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2026-04-16 13:20:58 UTC

Uber has already exceeded its annual budget for AI tools due to internal usage of tools like Claude Code.
We’re in a honeymoon period when it comes to AI agents which will end as companies figure out where it adds value and doesn’t.
At that point, I expect a lot of the wastefulness around how Claude Code uses tokens to be fixed either by Anthropic or Open Source alternatives.
https://aimmediahouse.com/ai-manufacturing/uber-let-ai-write-the-code-it-blew-the-budget

2026-04-14 02:04:08 UTC

A retiree delivering DoorDash to the White House to pay for their spouses cancer would be a national embarrassment in a sane world instead of an opportunity to celebrate “no taxes on tips”
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/400/602/799/985/426/original/5f1fb4822b36e4e5.jpeg

2026-04-12 23:37:22 UTC

Keith Rabois argues the traditional PM role is dying due to AI. I agree with him.
He believes that a PM whose job is primarily to take customer requests and turn them into a 1 year roadmap is obsolete. The tech is changing too quickly for a year long plan to be durable.
I’ve always felt 6 months is the longest a roadmap can stay relevant before tech or the market makes it irrelevant.
Instead he says PMs should focus on what to build and why. I agree 100%.
https://youtu.be/xCd9ykretlg?si=x0b0_MB2etC6ztg_

2026-04-12 00:27:19 UTC

I’m annoyed that it’s obvious we’re in phase 1 of this 3-step cycle
1. Republican president tanks economy and gets us involved in a forever war.
2. Democratic president fixes the economy.
3. People get impatient about things not being as good as they used to be so they vote Republican.

2026-04-10 14:55:52 UTC

The trickle of MAGA pundits abandoning Trump is turning into a flood.
Nick Fuentes is as far right as you can get without having a swastika tattoo and he’s now saying people should vote for Democrats in the midterms. 😮
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2026-04-10 00:36:27 UTC

The EFF is finally leaving X. It looks like I'm a trailblazer because I did this way back in 2024 and deleted my account.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x

2026-04-09 13:10:59 UTC

A coworker I’d never talked to once said to me that they looked up my job title after every promotion season to see if I’d been promoted then congratulated me when it happened.
The support from random people you’ve never met who follow you online can be both surprising and often overwhelming, in a positive way.
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2026-04-08 16:41:39 UTC

The senior director of AI at AMD has complained on Github that since January, Claude now ignores instructions, suggests fixes that are incorrect, directly contradicts requests and claims completion despite, well, not completing the task.
A new software engineering hazard is your developer velocity getting worse because your AI agent provider is going through capacity issues.
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/amds-senior-director-of-ai-thinks-claude-has-regressed-and-that-it-cannot-be-trusted-to-perform-complex-engineering/

2026-04-08 12:54:54 UTC

Anthropic’s latest model, Claude Mythos, is so good at finding bugs in software that the company isn’t releasing it yet for safety reasons.
Instead it’s initially releasing the model to a consortium of companies like Apple , Microsoft and the Linux Foundation so they can fix their security bugs first.
Considering how disruptive Opus has already been to software development, 2026 will be a watershed year for software engineers
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/07/anthropic-mythos-ai-model-preview-security

2026-04-07 14:08:58 UTC

All those people who didn’t vote for Kamala Harris claiming she supports genocide better be loud AF right now. This is your tax dollars at work.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/363/816/744/250/050/original/d96a82343b13c855.jpeg

2026-04-05 23:42:08 UTC

Nate Silver pens an essay about how social media is dead as a way to build an audience because Twitter is now a right wing cesspool where Catturd gets more engagement than the New York Times.
Weird that it never occurs to him that Twitter is the problem and there’s more to social media l. 🤷🏾‍♂️
https://www.natesilver.net/p/social-media-has-become-a-freak-show?

2026-04-05 16:19:18 UTC

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Mastodon as a community is quite hostile to AI and anything that isn’t a criticism of AI is viewed with skepticism at best and typically with hostility as the default.
It’s unfortunate because, as in your Mozilla example, there is still time to shape how AI is used in our industry. It’s better to engage and try to influence it versus stick your head in the sand and have the change thrusted upon you.

