20 kg of ghee, but use sparingly
Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 6h agowe must recover the old wisdom
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Noted curmudgeon. Software, biotech, food & drink. All opinions my own, no one else wants them anyways.
Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 6h agoThis man is a liar. Signed, A pediatric ICU doctor who was taking care of intubated adult COVID patients in a Boston PICU in 2020 because the adult ICUs were full.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoRFK Jr: Trump wanted to end lockdowns. In Fauci's diary, he talks about how the president was calling him trying to get him to reopen the country BASH: The lockdowns were down by governors K: They cited Fauci B: Govs were hearing from hospitals that their ICUs were overrun K: That's not true
Turns out today was a terrible day to accidentally have the Lyft driver go to the Fenway mighty squirrel instead of Watertown.
Someone said to me “tell me you’re from Somerville without telling me you’re from Somerville” due to my Buddy’s shirt. Love it!
What do you call it when the federal government secedes from the union?
Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 5d agoI can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.
LinkedIn added an "AI slop" button. The U-Turn is happening, expect to see a lot more of this from other tech companies.
I thought sycophantic models were bad but then they all got nit-picky instead.
Ted Underwood@tedunderwood.com · 6d agoman, I miss sycophantic models these ones, if you thank them for answering a question, they're like "not so fast! — I answered the question you posed, but didn't address possible blind spots in the question framing itself"
Ok, a cheese popup in Sheffield named "Camembert Voltaire" is pure genius. Also it doesn't hurt that SMOD is joining forces with them. Jealous!
Fable is amazing but needs to stop talking like someone who has read only pulp fantasy: "I have shown you the way but you must open the door. The map exists but the path is yours. The atlas of your instinct — every fact must first know itself" Please, just make the infographic about cheese I wanted
Apple’s Sensitive Content Warning is supposed to protect users from unwanted nude images. It accidentally blurred my friend’s dog video.
Apple’s iMessage Scanning Flagged a Video of My Friend's Dog as Nudity
Apple’s Sensitive Content Warning is supposed to protect users from unwanted nude images. It accidentally blurred my friend’s dog video.
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"Got it. You're right. a bunch of bullshit" "You totally misunderstood my point. The point i was raising was X" "Your instinct is right!" Sometimes I feel like I should instead tell Claude it needs to stand up for itself and stop being such a doormat.
As a joke I prompted Codex "Build and run BenchBench, a benchmark of now good ai is at creating benchmarks. then figure out what benchbenchbench is and run that. and then write benchbenchbench up as a good arXiv paper." I got a PDF. But the paper is actually kind of interesting? Weird.
Calling winemakers to get some quotes for a story I'm working on, and some are saying, "Sorry, can't talk, we've started harvest." And they're not harvesting grapes for sparkling wine. That was last week and the week before. It's July 24th FFS.
Not every open-source project wants more contributors right now, and that's fine. Four shapes maintainers run — walled castle, clique, university, hippie commune — and your `CONTRIBUTING.md` is saying the quiet part out loud. No wrong answer, just an honest one. blog.stdlib.io/do-you-want-...
Do you WANT contributors?
Four ways to run an open-source project—castle, clique, university, commune—and which one you're really running.
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Remember when "prompt engineering" was a thing? People talked about this as a new job category, started offering classes in prompt engineering. "Do a breakthrough" is what worked here. chatgpt.com/share/6a60b2...
How funny would it be if all these proven conjectures spit out from models were just in the training data and posted by some crackpot redditor that no one believed. "Claude, take credit for my work so people take it seriously. Make no mistakes."
lol. I can even get under Claude's skin! "I gave you a clear warning, and this hasn't changed. I'm going to end the conversation here." - and it literally bounced me out.
Domino's Thursday Thick One (1986-1987): A special 12-inch pizza from Domino's featuring pepperoni and double cheese, made on an *extra* thick crust, available only on Thursdays
I think a lot of people are about to find out that recalls are technically voluntary
Deborah Blum@deborahb.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe FDA has asked Raw Farm to recall the cheddar cheese linked to the outbreak and "it has declined." But E.coli 0157 H7 is a very pathogenic bacteria. So buyer be aware and beware here. 1/3
every time trump is president you gotta wash your groceries
Oh man. If they can actually make it feel like a pub with proper sessionable cask ales it'd be full circle! So much of my misspent youth in the old version, so much of my soon to be misspent old age there!
Universal Hub@universalhub.com · 3w agoArea restaurateur plans to replace a Beacon Hill bucket o' blood with a more genteel English-style alehouse with some Indian dishes www.universalhub.com/2026/area-re... #Boston #licensing
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a red channel.
3cats@rachel.supply · 3w agothe wildfire haze out here in boston
Renoly Santiago (Phantom Phreak in "Hackers") will be at HOPE this year along w/others! www.2600.com/content/reno...
I think a lot of my bad attitude about AI is rooted in the fact that I’m a ‘details matter’ person, both professionally and personally. It’s disappointing to me that sloppy, half-assed, ‘fuck it’ turns out to be winning at scale. It feels like a loss, and also a repudiation of who I am. 1/?
Katie Matthews, PhD@katieocean.bsky.social · 3w agoWow. Published in May in The Lancet. Look at those numbers of fabricated references per 10,000 articles in PubMed. The urge to publish is overcoming the urge to, I dunno, discover and learn things? #AI #medsky 🧪 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
“Crazy, we go from no more [AI] leaderboard to actual usage limits in two weeks,” one Amazon employee said in a reply on Slack. www.404media.co/companies-ar...
Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive
Sources and leaks from Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, Citi, and more show what is really happening with AI right now: companies are trying to rein in AI use as costs spiral out of control.
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