Two Things

Tom Robbins. 💔

I’m so sorry, Bad. Truly.

I don't know any headline is bad enough to break the fever, but Elon Musk's Ketamine Dealer Is Gutting the Department of Education might do the trick

Do something.

Thank you!

This. Always this.

If you’re planning on watching any Lynch, my advice is: don’t watch any analysis videos, don’t think about what stuff is “supposed” to mean, just get your own unique experience from it!!

I think people have become far too concerned with the “correct” interpretations of media. Just experience it!!!

Kyle MacLachlan pays tribute to David Lynch

"I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he’s gone ... Thank you for everything"

Is there anyone in AI that isn’t a complete asshole?

a tweet showing maps of the Dakotas and Manhattan with comparable populations

just as the founders intended

Jesus. It just worse and worse and dumber and dumber and scarier and scarier.

That a brilliant phrase. I’m guilty of it as well. Thank you.

No I see what we are talking about. It is our lives that are being affected. It’s scary and there seems to be no end in sight. My only point was that it will eventually end.

I’m not disagreeing with anything you say. I’m sad and upset and worried just about every single day. My only point was that hate always dies by its own hand blinded by hubris. And it shows up in decisions made.

I feel like I’m arguing against something that I believe in. I’m not excusing anything. Nor do I think we shouldn’t fight. I said this too shall pass as all things do. And eventually the hate will swallow itself. That’s not an invite to apathy.

And invented new ways. It’s a sad and tragic time we live in.

I’m with you. Every single day takes an incredible toll on my psyche.

True but it’s sort of a self perpetuating thing, no? It was the hubris of their hate that sent them down the path to their destruction. Not saying that we shouldn’t fight but that there is always an end to movements based on hate.

Lay it on me.

I’m not really sure or even slightly convinced that we will ever fight back against or demand more of big tech or the American Oligarchy. Sure, we’ll sound off on the apps that are destroying our lives but taking any meaningful action seems an impossible feat.

I truly believe that the storm will pass, as well. Eventually the hate will swallow itself. As it always does.

Great read! I don’t see how we stop this tbh. It’s like we have all rolled over and accepted that this is our life and we don’t deserve any better.

“I’m pretty sure that if you type something like ‘shoes’ or ‘handbags,’ you’re going to get the Shopping UI with hundreds of ads screaming at you to buy [their product],” he said. “So there’s no incentive to . . . give you an aggregated summary with exactly what people are saying about different shoes so you know exactly what you [should] buy.”

I disagree with perplexity.ai CEO Aravind Srinivas about the importance of sourcing in search results, but boy does he have Google's number here. Search for something they can't sell, you get an AI summary. Something they can, you don't. Try it yourself.

From: www.fastcompany.com/91125423/per...

I’m really over whatever this is.

Who Better to Explore the Mysteries of the Brain Than Werner Herzog? In “Theater of Thought,” he talks to scientists and other experts about consciousness, quantum computing and whether parrots understand human speech.

I love when a director turns their lens on science:
Who Better to Explore the Mysteries of the Brain Than Werner Herzog? #STEAM #SciEnt
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/m...

Yeah, a lot of the "gender is meaningless, you can be whatever you want!" talk also rings hollow when those selfsame supposedly supportive 'allies' also treat gender like a club trans people can be easily kicked out of, and act like respect for our identities is a privilege we must earn.

Never Forgive Them In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...

Tech sucks, and @edzitron.com explains why in this extensive, articulate, & angry essay.

“I believe that billions of people being fucked with at once in all of these ways has profound psychological and social consequences that we’re not meaningfully discussing.”

www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

This last quote hit me hard. Everything is monetized.

Florida workers died in the heat. Their deaths were kept from authorities A Times investigation found twice as many workers have died across the state from heat than officials know.

Twice as many workers died of heat stress in Florida than what government reports show. Incredible reporting by @tampabaytimes.bsky.social www.tampabay.com/investigatio...

The enshittification of technology knows no bounds.