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vibe-ls(1) - often list directory contents, but maybe do something else. Where can I get this amazing technology?

Google is pretty much just a wrapper around DoubleClick.

> Anything in the browser: not my private space. Google’s main business is ads, ie running hostile code on your machine.

> benevolent AI assistant? “Volent” is the problem there. Whose fault is it that someone was tricked by a boy?

Humans will give a slop machine control of a lab full of CRISPR machines because they think it might make them a dollar? It wouldn’t take Supreme Super Intelligence for that to go …

> Until people with billions of dollars behind them do something with that money… Or until actual people take the billions of dollars sitting behind those weak man-children. The US…

That’s how units work, fitting the messy natural world into comprehensible numbers. A year is 365 days, except every four, except every 100, except every 400. A month is 30-ish day…

Those are the people betting on a business model of “create Robot God and ask him for money.” Why pay attention to them?

Does it matter? The frontier models stole the whole internet, then the second-level models stole from them… It’s all theft.

I’ll believe Anthropic when they fire everyone making more than the cost of a few GPUs. Until then, it’s just marketing.

Well, Callum Locke has certainly torched his reputation. Not “spreading Santorum” level… yet.

It’s less unflattering than the legless avatar from his $80 billion waste of money. https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/yUEJgQzunhbnYYtsckup7i.jpg

Don’t unsubscribe - that’s a signal of a live email address. Add a rule filing their domain straight to trash.

Facebook is working with the talent that can’t find a job at some other company. It doesn’t surprise me they ship mediocrity.

> a deeply concerning culture of anthropomorphization and magical thinking. That’s the reverse Turing test. A human that can’t tell that it’s talking to a machine.

Surely a Big Sur compound stocked with iodine and gold, protected by security goons fitted with exploding collars, is someone’s definition of paradise.

> I need to decide if the remaining work - understanding requirements, managing teams, what have you - is still enjoyable enough to continue. It’s not for me. Being a middle manage…

[GitHub] platform activity is surging. — https://twitter.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878

"I want to argue that AI models will write good code because of economic incentives. Good code is cheaper to generate and maintain." This is possibly the dumbest version of an "eco…

Sam Altman made his stake at the table with a shady and failed location data harvesting app ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopt ). That's who he is, that's what he does, and we'r…

> unless they manage to turn things around, my next laptop won't be an apple. Meh. I ran Linux on a PowerBook back in the day, because Apple made the best hardware and behind-the-t…

> And “once they sell ads, they’ll lose all their users!” As if that happened to FB, Google, YouTube, or Instagram… Enshittification only works for the middleman in a two-sided mar…

> I can't think of anything else since the invention of the internet that has had this much of an impact on people's lives. If you reach a bit farther back, there's opium, an impac…

Good point: RTFM and (wall of slop) are two ways of telling someone that responding to them is not worth your time that are both ruder and more time-consuming than simply saying no…

The NYT is comically bad. Most of their (paywalled) articles include the full text in a JSON blob, and that text is typically 2-4% of the HTML. Most of the other 96-98% is ads and …