Do I believe in the Great Man Theory of History. I do not. But I believe the Giant Fucking Moron Theory of History has unmatched explanatory power.
The effect of the first decade of smartphone use on math, reading, and science skills has been startling. I'm betting a decade of LLM use's consequences will be even more dramatic.
When youβre trying to help someone, focus on the help that the person needs rather than the help you feel like giving them.
Oh no did somebody train their model on your data without your permission. Gosh. What kind of a fiend would do such a thing? Can you imagine?
https://x.com/anthropicai/status/2025997928242811253?s=46
Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) on X
Weβve identified industrial-scale distillation attacks on our models by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax.
These labs created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude, extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own models.
X (formerly Twitter)Sociopathy used to be a self-regulating problem. For most of human history if you acted the way that, say, Jeff Bezos acts, you'd be left in the forest by yourself to die. But then some idiot went and invented money and now assholes can get their needs met without reciprocal bonds of care and obligation.
Gonna put you on game right now: Peruvian Mayonnaise. A lot of Peruvian sauces are actually mayonnaise based, and a lot of Peruvian families make their own... I have it on good authority that this brand is the one that tastes the most like homemade. It's delicious on basically anything.
this is kinda wild - its possible many ice agents in the field arent actually really employees, and may have done what this guy did and just 'not filled out any of the paperwork or signed any of the docs'
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/ice-recruitment-minneapolis-shooting.html

Youβve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. Iβm the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
SlateWatching Dawson's Creek for the very first time and this is just Kevin Williamson's erotic friendfiction, isn't it?
Hey, a secret police force that just declared itself exempt from congressional oversight is going door to door rounding people up to put them in concentration camps. Maybe maybe the move right now shouldn't be opining about whether the scion of a monarchy that was deposed more than a half century ago should take power in a country on the other side of the world.