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You would think that all of these people pushing for social media bans for kids would be interested in whether or not these bans actually work...but no, I guarantee we will keep on seeing age-gating bills. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds

The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.

theconversation.com

It's worth noting that it's very disappointing to see Hank Green talk that way and folks take it seriously. Because this "dopamine addiction" stuff is trash science. It's Dr. Phil level bullshit. You scrape it like stale gum off the bottom of the same school bus seats you find Gladwell stuck to.

Mike Riverso@mikeriverso.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is exactly how people talk about gambling and drinking.

monster has caffeine in it? CYP1A2 is ruining my life.

like, "yes a bunch of people provided unharnessed LLMs and no guidance have cooked themselves" is not a particularly interesting observation. nor is "therefore the tool cannot be used for useful purposes" derived from that

I think the divide between crazy people who refuse to use AI for anything, people who use chatbots naively for everything, and people who know how to use LLMs for research and building effectively will get wider and wider and wider.

A. K. Venrinn@venrin.bsky.social · 5d ago

Omg not Hank Green using AI for research and calling to his “bad habit” 💀😭🤡

i just cant take anyone that preaches web search is superior to AI seriously. web search is great - except for the seo manipulation, ads, and lack of weighting of sources, which would be a very difficult task to do even if it wasn't mangled by late stage capitalism and the current political climate.

i am so tired of prescribing medications to myself and the doctor just going along with it. i just want a doctor that understands the relation between dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine, and autoimmune. why is it easier to find doctors that just rubber stamp my recommendations?

i'm starting to think that PT is a scam. telling someone to just push through the pain of an autoimmune flare up irt joint pain is not good advice. then i found out that they didn't even know why i was there. i've gone for 4 sessions already. what the hell.

battle royale: sponsored by meta glasses and kalshi.

why is dario's concern about "authoritarian governments" limited to china? military superiority, repression of their own people, surveillance - that sounds a lot like what the US is moving towards. mentioning vance in this blog post is crazy.

Our position on open-weights models

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on open-weights models

anthropic.com

… ok I will buy your bug spray.

ok reasonable

If I ever work for Anthropic or OpenAI I'm just going to not post on social media.

i used to really like anthropic, but it feels like every time i see their employees post on social media lately, i like them a little less...

Sung Kim@sungkim.bsky.social · 2w ago

One interesting thing about Anthropic is that they insist they’re trustworthy guardians of AI, yet they often seem to lack emotional intelligence, or much understanding of life outside their field.

that's it. i gave up. i hate hair. i hate the way it's always TOUCHING ME. why is it so long. IT IS SO UNNECESSARY. i just chopped off all my hair. shoulder length now. with bangs. fuck hair. i'm fucking done.

why is steam's train fest happening now and not during autism awareness month (april)?

Killing an illegally-present, occupying soldier is verbatim the most legal thing a person is allowed to do under every single international law.

til "I'll burn that bridge when i get to it" is not a common idiom.

A nice update. OpenAI has signed this too. www.microsoft.com/en-us/corpor...

Sung Kim@sungkim.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nvidia does not want AI to become a duopoly whose dominant players can dictate pricing. It benefits more from a distributed ecosystem in which no single company is powerful enough to threaten hardware vendors. images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-Wei...

i'm not gonna review any PR you send me as thoroughly as AI would unless it's literally a life or death situation.

Brittany Ellich@brittanyellich.com · 2w ago

Testing a potentially unpopular opinion that I'm not sure the dev industry is ready for: Unless you're shipping something like nuclear safety code, you probably don't need a human reviewer for your PRs.

hanging out with drunk SREs will make you think twice about the internet

Salvatore Zappalà@salvozappa.bsky.social · 2w ago

People thinking "there's no way that OpenAI didn't detect their agent going rogue earlier" have no idea about the state of sausage making in your common tech company simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/23/...

what the fuck is happening on facebook marketplace why does this exist why is someone reselling it what

his tweets are funny and i enjoy reading them, but hunter biden gives me the ick and i can't put my finger on why. bad vibes every time i watch a video of him talking.

oh, cool. a single ant. time to spend the next hour obsessing over where it came from and if it has friends.

i'm just saying.

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 2w ago

let the speculation about the nature of Elon's illness begin!

tired: complaining about memory problems due to the ram/hd shortage wired: complaining about memory problems due to the estrogen patch shortage. neither of these issues are getting solved anytime soon.

i've been regular-depressed before, and i would choose it 100 times over cytokine based depression. this isn't just being couch bound and feeling sad/unmotivated. for me, it was feeling completely blank, unable to put together complex thoughts, and it happens so gradually that you never question it.

i had no background thoughts. i couldn't hold a conversation. i barely got out of bed. i stared at the ceiling all day with a completely blank mind. doctors were prescribing all the wrong meds. without ai, this never would have been solved. i probably would have been committed.

ai helped me identify cytokine based depression, found the expert running the trials, and workshopped a solution with me after years of steady mental degradation because no doctor had figured out that i wasn't producing hardly any dopamine anymore.