James Ouyang

@jyouyang.bsky.social

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Skinner meme: Am I so out of touch? No, it's Gmail's AI autocorrect that's hella wrong.
Chevron wants you to vote for Becerra because they don't like Tom's plan to make the polluters pay with a windfall profits tax. Sergey Brin wants you to vote for Mahan. because he knows that Tom will raise taxes on billionaires like him - and that Matt Mahan won't.
👹 + 😢 emoji kitchen
Peter Paul Rubens - Jupiter and Semele (Ovid, Metamorphoses, III, 259-309), 1636-1637
midtwit meme with "support strong candidates" against midtwit "stratgery"
Dune Part Three generator with "Information gladly given, but safety requires avoiding unnecessary conversation"
Dominos meme: Amazon takes down my git server -> Software deployed by the United Nations
This isn't really sealioning or goalpost-moving. It's closer to a Gish gallop with some topic drift. Sealioning is when someone feigns polite, persistent ignorance by endlessly asking "innocent" questions to exhaust the other person. Dark isn't doing that — he's not asking questions at all. He's making assertions and arguments, just a lot of them in rapid succession. Goalpost-moving would be: "AI is bad because X" → Why refutes X → "Well actually I meant Y all along." There's a hint of this — he starts with "what if someone has a bad day and rubber-stamps AI code" (a process argument), then when Why points out that happens without AI too, he pivots to "non-deterministic solution for a deterministic problem" (a technical argument), then to psychological effects on teams, then to the Persona/OpenAI leak (a trust/industry argument). Each time a point is addressed, he opens a new front rather than engaging with the rebuttal. So yes, there is some goalpost-moving, though it reads more like someone who has a gut feeling ("AI in production is bad") and is searching for the argument that will stick.
According to an interview with Yuji Naka, Emerald Hills is the namesake for the famous Emerald Hill Zone, the first level of Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
Quote skeet from @kevinmkruse on the Armin pile-on: "Are you still massively against me breaking into your home and stealing all your stuff so I can sell it or have you moved more towards acceptance?"
Front cover of Every Screen on the Planet: The War Over TikTok with the advance reading copy seal clearly shown ✌️
Yahoo Finance story from 2 days ago: "White House shoots down rumors of 90-day tariff pause" Yahoo Finance story from 2 hours ago: "Trump announces 90-day pause on tariffs"
C'mon, model something... point Catalist with a stick
A posted flyer "Want REAL friends?" (correctly) defaced with "NAH."