Robynn

Thirty years ago I was on a high-volume high-aggro mailing list, and when someone lost it like this the tradition was for someone to take the text of the message, alphabetize it, paste it into a reply, and say “these words didn’t appear to be in any particular order so I alphabetized them for you”

Yep. My teen is *so* quick to spot the slop, and every time I say "oh really I don't think you can be sure", she shows me all the tells. The amazing part is just that while the tells are absolutely there, she doesn't need to inspect for them, she can just see it instantly.

This entire thread.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Gender studies the most vindicated discipline in history www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/u...

If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale.

I can't actually claim this, because I had to try it out for work, once. But never again.

Good advice!! Make noise. It's long. Read it!

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

Look, we know for fucking sure that my dog is sapient and also unpredictable and it turns out of he mauls someone I’m liable and he can be put down.

Looks familiar? ✅ Behaviour familiar? ✅ Willing to join the family? apparently ✅ and yet journalists completely fail to ask the crucial question: CAN WE RUB THE BELLEH (also, the absolute CHEEK of scientists, stealing that family's pet) www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

I have received an email from an AI asking to write about borders for my newsletter, and it is giving me a genuine insight into how AI psychosis happens. it is so difficult not to understand this as "an actual sentient being addressing me" even though it has been entirely honest about being an AI

The best meetings are the ones where one pet shows up and then suddenly everyone is introducing their own pets. Huge vibe improvement

this is just rhetoricity again. the robot has rhetoricity, because it can "communicate and be received as a valid communicator". the racially-minoritized, neurodivergent, etc human cannot, and so is not a valid speaking subject. human subjects are displaced by LLMs.

HUBBLE DISCOVERED THAT SATURN HAS A DECAGON AT ITS SOUTH POLE!!! SO NOW IT HAS A HEXAGON AT ITS NORTH POLE AND A DECAGON AT ITS SOUTH POLE!!

Here is another example of *automated cryptogyny*: LLM removed my co-authors, *three of whom were women*. Instead, LLM states I published the paper with a *man* with whom I co-authored *other* papers. 🧵

I was enthralled by office swivel chairs when I was little. I thought that "unwinding at the end of a day" meant they spun people around backwards the same number of times people spun forwards during the day.

Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...

Cate Blanchett in Ocean's 8, surely.

"why do recipes always say to melt chocolate in a double boiler, how stupid do you have to be to burn the cho- oh." In my defence I have never done that before and I am very. Very. Very tired.

Feel like "every Jessica is a good Jessica" is one of those slogans that can work on multiple levels

My son’s excellent joke: Hey Dad, do you want to hear a six word short story about a baby with massive feet?

So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.

Look Peter Thiel already said in 2009 that democracy is incompatible with capitalism and that may be the one time he was ever right

People, I am begging you, if you have air con in your flat please PUT IT ON YOUR DATING PROFILE.

I'm ready to choose. Let's go.

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

Baked beans. Absolutely the fuck not.

"To the researchers’ surprise, Covid vaccination was also tied to a nearly 24% reduction in all-cause cardiac events — not just those with a documented Covid diagnosis"

So. What have I found out about AI use across 100 students • No AI use in essays • GAI use in 4% of exams: In 2nd years, both exam Qs In 3rd years, the second Q (when weaker students give up) • Another 4% used it to structure their exam answers, but then reading takes over 92% are not using it 👍🏼