2026-04-05 13:37:26 UTC

Interesting contrast today in how Hollywood is using AI versus Bollywood.
The talent in the U.S. film industry is fairly resistant to using AI so usage is taking off on the periphery as assistants use AI for note taking in meetings, aggregating news coverage and sending email.
Whereas in India movies are now being translated and dubbed using AI while VFX using traditional CGI techniques are being replaced by generative AI. AI is quoted as slashing costs by 80% to a fifth of what it once was.
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2026-04-04 02:54:24 UTC

Just found out via a friend’s LinkedIn update that Microsoft is working on bringing OpenClaw to M365.
I’m surprised Microsoft is endorsing OpenClaw despite the much discussed security concerns. I wonder if they plan to fork it or will contribute to hardening the main project.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/344/177/327/612/759/original/d32a8810ea5bdecb.jpeg

2026-04-04 02:22:33 UTC

Anthropic will no longer allow users who have a flat fee subscription to use third party tools like OpenClaw.
This makes sense as I imagine OpenClaw could easily be chewing through $1,000+ of compute when the user bought a $200/month plan. It was unsustainable.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/907074/anthropic-openclaw-claude-subscription-ban

2026-04-03 02:53:14 UTC

OpenAI spending hundreds of millions to acquire a tech podcast and Marc Andreessen saying layoffs are actually due to COVID overhiring not AI, are two sides of the same coin.
The narrative around AI is now quite negative and is only going to get worse as layoffs accelerate. “AI so good it can replace people” is now backfiring and its damage control time before regulations and voters go hard against the industry.
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2026-04-01 17:53:25 UTC

I remember when it was a scandal that a company laid people off over Zoom. Now that seems warm and fuzzy compared to the norm today.
Oracle laid off 30K people with a 6AM email with a link to click and accept terms if they wanted severance.
https://www.hardresetmedia.com/p/the-coldest-cold-email-oracles-30000

2026-03-30 12:32:03 UTC

The fact that Bluesky introduced an app version of Threads “Dear Algo” feature and its Bluesky account is now more blocked than ICE is extremely weird.
I feel the anti-AI backlash has lost the plot on this one.
https://about.fb.com/news/2026/02/threads-dear-algo/amp/

2026-03-30 11:42:22 UTC

I don’t understand how companies are still doing remote interviews in the age of generative AI.
Companies want you to commute into work to sit on Slack all day but will hire you via Zoom where it’s trivial to use ChatGPT to answer all the questions.
https://www.ft.com/content/bcc3becc-859e-4628-b6a7-b4788e6f20a6

2026-03-28 17:44:17 UTC

I’m convinced a lot of the bone headed things the Trump administration have done are after being told by ChatGPT that it’s a great idea.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/308/040/282/874/392/original/c8f8f3d7843f0c3f.jpeg

2026-03-26 16:19:31 UTC

A judge has thrown out the lawsuit Elon Musk filed against advertisers for boycotting Twitter after he turned into an online nightclub for Nazis.
https://www.reuters.com/world/judge-dismisses-lawsuit-by-musks-x-corp-accusing-advertisers-illegal-boycott-2026-03-26/

2026-03-25 13:20:15 UTC

The purchase of CBS is similar to the acquisition of Twitter. This wasn’t a business decision but instead a political one to shift a major media property to the right.
Losing ratings is acceptable collateral damage to creating one less voice against the madness of MAGA.
https://www.status.news/p/cbs-news-ratings-decline-bari-weiss

2026-03-24 21:58:47 UTC

As I like to say, it isn’t clear that there is an AI bubble but there’s definitely an OpenAI bubble.

2026-03-24 21:56:00 UTC

It’s incredible how quickly OpenAI’s fortunes have shifted. Disney was willing to invest $1B and allow Disney characters to be used to create AI slop videos in Sora just a few months ago.
Now both the deal and Sora are dead. Life comes at you fast.
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/openai-shutting-down-sora-video-disney-1236698277/

2026-03-24 05:17:51 UTC

Wild that America has a president who regularly goes “I’ll start World War 3” to tank the stock market and then at the last minute says “j/k I’m not invading Greenland/Iran/Canada/etc” then the market jumps back up with mysterious people making a killing after he backs down.
An amazing coincidence.

