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I prefer open models. But in his essay, Zuckerberg's broader picture of the future is not one I want to embrace: everyone with a personal agent that has information on and involvem…

I don't think you can make an informed assessment of the 40 minute interview based on the first 30 seconds of an out-of-context preview clip. I think there good reasons to criticiz…

My family had dedicated bathroom reading that sat on the top of every toilet cistern. Usually something like a Far Side comic collection or an "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader."

DOGE eliminated 1/3 of CISA staff in 2025. Trump reduced the 2026 CISA budget by $491 million (17%). Trump intends to slash their budget by an additional $707 million in 2027. The …

Iran doesn't need to cause mass casualties. They just need to make US citizens hate the war in Iran.

Here's some criticism: https://bsky.app/profile/peark.es/post/3mmhtcib3622i (see the full thread) I'm not qualified enough myself to judge Zitron's reporting, nor this criticism. B…

Simutronics is has been running and developing Gemstone and DragonRealms for 30+ years and counting. The communities are about 400-1000 players each. They've embraced microtransact…

It's exactly because there are laws against deceptive advertising that Mamdani can enact theses rules. NYC's Administrative Code prohibits deceptive trade practices, false advertis…

AI is directly mentioned in 24 of 53 paragraphs from the article.

To reframe the silliness of this analysis, ~1% of the study population is Sam Altman founding OpenAI.

That NFT entry leads to a 404, and even if you Google the one quote they provide from it ("You do not understand NFTs yet, but you will"), the only reference to it is the "Billion …

This site does a terrible job of curating what is supposed to be a limited, selective list. I tried to access the first 60 entries. 11 of them were dead links. 4 were just links to…

The author is German, so I'll cut them some slack on their English prose. And I think I prefer seeing their actual voice rather than pressing it through an LLM filter. But I agree …

I could see this being the flawed perspective of management, and that it could genuinely make union negotiations more difficult as a result. But it's short and narrow-sighted.

He did admit as much: > "The scripts used to fetch the data, collate it into a DuckDB database file, construct the views on that DB, and then do the statistical analysis on that da…

Every study that suggests viability of SSRIs to treat or prevent Long COVID presents plausible mechanisms for why they might have that effect. And none of them are "the patients ar…

Creatinine can be an indicator that your kidneys are not working well. It's a cheap red flag that can be screened for in a common blood test. But if heightened creatinine is a resu…

It's interesting they only included 6 metrics this time. Opus 4.7 had 12, and 4.6 had 13. Of the metircs they reported for 4.7, for 4.8 they excluded BrowseComp, CharXiv Reasoning,…

It was Biden who initially ordered the reclassification of marijuana to schedule III in 2024: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/08/29/2024-19... Trump is basically jus…

You're right are exemptions for both GDPR [0] and the CCPA [1] where organizations aren't obligated to comply with erasure requests if it would limit their ability to prevent or in…

They're also still posting on LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube (in addition to BlueSky and Mastodon). It's silly to suggest that anything outside of X is an echo …

On average, they're getting But as they say in the article, their reason for leaving isn't solely the low impressions. It's the low impressions, plus "Musk fired the entire human r…