noor from futurism

there is a carve-out for people expressing ideation *for now*, but the bar is obviously in hell.

source: I wrote this piece.

Stop AI-Shaming Our Precious, Kindly Em Dashes—Please Human writers have always used the em dash. In fact, it’s the most human punctuation mark there is.

I found @brianphillips.bsky.social's defense of the em dash to be thoughtful, beautifully expressed, and human!!!

i am glad that millennials were exposed to enough lazy, decroded "millennials are killing the X industry" articles a decade ago that by and large our response to people doing the same to gen Z is "so what. mind your business"

i can’t think of a single problem where you’d be relieved that THIS guy finally showed up to resolve it. dispute over winnings on a riverboat casino? bejeweled class ring gone missing? rigged carnival game accidentally let a kid win?

jk i'm spreading disinfo again

p sure they're on This Here Website too

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

anti-doomer sentence of the day: "Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last"

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Typos and slang spur AI to discourage seeking medical care AI models change their medical recommendations when people ask them questions that include colourful language, typos, odd formatting and even gender-neutral pronouns

Bruh

you have been visited by "Le Boulanger Quebecois"
repost to receive his blessing

BREAKING | Comptroller Brad Lander arrested at ICE court hearing

This photo.

ICE is a gang.

absolutely blown away at the passive voice in defense of police on display here

soon, you won't remember anything. your real name, your superpowers, you won't even remember that you're drinking the night pepsi

Waymo Hiring For a "Public Affairs Specialist" in Los Angeles While People Are Settings Its Cars on Fire Waymo is hiring a "public affairs specialist" after becoming an unwitting participant in Los Angeles' anti-immigration raid protests.

I cannot over-emphasize how hard I laughed when I got a Daybook jobs roundup email featuring a Waymo listing for a "Community and Public Affairs Specialist." futurism.com/waymo-public...

meanwhile, on quora,

This could have paid for 15 students to attend all 4 years tuition free, or relieved a years worth of tuition for 50+ students

Andrew Yang is like, our nation is clearly in peril, my solution is “the Rizzler”

So wait, this isn't a joke? He's....being serious?

“a sex pest beholden to billionaires who doesn’t even live here will fix this city” is helluva message, Jessica.

there are decades where no posting happens, there are weeks where years of posting happens

futurism.com "Learn to Code" backfires spectacularly as comp-sci majors suddenly have sky-high unemployment

Did it "backfire" or did it achieve its goal of flooding a major job market and driving down wages

why do they look like they're in SALEM

The NYC Algorithm Deciding Which Families Are Under Watch for Child Abuse – The Markup How a family’s neighborhood, age, and mental health might get their case a deeper look

Only a handful people in and around the AI system know of its existence. ACS tells neither families, their attorneys nor their caseworkers when the algorithm flags a case. themarkup.org/investigatio...

literally came here to post this lmfao

Sam and Jony introduce io Building a family of AI products for everyone.

why does this look and read like they're getting engaged openai.com/sam-and-jony/

I know it's so very trite in 2025 for me as a journalist to say "why hasn't this gotten more coverage" but like.... this is the kind of shit we need to be paying attention to and covering, this is the stuff that is a clear and present danger to peoples' lives.

‘Like a threat’: Mass email urging immigrants to self-deport sows fear, confusion in Nebraska These immigrants, many here legally, are being urged by lawyers not to follow the directives in the mass email. Immigration hardliners say it’s a needed remedy for previous administrations allowing a ...

Somehow, I only just learned that ICE and DHS are not only airing horrifying ads on the radio (which plays in grocery stores, etc) telling people to "self-deport," but that they're also emailing and sending letters with the same message.

Literally evil.

nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...

Trump Appears to Have Accidentally Declared That Every Person in America Is Now Female In an executive order geared towards denying transgender rights, President Donald Trump seems to have made a huge mistake about biology.

completely forgot about this futurism.com/neoscope/tru...

my “not white genocide” shirt is raising a lot of questions answered by my