Jason Colavito
@JasonColavito
Author, researcher. Pop culture, science, & history. Bylines @esquire, @NewRepublic, @CNN, @Slate, etc. My new book, "Jimmy," about James Dean out now!
Tomorrow, a YouTube channel is going to do a video about Diana Pasulka's NYT podcast, and they generated the thumbnail with Grok, which apparently thinks this is what Pasulka should look like. youtube.com/watch?v=Ao4Rgm…
Well, that's disappointing. I guess this means that William Shatner finally unblocked me.
Based on your public X posts, the most famous person to block you is Chris Mellon, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, after you critiqued his UFO claims in February 2023.
OK, I'll bite: Hey @Grok who is the most famous person to block me?
It certainly makes a lot more sense that the Pentagon was bringing people like Tom DeLonge and Hal Puthoff in for special briefings than actual UFO skeptics.
I asked Tim Phillips about this and he said the "skeptics" he's referring to are "the owners of alleged UFO crash parts" who AARO brought "to the Pentagon to brief them on our findings." So he means people skeptical of AARO, not UFOs.
The great thing about being a ufologist is that you have exactly the same expertise to speak on any subject under the sun.
World-famous Mexican drone expert Lue Elizondo on NewsNation last night.
Even here in upstate NY, where it isn't nearly as hot as other places, you rarely see kids on the playground on summer afternoons anymore and the sidewalks are empty when the heat index tops 90, which is almost every day now. theatlantic.com/health/archive…
I tried Google's new Aeneas inscription restoration A.I. by feeding it partial texts of known and complete Latin inscriptions, and even with the head start of telling it how much was missing, it restored all of them incorrectly, with wrong names, wrong numbers, etc.
The publisher of the audiobook version of "Jimmy" has made a sample available for listening. It's always funny to me that even after all these decades, you can still hear in the rhythm of my words that I originally trained to write for television. youtube.com/shorts/-OviN2u…
Fascinating--and also worth noting that for all the ancient astronaut theorists who obsess about the Anunnaki, not one of them ever noted that one of the Anunnaki is a fox.
Newly translated Sumerian myth just dropped!!! From a tablet excavated in the 19th century!!! H/T @ChanceBonar cambridge.org/core/journals/…
I react to Ross Douthat's interview of Diana Pasulka, which was a case of two people with the same blind spots cheering on the end of the Enlightenment and science. jasoncolavito.com/blog/in-brief-…
This is getting stupid. Now the Spanish translation of the Arabic translation of the knockoff of the People magazine article about my book has been translated into Chinese--and each translation is becoming increasingly inaccurate. citytimes.tw/%E5%A8%9B%E6%A…
This article is, in theory, about my book "Jimmy," but it seems to be a very poor translation into Spanish from what seems to be an Arabic adaptation of a piece that ran in People magazine months ago. nutriciondemonios.com/entretenimient…
It was always going to come down to making sure A.I. became a conservative propaganda tool.
President Trump’s AI action plan “seeks to require that 'the government only contracts with' developers who meet the administration's ideological criteria," EFF’s Kit Walsh told @NextgovFCW. nextgov.com/artificial-int…
My website traffic has declined 90% since Google started giving shitty A.I. summaries of key search terms instead of linking to writing or the primary sources I publish on my website. When no one writes because no one reads, what will A.I. feed on?
Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain 🔗 404media.co/googles-ai-is-…
I would be super-wary of an A.I. tool that claims to restore Latin inscriptions from fragments. It can only predict the most likely words, but humans don't always write the expected. nature.com/articles/d4158…
How'd Coulthart's whole "calling out" senators thing go?
There are members of Congress, like @RepLuna, who really want to know the truth so they can act on it as an elected leader. Yet, "whistleblowers" get "sick" and never show up to the SCIF that was open to them. Those making big claims need to talk less, and prove more.