it's crazy to me people still insist ai for research is reliable when we now have an Hbomberguy video's worth of evidence that its unreliability is tanking Hank Green's career
Felienne Hermans
@felienne.bsky.social
"What I had not realized is that extremely short exposure to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people" - Weizenbaum 1976 In het Nederlands maar soms also in English!
You journalists insist on writing stories that make people *mad*! That's not journalism! (Full disclosure, Bari Weiss helped me write this part.)
De vakantie special van deze week: mijn beste boeken van het jaar!
Special: De fijnste boeken van 2025-2026
Ik lees te weinig fictie vind ik altijd—ik lees op de een of andere manier veel gretiger non-fictie—maar ik probeer toch genoeg fictie in mijn lees-dieet te krijgen. In deze mini special de beste boeken die ik het afgelopen schooljaar gelezen heb. Heb jij nog fijne
felienne.nl
The IMF says we pay $5T/year to subsidize fossil fuels — that's $13M per MINUTE to destroy our future. Meanwhile solar & wind fight for scraps. We don't have a funding problem. We have a priority problem.
Het is allemaal polarisatie is slecht totdat de broodschrijvers hun stukje moeten inleveren
De Groene Amsterdammer@groene.nl · 5d agoMuziekles-mensen vinden fanfares grappig, en soms een beetje sneu. Fanfare-mensen noemen muziekles ‘saai’ en ‘eenzaam’. Zij leerden al jong muziek te maken door naar elkaar te luisteren. En begrijpen nu dat er veel meer op het spel staat dan zij alleen. Lees de column van hier 👉 buff.ly/x0zqzbv
Oh my God, this is not a drill - LinkedIn has added 'seems like AI slop' as an option on posts Genuinely thought it was a joke until I clicked on a few posts
![Drop down menu from a LinkedIn post offering the following options
Save
Copy link to post
Embed this post
Unfollow [person]
Not interested
Seems like AI slop
Report post](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yvbszlkc7d75ixkid5g2zmw7/bafkreig2m5jumwszgmrdm2l76jcdnnja3nr5pvaos4x4l4avb2rl5rzh2q)
"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?
nytimes.com
“We are close to creating a genie” The level of hucksterism is nearly unfathomable. Real S tier shit.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last wk.“What we need to explain to the world: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish. Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI — This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.
what’s twice as Nazi as fox and powering the information environment of 3 billion people
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · last wk.AYFKM “Meta will be able to draw upon Newsmax's significant current reporting as well as archived content to support AI queries across Meta's apps and devices.” ir.newsmax.com/news/news-de...
The President of the United States and Donald Trump.
First person to listen to Computer Science Off Course while riding the Samsun light rail train
New Tuesday, new podcast episode! This time on the book What Computers Can't Do!
Computer Science, Off Course! Episode 4 - What Computers Can't Do
There is a new episode, again! This time about the book What Computers Can't Do from Hubert Dreyfus, a philosopher who in the 1960s worked at MIT while AI research was going on there (by Minsky, for example, who we might one day also cover on the pod, as
felienne.nl
Thomas Nagel fuming at this one.
MU-Peter Shimon 🀄@mu-peter.bsky.social · 2w agoHumans Can Learn to Echolocate Neuroscience has begun to look at capacity of sensory areas exhibiting a striking degree of plasticity Changes in primary visual and auditory cortex of blind and sighted adults following 10 weeks of click-based echolocation training🧪 academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
That’s how Nolan should have portrayed the horse, if he had been historically accurate.
Dr. Karen Carr@quatrus.bsky.social · last wk.My favorite depiction of the Trojan Horse, and the earliest known version. I love the windows, like an airplane, and that the windows go up the neck too.
Van Ameland naar de Bijlmermeer via ratten in Baltimore. Ook in de vakantie zijn er nieuwsbrieven, maar wel alleen specials! Deze week drie leestips over de publieke ruimte: www.felienne.nl/2026-30/
Special: Publieke ruimte
Van Ameland naar de Bijlmer via Baltimore
felienne.nl
asking the AI how to be more “empathetic” while recording every single date is something only a founder would do
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w agoDefinitionally, these are not “friends.”
It's always good to have this perspective, because not long ago EA declared they were a Blockchain company and heralded play to earn as the future of the industry, and that future quickly evaporated.
Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · 2w agoI know it seems like the fight against AI is really uphill but I want to remind you at one point, people went really hard for NFTs, including $69.3 million for one by Beeple at a Christie's auction in 2021, but now almost no one buys them.
I know the word only has one definition in Dutch but look here, everyone speaks English, tourists everywhere, rethink this.
Why are all new cars so hideously unintuitive? Forget electric vehicles. Electric schmelectric. My next car money will go to the manufacturer that brings back physical knobs, car door handles, and a gear shift. Make cars… cars again. I don’t want to drive a tablet.
mitch mcconnell died doing what he loved, keeping a federal office vacant for several months leading into an election
As Ed Miliband leaves his post as energy and net-zero secretary, a final tally: There have been an incredible 251 newspaper editorials attacking him and his approach to net-zero since the start of 2024 That amounts to two editorials a week, mainly in the Sun, Daily Mail, Times and Daily Telegraph.
Six years later, we are still waiting for our very first "enthusiastic Biden voters in North Philly diners" focus group article, but rest assured the Paper Of Record is on it once again
Opinion | ‘Don’t Forget About Us’: 10 Young Trump Voters Score Trump’s Second Term
The group discusses the economy, work and working today and the president’s second term.
nytimes.com
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/dont-take-...
Don't Take Advice From Your Enemies
The most useless genre on earth.
hamiltonnolan.com
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w ago“Democrats appear slow to recognize that ideologues on the left are attempting a hostile takeover of the party,” James Kirchick writes. In looking for a way to reclaim control, he argues, they could find inspiration in British history:
New Tuesday, new Computer Science, Off Course episode online!! This time, on the Turing Test paper! www.felienne.nl/csoc-s01e03/
Computer Science, Off Course - Episode 3 - Computing Machinery and Intelligence
It is Tuesday again, so time for a new episode of Computer Science, Off Course, of course! This is a bit of a weird paper, normally we cover non-computer sciency work, but this paper instead is what ...
felienne.nl
