RIP Tom Skerritt, a reliable and enduring actor who you probably remember from...everything, basically. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Tom Skerritt, Star of ‘Picket Fences’ and ‘Alien,’ Dies at 93
Mentored by Robert Altman in 'M*A*S*H,' the Emmy-winning actor later stood out in 'Top Gun,' 'The Turning Point' and 'A River Runs Through It.'
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An internal Mass Effect 5 trailer has reportedly leaked, offering you a glimpse at the sequel you'll never get to play https://bit.ly/4zP4GNz
An internal Mass Effect 5 trailer has reportedly leaked, offering you a glimpse at the sequel you'll never get to play
A tiny look at what could have been.
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The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...
previously, it took just five years to lose $80 billion, but thanks to moore's law, a modern company can lose $80 billion in just under six months, a 10x improvement on the state of the art
Preaaaaaaaaaaach
Cat Hicks@grimalkina.bsky.social · 4d ago"they spent five minutes on this shit and they expect me to spend my entire afternoon reviewing it?" Is it really AI or is it just sparkling organizational unfairness?! @charity.wtf and I are doing a live AMA on October 21 on tough questions of this era. Join us! www.honeycomb.io/go/ama-debug...
“I think there should be a simple rule: if you pay for it, you own it." arstechnica.visitlink.me/NpnLv0
US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers "ownership," not "a license"
There are still significant hurdles ahead, both technical and legislative.
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The reserves of restraint that Dr El-Sayed possesses are off the charts.
Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
I am always delighted when Greek characters make their way into non-Greek fiction; it was a jaw dropping moment, finding a reference to 25η Μαρτίου in @adapalmer.bsky.social ‘s amazing book “Too like lightning”. Go read it, there’s Greeks in it - after all…
“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest
Current mood. “After the Vibe Coding”, inspired by Fidencio Lucano Nava’s “After the Orgy”.
Ysabel Yates'... I mean Cookie Monster's superb takedown of why GenAI in the workplace sucks.
The parts of programming that remain after the AIs get good are the parts I’ve spent ten+ years working to get programmers to care about. This is going to be a wild journey for the industry.
We've raised $7m from Amplify Partners, Encoded Ventures, Jesse Robbins, and Scott Tolinski. Swamp is a platform for building AI systems from repeatable behaviors, rather than from token-hungry agent-centric designs. swamp-club.com/press/swamp-...
FUCK IT. Let's give away 2 more signed paperbacks of my latest novel. Repost/reply to enter! You might like it if you like: Folkloric creatures Old records Intricate psychedelic stories The idea of circular time All shares much-appreciated. PS YOU GET A FREE LINOCUT OWL BOOKMARK TOO IF YOU WIN!
Sometimes complaining to GitHub works! Org owners can now prevent even users with their own Copilot license from summoning it in your repos. Thanks @cassidoo.co for putting me in touch with someone! github.blog/changelog/20...
Copilot code review: New organization billing options and controls - GitHub Changelog
This release adds new billing and license controls for Copilot code review admins: Billing: Organization owners can bill Copilot code reviews from members with a Copilot license to the organization’s…
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Published in 1887 as part of Kawanabe Kyōsai’s monumental Kyōsai Gadan Gaihen (Kyōsai’s Treatise on Painting, External Volume), this woodblock print presents an observational study (shasei) capturing the varied postures, temperaments, and fleeting gestures of domestic cats (neko).
The 2016 Brexit vote was targeted by Russian “state-sponsored interference”, Andy Burnham has said, as he warned voters in France and Germany about Kremlin-backed attempts to influence their countries’ politics. www.ft.com/content/4fcb...
Russia ‘interfered’ in 2016 Brexit vote, says Andy Burnham
UK prime minister calls for European voters to be better informed about efforts to disrupt democratic process
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Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>
1. Can a language model feel pain? Clearly not. Large language models are computer software and they can no more suffer than any other human-created artifact can. >>
I listened to the acceptance call with Anne Carson, this year's literature winner. She plans to celebrate by taking a walk in the woods and deciding how to "get rid of" the prize money, probably by giving it to Doctors Without Borders. It's wild how these are members of the same species.