2026-03-20 05:45:18 UTC

I think tech people are going through the 5 stages of grief when it comes to AI. The discussion around “taste”means we are in the bargaining phase.
Sure AI agents can generate PRDs, design apps or write code in minutes that takes me days, but guess what? I have taste. Clankers don’t have that.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/259/914/175/944/422/original/bca394e325c01c16.jpeg

2026-03-20 01:46:28 UTC

The catchphrase of every rich Trump supporter.
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/19/tim-cook-says-he-is-not-political/

2026-03-19 13:20:37 UTC

My favorite thing about this story is the Super PAC is called Building A Better California.
So how do we build a better California? By not taxing billionaires, duh.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/256/042/738/302/567/original/42831416c4302183.jpeg

2026-03-19 04:53:22 UTC

Figma stock dropped -8% today as Google introduced “vibe designing” into its Stitch UI tool which lets you describe the UI you want to create.
Figma is now down -80% since its IPO which is just brutal. I never have expected them to be one of the early casualties of AI.
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-labs/stitch-ai-ui-design/

2026-03-18 13:36:40 UTC

Sometimes I think about how great America could be if not for racism and it breaks my heart.

2026-03-13 13:25:44 UTC

People really complained that Biden was old and called him “Sleepy Joe” only to elect a guy who falls asleep so much in public that there are more pictures of him sleeping in meetings than pictures of me with my parents.

2026-03-12 02:42:22 UTC

I took a screenshot of this post last week which predicted layoffs at Atlassian including that it would be spun as AI driven layoffs.
Essentially a lot of software companies now have to pay the price for COVID overhiring and AI is a great justification. Amazon and Block led the way but they won’t be the last.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/213/895/826/701/401/original/e776dd8d64ab59f1.jpeg
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2026-03-10 16:07:34 UTC

After several outages due to junior engineers pushing AI-generated code, Amazon is requiring senior engineers to sign off on them going forward.
History has taught us bugs scale linearly with lines of code. So if you ship 2x or 10x the amount of code, you will have that much of an increase in bugs.
The reality is that increasing coding velocity without also increasing your ability to review and test the code at that scale is a recipe for disaster.
https://www.ft.com/content/7cab4ec7-4712-4137-b602-119a44f771de
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2026-03-08 12:26:05 UTC

The Anthropic versus Pentagon conflict is at least three questions which the media skipped asking
1. Should a computer be able to kill people?
2. What’s an acceptable error rate for that computer given LLMs 5% hallucination rate?
3. Can the government force you to sell them your tech to kill?

2026-03-08 12:22:31 UTC

The official statement from Caitlin Kalinowski, former head of robotics at OpenAI, about why she quit company.
I think this is the most significant ethical discussion in tech of our lifetimes.
Should a computer be able to kill people shouldn’t be framed as a tiff between Hegseth and Anthropic.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/193/528/861/549/817/original/21001d2c3989c4b7.jpeg

2026-03-06 11:51:23 UTC

Jack Dorsey opened the floodgates and more tech CEOs are admitting AI models will cause tech job displacement.
We’ve had years of “a senior person with AI outperforms multiple junior people” as a theory but the AI models have gotten good enough that it’s no longer a theory.
The question is now how fast will displacement happen and how will humans upskill to provide value when Claude is writing the code, Figma Make creating the designs and Deep Research doing the competitive analysis?
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/182/081/791/041/392/original/2bc4df6fba7fbed3.jpeg

2026-03-05 12:26:45 UTC

Repeat after me; “abolish ICE” is the mainstream position.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/04/ice-trump-immigration-poll

2026-03-05 11:15:03 UTC

I was forced to watch TV news when I had breakfast in a diner recently and I strongly resonated with the sentiment that being an intelligent person in America today is like being awake during a surgery.

2026-03-02 20:12:20 UTC

As a child, I thought the lesson of history was that the good guys always win. As an adult, I realized the actual lesson is that the winners declare themselves the good guys.

2026-03-01 20:23:44 UTC

Sometimes the absurdity of American life just makes me laugh. Millions of people have decided that instead of listening to doctors or healthcare professionals, they’ll listen to a guy who used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.

2026-02-28 18:31:54 UTC

America’s foreign policy is now “How many people have to die before you stop talking about the Epstein Files?”

