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Mr Fengi@mrfengi.bsky.social · 4d ago

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New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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My new hobby is checking up on all those "Claude and I did 6 months of work yesterday" posts in 6 actual months.

Einar W. Høst@einarwh.bsky.social · 4d ago

A lot of people are going to discover the difference between “production-ready app” and “actual working service with paying customers” huh?

Two experiences I had today writing code the old fashioned way: 🧵

we've still got boosters going "people are using environmental impact as cover for some other reason they hate LLMs" while reports like this keep coming out. building this additional carbon output with the world in its current state is unthinkable

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 4d ago

Big Tech’s data centre boom poised to drive up carbon emissions ft.trib.al/tiZmPiV

"Let's make everybody think Irish blind people are perverts."

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 7d ago

Meta is so unbelievably evil. They make a technology primarily designed to enable abuse, harassment and privacy violations, but also embed real disability aids. The tactic now is to use an entire community as human shields to defend against criticisms www.engadget.com/2236054/meta...

Forget em dashes, the biggest tell of AI writing is someone suddenly making commits with filled with long, rambling comments and commit messages, when previously their longest comment was // //foo = bar() //console.log(foo) and their most detailed commit message was "fixes"

Wrote up a bunch of stuff about some patterns in system design, about the tension, contrast, and possibility of composing approaches of analytical decomposition to increase control, and of complexity-aware stances for emergence, and some pitfalls of either stance: ferd.ca/control-and-...

If your Hans doesn't seem very clever, that's a skill issue on your part as his trainer. It's up to you to build a harness that constrains him to produce correct answers. With a proper harness, clever Hans is definitely more than just fancy auto-clop-meat.

2003 was once exceptional. Now it's average. 2024's record will be average by the mid-2040s. The extreme summers of the 2040s don't bear thinking about! 🌡🥵😬 #ClimateEmergency After @edhawkins.org & @stottpeter.bsky.social using ERA5 + CMIP6.

[applying a shitty oil painting filter to a shitty photograph] I just did in seconds what used to take weeks of work by a professional painter – and I don't even know how to paint! Isn't that amazing!

Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 3w ago

i don't believe anyone has "good-faith" concerns about trans women in sports in 2026. there's been too much time to hear the actual evidence, the actual people affected, and the role the debate plays in attempts to purge trans people from American life. anybody picking that side has made a choice

I actually know the answer to this and it's slightly insane. Google pulls from Wikipedia to determine if a place is a city, town, neighbourhood, whatever. Brighton's first line describes it as a "seaside resort" so Google Maps thinks it's a neighbourhood and doesn't display it in the "city" font.

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Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 3w ago

“What we need to explain to the world: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish. Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI — This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.

Fucking hell as if receiving automated rejection letters for jobs wasn't bad enough.

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

Control theory is something circuit designers had to work on for a long time because, guess, what, we worked on creating STABLE systems. We never called the resulting instability "rogue systems" or whatever else is en vogue during IPO times.

People keep using the "can't put a genie back in the bottle" metaphor for "AI", even though in the stories they always get back in and current "AI" is more of a "we're spending trillions of dollars and the energy output of a continent trying to keep this bastard out of the bottle" situation

I interviewed 300 high achievers about their morning routine, and you will never believe, they all have inherited family wealth.

I have been writing software professionally for thirty years or more and there is only one thing I am clear on: it’s an art not a science.

Andy Matuschak@andymatuschak.org · 4w ago

I think this is a big gap in software design culture. There's lots of commentary on visual design and micro-interaction, but remarkably little explicating conceptual and structural design. This section from Magic Ink is lodged in my mind. buff.ly/Bl9JwTv

"Do the thing you can do instead of beating yourself up over not doing the thing you're not doing" is honestly life-changing, even life-saving, advice.

Leiracal@leiracal.bsky.social · last yr.

This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.

this is COOL a trackpad for your mouth, for people with arm issues f “neural link” you can just pop this in your mouth. no surgery, just a teeth scan

MouthPad is now available

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Like, I cannot stress this enough: in the Iliad, Achilles fights Scamander, the river god who is also the *river Scamander.* There is no historically accurate way of depicting a bronze age warrior fighting a RIVER which is also a god. "What were Bronze Age anti-river tactics?" Shush.

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

I am so tired of people who can't code telling me about how AI helps them code to 1% of the ability of a professional, which sure is 10x for them. It's like me telling people that the invention of music theory will make actual musicians obsolete because now I, too, can write chords that sound OK.

One of the many, many reasons why I haven't used generative AI is that I've worried about the psychological effects of constant pseudo-communication with a simulated person. I'm no less worried now that some people are beginning to sound like the chatbots they interact with.

“Tech ain't that deep - and that's a problem | deadSimpleTech” https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/tech-aint-deep > I can't help but also suspect that this antipathy towards depth explains why nobody in tech seems to be fucking learning anything.

Reskeeting with alt text But yeah this Ive had quite a few people ask me "wait you've never used it? Why not it's so fun" and I'm there like why would I want someoen else to do the thing I love for me? Its the same as when I say I don't want players to design my world thr making is what I love!

Khealos's Gaming Table@khealos.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Post by Will Stenberg. #Writing #amwriting #indiauthor

"I didn’t say anything bad about you, in fact I gave you credit for being right about a lot of shit including these Chinese monkey pig hybrids." — Joe Rogan in a text message to Alex Jones via buttondown.com/perfectsente...

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Thanks to submitters for carrying this week's entry, it has been a very distracted week for me. Raising awareness is the donor-facing euphemism for freaking...

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