Interesting Things on the Internet: October 5th 2026 Edition

Cheap agents, alumni shirts, and Elias Thorne. “AI” killing us all isn’t what I’m worried about; “AI” further polluting everything with more junk because they can externalize the costs onto the rest of us and maybe make a few quid here and there is what I’m depressed about. How to stop having ideas I think (maybe I hope) that I spend almost as long caveating any ideas or proposals that I have at DoES Liverpool with “this is just my idea of it” as I do explaining the idea or suggestion; because I’m aware of the power I hold in that community The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism the cyberlibertarian model required pretending it was unforeseeable. The platforms couldn’t acknowledge that they needed governance because acknowledging it would mean acknowledging responsibility, and acknowledging responsibility would mean acknowledging liability, and acknowledging liability would mean the entire economic model collapses. On artificial intelligence. Matt May saves me writing my own…