Cody Duncan

Have any transactional attorneys come across contracts with hidden prompts that attempt to get automated review tools to ignore glaring imbalances, give glowing reports?

Buying blank cassettes instantly ages you.

What happened to recluses? Hardly see any these days.

You must ask yourself, what did the worst people of the time tell children the culture and society of another time treated as no big deal?

Holy shit. I finished writing a book today. I've never done this before. I know I have a lot of work ahead of me to turn this into something that is even borderline digestible, but I'm shaking, quietly revelling, just having managed this much.

Okay, but if this is allowed, I would like the next president to paint the place up like some of the wilder rainbow Victorians in San Francisco. Let's just unwind the old myths of monochromatic classicism. Repaint those old marble statues. Make those pillars sing.

Why, in 2025, would you even consider buying a toaster that cannot give you medical advice?

For those future readers of my unfinished novel, I want you to know that I wrote the chapters about the CEO using an AI avatar before this happened. I can't keep up with how absurd the present is, much less stay ahead of how stupid it will become. Such is the recent future.

As Derek explains, a system where copyright owners call the shots on AI development will benefit exactly the big companies that most working artists loathe - the monopolies and monopsonies whose buying and selling power keep the cost of artists' labor low.

Sometimes I think about James Hong shouting, "Cartwright!" and it is enough. With this thought in my corner, I am enough. So think about James Hong shouting, "Cartwright!" and breathe.

When I hear that squawk, I bring the seed. #birds of #sanfrancisco

Classic FedEx blunder: Suggesting I leave the house, even when I'm in Waiting Mode.

I'm nostalgic for a time I barely remember, when everything was Communism. That was before my formative years, when everything became terrorism. What will everything be after it stops being woke?

If you believe what the Trump administration says about the government of El Salvador, if you believe Trump's excuses for his cruelty and incompetence, then you have ample evidence that every petition for asylum from someone leaving El Salvador should be granted automatically.

How much of the (non-Signal) insane news that I'm reading was enabled by the 2012 NDAA? Can @normative.bsky.social tell me? You were doing stuff back then. That's when we met but I don't expect you'd remember that.

How long has it been since you could name all the countries where the USA was at war? Like actual declared war? For me, a solid 13 years, and I try to keep track!

My daily 5% confident Mark My Words: AI will create a permanent Yes Man hazard. And, deployed by people who already have power, this will give rise to problems of agency and accountability. There's always a tendency for credit to go up, and blame to go down.

This will gross some people out, but one thing I love about cast iron is the residue of flavors. I like when my eggs taste like yesterday's broccoli and soy sauce or BBQ chicken. I don't know if it's safe and I don't care. Okay, keep scrolling, there's plenty of doom to consume.

"This, too, shall pass," is comforting but also literally true of kidney stones.

Out here to ask again: Can someone at Vanguard or Schwab or something please make an S&P500-1 index fund, which is just the S&P500 without Tesla? Asking for a friend/country.

I hope that next time, the Chronicle reports on this after the event, rather than using their huge megaphone to give him free publicity, risking a self-defeating prophesy.

Big news for the hot dog and soda scene.

Occasionally I hear a piece of music and think, "Wow, that's really what I've been going for. This is it. They did it!" But I don't actually like listening to it.

I was going to make a joke about how awesome it would be if The Substance was nominated for best picture, and it turns out that The Substance was nominated for best picture.

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

Don't, even for a second, entertain a narrative that says this is not exactly what it looks like.

AI is great because instead of giving you Heartbreaker to Livin' Lovin' Maid, you get Werewolves of London followed by Monster Mash.

The wood grain of the table I'm working on made a better eye than I could draw if I tried.

This annual celebration makes me so happy.

The government should not be telling us which fuzzy ancient beings we can and cannot summon.

This just makes my mind race, contemplating the importance of "the outdoors"/outside to two political identities in the US. It's complicated, and often contradictory.

Don't make me confabulate an explanation for this, but I believe the harms of the last 10 years of politics could have been avoided if we hadn't moved all our crap to the cloud and traded all our protocols for services. And you can probably guess my age by that statement alone.

Too true. And on top of that, have you heard about the election that just happened? Apparently the guy is appointing some pretty unsavory characters to rather important positions.