When you wrote āheās such a good writerā, I assumed you hadnāt read Children of the Skyā¦ a book that urgently needed an editor with a spray bottle and the power to yell āNo! Bad Vernor!ā multiple times a minute.
Re-reading the preceding parts after Children has also fixed my impression of his writing ability, tbh.
Send more tech billionaires to space, more often, for longer: https://web.archive.org/web/20220117205028/https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/we-dont-know-why-but-being-in-space-causes-us-to-destroy-our-blood/
Iām sure he is regretting his part in bringing online a major player in this fashtech fashion scene. Bet thereās a bunch of tears-wiping with dollar bills going on.
Itās been so long that I last cared about anything GoT-related but that was such a good summary. Your post goes straight in my bookmarks, thanks for making it.
Hey, remember Pascalās wager? What if we got the leader of the church to be part of our new āai ethicsā product launch https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-18/anthropic-s-co-founder-to-launch-encyclical-on-ai-with-pope-leo?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3OTExMTY3NCwiZXhwIjoxNzc5NzE2NDc0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJURjhGMjNLSkg2VkcwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI4QjVENTdBQTJGNjY0RTdCOEQ4NkUxMzcwMDNDMkVDNCJ9.OEFYqROFrqezWHTRznaz9xKZCem4PIY99uXzZJ3bWQQ&leadSource=uverify+wall
Publish and perish!
oneshotted, a term that means, roughly, to be destroyed and subsequently remade by a single experience.
Strikes me as incorrectly translated. The remaking is extremely optional, in fact that definition feels like defining blackpilling as being healed by vile propaganda.
Those bacteria better be so supreme they canāt even be killed with regular antibiotics
Yup. If their backups (if they even had any) were this available to a rando with a single ssh key, itās lucky they got wiped by an insider threat instead of ransomware.
Another day, another company that hooked up the random text generator to production and lost their entire prod db and backups: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-ai-coding-agent-deletes-entire-company-database-in-9-seconds-backups-zapped-after-cursor-tool-powered-by-anthropics-claude-goes-rogue
Cue the long drag (https://x.com/amyngyn/status/1072576388518043656)
But also, damn, the random text generator did not āgo rogueā, it generated text, randomly!
Is there a more generalized form of āweird hill to die on but at least youāre deadā? Because a new-to-me way for too-rich people to end their gullible lives has emerged https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/30/1134780/r3-bio-brainless-human-clones-full-body-replacement-john-schloendorn-aging-longevity/
As a pal remarks, finally they found a novel way to use the blockchain for drugs.
Good news for a change: https://pitchfork.com/news/bandcamp-announces-ban-on-ai-music/
A German writing Manifest Destiny fan fiction without any idea of the facts on the ground? We seem to have here a Karl May cosplayer.
Itās no comfort that an acquaintance who works at a slop company says theyād been doing that for years now. That surely makes it fine then.
Iāve never seen a more compelling reason to enforce strict and short retention rules for every corp communication medium, holy shit https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/04/16/ais-new-training-data-your-old-work-slacks-and-emails/
Excited for the labor and contract law disputes that this will spawn when the model makes promises that the person wonāt keep https://www.theverge.com/tech/910990/meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-ai-clone
But as as expected, this is another zuck project that doesnāt have the leg(itimation)s
[ai booster voice] if you last tried a head of AI more than six months ago, you need to try the new model. https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1ska7kn/apples_ai_chief_john_giannandrea_departs_this_week/
I hate knowing so many of these clowns in person (or thinking I know them, Jesus fucking Christ) https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-staffers-horrified-insane-plan
Yeah, I wish I had skipped it. Dropped the book at the 66% mark, where it was already too late for me ):
I still have to check out Rainbows End, sounds like itās really great. That one other non-Fire short story/novella of his I read was ā¦ very mid (and pretty cringe in places)