I think it’s the way “agentic” AI obscures the issues of critical AI by becoming more complex, and thus “useful.” Claude is particularly good at this, and so its users are getting wowed. Saying that seemed to get me dismissed as pro-AI, somehow. www.techpolicy.press/stochastic-f...
Musk isn't putting a server farm in space and he isn't launching a million rockets. Don't say "it will be v bad for the environment if Musk launches a million rockets", say "this man is a fraud, his pyramid scheme will collapse at about the time his crony [redacted], and all of this shit is pretend"
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Challenge for those who are very confident this drawing I just made of Batman with bishi eyes isn't conscious: Explain [clutch of wasp eggs bursts from jugular]
Have they never heard of the Halting Problem? Or the Frame Problem? There is no such thing as automated coding *for everything*.
We are deskilling a whole generation of computer scientists — sigh
Stop with the “vibe coding” and start doing some algorithm design, foundations of computing, and computational complexity analyses.
Even just doing playful computer science unplugged is better than all the current hyped non-sense.
www.csunplugged.org/en/
You also have to recognize a world where corporations limit anything you find convenient and make you pay for access.
The more that inevitably happens in your life, the more glad you’ll be that you actually used your brain and stored knowledge/skills.
They’re calling it the most reassuring message of all time
It's time for me to find a Grammarly alternative. There seems to only be three that come close to the core, non-gen AI mechanics of Grammarly, but I only need something that helps me with my horrible spelling and grammar correction.
Very bad look for BuzzFeed
Incredible piece about digital archiving, in particular what does and does not get that treatment.
Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...
👀👀👀 no but that sounds really up my alley
occasionally i think "if i were a millionaire/billionaire" etc and recently it's been "i would have a journal called 'Boring, Important Studies'" to celebrate and print studies that don't get publishing elsewhere because they're boring
For all the folks telling people to use Claude instead of ChatGPT, this usage has obviously been in the works for some time and it didn’t violate the terms of their contract. Claude worked along with a tool of Palantir’s to pick targets.
Ironically they’ll probably use Grok now which is worse.
i'm not an economist but if 900 people can afford to fund $3,000 checks to damn near everyone else in america and still be insanely fuckin rich afterwards maybe they have too much fuckin money
i was teaching java back when netbeans was a popular ide lol and it had a wysiwyg editor for ui that generated absolute garbage code where i could tell a student used it even if the assignment said not to. their code worked though, but they locked themselves into the netbeans editor.
Slop code is easy to spot too, it just kind of (arguably) doesn’t matter as long as it works. That’s really the difference.
I agree with this. I've seen enough of my coding friends' eyes pop out of their heads when they realize what Claude can do to believe that programmers have an exciting new tool. (con't)
a very beautiful, very short film. i loved the snake part. also dennis hopper narration in the first track
Since July, more than a dozen pregnant children have been moved to a single facility in the small town of San Benito, along the south Texas border. The children kept in Texas are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape, according to a joint investigation by the Texas Newsroom and the California Newsroom. In Texas, abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances, including rape and incest.
the phrase “more than a dozen pregnant children” ringing in my ears www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
"The Condé Nast-owned Ars Technica has terminated senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following a controversy over his role in the publication and retraction of an article that included AI-fabricated quotes, Futurism has confirmed."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Yes, of course. Because LLMs are being built by people who made social networks before, which were algorithms designed to amplify content that would reflect back your priors in another person’s voice. It’s ex-Facebook product managers making ChatGPT! Except more emotionally addictive this time.
Me standing inside an MBTA subway car wearing a black and grey jacket with a multicolor squiggle pattern that resembles the train seat fabric and a red zipper. I'm leaning against a pole and looking at the camera with a black KF94 mask on and a neutral expression.
Jacket laid out on train seats. The grey fabric is lighter than the train seat upholstery and the multicolored squiggles are smaller and more densely packed, but it looks similar enough to blend in. The jacket also has black panels and cuffs and red zippers and piping.
please don't phase out the old red line trains yet @mbta.com, I only just finished sewing my camouflage jacket
Gotta admit, feels not so great to just keep paying taxes to the "science bad, child murder good" government
Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.
The New York Times clearly just saying Crockett is a progressive and Talarico is a moderate because Crockett is black and Talarico is white
It's sooooo good
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