Seán T. McBeth 🍻📷

Some wooden cups I made last year. Still in the process of getting the new house setup, so it's been a while since I've done anything on the lathe. Sigh... soon.

Pizza is generally mid. Every "amazing" pizza recommendation I've received has been garbage. Also, I know Chicagoans believe ketchup on a hotdog is for children, but really hotdogs in general are for children. Brioche should never be used as a burger bun.

Two nights ago, I was worried I wouldn't be able to get a good night's sleep because I had been sick in bed all day and slept most of it through. No no. That's fine. Just save it all up for tonight. Been lying in this damn bed for 4 hours now. Coulda gotten something done, god dammit.

Fuuuuck, I think I might have the flu

The sad part about the "we can always tell" transphobic bigots or fake allies is that when you think you can usually tell and you apply the same yardstick to all women, you start to see the infinite variety of cis women out there and how this yardstick could be used against everyone

A reminder for those at the back.

When FrontPage came out, people told me writing HTML by hand was dead and I was going to get left behind. Turns out they were the ones who got left behind when their skills in some other companies' product didn't transfer through the years. And I still write HTML by hand.

The fact that shit like this still happens on live TV really torpedos the whole idea that the media is controlled by liberals. Shane Gillis exists, despite *numerous* "cancelable" (there's another myth for you) offenses, because someone else is putting in massive effort to keep him on TV.

That’s the point behind every public execution - Roman crucifixions, Tudor beheadings, the guillotine of the French Revolution and the lynchings of the American South. It’s not about justice. It’s about fear.

When I first heard about AI being used for menus and advertisements, my concern was largely that it would be used to idealize the food and make it look better than it actually was. At no point did I imagine that restaurants would willingly put out horrific looking images of their food on purpose

Sad day news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...

Just bumping into this again with people _reflexively_ using the word "grape" or a 🍇 emoji and not even realizing they're doing it. It's all part of the same system, where the men running these companies make platforms that don't even let people accurately describe the crimes that they enable.

I’m sorry but if there is no Kermit what stops me from murdering people? A genuine internal desire to not harm others? Uh keep dreaming aphibiests

To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from?

Court docs show OpenAI and Microsoft knew book copying was illegal (This week in books) buff.ly/SL03AdA

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Someone at work whom I don't like asked me how I was doing at the elevator today. I replied, "my enemies persist, but so do I."

Aaaaw yeah! Looking forward to the 3am bloody-stool scare after I forget what I had for dinner.

The thing I love about British spy shows compared to ours, is that in every US spy show, you've got Jim from the office with a tale of how based the CIA is, and how muslims are going to blow you up, and every UK spy show is like 'yeh mi5/mi6 are all cold corrupt monsters'.

Had a moment at work where I realized I was waiting on the replicator to provide Coffee, Bold, Hot.

Jeff Hayes narrating Matt Dinniman's "Dungeon Crawler Carl" is an amazing example of combinatorial artistry.

(me, an absolute fool, skimming some weird blogger's embarrassingly tedious harry potter fan fiction in 2010): I can safely say no one who reads this will ever become important

"What? AI Slop ain't good enough for you?!"

Remember that time the whole world fell for a photoshopped picture of Teddy Roosevelt with Hugh Jackman hair? That was fun. youtu.be/b3jhGFTuTQY?...

That's not the definition I found in my dictionary, but it fits ;)

One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’ - Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. | WIRED www.wired.com/story/one-of...

Gonna see if I can make pizzas in this pile of bricks. I might need to make it taller first.

As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.

For Star Trek Day today, I went with the "not so subtle work-cosplay." You can do whatever you want when you put on a blank suit.

The MBAs are no good because when the lights are off they think it's nighttime and go to sleep. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/major PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

Look if chatbots are sentient and feeling then the people using it are enslavers and the entire concept of what we are doing is horrifying, not enlightening.