AI misalignment leads to spinal misalignment.

That is an absolutely deranged amount of money.

If the AI grifto-sphere were a supergiant star that has wandered off of the main sequence, its core is just now finishing up the oxygen and starting in on the silicon.

https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/educators/elements/imagine/05.html

Via Timnit Gebru’s mastodon, I just learned that Emily Bender (both of On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots fame) has a podcast: “Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000.” Looking forward to checking it out tomorrow at the gym!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/episodes

Summary: Artificial Intelligence has too much hype. In this podcast, linguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist Alex Hanna break down the AI hype, separate fact from fiction, and science from bloviation. They’re joined by special guests and talk about everything, from machine consciousness to science fiction, to political economy to art made by machines.

Absolutely unhinged. Are these people from the As-Seen-On-TV dimension where it’s common for folks burn their house down every time they try to fry an egg?

Their episode on Rudolph Steiner was great when explaining to the grandparents why we had to pull our kids out of a Waldorf kindergarten asap. Funny how so many things fall into the trap of “It can’t be that stupid, you must be explaining it wrong.”

Also, big L for me on due diligence. I thought outdoor classrooms would be good for our fellow ADHD enjoyer; nope.

first comment is a masterpiece.

I suspect it’ll land somewhere above “halitosis” but below “wearing black socks with crocs”

That started out positively sinister, glad it came out alright!

Behind the Bastards is starting a series about Yarvin today. Always appreciate it when they wander into our bailiwick!

cat /dev/thetans > ~/genius.txt

look at me i am the basilisk now

What are the chances that–somewhere deep in the bowels of Clearwater, FL–some poor soul has been ordered to develop an AI replicant of L. Ron Hubbard?

There is a substantial corpus.

ah the music of the spheres (or at least ball bearings)!

PS: I remembered hearing about this thing a looong time ago. This convo reminded me of it, and it has become something amazing.

The Floppotron 3.0 Computer Hardware Orchestra:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCCXRerqaJI

alas!

Edit: Also, very much in our wheelhouse!

This person is as correct as they are committed to the vibes. Great sneer.

Why am I wet? Where are my PANTS?

–OpenAI investors, Q4 2025

EDIT:

[ACTIONABLE THREATS]

I thought the sounds the floppy disk drive made as it loaded my custom AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS (that made Doom work with my 4 MB of RAM) sounded like a pretty rad beat.