2026-02-27 02:33:34 UTC

The subtext here is that while Anthropic is pushing back, the U.S. military is literally building bombers and machine gun rotting robots that will be powered by ChatGPT and Grok.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/140/252/252/240/895/original/c0389bc541278c4f.jpeg

2026-02-25 04:35:16 UTC

AI use is no longer optional if you work in big tech. After seeing the improvements to both my productivity and that of teams I support from using AI, I can see why usage is becoming mandatory across FAANG.
However, there are many factors from employee skillset & training to how much the company is willing to spend on tokens and supporting infrastructure that makes this not a slam dunk choice for every company.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/tech-firms-arent-just-encouraging-their-workers-to-use-ai-theyre-enforcing-it-d43ebf84

2026-02-21 23:11:47 UTC

I’ve long felt LLMs pose an existential threat to social media apps. The risk is the app becoming flooded with AI slop and comments by bots. Once that perception takes hold, people decide it’s not worth engaging with.
Pinterest has hit that problem with the addition of going all in on AI to run the site (content moderation) and laying off human designers. All of which is causing its audience of creatives to revolt.
https://www.404media.co/pinterest-is-drowning-in-a-sea-of-ai-slop-and-auto-moderation/

2026-02-21 19:25:33 UTC

Wicked: For Good and Zootopia 2 beating people over the head with the message where the government set you against people who look different, only to turn out to be the real villains
I’m here for it.

2026-02-20 20:04:20 UTC

This is a good story of why being focused on cost cutting as the top priority can be deadly.
Red Robin decided to fire bussers to save costs and tables stopped getting cleared, wait times ballooned and dine-in traffic declined. Stock down -88% since 2021. Chilis decided to invest in customer experience in 2022 and just saw same store sales grow +31% year over year.
https://garryslist.org/posts/red-robin-died-by-spreadsheet-don-t-make-the-same-mistake

2026-02-20 06:40:37 UTC

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Are things better now? 🙃

2026-02-20 05:15:25 UTC

Americans really got bored with free trade, the best and brightest in the world wanting to come here, low corruption and childhood diseases like measles being eradicated.
I guess things are definitely less boring now. Worse, but also less boring.
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2026-02-20 03:24:32 UTC

Ramp’s data science team has published research showing businesses are replacing freelancers with AI. Two key findings
1. Spend on services like Upwork & Fiverr has dropped -80% as companies have shifted to spending on OpenAI & Anthropic’s tools. More than half of the businesses using freelancers in 2022 have stopped entirely.
2. AI is much cheaper. Each $1 of freelance spend is replaced by $0.03 of AI spend.
https://ramp.com/velocity/ai-labor-market-impact-freelancers

2026-02-19 13:46:11 UTC

Even the Wall Street Journal has been radicalized into saying tax the billionaires.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/097/598/564/962/516/original/bed34c02d3cc670f.jpeg

2026-02-19 13:43:07 UTC

Other countries are arresting people on the Epstein list, America decided to make its most frequent flier its president and is now going to give him a war with Iran as a distraction.
This is not a serious country.

2026-02-19 13:05:54 UTC

Apple sitting out the AI race has given its stock price an essential feature; stability.
Tech stocks are experiencing wild swings as investors can’t decide if AI will kill SAAS businesses or big tech is overspending on AI.
Meanwhile Apple isn’t in any of these conversations as they’ve just focused on selling phones.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/apple-decouples-from-nasdaq-as-ai-whack-a-mole-grips-market

2026-02-19 01:55:26 UTC

The U.S. government plans to create a website to host content that is banned in the EU so that European internet users can still view it.
For example, Germany bans Nazi content but now the U.S. government in the name of "free speech" will host that content so Germans can view it online despite it being banned in their country.
An incredible government y'all voted for.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-plans-online-portal-bypass-content-bans-europe-elsewhere-2026-02-18/

2026-02-16 23:26:47 UTC

Using Claude Code is a journey. I just asked it to read some files, perform analysis and put the results in the table. Everything looked good until I checked and found none of the data in the tables matched the underlying documents.
Asked Claude what happened. It can't read PDFs so it just made up the results. Next time provide tools for reading PDFs before asking me to do a thing.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/082/894/641/351/885/original/f24101e1399c0df6.mp4

2026-02-16 01:02:04 UTC

Every xAI board meeting.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/077/607/062/203/980/original/926f60a5215e9201.mp4

2026-02-15 19:49:32 UTC

Nostalgia is different for all of us.
I feel nostalgic for the Transformers cartoons and Marvel comics so I watch Bayverse & MCU movies today.
Elon feels nostalgia for the racist apartheid of his childhood in South Africa so he’s bringing it to America.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/076/378/054/428/737/original/ded8c0c72685490f.jpeg

