If you can’t trust the Twitter account of a perennially unsuccessful extinction-level asteroid and presidential candidate, then I just feel sorry for you.

Queenie? You passed on Q*bert?

If you believe that the incidents of the past month warrant urgent AI regulation, please watch this first. This is the most prescient, concise argument for why we must be careful of excessive AI regulation. It comes from a Feb. 2024 (2.5 years ago!) congressional testimony from @glukianoff, a free speech advocate and the author of The Coddling of the American Mind. Here's what he said: "But the most chilling threat that the government poses in the context of emerging AI is regulatory overreach that limits its potential as a tool for contributing to human knowledge. A regulatory panic could result in a small number of Americans deciding for everyone else what speech, ideas and even questions are permitted in the name of 'safety' or 'alignment.' I have dedicated my life to defending freedom of speech because it's an essential human right. ... It's not just about the proverbial 'marketplace of ideas,' it's about allowing information, independent of idea or argument, to flow freely so that we can hope to know the world as it really is. This means seeing value in expression even when it appears to be wrongheaded or even useless. This process has been aided by new technologies that have made communication easier, from the printing press, to the telegraph and radio, to phones and the internet: each one has accelerated the development of new knowledge by making it easier to share information. But AI offers even greater liberating potential, empowered by First Amendment principles including freedom to code, academic freedom, and freedom of inquiry. We are on the threshold of a revolution in the creation and discovery of knowledge. AI's potential is humbling, indeed, even frightening. But as the history of the printing press shows, attempts to put the genie back in the bottle will fail. Despite the profound disruption the printing press caused in Europe in the short-term, the long-term contribution to art, science, and again, knowledge, was without equal. Yes, we may have some fears about the proliferation of AI. But what those of us who care about civil liberties fear more is a government monopoly on advanced AI, or, more likely, regulatory capture and a government-empowered oligopoly that privileges a handful of existing players. The end result of pushing too hard on AI regulation will be the concentration of AI influence in an even smaller number of hands. Far from reining in government misuse of AI to censor, we will have created the framework not only to censor, but also to dominate and distort the production of knowledge itself."

If your press freedom ranking puts the UK above the US, then your press freedom ranking is a joke. Sorry.

Got an email from my son's chem teacher because he was competing with his friend to see who could handle acid on their hand the longest. Realistically that one is 100% on me. I doubt he even knows it's against any sort of rules

I'm watching the scene and every time the Zuckerberg character rebuts some awful pro-censorship line from Bill Burr I'm muttering "based" and "even more based" and "yes this" and "exactly right, yes." I suspect I'm not alone.

10 seconds. That’s how long it took me to recognize that something this self-righteous and preachy could only come from the mind of Aaron Sorkin.

When Dave Matthews Band released a new album in early 2001, the record company flooded Napster with tracks labeled as DMB but were actually off of an early EP from some British band called “Coldplay”

And for my next trick, a story in three parts

Trump is deploying biological weapons against Canada

A culture that teaches critique before affirming aesthetic values trains people to be precise about what they hate and inarticulate about what they love.

This is one of the best impressions I’ve ever heard, period

Weaponizing the dollar with sanctions and asset seizures, then spending like drunken sailors on pointless and unconstitutional wars has consequences. Shocking.

This is the best Raymond Reddington impression you will ever hear

In case you were wondering, this is the kid from Toy Story

This is how leaders should fight it out instead of war.

Good ad, but you just know Achilles has a critical vulnerability.

What happens when you make your Operating System fractal? I'll show you...