We are building powerful, poorly understood, non-deterministic systems, handing them autonomy, and wiring them into places that matter. Stop asking if AI is conscious. Start asking: where is the engineering discipline keeping it safe? New video out now ➡️ youtu.be/mRF99to28sA

The Real AI Threat ISN'T Sci-Fi (It’s So Much Worse)

YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering

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Published estimates of AI energy use per prompt (~0.3 watt-hours) appear reassuring small. But they are increasingly disconnected from how we actually use AI. Modern agentic tools use around 600 times more energy per prompt, as I discuss in my latest over at The Climate Brink www.theclimatebrink....

“The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.” — William Osler

Our culture is not your costume [OC]

The difference--

Isekai as a genre is exploding in popularity because it appeals to a universal desire to get hit by a truck rather than live in the 21st century.

Technology is cool, too bad they made it evil

yeah i'm a gamer

"If there is a question to ask, then, it is this: Why does Musk get a pass? Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

Opinion | Elon Musk Is a Menace to Society (Gift Article)

Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?

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"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

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Forth xkcd.com/3277/

Today we had the GOAT @danabra.mov on @syntax.fm to school us on ATPROTO Please forgive the title, trying to get more people interested in it 🤣 www.youtube.com/watch?v=D77G...

ATPROTO isn’t just for Bluesky weiners

YouTube video by Syntax

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I will reiterate: Christians in the West evangelize in public for the same reason men catcall. Neither is trying to persuade you; both are reminding you that the public sphere belongs to them and you exist in it at their sufferance.

I don't worry at all about terminator stuff, I worry quite a lot about Augmented authoritarianism, and I worry the most of all about a gigantic metastasizing perpetually low-trust neomedieval pile of shit that AI greatly exacerbates and possibly locks in for good.

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real talk, how many of y’all are genuinely concerned about super intelligent AI ushering in the end of days?

Pfff. You young whippersnappers and your fancy machines. I run Kimi K3 locally, the old fashioned way: with pencil and paper, one matrix multiplication at a time.

Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.

My newest Citation Needed project made an appearance on @lastweektonight.com! It’s a work in progress, but you can see the new interactive version of my map of the Trump family’s crypto ventures at map.citationneeded.news.

In the fullness of time, LLMs will eventually become commodities and their price will be a race to the bottom.

There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.

As a boy, my grandparents wouldn't dream of buying a Ford b/c Henry Ford—who was long dead by then—had been a rabid antisemite. 40 years later, I'm amazed that so many people who deplore xenophobia remain willing to buy a Tesla.

You've got to love how, based on online posts, however the "AI apocalypse" goes, we are f'ed: In the utopian/dystopian world where AI does everything, there'd be a humanitarian crisis governments are not ready for. If AI fails, there'd be an economic crisis so big governments are not ready for.

This utter muppet of a conservative Canadian politician in New Brunswick forgot to remove the LLM text from his floor speech and read it out loud.

I asked my daughter Beth what keeps her up at night. Not the robots doing whatever they want. The robots doing exactly what some people tell them to. We're building tech that could be a personal army, where you no longer need anyone else's help to do great harm.

The winning design. 🇪🇺💶

The phrase "you don't know what you've got til it's gone" applies most of all to uncongested nostrils.