2026-02-15 19:36:49 UTC

The idea that Donald Trump was a temporary anomaly in American politics that will go back to normal when he’s gone is sadly mistaken. He is a symptom, not the cause.
He recognized that 40% of the electorate loves white supremacy and if you throw in homophobia/transphobia and low taxes, you could get up to 50%.
Now the masks are off and they aren’t going back on.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk-posts-january-white-supremacists

2026-02-15 16:53:56 UTC

University of California campuses saw computer science enrollment drop -6% this year. With tech companies fully embracing senior engineers using AI over college hires, this is the logical result.
We’re going to be starved of a pipeline of software engineers in the future. Unless you believe AI has fully commodified software development.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/college-admissions/article/uc-major-computer-science-ai-21284464.php

2026-02-14 13:00:33 UTC

Has there been a more absurd product vision than when Zoom’s CEO said our AI avatars will attend Zoom meetings on our behalf?
So it would just be a meeting of AI avatars talking to each other. 🤦🏾‍♂️

2026-02-13 03:45:09 UTC

Twitter was a $5B/year business when Elon acquired it. Now the only revenue numbers they quote are a fifth of that.
The guy is almost as good at running social networks as his buddy Trump is at running casinos.
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/x-subscriptions-hit-1-billion-annualized-revenue-exec-says

2026-02-13 03:44:25 UTC

2026-02-13 00:21:55 UTC

It looks like all of the press tours about how AI will destroy humanity have paid off.
Anthropic has raised $30B to continue building the technology that according to it's CEO will usher in an age that will be “both turbulent and inevitable, which will test who we are as a species.”
Congratulations!
https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-30-billion-series-g-funding-380-billion-post-money-valuation

2026-02-12 02:35:05 UTC

When the polls are so bad that you don’t want the orange guy to come after you so you get out of the polling business. 😬
https://newrepublic.com/post/206495/gallup-ends-presidential-approval-polls-trump

2026-02-12 02:07:32 UTC

xAI joins Thinking Machines in the “Thry didn’t quit, we fired them” club.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/musk-announces-xai-re-org-following-key-departures-spacex-merger.html

2026-02-09 13:18:28 UTC

The Super Bowl is a window into how much the U.S. economy has changed. I remember when it was mostly ads for cars, beer and stuff you’d find in the grocery store. Now it’s all AI, gambling, crypto (also gambling) and Ozempic.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/040/866/483/029/114/original/52378f0d60b2d6ba.jpeg

2026-02-07 23:58:14 UTC

Silicon Valley accurately predicted the vibe coding era.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/032/057/526/028/508/original/23ca127250bdb9d7.mp4

2026-02-05 11:01:28 UTC

Sam Altman going from saying ads would be a “last resort” in ChatGPT to saying subscriptions are for rich people has been quite the journey.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/017/678/467/875/638/original/afcef2fe57299c81.png

2026-02-03 21:18:34 UTC

My boss vibe coded this over the weekend and now it’s my problem is going to be its own genre of developer complaints in the coming years.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/008/780/430/338/609/original/71f1172c7347c0e3.jpeg

2026-02-03 13:24:43 UTC

When you invested in Twitter and Elon ran it into the ground but now you have pre-IPO shares in SpaceX.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/006/917/190/811/681/original/99b642dbbdae029a.mp4

2026-02-03 12:40:56 UTC

Jensen Huang would like you to understand that they never promised to invest $100B in OpenAI and you should stop putting words in his mouth.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/006/744/972/680/826/original/adb7ed3dc99a8f4c.mp4

2026-02-02 00:34:30 UTC

Trump suing the U.S. government for $10 billion and then bragging about how he plans to settle with himself makes me realizes Nigerian kleptocrats were babies when it comes to corruption.
This is generational genius in grifting.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-lawsuit-against-irs-puts-him-on-both-sides-of-the-same-case-116cfa2d

2026-02-01 20:24:56 UTC

The inside story of why Sam Altman got fired by the OpenAI board from Microsoft’s CTO. Internal politics between Ilya on the Research side and Sam on the Product side. And a board inexperienced in such politics.
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2026-01-31 14:08:53 UTC

