Sergio Arbeo

@arbeo.dev

🚀 Senior Engineer @DockYard 💻 #Elixir & Phoenix LiveView enthusiast, improving developer experience 🛠️ Building systems that survive weekend deploys

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

DHH tweet saying “This is why we need competition and open weights in Al. Imagine a world where only Anthropic sat as the moral arbiter of acceptable speech. Fucking ridiculous. (Grok of course did it no problem, same too with Kimi K).” when presented with his blog post using a slur about the Roma people.

Anything you can do in Obsidian you can do from the command line. Obsidian CLI is now available in 1.12 (early access).

The French offices of Elon Musk's X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offences into the platform’s algorithms & their alleged complicity in the spread of CSAM, sexually explicit deepfakes, & other offenses

Closeup of a smartphone screen showing the X app page with the X logo

I cannot unsee the death of the pull request in open source upon us. PRs from external contributors made a lot of sense when it was hard to write code, and it took lots of time investment (+ lots of thinking!) to do so. Now that it takes seconds/minutes: dynamics change

La gente cada vez es más desagradecida... El creador de Clawdbot (ahora Moltbot) se queja, con razón, que recibe insultos y amenazas en redes sociales. Un proyecto gratis, open source, creado como hobby. Falta más empatía y personas con ganas de construir.

Captura de un tuit de Peter Steinberger (@steipete), con foto de perfil y cuenta verificada. El texto, sobre fondo negro, dice que recibe muchas críticas por publicar un proyecto hobby gratis, que la gente lo trata como si fuera una empresa multimillonaria y que incluso investigadores de seguridad exigen recompensas. Añade que con los sponsors apenas le alcanza para comprar un Mac Mini, que el proyecto es para inspirar a la gente, que no está terminado, que tiene menos de tres meses y que, pese a los rumores, a veces duerme.

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

NYT push alert: "A person was shot dead today during a struggle with federal agents in Minneapolis, according to officials."

Alex Jeffrey Pretti was an ICU nurse at a VA hospital. His life, through his profession, was dedicated to serving his community and our country. As so many have now seen on video, his final act before he was killed by federal agents was doing everything in his power to protect his community.

"A man treating service members to our country, dedicating his life to serving Americans Who in his final act on this earth was helping a woman pushed to the ground And they are calling him a Domestic Terrorist in order to defend their gross abuse of power, their absolute breaching of the law" AOC

NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo@originalist.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Alex Pretti used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians bsky.app/profile/bran... "He was trying to help someone else they'd knocked to the ground. And for that they started pepper spraying him. And then the pistol whipped him and murdered him bsky.app/profile/clar...

Did anyone say Retargetable View Transitions (aka Interruptible View Transitions)? I think I’ve got it working (by throwing some extra JavaScript at it) …

somebody at UChicago is feeding preprints to LLMs without authors' consent, in a research study they have the gall to suggest to authors they've opted-in that they volunteer to evaluate the LLMs' suggestions regarding their own work. lol, lmao even. here is the invite and my reply

Dear Author,

      I am Honglin Bao (www.hbao.info), a data science PhD student in Knowledge Lab (https://knowledgelab.org/) at the University of Chicago, working on a study about “The Capabilities and Potential of AI for Automating Scientific Idealization: A Large-Scale Human-in-the-Loop Study” (under UChicago IRB25-1372). As AI plays an increasingly significant role in scientific discovery, this project aims to evaluate how far AI helps scientists extend their work in new directions – or if it is not useful in this regard. This is a research project – it has no commercial purpose. I will share the final draft, technical details, and aggregate results from scientists once the study is complete.     
      We came across your preprint "Principles of music perception" and applied custom AI models on it in accordance with the terms of the preprint license, which generated five new extensions (i.e., ideas proposed by AI based on the same context as your paper). Our pilot study of 400 scientists (excluding you) indicates that around 60% found at least one of the proposed extensions thought-provoking and actionable. However, the remaining reported that AI only generates seemingly plausible but vague sentences.
      We solicit your help in evaluating whether you think AI is useful or not, since we believe you are the best judge of new ideas proposed from your own paper. No matter where you stand regarding AI and science: From principally believing that AI is prone to producing fake and morally problematic science to finding it useful, or something in between, we hope to receive evaluations that reflect a spectrum of views.
      The AI-proposed extensions are included in the survey link below. If you consent to review them and participate in the survey, we would appreciate it if you could do so within the next 14 days (it will take you < 10mins). If you do not consent, we will not use your research in this study. If you find these ideas valuable, you are welcome to purs…Please remove my data from your study. I want nothing to do with this — and I would also point out that if you had done appropriate background work in the selection of articles you fed to the plagiarism machine, you would have found that the preprint of mine you used is way out of date and has been updated substantially since it was first posted.

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Samuel Mehr
School of Psychology, University of Auckland
and Child Study Center, Yale University
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