james

Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs

Okay this made me cry

i guess it's good that anthropic is at least pretending to fight back but it's hard to take them seriously when they call it the department of war, which literally does not exist in any lawful sense. how can you have a valid contract with a gov't entity that does not exist in statute?

right now, in a conference room somewhere or in a signal chat, the PR teams for these war contractors and their tech partners are high-fiving about how easy it is to get good press for their war crimes

🧵 Living in Michigan, if a political issue seems frustratingly impossible to advance, you can almost always find the roots in policies motivated by racial and economic segregation. When you scrape back the "housing theory of everything" you find racism and classism under the hood.

possible the speed will work against them?? people are going to notice when everything sucks quickly, rather than over decades as has been the case elsewhere

Why AI Companies Are Suddenly Worried About Theft Models built on scraped material are now getting scraped themselves.

firstly, lol these companies can get wrecked, and secondly, once the algorithms have been stolen we should move onto the personal wealth and belongings of the entire ai executive class until they are impoverished and rightly shunned by polite society. just my two cents

Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much With public sentiment on AI resoundly negative, the tech CEOs pushing the new tech only seem to be doubling down.

just spitballing but some of it might have something to do with 15 years of sociopathic behavior culminating in the enthusiastic embrace of violent fascism

my anecdotal experience with parents and family friends in burns park is that they don't have the juice anymore. what happened (or didn't) with the library lot left many feeling misled and it was a pretty clarifying for a segment of that coalition. i think some PTP rhetoric has had a similar effect

do you genuinely think that one postcard, sent years ago, would have meaningfully changed the reflexive anti-CLUP reaction from aa's small but vocal anti-housing minority? CM Disch was not admitting to a comprehensive failure of community input and i don't think your characterization is accurate

also curious what evidence you have for the top-down claim in this context, given that the current city council was explicitly elected on a pro-housing platform. and if council doesn't listen, i'm not sure how the anti-housing vocal minority received so many concessions during the CLUP draft process

"rightly or wrongly" is doing a lot of work here and personally i think it matters quite a lot whether or not people were actually left out of the CLUP process or if they are saying they were as a bad faith political tactic

Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data From Claude The allegations mirror those made by OpenAI, which told House lawmakers that DeepSeek used ‘distillation’ to improve AI models.

incredibly funny for an ai company to say this with a straight face

i appreciate this! good to hear you think he upholds DSA values (which are broadly similar to my own). i am skeptical about some of what he has said since his mayoral announcement, but i’m open to his candidacy and he might convince me. but imo his policy statements have been discouraging so far

oh, duh. missed the part about the intro meeting. and i realize the org voted on the mayoral endorsement but i still find it surprising that members backs the guy who immediately hopped into bed with the very worst of AA’s bad faith NIMBYs who have been poisoning city discourse for decades

was rabhi yousef there? i’m still surprised they endorsed that guy

one of the stupidest motherfuckers to ever do it

a picture of the last panel of a Charlie Brown comic by Charles Schulz of two kids sitting on a stoop, one looking furious and saying, "How I hate him!"

me whenever jeff bezos does another horrible thing so i have to talk shit about him instead of whatever it is i should be doing:

A 3 panel comic where in the first panel, a cartoon genie explains that there are three rules for wishes: 1 no wishing for death 2 no falling in love 3 no raising the dead. In panel 2 the wisher says “I want Reeses cups to moan when I take their little panties off” cut to Panel 3 of our genie saying “There are four rules.”

You’re welcome! (Acquired via @trance.bsky.social)

Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies. 
 
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York. 
 
 Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice

oh my god

this story is a reminder that nothing beats a Good Blog

screenshot of a new york times digital article headline that reads: Health advice from AI chargers is frequently wrong, study shows. In part, the problem has to do with how users are asking the question

remarkable that it only took ~2 years for the NYT to start victim shaming users of AI for their failure to identify the lies and inadvertent manipulations that are coded into the DNA of these applications. this technology is fundamentally incompatible with a society that values truth and nuance

an image meme with a Super Bowl XL half-time performer dressed as a sugar cane plant photoshopped crudely with binoculars and the caption "me counting the days till spring migration"

new #birding field outfit just dropped

#birdingmemes 😎🪶🌴

trick question. they are both black site jails where mayor taylor imprisons his political opponents

If you can, be nice to yourself and go birding this weekend.

Moltbook is about as fun as watching two Roombas bump into each other Sorry, techies — watching how AI agents secretly talk to each other is just boring. The Epstein files showed me secret human convos are more gripping.

Moltbook is Reddit for AI bots, and some people are freaking out about how amazing and sci-fi it is to see bots talk to each other. But..... it just sucks lol www.businessinsider.com/moltbook-ope...

this is a great essay and also links to a number of primary sources that go deeper on some of the issues

there are a few in my vicinity but overall i’d say @moreneighborsa2.org has the upper hand in the west side sign wars

it’s also not even true! the city still does free weekly leaf and compost pickup between april and december