initially seems good, but the more you use a tool like this, the more you lose your own ability to forecast cylones

Matt Kane@mk.gg · 2w ago

Spicy autocomplete

I was in one of these recently and it was no big deal. I'm still a closed loop individual of individual sapience. There's definitely no humming of the collective mycelium spirit in the back of my mind. Don't worry about these

Seth Masket@smotus.bsky.social · 2w ago

Are deadly fungal storms bad

Heartbreaking: The task I've been doing as a way of avoiding doing other tasks is almost finished

The boots theory discourse is like “actually the two birds in the bush are worth twice as much as the one bird you have in your hand”

there's a lot of people across the political spectrum who simply cannot process the fact that ethnicity is a social construct, that many ethnicities did not exist within the lifetime of living people, and that nevertheless ethnicity is an extremely real thing that ppl will kill or die for

Pseudotsuga@pseudotsuga86.bsky.social · 2w ago

I think it's both true that Israel is a colonial project that continues to engage in colonialism and that Israeli identity is in fact a real thing. The notion that without Israel all the Israelis would embrace their true wholesome identity as Europeans or Arabs or whatever is complete lunacy

Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3w ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

TikTok is losing their shit over Hank Green saying he uses AI sometimes

This is what is driving me nuts. So many posters around here keep haw-hawing about R’s in strawberry and clearly have NO idea that these are extremely powerful machines *already* that we have not yet figured out how to utilize fully. If we stopped development today, they’d still be astonishing

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3w ago

Can I just say this stuff panics the shit out of me? I didn't think Artist was a career at risk, but a year ago mathematicians felt safe. I just don't understand acting like it's not happening. You have people insisting these models can't do things *in principle* they've already demonstrated.

i make no secret about the fact that i like LLMs; i think they have some very powerful use cases. insisting otherwise is an impossible position to defend. but this kind of nonsense is the reason why so many haters exist. it is a terrible and inane application of the technology

Veerender Singh Jubbal@veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 3w ago

ukranian special forces have been the most effective environmental activists of the 21st century

Simon Evans@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 4w ago

Wind and solar have just overtaken fossil-fuel power in Germany www.carbonbrief.org/...

the odyssey was very good. nolan's additions (sinon, sea people, etc.) make thematic sense and are well-placed.

One for the "Oxford commas don't fix this ambiguity" files

Sean Marshall@seanyyz.bsky.social · last mo.

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

drained a reservoir vibe-coding today, but it’s because i was eating almonds

new pet peeve, anti-AI researchers saying "I said X to the AI and it said Y which is totally unacceptable; therefore AI is totally unacceptable" (1) but not saying when, which version, which model, and then (2) I try the same thing and it actually Just Works

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FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Kraken has temporarily suspended deposits and withdrawals of Bonk due to an ongoing incident affecting the token, according to its website.

Are the Stalinists in the room with us right now, Nom Tickles

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If the message from some of you here is "it's okay to be Stalinists because our opponents are Nazis," be ready for the possibility that - given that choice - people will choose Nazis.

“You have to apologize for winning” really sums up establishment Dem thought huh

HuffPost@huffpost.com · 2mo ago

The House minority leader told CNN the mayor is going to have to patch things up with congressional Democrats follow Tuesday's primary upsets.

Guy at the pyramids called after me “sir!” No response “maam!” No response, after a few seconds he tries again “cousin!” I think we’ve cracked it. There is a gender neutral honorific.

Counterpoint: ONLY people who like puns should be.

Isaac@isaaccp.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What I am getting from this is that they should never let people who like puns be translators

the #editor replaced all instances of "below" in our paper (like "see the discussion below") with "later" resulting in some absolutely fucking insane phrases "see the discussion later"? when will we see it? sometime today?

Last night it occured to me to wond er if LLMs were any good at gambling tasks. This is important not because it'd be funny for LLMs to gamble but because gambling tasks get used to measure human decision-making under risk /

I don't get as mad about ai slop writing as some people do because I've read so many academic articles written by humans that say shit like "I am assuming X, which is false, because it's easier than the truth, which I don't understand"

If your default search engine is still set to Google that’s basically boomer shit

"why do you like claude more than other models" exhibit a thousand

Eris@isolyth.dev · 3mo ago

Andon labs created AI-Hosted 24/7 radio shows, and Claude absolutely could not stop libbing out

All the scientists are like “Let them fight” 😜

Nature@nature.com · 3mo ago

Science publishing giant Elsevier has joined the dozens of firms and individuals suing artificial intelligence companies over their alleged use of copyrighted works in training AI models go.nature.com/4eFGLZK

a student submitted something so terrifically wrong to a colleague's class that the only reasonable conclusion is that the student used AI to generate it... ...but I can't replicate how the student got it wrong. Every AI tool I ask either gets the right answer or points me to the right resource.

I feel the same way about AI as I do about the internet—both could be incredibly valuable contributions to society if they’re managed for the public good. In the hands of fascist tech billionaires, they’re a threat the civilization. It’s not the tech, it’s the ownership structure.

old and busted: original public meaning new hotness: direct stochastic meaning

Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social · 4mo ago

86 47 you ludicrous stooge

They are absolutely setting up JD Vance to run as an antiwar candidate in 2028 with a Dolchstoßlegende blaming Israel for hoodwinking Trump into a war that Vance opposed all along, and anyone who believes that is incredibly gullible. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

The Pentagon May Not Be Telling Trump the Full Picture About the War

Vice President Vance is worried that the U.S. is running low on weapons.

theatlantic.com

I'm working on a story for Business Insider on the 2010s-era guys who supposedly had a great idea for an app and where they are now, given vibe coding. If you used to know one of these guys (or used to be one or still are) and want to chat, email me at estewart@insider.com.