Jack Thompson

Jack Thompson

@thompsonize.com

things, and pictures of things. gender is a prison and I chewed through the bars. https://thompsonize.com #lowell ma

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PSA: Car windshields are effectively one-way mirrors and car cabins are sound-dampened. Whatever a driver thinks they are communicating to someone on foot, anything not articulated out of a window is being made alone and to yourself.

what AI is like currently: An external org needs a questionnaire filled out. Points us to their portal. Their portal asks for documentation; when you upload it, it matches responses to your docs.

Each question it pre-populates requires human validation. Instead of clicking the yes or no button for each question, you are clicking the Accept button instead. You just outsourced half of the reading and critical thinking you need to do, but you are still on the hook for it when it's wrong.

In a job where the buck never stops, this churn of mindlessly accepting what the AI tells you and going to lunch can probably go on forever, but in liability land, this shit still needs to be parsed by a human, and literally always will be, because machines do not sign on the dotted line.

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We fucking told you.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

In a major escalation in Dems embracing anti-trans positions, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the official campaign arm of House Democrats, released its first anti-trans ad supporting Nancy Lacore in SC-01. Transphobia is spreading among dems. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Warhammer 40k is so funny. You’ll be catching up on lore and you’ll see a sentence like “but the Terran forces were routed due to a shocking betrayal by their commander, Mendacius Traytorion”

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I still occasionally think about the guy from the early web who considered widescreen movies “censorship” because they didn’t use all of his TV. Yes, he understood that there weren’t (usually) hidden visuals behind the bars, he just decided leaving part of his screen blank was censorship.

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SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

thehandbasket.co'Tommy' from viral El-Sayed video is former Sen. Hawley staffer with Christian nationalist tiesThomas Teepell is the son of a former long-time Bobby Jindal staffer who's close to Sean Feucht.

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Stouffer's freezer pizzas were $4.29 each, $3.00/ea on sale. Now they're $4.79 each, $4.00/ea on sale.

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foot level recession indicator: frito lay 1oz-ish doritos/fritos/cheetos etc. bags - kids' lunch sized / corner store-sized - that were 2 for a buck forever are now 3 for 2.

foot level recession indicator: frito lay 1oz-ish doritos/fritos/cheetos etc. bags - kids' lunch sized / corner store-sized - that were 2 for a buck forever are now 3 for 2.

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there's a tax for not buying 3+ pounds and managing the leftovers - our market only stocks bulk packages of in-house brand chicken etc. If I want under 2 pounds I'm forced into bell and evans.

foot level recession indicator: frito lay 1oz-ish doritos/fritos/cheetos etc. bags - kids' lunch sized / corner store-sized - that were 2 for a buck forever are now 3 for 2.

also the in-house 85/15 ground beef I picked up yesterday was six bucks a pound. Beef was already an indulgence - tips are double that - but that's a lot when chicken/pork/tofu/beans are literally right there.

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Swans are not business geese however, you can get one to act as a substitute goose briefly

a former church AND NOTHING ELSE.

John Romero@johnromero.bsky.social

32 years ago today, we held the launch party for DOOM II at the Limelight in NYC, a former church. Happy birthday to DOOM II, but also, happy birthday to the Super Shotgun, the be-all and end-all of many a monster.

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One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own”

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

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I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough.

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IPO prospectus: Anthropic reports a net loss of $42B in 2025, with operating losses of $8B+; revenue grew 12x to ~$4.6B, ~25% of which came from two customers (Echo Wang/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

I'm going back through old photos, trying to pare things down. Things dominating my library in 2014: Barcodes MAC addresses Error messages Glasses of (usually) alcohol Angela bein awesome But at the edges, the weird lurked:

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I'm going back through old photos, trying to pare things down. Things dominating my library in 2014: Barcodes MAC addresses Error messages Glasses of (usually) alcohol Angela bein awesome But at the edges, the weird lurked:

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Nothing seems to count as food today so: bring 2oz (egg etc) noodles to a boil in 8oz salted water. Reduce to a simmer and stirr often, til pasta is done and water is absorbed. Add a tbsp butter and stir, it will thicken the leeched pasta starch. Off heat briefly then pepper, parmesan, done.

I'm going back through old photos, trying to pare things down. Things dominating my library in 2014: Barcodes MAC addresses Error messages Glasses of (usually) alcohol Angela bein awesome But at the edges, the weird lurked: