Christopher Mims

this is intriguing but also it is flying so far above my head it’s leaving vapor trails

everything in your response seems tailor made to convince me to read this immediately

I don’t follow

Follow up thought: Meta’s new display glasses plus external neurological interface (the bracelet thing) are a pretty direct expression of this

I doubt they’ll be the ones to figure out how to popularize these two things but it sure feels like someone will — for good and for ill

🤔 neurolinguistic programs

Idle thought: transhumanism is our everyday lived reality already. We extend and augment our bodies and brains in innumerable ways. We are already cyborgs on a level unimaginable even a half century ago. The fact that you just absorbed this tiny memetic fragment is proof.

fascinating. thanks for taking the time to write this up + share

we're but 1/5th the way through Trump's presidency

ok now I'm honestly curious which ones you're on. the ones I visit (LLM devs debating Langchain vs Langgraph, people building sheds, showing off houseplants) are pretty chill

see you on r/AmItheAsshole

one thing that the way other sites avoid this in their design and architecture has convinced me of is that no matter how you make it open-source, user modifiable, etc., this is probably an inescapable feature of all social media sites that are at base text-centric feeds

honestly I think this is called Reddit

it’s good and getting better (more useful)

👇 Reuters

👇 Midwest correspondent for The Economist

This is so true and I only started powdering one episode ago (night and day difference)

the NEC what?

FBI agent relieved of duty over refusing Comey perp walk, four people familiar say An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a "perp walk" of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month, four people briefed on the matter said on Friday.

FBI agent relieved of duty over refusing Comey perp walk, four people familiar say reut.rs/46AfymJ

My latest research on LLM grooming, co-authored with @ninajankowicz.com and @garymarcus.bsky.social, found that OpenAI's so-called "reasoning" o3 model cited Pravda network content 26.8% of the time in response to specific prompts.

This research got cited today in a column by the Financial Times:

Gen Z Anger at Ruling Elites Is Erupting Across the World From Morocco to Indonesia, young people are taking to the streets to protest against inequality and a lack of jobs.

A good story about youth-led protests in Africa and Asia “against aging leaders, corruption, joblessness, income disparities and economies that have left people in their teens to late 20s behind” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Do not pay $100,000 to become a podcaster for the love of god

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

what a journey this is turning out to be - reminds me of ye olde Twitter when news actually *happened* there

yes. and the fact that like 17% of Americans have no close friends to text like that is the part that's really heartbreaking

*gewgaw

(why do I want to hyphenate everything?)

this but delays school start times

I've never read a review of a consumer product that sounded this terrible

...except maybe that other useless AI gew-gaw, the Rabbit R1.

Worth reading for the absolutely scathing prose alone

yes! and I just don't think economists or even traders are used to modeling this / have ever had to (in the U.S. anyway)

it's this times like, a dozen other examples of this sort of thing in widely dispersed industries that has me worried

I am not by disposition an economic bear. Even now, there are phenomenal amounts of cash sitting on the sidelines which could rapidly be deployed for all kinds of necessary things -- new energy infrastructure, new modes of transportation, advanced manufacturing.

But in this climate, will it be?