Steve Pepple
@stevepepple.bsky.social
Co-founder of @VibeMap. Design & Data to make make civic life better. I'm about #transit #cities #art & other things #public.
"They are running roughshod over the work of others who came before them in a deliberate way,” says Steven Miller, a mathematician at Yeshiva University
Jackie Flynn Mogensen@jackiefmogensen.bsky.social · 3w agoScoop from @sciam.bsky.social's Joe Howlett: OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say
This exemplifies how LLMs and their creators work
Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 10mo agoAn OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
Using AI to send cold emails should be a felony offense.
We need to do everything we can to get the Connect Bay Area ballot measure on the November ballot. That’s why I was just out collecting signatures at the Castro station. This important ballot measure will save our buses and train lines from devastating cuts. Public transportation is vital!
This is a riveting story about how a reporter used language analysis techniques to uncover a crypto analyst and creator of Bitcoin
PCI Guru@jbhall56.bsky.social · 5mo agoA story in the New York Times details a years-long effort to unmask Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious author of the bitcoin white paper which laid the theoretical foundations for modern digital currencies. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Kalshi and Polymarket are 100% doing some FTX type shenanigans, right? Insider trades and leveraging their cash on unfair bets
This is one of the absolute best conversations on AI and software I've heard in a while. (I listen to a lot of stuff about AI.) @howard.fm is an expert & practitioner who cuts through the noise & false dichotomies, to talk about the joys & pitfalls of human machine collab youtu.be/dHBEQ-Ryo24?...
The Dangerous Illusion of AI Coding? - Jeremy Howard
YouTube video by Machine Learning Street Talk
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This reminds me of the old adage, "Never work for Jack Dorsey under any circumstances"
Techmeme@techmeme.com · 6mo agoBlock says it is laying off more than 4,000 of its 10,000+ employees; XYZ jumps 19%+ in extended trading (Annie Palmer/CNBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Ugh, these people. Beyond being inhumane, it's grift. They are investors boosting a portfolio of potentially powerful, but yet unproven technologies. They are not neutral observers or experts.
@rollovereasy.org PSA more funding for transit, please! (coming soon to a ballot this Fall). Yes, stop consolidating can help, but doesn't matter if there's no service :)
ICE has no boundaries — today, wearing their masks in Diamond Heights, they grabbed an elderly nanny who’s here legally. A judge has ordered her release. This is why the work we do to ban these masks & authorize people to sue agents who violate their rights is so important.
Elderly nanny arrested in S.F. by immigration agents is ordered released
The San Francisco Rapid Response Network said an "elderly nanny" was arrested by immigration agents "on her way to work" Friday.
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Love this campaign! Save some money and tell this corporations to stop pandering to Trump.
Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · 7mo agoOne of the better ideas I’ve seen. Scott Galloway with his “Resist and Unsubscribe. Resistandunsubscribe.com
Read “The Bad Bunny Halftime Show“ by Alan Cooper on Medium: mralancooper.medium.com/the-bad-bunn...
The Bad Bunny Halftime Show
As a card-carrying old, straight, bald, middle-class white boomer, I know nothing about Bad Bunny. But as I watched his Super Bowl halftime…
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Arsenal are the first team to ever finish the Champions League pool phase with a 100% record 🔥
This was murder. Pretti did not initiate the confrontation. He didn’t strike them. He didn’t brandish his gun. They tackled him, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him.
Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽@joshuaeakle.com · 7mo agoHoly crap. This is the most damning video yet. It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face. Murder.
“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
Wow, what an awesome @rollovereasy.org show with Muni Diaries! Since @sftru.bsky.social came up, I'll mention they are having a big party at the outlook of the Salesforce Transit Center tower on Dec 12. Monday is the last day to get tickets
While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH
Waynos are starting to drive more aggressive and poorly?
Someone in downtown San Francisco just stopped me for help because his friend is stuck in a Waymo and he doesn't know how to get out
I tried superhuman email for a couple of months. It was nice, but also rather unintuitive hotkeys and composing experience. The brand/design also have an element of tech hubris that didn't live up to the hype. Suggestions now that they were sold to Grammarly?
Analog with AI code tools: 100% of my emails are written/created with spell check
Claude Code, Cursor and Copilot are very good at generating code that they're very bad at modifying.
Sales people who send calendar invites without consent are the scum of the earth