This week Microsoft stock tanked -12% on revelations that 45% of its Azure customer backlog is OpenAI.
Oracle is now struggling to get loans to pay for its data center buildout to meet its $300M deal with OpenAI. They may need layoffs to come up with the money.
The underlying theme being bankers don’t believe OpenAI will have the money to pay these bills and it’s pulling down companies doing business with it.
https://www.cio.com/article/4125103/oracle-may-slash-up-to-30000-jobs-to-fund-ai-data-center-expansion-as-us-banks-retreat.html

2026-01-29 04:43:42 UTC

I have to admit, Abolish IICE is a great name for a snowplow.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/28/abolish-ice-submitted-9200-times-for-chicago-snowplow-naming-contest-records-show/

2026-01-29 01:10:55 UTC

Biggest fall off in tech has to go to this boy genius.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/975/720/232/362/315/original/c5647291ff3d1074.jpeg

2026-01-29 01:06:17 UTC

Tesla just reported its second year of declining revenue and profits, down -3% and a massive -61% respectively
Tesla bulls believe this is just a flesh wound as the company pivots to robotaxis and household robots.
The company also just invested $2B in xAI despite ̶s̶h̶a̶r̶e̶ bag holders voting against it
https://www.theverge.com/transportation/869603/tesla-q4-2025-earnings-revenue-profit-musk-robotaxis

2026-01-28 13:16:10 UTC

The arms race between students cheating with AI and schools trying to detect it keeps getting sillier. Students are now using “humanizes” which dumb down writing to make it less likely to look AI generated.
Some people will go to any lengths to not learn the material or do the work.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/college-students-ai-cheating-detectors-humanizers-rcna253878

2026-01-27 12:40:17 UTC

Why are people more upset at Tim Cook for attending the Melania movie watch party than at Amazon who made the movie and hosted the event?
Tim Cook’s been a Trump ally since his first term. This isn’t his first rodeo.
https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/26/tim-cook-attends-vip-white-house-screening-of-melania-documentary/

2026-01-26 17:22:59 UTC

The U.S. department of transport will use Google's Gemini to speed up the drafting of regulations.
My $0.02 is that using Gen AI tools as a way to jump start a first draft of any document is a good use for them. The problem is people are lazy and use AI slop as the final draft not a starting point.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-artificial-intelligence-google-gemini-transportation-regulations

2026-01-26 01:00:20 UTC

When you ask the wife “So what’s your husband like?”
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/958/691/636/670/079/original/980d6f9a294dcaa2.mp4

2026-01-25 07:15:59 UTC

The fricking NRA is now the voice of reason. That’s how far off the deep end the U.S. government and conservative enablers of Trump have gone.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/954/506/471/063/762/original/206394e6248bc55e.jpeg

2026-01-21 20:36:12 UTC

Admitting that your vote for Trump was a weapon aimed at LGBTQ people but the only problem is that it’s now pointed towards you and your people is a sad & predictable outcome.
This is the story of a lot of immigrant Trump voters in 2024.
https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a-cloud-of-fear-hangs-over-minnesota-immigrant-communities/
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/935/003/706/876/139/original/bea16970b3080208.jpeg

2026-01-18 18:34:22 UTC

Matt Damon talks about how Netflix designs movies around distracted couch watching.
Front-load the big action scene in the first 5 minutes to keep people from bouncing versus the end in a theatrical release and repeat the plot 3–4 times in dialogue because people are on their phones while watching.
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/matt-damon-netflix-movies-restate-plot-viewers-on-phones-1236633939/

2026-01-18 17:07:45 UTC

This poll is basically “Should we be the villains of World War 3?” and it’s good to know 30% of Republicans are like “why not?”
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/917/197/207/516/978/original/89dfb73e30782e52.jpeg

2026-01-18 05:41:51 UTC

There’s no way party that has masked government agents in major cities rounding up anyone who looks Latino or African and throwing them in prison camps while shooting people who get in their way can win free and fair elections.
Malfeasance is their only option. We should expect all sorts of shenanigans.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/914/500/151/047/768/original/a20d56aa34c26dc1.jpeg

2026-01-17 03:51:33 UTC

“Answer independence: Ads do not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you. Answers are optimized based on what's most helpful to you. Ads are always separate and clearly labeled.” - OpenAI Ads Principles
In practice:
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/908/404/146/460/337/original/91cb36a37c76770b.mp4

