Charles Miller

It takes fairly little effort for a person to tell their AI bot to research and draft an email, but it takes the recipients real time to dig into these tips and separate hallucinations from tips that might actually have some basis. They're basically DDOSing journalists.

This is happening to me, but with "tips" about a huge range of crypto-related issues (or perceived issues) people are personally struggling with. The volume is genuinely challenging to deal with.

App: Your notifications are turned off. This means you won't receive notifications from this app. Turn them on so you can receive notifications! Me: They're off because I don't want notifications.

#StarTrekVOY "Through The Valley" To traverse a terrifying region of space, the crew refit Voyager to look like one of the native space-born creatures. When a transporter accident splits Harry into two people, Janeway demotes each of them to halfnsigns.

Lol let's destroy the revenue models for actual humans creating actual information, not bother to give our customers proper tech support, and make our robots tell those customers to bother journalists so we don't have to listen to their problems. ONE TRILLION DOLLARS, please!

The TeX Live Utility release notes are still undefeated.

Watching "meta-externalagent/1.1" requesting "/" on my website once or twice a second for the last three hours, occasionally branching out to check if anything has unexpectedly appeared at "/null", and wondering what drugs they're on at Facebook these days.

Finally drew a stupid comic I have been making in my head over the past week after seeing one too many 'bogan moth' comments on social media lol

Prediction markets are supposed to amplify correct information but mainly just reflect what people are told by the media they consume. That's not a particularly bad way to predict things, at least until (waves hands at everything) they finally kill off proper news media, but there's no magic in it.

Let me tell you a story about the politics of Australia: Over the last 28 years generally, but over the last decade particularly, I've done a lot of politics outside of Australia. Last week, an organisation I work with called me in for a meeting mostly among people like me around the world /n

New blog post (continuing to work through the things that have been backed up in my brain, now I have a more convenient publishing workflow): “‘AI skills’ are worthless in 2026” fishbowl.pastiche.org/2026/10/26/a...

It's the same mindset that thinks what poor people really need is advice on how to budget.

I think the gap between "video essay" and "documentary" just narrowed to the point that now we have a commercially released Elon Musk doco with a longer runtime than an hbomberguy video.

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I was today years old when I found out that I've been wrong all this time, and the Underworld that sang Underneath the Radar and the Underworld that released Born Slippy are, in fact, the same guys. youtu.be/r4jfwzw1drw

When AirBnB was legitimately squatting in peoples spare rooms, rules that asked you to act like a houseguest made sense. Now they're just unregulated hotels, and owners are trying to squeeze every dollar they can out of guests, sorry but no.

Yiff The Vote

Katniss is currently not talking to me because I deliberately and maliciously made a sandwich in a way that did not involve her getting any Vegemite.

They already hold the internet together, are we now going to have to depend on them to save American democracy?

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i hate gay halloween…two skeletons??? how would that even work

It has come to my attention that many people are unaware that the person who figured out that the private key was 4 was a Something Awful forums goon: forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.p...

you know a band is good when there's a chart like this on their Wikipedia page

The issue that matters most.

It's more than a bit :crylaugh: to remember that Linktree got to a billion dollar valuation basically by giving people a place to put their naughty links without upsetting social media.

New blog post: the Hibernate origin story (outsider edition) fishbowl.pastiche.org/2026/10/23/h...

Social media has been a convenient target for successive governments, taking the blame for everything from racism to youth crime. www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/23/s...

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha:

I feel like all the Bioware retrospectives have not yet dwelt enough on what an absolute watershed Femshep was in terms of female playable protagonists

Here's a photo of a helicopter landed on Joanne's 227 foot support yacht that follows around her 290 foot main yacht

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