If you place your head in the beam line, that’s updating your pions

Doctorow says that we have to believe people when they say that LLMs are helpful for their work. Do we also have to believe people who say that alcohol makes them better drivers?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/how-to-burst-the-ai-bubble-strike-at-its-roots/

A nice person develops a digital version of the Little Free Library for banned books. Hackernews spends a hundred (edit: three hundred) comments arguing over whether it would be better to share Nazi shit instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547985

I mean, Perseus is right there for dudes who want to be manly space cowboy kinglets.

The AI hype wave is the Dancing Plague for people who can’t dance.

Anything to avoid paying people for their time.

I wanted to give you a high five for telling APS where to go. That was rad as hell.

Noice

Old: AI Winter

Bold: AI Ragnarok

“You’re holding it wrong” as official policy

I hear ya

It’s pretty good! The kids want to be influenza for dragoncon lol

It’s on netflix in the states

:D

https://cellsatwork.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_5

Mythos with extra safety dust sprinkled on top and they listened to The Safety Dance while writing the system prompt. Also a hand painted sign on the front that says “no chinese were serius”

Hope you get to feeling better fast!

lol

Time is a dumb circle

Anthropic insists that you should use their demon-as-a-service. Hackernews debates the finer points of pentangle construction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463808

Edit: a hackernews is tired of simonw:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464627

Ed Zitron might have got hold of it, if his bsky is anything to go by.

We could be feasting soon!

What if we replaced the kid in the Omelas hole with the wealthiest guy in Omelas?

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Thanks!

I reckon they can try to scare people with terminators and threats of poverty, but not with a goddamn overgrown robot beanie baby.