I try to keep an open mind and not judge, but people I have respected who remain on Twitter after today will lose that respect.
"But that's where all the cool kids talk about AI."
That's yet another PR headache for AI, which already has plenty of those.
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I'm no longer a Woody Allen fan but this bit, from Bananas, was prescient.
"Underwear will now be worn on the outside, so we can check."
(Titans of tech: "Yes, sir.")
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dkYfmRwryQo
[#]BananaRepublic
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The Fediverse is not and cannot be a countervailing way to control the narrative. Feature or bug? I'm calling it a feature because I can't envision an incorruptible way to control the narrative.
How does this help us? Dunno, but if the choices are to control or be controlled I want neither. https://werd.social/@ben/113858774806966441
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"passion projects are how creative industries rejuvenate themselves"
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2025/the-web-is-a-creative-industry/
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@atomicpoet reminds us that the Fediverse could (and should) inherit traditions going back to blogrings/webrings and before that to the mothership: Usenet. Decentralized social spaces for like-minded folks have worked well in the past and could again.
https://elk.zone/social.coop/@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org/113845863191011139
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It was Netscape Communicator that inspired me to write a book about the complementary modes of discourse that it enabled. ❤️ https://mastodon.social/@jwz/113829068325141705
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"Perhaps, even though they are not themselves explainable, AIs can help us engineer explainable systems. But I’m not optimistic. It feels like we’re on a path to keep making systems harder for humans to configure, and we keep expanding our reliance on superhuman intelligence to do that for us."
Today I configured logging for a public-facing AWS application load balancer that routes to a lambda function. OMG.
The New Stack: https://thenewstack.io/the-configuration-crisis-and-developer-dependency-on-ai/
[#]ThreeHardProblems #Configuration #LLM
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My sanity-saving browser extension is going to get a real workout in 2025.
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A message on a airplane screen begins:
"Warning! This content contains..."
I'm sure the author of that message couldn't see the recursion. Almost no readers of the message will either. Nor did the AIs I prompted for comment.
It's containers all the way down.
I guess it's a blessing and a curse that I can't help noticing such things.
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The best laugh I've had so far this year was thanks to this on a Sam Harris podcast: "What's the point of having fuck you money if you never say fuck you?"
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"As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job. So I have decided to leave the Post."
https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post
Not everyone can afford to do that. I hope those who can will band together to bring that accountability. Like *I. F. Stone's Weekly *did back in the day. The MSM are more vulnerable to disruption than they were in his era.
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Number of times I have touched the screen of my new Mac expecting something to happen: too many to count.
How is that not a thing?
[#]mac #touchscreen
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The month that brackets winter solstice is a brutal time for me. In California there isn't the snow and ice and sleet that made New Hampshire even worse, but the darkness and rain still drag me down.
What I didn't fully notice until this year is the opposite effect in the month that brackets summer solstice: high energy, creativity, productivity.
@gvwilson suggests I spend the winter solstice month in the southern hemisphere. Not really an option but it does sound appealing!
[#]solstice
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Yolanda, a former neighbor, is exactly my age. She grew up in Mexico and has spent her life in a wheelchair. Why? The polio vaccine didn't get there in time. Try telling her you want to revoke its approval.
Meanwhile the bodies are piling up in Texas. This criminal behavior will have political (or else revolutionary) consequences.
But not before a whole lot of people are harmed or killed.
https://www.rawstory.com/abortion-ban-deaths/
[#]polio
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Worst response to a how-to question about software: Seven ways to do X. I don't want seven, I want the one that's most reliable and least likely to trigger my mounting frustration with increasingly shitty software.
Second worst: Watch this video to learn X. I've written about many appropriate uses of what used to be called screencasting. Without accompanying text+images, this isn't one of them.
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If not already, there will soon be a leaderboard for ChatGPT's o1 model. The winner will show a transcript that makes o1 think for the largest number of seconds.
So far, I've never topped a dozen seconds. A friend who is doing some intense LLM-related development showed me a transcript where o1 thought for almost a minute in one case.
The rate limits on the $20/month plan are brutal for o1. He's serious enough about what he's doing to have upgraded to the $200/month plan.
Ouch.
[#]chatgpt #o1
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I thought of writing a blog post called something like "The end of truth and shared reality" but it's just too depressing and wouldn't add any value.
But wow, the toxic combo of alternative facts (lies) in politics, and hallucinations (AI slop) in media, with destruction of shared reality in both spheres, is really bumming me out.
Ironically what cheers me up is further warping of reality. Well at least I control it, and it always makes me chuckle in these dark times.
Sorry/not sorry.
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I can't believe I only just realized I can invent hashtags on the fly in Slack and then easily use them in searches, just like on Twitter from way back. I feel like this is maybe not widely known/appreciated, or else just not practiced in the Slack teams I've been in, or both. Anyway, I'm embarrassed but grateful to realize this belatedly.
The screenshot is a scary example of AI slop. The circled article does not mention this technique, but hallucinates a bunch of stuff not in Slack.
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Humor is gonna be pretty dark in the foreseeable future. https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/113193935014943517
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I love how this article never says "X, formerly Twitter" because if anyone deserves to be deadnamed, it's you know who.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91239259/bluesky-starter-packs-threads-twitter-for-you-algorithm
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