2026-01-16 16:54:56 UTC

The Overton window has fully shifted to “do you deserve to get shot in the face by government agents if you don’t get out of your car when asked?”
We are so lost if this is what the paper of record considers a valid discussion.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/905/822/205/477/122/original/7415db26fe749f04.jpeg

2026-01-15 16:37:17 UTC

Wikipedia turns 25 today and announced that the major AI companies now pay for enterprise access to Wikipedia data.
It’s an interesting shift that if you contribute to GitHub or Wikipedia, it’s less that you’re contributing to the fountain of human knowledge and more that you’re training AI for free.
https://www.theverge.com/news/862109/wikipedia-microsoft-meta-perplexity-ai-training-wikimedia-foundation

2026-01-14 13:26:49 UTC

Saw a Fox News clip and then this post that implies that the official MAGA position is that government agents can kill you if you annoy them while in the middle of trying to deport suspected undocumented immigrants (who are most likely U.S. citizens anyway).
These are the demons our parents warned us about.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/893/679/240/495/411/original/db1e0d672ae55002.jpeg

2026-01-11 15:06:07 UTC

When people say “stop making things political”, they mean you should stop making them feel uncomfortable that the system that oppresses you benefits them.

2026-01-09 01:52:03 UTC

Problem solving, the ICE way.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/862/635/740/051/935/original/92351f1e61dbb533.jpeg

2026-01-07 21:34:43 UTC

Import your medical records into ChatGPT. What could possibly go wrong?
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/07/chatgpt-health-tab-apple-fitness-apps

2026-01-07 12:42:22 UTC

There’s a saying that the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.
I see plenty of developers insisting AI coding tools are overhyped and error-prone.
But I’m also starting to see the opposite, people who’ve fully embraced them and now find they’re so good it’s triggering a real crisis of confidence.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/853/867/917/695/585/original/84c7f6fc693bee82.jpeg
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/853/868/214/185/821/original/4eed2043353f5d31.jpeg

2026-01-07 05:02:36 UTC

There’s a California ballot initiative that will levy a one-time tax of 5% of a billionaires who lived in the state as of January 1st 2026, if it passes.
Larry Page, the second richest man in the world has moved out of California to avoid the tax.
https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-leave-california-wealth-billionaire-tax-koop-google-2026-1

2026-01-06 15:05:22 UTC

Last year I told a friend that the best case scenario for Trump 2.0 is we turn into Putin’s Russia and worst case Germany in the 1930s-1940s.
My friend thought that was overly pessimistic. Almost a year later, less so.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/848/768/308/952/699/original/576ec0ec02b013f7.jpeg

2026-01-06 02:17:22 UTC

Casey Newton followed up on the viral “Desperation Score” food delivery hoax. He got in touch with the original Reddit poster who shared an Uber Eats ID and an 18-page document about the alleged internal workings at Uber Eats.
Both turned out to be AI generated. This is trolling in the age of LLMs.
https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/?media_id=3803745319989638545_63247015229&media_author_id=63247015229&ranking_info_token=GCA2N2YyZWFmYjBmOWM0OGM0OWU5ZTU1Y2YxNjU0NGJhOCX+m9YDJo6c45UNGBMzODAzNzQ1MzE5OTg5NjM4NTQ1KAN2bGwA&utm_source=ig_text_post_permalink

2026-01-05 14:56:18 UTC

As if there weren’t already enough ethical considerations to using ChatGPT. 🤦🏾‍♂️
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-exec-becomes-top-trump-230342268.html
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/843/070/258/570/830/original/b382ad28cf263aff.jpeg

2026-01-05 03:55:53 UTC

Stephen Miller’s wife promising the U.S. will keep invading countries until the Epstein Files are a distant memory.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/840/473/448/778/624/original/41042f12bcbcbb7f.jpeg

2026-01-04 00:29:21 UTC

The American government is finally going to run a free healthcare program. Unfortunately it’s in Venezuela not the United States.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/833/999/032/981/807/original/43678970b5e80d5f.jpeg

2026-01-03 18:16:49 UTC

Jaana was a distinguished engineer at GitHub and is now a principal engineer at Google. I expect to see more testimonials from accomplished software engineers in 2026 about how AI agents are making them more productive.
Engineers posting about how AI tools don’t work will increasingly look like a skill issue than a problem with AI tools.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/832/534/125/335/842/original/e482f86c49cd4f45.jpeg