Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4h ago

Reuters: Iran wants fees of 5%-7% of the price of cargo from ships using the strait; Oman wants 3%. "Making fees voluntary, at least nominally, could be a way out of the impasse, although an implied threat of Iranian attacks could mean shippers would be ​unlikely to risk transit without paying."

noam@noamchompers.bsky.social · 2h ago

inspiring how quickly bsky can pivot from the result of an election to lecturing everyone else about the correct reaction to have to that result

Nathan Tankus@nathantankus.bsky.social · 3d ago

b) consumers do not choose how goods are distributed, they only choose between distribution channels. This is also crucially different c) consumers do not choose their incomes or overall income distribution. also crucial.

Stereogum@stereogum.com · 2d ago

Bandcamp removes Boy George's AI pro-Israel reggae song

Gav Thorpe@gavthorpe.bsky.social · 2d ago

Downplay a book or movie; Painful Weapon 35hrs Glendale Cop Things to Do in Denver When You’re Ill Anxiety and Distaste in Las Vegas

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d ago

That is why some individual coders report such delight with their AI tools. They engage with those tools on their own terms, to improve their work in the ways that they, in their expert judgment, consider beneficial. 75/

Bring a Trailer@bringatrailer.bsky.social · 5d ago

28-Years-Owned 1975 Pontiac Firebird Esprit 4-Speed

hailey@hailey.at · 5d ago

okay, opus 5 is easily the most annoying model that anthropic has released. absolutely batshit way of talking to you. who wants this lol

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 6d ago

I thought up that example. I don't know if it's really happening. But here's something that really *is* happening: ecommerce sites charge parents of newborns extra when they order thermometers in the middle of the night. 14/

Jeremy Markovich@ncrabbithole.com · 6d ago

name a North Carolinian

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Tuberville: "I'll be the governor of Alabama and I promise you we will find out if there's a possibility that we can bring him to Alabama to put him in front of a court and a jury to see if we can put this guy in prison. He killed millions of people, folks."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Hannity: "My President, Lindsey probably has a heavenly version of Mar-a-Lago. It may even be a little bigger. I wouldn't be surprised if he added one big beautiful ballroom and an arch somewhere on the property. Because he would want to obviously duplicate his dearest friend in life. You."

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last wk.

Commuting via helicopter means he's going to living in the vibrant Car Dealership District By The Westside Highway.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last wk.

For businesses adopting LLM-based AI agents, unreliable instruction-following is likely a bigger problem than hallucinations. Wrong data in a document is bad. Deleting files, sending emails or hacking websites without being asked can be far worse.

unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 11mo ago

From yesterday and today: it certainly appears ICE in Chicago are wearing the Meta AI Ray-Ban glasses.

Ray Radlein@radlein.bsky.social · last wk.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice In Chains.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · last wk.

Jeffrey Epstein models Zuckerberg's Meta glasses. Spoof advertisements featuring the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein wearing Meta’s AI glasses have been installed at bus stops across London in a guerrilla campaign protesting against privacy risks. The activist group Everyone Hates Elon

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w ago

Meta has officially abandoned all pretense of giving a shit about clean energy or decarbonization. Truly an evil company. If you work there, you should quit. If you use their products, you should stop.