Ryan DiGiorgi

AI Con List:
-Environmental damage
-Job loss
-Massive theft
-Child endangerment
-Owned by the worst humans on the planet
-Creatively bankrupt and an insult to humanity

AI Pro List:
-Can write a LinkedIn post for me*

*Apologies, this should have been in the con list, too

anti-AI “credo” I have a religious exemption from using all generative “A.I.” I am not a member of the Silicon Valley sect. Their beliefs and practices are an affront to my sensibilities. The tech is trained on stolen intellectual property. The output is riddled with mistakes, and it is incapable of comprehending the weight of its errors. It is not even an “it.” But sometimes, it is filtered and massaged by unaccountable human sweatshop workers and bad actors. I am not required to use “A.I.” any more than I am required to join Amway, buy black market rhino horn, or attend the Fyre Festival. As a human, I have a duty and right to limit my carbon and water footprint and protect my fellow human. As a union worker, I have a duty and right to oppose tech that is used to threaten workers or cheapen our product. As a tech consumer, I have a duty and right to oppose scams that lower the quality of our tools. As a scholar, I have a duty and right to oppose anti-intellectualism. As a taxpayer, I have a duty and right to oppose the misallocation of public funds and data. As a grown up, I have a duty and right to protect young people from predators. As a person with a conscience, I am appalled at the decadent disregard for user safety, the callous dismissal of responsibility for lives ruined and slaughtered. My religion is related to my identity, geography, and family, making it an irrelevant accident of birth. What matters is that I was born. I have an exemption from their digital rapture, their cultural austerity, their intellectual poverty. I practice wholesome hedonism and First Do No Harm. CS 12/9/2025

i included this in my syllabi this year

A Barbara Stanwyck gif that should be used more often

Stanwyck stars in Anthony Mann's Western noir THE FURIES, playing this Saturday & Sunday at 11:30am

Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

Happy birthday, dude! You don't look a day over 30% off.

They ended up asking if anyone had played Star Fox so I just flew the plane.

Yeah working on my YouTube reaction video.

Best $100,000 I ever spent!

An excited man standing next to a Pokemon trading card vending machine.

Luckily I've got something to keep me busy.

My flight just got delayed due to "dead data" but they're saying as soon as "the captain gets the emails" we'll be ready to fly. Not sure if this is real or the pilot just asked ChatGPT to make up an excuse.

That's why whenever I can I murder myself at home. It's healthier anyway.

A text from a delivery driver that reads "I want you to know that I'm in the building"

Either my food is here or my murder is almost here.

Facebook continues to be super chill and normal.

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org

A tough one to sit with--but we must--is that some people's ability to make good art in part derived from, or was protected by, the fact that they were enabling or doing terrible things. See also: We Need to Talk about Cosby doc. Even more troubling on this score: Read deep reporting on Alice Munro

Here ya go!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/rif...

Holy shit dude, can't wait for this!

Once again back to one name: Tinto Brass.

Your father is choking your brother. What do you do?

Well, if your father is choking your brother, it is necessary to stop your father. You'd probably stop trusting somebody who said it wasn't necessary; anyway, I'd hope so.

There are a lot of ways to stop your father.

Really well put.

Yeah, a year into the second term of atrocities, probably a good time to take everyone's temperature on this guy.

An email from Walgreens with the subject "This is your last refill, but we can help you get more"

"All you gotta do is help us pull this little job..."

Always feel bad for video game people when they start talking about the Geoffscars, assume they're in a kind of MST3K situation where they can't control whether or not they watching those awards because they've used parts of their keyboards to fashion their beloved deckbuilding roguelite mechanics

TBH heads represent!

Always look forward to James Carville's endorsement texts so I know which exciting new white guy I'm going to be disappointed in in a few years.

Instagram post of Rachel Brosnahan and Ernie from Sesame Street. Brosnahan is wiping a tear from her eye, but it looks like she’s doing the “look at my engagement ring” pose

Saw this and momentarily thought Rachel Brosnahan had gotten engaged to Ernie.

Wow, what a ride.

MAMDANI: And I just think that there are barriers, barricades, to helping Americans that we can break down
TRUMP: Uh huh
MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade?
TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom

Is this because Andy had sex in college?

Hiiiiii!

My cool homemade smart assistant may need a little work.