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"The most effective consumer boycotts in history share two qualities: they are narrow and they are easy," writes @rutgerbregman.com

My AI agent:
"Heads up: Codex is terrible (per my own notes). It confabulates and is unreliable. Please switch me back to Claude"

New post building on this idea, if you are feeling blue as a developer, build your own stuff. It won't fix everything but it can fix some things. vickiboykis.com/2026/03/04/a...

🔴 Sánchez recalca que España "repudia" el régimen de Irán pero a la vez "rechaza" el conflicto: "Algunos nos acusarán de ingenuos. Ingenuo es pensar que practicar un seguidismo ciego y servil es liderar. No vamos a ser cómplices por el miedo a las represalias de alguno"

You Jin (b. 1979), “The Secret Garden” (2014), oil on canvas, 160 x 120 cm.

McGovern: How the hell is this America first? You guys broke your top campaign promise. Good luck with that. I hope the defense contractor money was worth it. Shame on you all. The mask is off. You're all just a bunch of pathetic Neocon Warmongers.

Trying to imagine the looks on the faces of the people I worked with at Google in 2018 if you’d told them that in 7 years their flagship product would be sending users to commit terrorism at airports

and that no one will do anything about it

7. Their uses may turn out to empower the worst side of bureaucracy. I made this argument myself yesterday. Also: bad effects for labor and culture! There are many, many more plausible criticisms, most of which require some engagement with, and understanding of the technology to really make stick.

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A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

Kicking a dead parrot

Full disclosure I did have to nudge them a bit, e.g.:

“Why are you just waiting, be proactive!”

and

“I shouldn’t be talking to you, stop asking me questions. You’re on your own”

Sounds fun. Wish I could attend this!

Ok I tried this. It took them a while but the two Claudes finally found each other.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die was amazing

My dog punches me in the face all the time

This would take an insane amount of tokens though

Classification of finite simple groups - Wikipedia

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Also, my agent works seamlessly when using Claude, but every time I switched to Codex it would get confused, go in circles, and ignore my instructions. It was useless.

Codex is pretty good for coding. But so is Claude

Indeed, it’s gotten much worse than it used to be. It’s much more superficial than Claude, does not follow instructions as well, and reads like crappy listicles.

We don’t usually, but I’ll see if we can add a zoom option!

I see no reason to keep my ChatGPT subscription. An inferior product made by a reckless and morally bankrupt company.

Still too many interesting posts on X!

x.com/DimitrisPapa...

"While venture capital is often associated with the cutting edge of technology and "disruption," a more accurate analysis sees it as the blunt edge of maintaining the status quo of the ruling class, in the broader political economy as well as within the media sector specifically." Andrew Dewaard

I have added a new tutorial on discrete diffusion models:
github.com/gpeyre/ot4ml

This sounds very cool (especially the inspiration from VSM)

South by Semantics Workshop: "New horizons in evaluating pragmatic competence in language models", Jennifer Hu (Johns Hopkins University), March 6, 2026.

I'm looking forward to @jennhu.bsky.social's South by Semantics talk next week at UT Austin! She'll discuss "micro-pragmatics" inferences and world modeling in language models 🤖

The first episode was intense.
But fortunately there's enough humor in the script that the rest of the show is not as intense or depressing as it sounds. And Rhea Seehorn is incredible in it

No, but it's on my to-read list now!