"Iran’s use of LEGO set rap music tells me it’s been studying us. These are videos meant for the American people crafted in a language Iran knows we’ll understand."

https://www.404media.co/iran-is-winning-the-ai-slop-propaganda-war/

Trump’s Easter message of love, delivered with his customary dignity and civility. 😉

Nothing says "leader of superpower" more clearly than a sweary tantrum on social media delivered like a drunken redneck whose truck has run away with his third wife.

If Trump hadn't already won this war 11 times, I'd be worried that he wasn't doing so well. 🙄

#Easter #Trump #Iran #Hormuz #tantrum

"I used AI. It worked. I hated it." by @mttaggart https://taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

This is a really good blogpost. And I"m sure it'll make some people unhappy to read whether they're pro or anti genAI. What's good about @mttaggart's blogpost is he talks honestly about how using Claude Code did actually solve the problem he set out to do. It needed various guardrails, but they were possible to set up, and the project worked. But the post is also completely clear and honest about how miserable it was:

- It removed the joy from the process
- If you aim to do the right thing and carefully evaluate the output, your job ends up eventually becoming "tapping the Y key"
- Ramifications on people learning things
- Plenty of other ethical analysis
- And the nagging wonder whether to use it next time, despite it being miserable.

I think this is important, because it *is* true that these tools are getting to the point where they can accomplish a lot of tasks, but the caveat space is very large (cotd)