I asked the sales manager what's the difference between front-wheel drive, all-wheel drive, and rear-wheel drive, and this was his response! 🤣

For knowledge workers, the two skills that’ll matter the most going forward will be the ability to evaluate the quality of AI output and being able to figure out what to do (or ask the AI to do). Actually doing the work is not going to be the bottleneck. Execution will be free or close to it.

I don’t subscribe to his newsletter but his points resonate. LLMs are primarily pattern matching and token prediction making it unlikely that this is a foundation for actual intelligence even though they mimic intelligent behavior. OpenAI isn’t untrustworthy but it’s just another VC funded startup

At this point X is like 1950s Vienna, a whole place made up entirely of spies, running ops against other spies, with no non-spy people. Or maybe like a 1971 Black Panthers convention where 3/4 of the attendees are conintelrpo.

If you're in a hurry, on a long road trip, or drive all day for work, finding the right charger could make all the difference. insideevs.com/news/779729/...

Hyundai And Kia Owners: For The Quickest Charge, Don't Use Tesla Superchargers

Hyundais and Kias can use Tesla plugs, but that's not usually the best way to charge if you want the quickest stop.

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c.org/sFhKyybbhL Please write to your local MPs and ask that X is closed down in the UK and the EU. Sign and share the petition so the numbers can be cited to parliament.

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Shut X down in the UK and EU

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I want A.I. to do my admin and laundry while I write and illustrate books. I don't want A.I. to write and illustrate books while I do my admin and laundry.

Pack it up, I found the perfect gaming device.

Time for my annual Get Out tweet. Feels like a lost cause at this point but anyway …

What the Twitter takeover did so effectively was fracture the way we get our news. If, for example, I want to get in-depth updates on Sudan I still check in with Twitter as that's where a lot of the biggest accounts are. There's no one-stop shop anymore.

the adhd cycle of procrastinating on things so you get overwhelmed and then you're so overwhelmed that you procrastinate harder as multiple life fires spiral out of control

What can I say other than everyone should be listening to @hypervisible.blacksky.app not just on smart glasses, but on everything else too. One of the most insightful tech researchers out there. Don’t miss our conversation!

Tech Won’t Save Us@techwontsave.us · 12mo ago

Meta and Google want to free you from screens — by putting one in front of your eyes at all times. This week @hypervisible.blacksky.app joins @parismarx.com to discuss the anti-social world they’re trying to create through mass adoption of smart glasses. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/298_...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

Scammed into scamming: Across Southeast Asia, a multibillion-dollar fraud industry has emerged, staffed in part by victims of trafficking reut.rs/4mobjPE

They traveled to Thailand. They wound up cyber scam slaves in Myanmar.

A multibillion-dollar fraud industry has taken root across Southeast Asia, fueled partly by trafficking victims. In lawless zones along the Myanmar-Thai border, Chinese-run compounds force thousands t...

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And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section. Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

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Musk now supporting the deportation of anyone who isn’t white. *Do not* use the term “remigration”. It’s an attempt to normalise Nazi hate.

An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.

The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History

Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.

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Interesting. So the language will become “LLMs are ‘part’ of artificial intelligence” rather than “LLMs are not artificial intelligence, they are a statistical model of human language that can be used to predict the next token that might be in a string of words.”

Some coders have the budget and time to play with all the latest LLMs and various AI tools. That's not me. My budget for tools is $0. I have little spare time. I still get stuff done with AI. For free join me and Isaac Flath as we talk about it on August 5th. maven.com/p/0ede3d/mak...

Make AI Work With Any Codebase

This talk shares practical strategies from a real-world project integrating AI into development workflow. What works,   what doesn't, and how to structure code so AI tools can help without degrading ...

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Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600

And on the 'Beginner' difficulty level, too.

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One of the things I’ve found fascinating is that we all have this universal experience that despite how much we use smartphones, they don’t show up in our dreams. The theories as to why this is the case are so speculative that they might as well be conspiracy theories.

Why Don’t We Dream About Cell Phones?

In a world where cell phones have become ubiquitous, it's surprising how rarely they appear in our dreams. While we interact with these devices daily—using them for communication, entertainment, and w...

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Cloudflare open sourced an OAuth library that was almost entirely vibe coded using Claude. They also shared the prompts that led to completed library which is an interesting study. We’re in a weird intermediate period where you need to know both programming and telling an AI what to program.

I Read All Of Cloudflare's Claude-Generated Commits

Max Mitchell's personal portfolio website showcasing his photography, YouTube videos, coding projects, and work history.

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Still jarring to see it in print. @axios.com

I am disappointed in the AI discourse steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am...

Interesting

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Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.

Fear has a way of being contagious. But courage is also contagious.

‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams

Exploitation fears as people in extreme poverty perform stunts and beg for virtual gifts

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