Will Rosecrans

No Amnesty for ICE.

"Don't trust AI-altered images of SkyLink testing that have been shared on social media"

I've been saying basically this for ages. Even before the recent AI boom. Generating code isn't an inherently good thing, and devs have always known that. Managers in the 80's got made fun of for tracking kLOCs as "productivity." Code is like CO2 or garbage. Maybe necessary, but not the goal.

How it feels right now

The billboards blame Newsom for Prop 40 which he opposes. Which is a great example of why his pivot to the right won't work for him. He's forever a San Francisco liberal to far too many.

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

Living in LA is like being in a Richard Scarry horror story

It's incredibly rare that I think a political ad has a clear message, well presented. This actually seems like a good one though. It does a good job of presenting and explaining a real issue, without resorting to vapid consultant nonsense.

There is little meritocracy or competition when it comes to Democratic consultants—they get paid the same regardless of how their candidates perform in the election.

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

The tech industry has been going so far with this stuff that I am starting to ask myself questions like whether it's even possible to ethically use a typical desktop computer any more. Can't use outdated software - AI will hack it. Can't have Win11, it has plagiarism machine built in.

I have questions

At long last, we have created a way for you to take away Nikki's free will, from the classic horror movie "don't take away Nikki's free will"

Generic Ballot Polling: 🔵 DEM: 47% 🔴 GOP: 35% Ipsos / Oct 19, 2026

They should reboot the Prom Night slasher movie franchise. But now it's about Programmable Read Only Memories. This is how you cash in on updating existing IP for the digital age.

I'd make fun of Senator Schiff if his only response was to send the DOJ a sternly worded letter. Here, Senator Schiff is... hoping *somebody else* will send some words to the DOJ. Powerful stuff.

🚨 LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia has subpoenaed LA28. The organizing committee has 15 days to hand over key financial data: “LA28’s refusal to comply with my Office's request after years of withholding information that they are contractually obligated to provide to the City of LA is unacceptable"

For conservatives, having somebody to blame isn't about understanding how to fix a problem. It's just about the cultural ritual of blaming an out-group as a way to define and share membership of the in-group. Journalists don't frame "Biden's Fault"/"Thanks Obama" accurately and get distracted.

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

One of the jokes I saw is that Russian tech companies are using new questions in job interviews like, What do you do if "terraform destroy" was executed without Terraform?

Burbank's new terminal opens Tuesday — and it's going to be harder to get to without a car. Plus! LA28 takes a neighborhood tour through HiFi, Dodger Stadium doesn't seem ready for extreme heat, Casey Wasserman says the Epstein fallout was an "orchestrated, paid-for campaign," and more Hot Links 🔥

I keep trying to think of any historical example where a given technology's PROMOTERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS were like 'we are absolutely going to ruin your fucking life so be prepared like it's the end of the world'

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

Young men in college have have Trump as a role model since they were children. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

Everybody who names things these days is subscribed to Pro Premium Enterprise level madness. Also, this is from a real email that also introduced a "Basic" level, which includes several "Premium" credits. I can never tell if this is malicious or they think this is good and legit trend chasing.

it takes something special see a man hounded out of his future by politics you've helped legitimize step in front of a truck and then ask how the trucker feels

When you’re trying to ride a bike to avoid the high gas prices set by the fossil fuel companies that caused the climate crisis

Briefly stepping out on my balcony because being outdoors in this heat is basically like winning a Fear Factor challenge.

The world would improve immediately just by making golden parachutes for C suite execs illegal

It's over 100 degrees here at the moment, and it is no longer summer now.

I am declaring war on 82% of bluesky with this

In honor of Ellison's favourite genre of adult film and the level of artistic filmmaking he aspires to, The merged entity of Paramount and Warner Brothers post merger will be known as "Brother Mounters."

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

3rd circuit rules AI training on copyrighted material is NOT fair use. Wow! chatgptiseatingtheworld.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Running old Final Cut Pro (pre-X) is getting hard these days. It's in a twilight age of too old to be current, and too recent to run on hardware that is easy to emulate it. I wasted so much time getting it installed in a PPC VM, but it doesn't actually run.

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If I was on a hiring group and somebody brought up "the candidate had an iced coffee during the interview" as relevant to the hiring decision, I'd be utterly fucking baffled. It has literally never come up as a thing to even mention or make note of.

It's hilarious that Huang things not knowing his address, zip-code and phone number are a mark of how he is cognitively off-loading to technology and Klein doesn't seem to press him that what he's actually obviously doing is using the fact that he's rich to off-load onto other humans.