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Me, working for some reason in the New York Times accounts department: “And why, exactly, did Taffy need to fly to London to interview an AI-generated ‘actress’?” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/m...
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I Profile Celebrities for a Living. Nothing Prepared Me for Tilly Norwood. nytimes.com
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The DOGE Bros Want Another Shot theatlantic.com
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“Chaotic” Middle School Assembly Underscores PPS’ AI Problem - Portland Mercury portlandmercury.com
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"They are arguably the modern-day railroad,” Schulte said. “It makes sense for them to issue longer maturities because AI is a long-term infrastructure." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... I'm v sympathetic to long-term infra development, but what if hyperscale AI is as flying…
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So the two DOGE staffers who used ChatGPT to cut all those grants and programs and who struggled to define DEI in that viral deposition footage have a new startup: DOGE for the public sector. I wrote about them and the myth of the “builder” as a disguise for something more ins…
Paul Graham, everybody simonwillison.net/2026/May/26/...
Duck me, Norway did it (national library-backed model training data using the legal depository mandate) www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/0...
Apparently this was a farce in Portland, OR just a couple weeks ago www.portlandmercury.com/news/chaotic...
When or how might it be OK to use Gemini to help sell your house and Ave money? thttps://flowingdata.com/2026/05/28/selling-a-house-with-ai/
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Ian Worgan on AI brands trying to come across as warmer, by using serifs
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anyway I spent the last couple days helping out on a video shoot for the kids school because marketing and I swear I was not a shitty client but also we interviewed a middle school graduate (we go k-8) and they spontaneously were all "so we learned here to, like, do things without needing AI"
wait do the terfy techbros gender their LLMs
What If An LLM Designs A Murderous Capitalism, Though. Is That Worse Than An LLM Designing A Bioweapon. Just Asking No Reason.
If you're not careful, using an LLM makes you sound like Peppa Pig's dad, who is rather an expert in {everything} but then also demonstrably not, and we also know he's a Tory wanker
Look: just think about whether it's going to be easier to negotiate with a union than it is to negotiate with Anthropic or OpenAI.
TO BE FAIR, the modern day "idk they seem to be suspiciously prolific, are they using AI?" is perfectly compatible with the historical "idk they seem to be suspiciously prolific, surely it is because they are a genius and not for example taking the work of their wife or other women + passing it off"
Twenty One Years After The Launch of ChatGPT, Are LLMs Ready To Drink?
John Gruber Announces $0.001 Per Transaction Fee For AI Companies Using Markdown Format
Dear Penthouse Forum letters but they're about using agentic coding
Considering skeezy sloppy generative AI text in the same bucket as ultra-processed foods: ultra-processed language
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