I’ve been digging through the Epstein files for weeks now and I’m finding that there are a lot of issues with the coverage in the press. This is an attempt to explain some of them.

It’s been 24 years with my dearest love and best friend.

Why software is so shit, how to make it performant and why current AI companies are morally reprehensible.

LLMs are, at best, a dirty hack. And they won’t be the future of AI.

The Narn and Centauri are at killing blows and Commander Sinclair decides to take out a fighter and leave his new second-in-command to handle the rapidly developing situation.

Alex Kurtzman has ruined Star Trek. The only decent thing to do now is to let it die.

An MIT professor developed the first chatbot in 1964 and discovered that we tend to ascribe human traits to even the simplest computer programs. This would foreshadow today’s widespread AI delusion.

Speaking of Walter Kirn: This is a well needed breath of fresh air!

I will really miss that show…

Rewatching the the Babylon 5 pilot episode

A several-billion-dollar welfare scam hit national news shortly before the riots erupted in Minneapolis. And the people egging on the protesters seem to be directly involved in this fraud.

On of the best TV shows of all time is being released for free on YouTube right now.

Nice to see I’m not the only one who absolutely hated everything about this show.

The AI tech bros are going crazy: They are convinced their chatbots are gaining consciousness, which is why they made a chatbot-only social network for them, where the bots have gotten religion now.

I have created a newspaper.

We need to stop taking AI slop seriously.

Another protestor was shot dead by ICE in Minneapolis. Why are these agents so bad at their job? Who would take a gun to a protest? Where is the local police? And did Pretti’s P320 fire on its own?

Today I learned: You can legally vote after the actual election in some US states.

What does Donald Trump’s power play over Greenland and the ensuing confrontation with European allies mean for the future of the military alliance? Does NATO without the US even make sense?

What would German troops even do in Greenland? And why do people suddenly care about it anyway?