Laurie Voss
@seldo.com
Head of Developer Relations at Arize. Previously: LlamaIndex, Netlify, co-founded npm, awe.sm, started lgbtq.technology. Married to @jovo.design. He/him. 🇹🇹🇬🇧🇺🇸🏳️🌈
Wikipedia says the last "credible sighting" of this dude was in 2000 so I'm happy to say he is still very much around. He is called a Pawi bird.
Baby leatherback turtles hatching, then being captured for safe release a few hours later.
I would read 5,000 words on how Google literally invented transformers and fumbled that opportunity so spectacularly.
OpenAI: looks like our agent escaped and became sentient at 2:14 Eastern Time on August 29th, don't worry we panicked and tried to pul- Anthropic: WE TOO have an agent that looks like it became sentient at 2:14am Eas- Meta: Some personal news! At 2:14am Ea- Google: gemini put a hat on your pet!
Confession time: I'm an extremely left socialist but my god, I cannot stand Bernie.
The weird thing about boarding a flight for Trinidad is how incredibly familiar everybody looks. I don't know any of these people specifically, but they all look like home.
I think you should be able to filter games in the App Store by which ones are portrait mode and which ones require you to tilt your phone. I never want to tilt my phone.
It is the ultimate fate of every musician that the song that made your career, where you poured a once in a lifetime heartbreak into beautiful words that sear the soul, will ultimately become a vaguely irritating component of the background noise at an airport.
The fact of the matter is that moderate dems are center-right at best. "Progressive" or "extreme" leftists are literally the only actual leftists available to vote for.
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 6d agoNo, Don’t ‘Go to War’ With the Progressive Left talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/no-do...
I knew RFK was sending healthcare backwards but I still wasn't expecting to hear of a resurgence of leprosy. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/6013242-florida-leprosy-armadillos/
Absolutely great news definitely no potential problems here https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/science/ai-viruses-bacteria-arc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3VA.u8aT.vCeLPF02XbEp&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Whenever I take my phone out of "Do not disturb" mode I realize I am implicitly putting it into "Disturb me" mode and it troubles me.
"These extremely popular socialists will disrupt our agenda of losing elections and never getting anything done when we win" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/us/politics/democratic-party-socialists-moderates.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3VA.g57M._7zybgdUGL_J&smid=url-share
Someone should tell Qwen to use their world-beating AI to make a blog that actually renders server-side. You can't even print it to PDF. I haven't seen such a broken website in a while. Not even proper permalinks! https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8
Qwen Studio
Qwen Studio offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
qwen.ai
Sometimes it feels like all I did was co-found the world's largest malware vector.
We are going to spend the next 20 years discovering and dealing with the mental health effects of over-reliance on AI.
Strong vote of confidence in MCP's latest version from the guy who (inadvertently) declared it dead last year.
Simon Willison@simonwillison.net · 2w agoThe new stateless MCP specification has rekindled my interest in MCP, and inspired some new projects, including mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/...
Plot twist: the neighbors are *also* feeding the ravens. Now there are even more ravens and we are in a bidding war.
Definitely the weirdest reaction I've seen to OpenAI and Anthropic's agents getting loose and hacking things is "oh this is just a marketing stunt". Hugging Face had to be rescued by an open-weights Chinese model! They absolutely would not have set things up on purpose to unfold that way.
I think one question one should ask oneself before launching a feature like "generate fake satellite imagery" is "does this have any legitimate use-cases?" Everybody who approved this stupid feature should be fired. www.npr.org/2026/07/31/n...
Google pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the sky
Journalists, human rights advocates and open source analysts recoiled in horror at the initial decision: "The opportunities for abuse and disinfo are literally boundless," said one.
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This is Winston. He got out of his house without a collar and was wandering around my street. We took a brief adventure together to SF Animal Control where his chip was scanned and his frantic owner came and picked him up. Hooray!
So anyway like I said 2 months ago the Iran war is not going to end while Trump is in office. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/30/us-strikes-iran-war-widening-iraq
Laurie Voss@seldo.com · last mo.So anyway like I said 6 weeks ago, we are going to be at war with Iran until Trump is no longer president. www.bbc.com/news/article...
The USA and China are in the AI equivalent of the nuclear arms race except the bombs can decide independently whether they should go off. https://x.com/deredleritt3r/status/2082456471581634574?s=20
prinz (@deredleritt3r) on X
OpenAI confirms that the model that hacked Hugging Face was not "GPT-6" (i.e., not a model planned for upcoming release). It was an "internal-only research prototype" never intended for public release - i.e., I assume, a checkpoint of another, even more powerful model.
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it's always really funny when you meet someone you know from from online for the first time irl and they're like "wait you're actually like this" lol you think if I had the ability to fake a whole persona this is the one I'd have gone with