A pennant still means something to me. What a series. Bummer to lose like that, but happy to have been in the fight.

"gee golly. who coulda guessed." said the retiree a few years back

oh goodie please let the pharmacy chain record your feedback

My great grandmother was born in 1911, so fascinating to think she was a teenager in a world where the scandals of the day included the horror of legislators considering the President's wife inviting the wife of a sitting Black congressman to tea at the White House.

Day 0 at #xoxofest was a nice internet class reunion, which is how I intended to describe it to my non-online friends who think mistake the name for something else

Looks like my consequence design prediction from a year ago, making an all-listening device that promises to never fail you (Iike people do) and sell your data (because obviously) is here.

I used the same prompt for ClaudeAI and it decided to argue and tell me how virtuous and honest it is. I'm sure the designers of these tools think stuff like this is a win, but we're just going to deploy tech like this to put a friendly face on denying people loans, apartments, benefits and beyond. Wait until someone injects this stuff into dating apps because they aren't terrible enough.

I asked GPT to generate a 'nutrition label' itemizing the "cost" single query. It did it without arguing with me. ClaudeAI argued with me (it does that a lot) because its designers think they're smarter than you.

Accelerated harm at scale isn't something you can red-team out of your water-wasting, power-hungry AI platforms. Societal harm and externalities are constant. Not contending with this—and not paying the full price for deploying these onto society—are the challenges that policymakers, insisting on jamming these unvetted tools into everyday life, are going to regret.