Mar 02 2026

Non-Experts are Training AI

https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology

The really scarey thing is that those who are training AI have themselves no training in training.   No Education degree.

Let alone a Psychology degree and a Philosophy degree.  And they’re juggling concepts like autonomy and morality?  WTF?!

And considering the range of applications (unlimited), it’s alarming that they have no Humanities knowledge.  Nor Social Science knowledge.  Nor even Physical Science.

They’re coders.  Guys who’ve lived in their parents’ basements for most of their lives.  And do what they do either for the giggles or the money.

Successfully “growing” a human being (a member of their own species) should be a prerequisite for these guys.  Have any of them done that?  Even just 10 hours a day?

‘Raising’ an AI is like raising a child with no nervous system (no capacity to feel pain) (and so no basis for empathy) and, of course, no morality.  Oh, and a super-IQ that’s off the charts.  Who among us is up to that task?  I mean, what can possibly go wrong?  (And did I mention doing it FOR THE MONEY?)

 

Mar 02 2026

What if the typical worker’s pay had risen like CEO’s pay?

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-if-the-typical-workers-pay-had

Jan 29 2026

“But tell us again how women are too emotional for …”

“Women can give birth. Women regulate and manage their emotions far better than men. Women tend to be less power hungry and corrupt in politics than men are. Women are far less likely to abuse children, both physically and sexually. They commit far fewer rapes than men and account for only 1 to 2% of all mass shooters.

“But tell us again how women are too emotional for __________.”

 

from https://themouthyrenegadewriter.substack.com/p/traitor-trump-is-waging-a-sexist

Jan 25 2026

“Future Canadian Resistance Tactics” – hilarious list at Sweeneys

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/future-canadian-resistance-tactics

 

Jan 24 2026

George Carlin on abortion

Jan 17 2026

“What is the point of countries when …”

“What was the point of countries when civilization was only a generation away from extinction?”

from Permafrost, Alastair Reynolds

We aren’t that rational though. So we’ll have national wars right up to the end. We’ll be putting money into winning–nothing. Money that could have gone into surviving. Ditto sports. And entertainment.

Dec 31 2025

funny shit from the now-defunct ‘The Toast’

https://the-toast.archive.town/series/bible-verses/

Dec 28 2025

Bro Boost …

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/22/bro-boost-women-find-linkedin-traffic-drives-if-they-pretend-to-be-men

Dec 16 2025

Impressive? I’d call it sick.

from Congo, Michael Crichton (p293)

“In the 1950s, if the Americans and the Russians launched all the bombers and rockets at the same moment, there would still be no more than 10,000 weapons in the air, attacking and counterattacking Total weapons interaction events would peak at 15,000 in the second hour. This represented the impressive figure of 4 weapons interactions every second around the world.
But … the number of weapons and ‘systems elements’ [has] increased astronomically. Modern [1980] estimates imagine 400 million computers in the field, with total weapons interactions at more than 15 billion in the first half hour of war. This meant there would be 8 millions weapons interactions every second ….
“Such a war would be manageable only by machines. …”

Dec 09 2025

Trump deletes climate data

Unfuckingbelievable that the President of the U.S. would delete climate data and shut down the NOAA database. Many MANY thanks to the people who made the save possible.

https://grist.org/extreme-weather/trump-killed-a-crucial-disaster-database-this-nonprofit-just-saved-it/