Mad Men is the best show on earth and i want that written on my tombstone, nothing about family or the joys of life or to experience the cool autumn air on my cheeks. No, no. Mad Men is what mattered
🚨Scoop: A memo circulating at White House this week paint effectiv altruism as a fringe, dangerous cult. The memo, obtained by @Axios, places Amodei at the foundation of the movement… axios.com/2026/09/24/trump-a…
Front page of every Australian newspaper rn.
On the one hand it's *almost* reassuring that all these new incidents are from the same May-July period when OpenAI's training setup was clearly fucked... meaning maybe they've now fixed it.
OTOH, what might be happening now—at OpenAI or elsewhere—that we're not going to learn about until December..??
The lesbian bar story is a writing masterclass in how to include details that don’t necessarily advance the plot but enhance the work. Case in point: clown school
An OpenAI agent swarm operating under poorly airgapped research conditions accessed my CBA Mastercard and bought 4 schooners of Newtowner between 5:52pm and 7:15pm last night
[Lesbian bar co-owner looking despondently into her drink, fiddling with the toothpick] "sometimes I just" [sees a clown rolling down the street on a unicycle] "I just think there's something more out there."