great.

By "taming corporate monsters" do you mean "destroying them?"

One of my dreams last night involved being pressured into taking two passengers on a helicopter ride despite me having no experience with helicopters. At one point, I accidentally ejected myself, but the good news is everybody lived. The bad news is, I was being judged as a schmuck.

Thirty-eight years ago (Oct. 25, 1988) women gained the legal right to fully own businesses without a male co-signer. The law changed but the workload often didn't. Entrepreneur and #fayettevillenc author Beverly Cornell, who owns Wickedly Branded, writes the "Legacy Load." rb.gy/r5odvt

Confused at the concept of a person who sees a new chatbot and decides to give it their social security number and a list of venereal diseases they've been exposed to.

Absolutely wild framing from a major newspaper when we now know the "young man" was a Republican operative and that El-Sayed has categorically rejected any racist association with the Muslim Brotherhood.

You Chansey Everything

I think I had a demo of this game, but the experience would have been like having the actual game, because I got catastrophically lost like 15 minutes into it each time.

Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996)

I've been left to my own devices, more or less, to figure out how using AI while coding helps me do my job better. And since I rarely think that "faster" means "better," I've been making different decisions than the billionaires would maybe like. thudfactor.com/posts/notan/

Looks like 7-Eleven hot dog is back on the menu, friends.

Calling off work tomorrow because I need a day to recover from a three year old's farm birthday party.

You pay property tax because you’re still using the services provided to you by the government those taxes pay for.

Me waking up to 43 degree weather this morning

In order to combat The Death of Hosting, you all have a standing invite to Thursday nights at my house. Dinner will either be Tofu Surprise or the Least Objectionable Domino's Pizza Order I Could Pick Up for Under Twenty Dollars.

Matt is saying this about being ultimately charged $30K for a premature delivery and NICU stay even when the family has insurance.

A guy who knows how to optimize my Jellyfin server.

"It's a cursed artifact. We have to get rid of it." - Words I just uttered to my wife, like I'm some sort of fantasy RPG character

The sooner breast cancer is detected, the better your odds of beating it. This #NationalMammographyDay, if you're age 40 or older at average risk of breast cancer, or younger if you're at higher risk, make a plan to schedule your mammogram. www.komen.org/breast-cance.... #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth

The year is 2050. There's no such thing as public buses or commuter trains anymore. It is 11 AM, your third hour on the freeway as you work remotely in your vehicle. It is time for the hourly dose of Tesla fun. You and your fellow commuters press the button and enjoy some communal hovering.

*does car kickflip* *gets pummeled by two months worth of nearly empty starbucks cups, loose change, overdue library books, various other trash items*

happy John Brown day!

I didn't like "Maybe Happy Ending" very much, mostly because that central relationship didn't work for me. It was leaning a lot on projections and video. None of the songs have stuck with me. But the three people I went to see it with really enjoyed it, so I'm probably weird.

"In the roughly 10 months since North America’s largest wildlife overpass opened across Interstate 25 between Larkspur and Monument, drivers have hit two animals, according to state wildlife managers and transportation officials — a 91% drop."

I'm at DPAC for Maybe Happy Ending, a musical I don't know much about, but which might be about whether it's ethical to knowingly boss AI slaves around even when you post about AI slavery being real.

wait who plays with the nintendo switch controller plugged in

Sounds like a job a moral person wouldn't have.