"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...
One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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I just saw the term "Procrastineer" for the first time today, and I've never felt like I belong to a group as much as I belong to that one. hackaday.com/2026/08/12/p...
Procrastineers Rejoice! 2026 Supercon Call For Participation Extended
A few weeks ago, we put out the call for participation for this year’s 2026 Hackaday Supercon, taking place in Pasadena, CA this November. Today was going to be the deadline, but like you, we often…
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So... honest question; are LLMs a munition now? www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m... I guess this would count as a force majeure if Anthropic needed to get out of any really expensive datacenter deals (looks over at SpaceX's recent IPO)...
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States.
anthropic.com
AI Economics for Dummies www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-... I was really confused about how all this was working, but it makes so much more sense now!
AI Economics for Dummies
“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...
mcsweeneys.net
Ah, I don’t know why I didn’t think about posting my earlier 17-post thread as a screenshot of my tweet at the other place. Thanks, @rj-palmer.com!
RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637@rj-palmer.com · 5mo agogood tweet
I _love_ this metaphor: www.dbreunig.com/2026/03/26/w... The eponymous architecture even looks like an AI generated image. It's just spot on.
The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House
Welcome to the era of sprawling, idiosyncratic tooling.
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theonion.com/crab-just-ha... It's sad to me that the crabs won't get the joke, but at least the Onion continues to be the most accurate news purveyor out there.
Crab Just Happy To Be In Bucket With All His Friends
NEW BEDFORD, MA—Expressing deep gratitude to find himself surrounded by those so dear to his heart, local crab Dan Herscher told reporters Wednesday that he was just happy to be in a bucket with all h...
theonion.com
NEW: The F.D.A. refused to accept an application from Moderna for its mRNA flu vaccine. Its reason: The agency did not think Moderna compared the new vaccine to one of the best flu shots available. The company spent $750M+ on a 41,000 person study. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...
F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna Flu Vaccine
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I'm not saying this is the precise chain of events that happened... But it certainly matches what's happening: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/just
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Just
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Just
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Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Inspired by alexcodesart.com I put together a noisy-circles sketch with Nannou/EGUI/Rust. Perlin noise progressively modifying the radius of concentric(ish) circles. #generative #generativeart #creativecoding #nannou #rust
serce.me/posts/2025-3... This has been a constant topic of discussion with a lot of my peers, but I think this post hits the nail on the head. TL;DR: Your AI engine can't engineer a good system, even if it does write decent code.
There is no Vibe Engineering
This article explores the relationship between vibe coding and software engineering.
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