Rik Ferguson

⚡️💪Energym⚡️💪 YouTube video by Comptoir IA

Finally a great use for those pesky humans.

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But, but, godson of the modfather!

Well
Shit!

That whole thing was utterly phenomenal. Thank you.

This is How I Do Business | Rik Ferguson Let me be clear: I understand very well that dress matters in specific occasions and cultures, but dress codes are often just status checks in disguise. If you need the uniform to recognise the profes...

Let me be clear: I understand very well that dress matters in specific occasions and cultures, but dress codes are often just status checks in disguise. If you need the uniform to recognise the professional, it was never about professionalism.

Whereas Khameni Chameleon was, of course, Culture Club.

Isn’t this just another way of saying “eat shit and die”?

People want the EU to “unravel” for the same reason people try to get alcoholics to have “just one”.

They can’t stand how others’ success throws their own failure into relief.

I just wrote 4000 words about a day in 1989, and I am really proud of it.
Not sure when I can share it with you but it starts like this.

Melania?

Thank you :)

Truth sometimes emerges because:
- Correct patterns are common in training data.
- Not because the system knows they are correct.
- Or indeed knows anything.

The sophistication lies in scale and architecture, not in subjective cognition, wisdom, or grounded knowledge. 4/4

- The statistical structure of language encodes recurring patterns of human reasoning.
- Those patterns can be reproduced without consciousness, intent, or understanding.
- Those patterns cannot be relied upon to produce truth, and may tend toward sycophancy. 3/4

Whether you are developer or consumer, *always* remember:

When next-token generative language models (LLMs) produces coherent analysis, it is because: 2/4

Since the early days of the LLM boom, I’ve been trying to help people understand that LLMs “know” precisely nothing. And folks have found that hard to accept. So, this is five years of explanation, condensed into one post: 1/4

We’re entering an era where:
Fluency is algorithmic.
Confidence has become cheap.
Wisdom remains expensive.
So discernment becomes the scarce skill.

And it matters more than almost any technical ability going forward.

To be clear, your phone is doing all this automatically, as soon as you hit the shutter button. Your photos are no longer historical documents They are averaged out, AI-mediated, attempts to please.

Phones don’t capture reality anymore, they optimize it. That should worry you more.

Your camera doesn’t just see, it “fixes”: light, faces, skies, color. It decides what looks better and hands you that.

Somehow, we accepted that “better” mattered more than “true.”

Reality is now only a suggestion

Majestic.

A big-eared bastard of an Indian elephant wearing a crown.

I drew this. You are welcome.

Born in 1970 I only discovered last December that I had never had a measles vaccine (introduced 1968 but uptake was slow). So I immediately got MMR dose 1, will be getting dose 2 shortly.

So, if you are as old or older than the hills, you too may not be as covered as you think. Worth checking!

Kremlin threatens to deploy navy if Europe seizes more Russian shadow fleet vessels Presidential aide Nikolai Patrushev called the European raids on shadow fleet ships "piracy," and expressed concern that the next step would be a full-fledged blockade.

Just keep seizing. Just keep seizing…

Wow, there is so much wrong with that lady’s whole take. Not least “I took all the vaccines myself, but didn’t want to give them to my kids”. She is literally “some of my best friends are vaccines”!

People do that?

Unfortunately, it already can and does.

Already here and adding this to the list! Thank you.

And some of the thread replies are genius too.

Oh it’s for sure AI. But it’s beautiful.

ICE OFFICERS CHASE AN OFFICE CHAIR FOR SEVERAL BLOCKS THROUGH DOWNTOWN MINNEAPOLIS YouTube video by IrelandRugby

Minneapolis, I ❤️ you!

When both your parents have long hair and want a family selfie…

That’s gonna be ORAC innit?