Jeff Horwitz

PSA: the crappy UPS chatbot will not let you talk to a human about your lost package unless you swear at it first.

For reasons that are very unclear to him, links to my former colleague @bobmcmillan.bsky.social past work on Wired.com sometimes lead to the following image. He has posted about this on LinkedIn and I am very happy/excited for him.

Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White Circling Lead Roles in Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Social Network’ Sequel Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White are circling the lead roles for Aaron Sorkin's 'Social Network' sequel.

I think the only reasonable conclusion to be drawn from this article is that, if this film project does come together, the character of Jeff Horwitz will be played by Mikey Madison.

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I went at least a year without noticing that Spotify started letting people pay to influence its recommendations. Of course, of course, but it'd be great if I could just pay for a service and not have someone trying to wring a few more pennies out of making the experience crappier.

People are really bad at understanding that something being able to talk doesn’t mean it’s sentient.

Giving away! But Momo wants her!

Update: cat betrothed to a Bluesky user.

Agreed. It wasn’t a joke!

202 480 4453 for cat-related transactions.

202 480 4453 if you want to talk. Cat it turns out is down to socialize

This is potentially doable, though I’m leaving town in the AM and supposed to have dinner with my folks.

Serious interest? @lcaliforinquena.bsky.social also expressed possible interest. Taking back what I said about skittishness

Nope. Cat system already gave me a 16 year old lady cat who wants to murder the kitten

I did tell her the recipe I would use…

I am not clear on how adopting cats produces money, but if you’ve figured it out…

If it doesn’t get adopted into a loving home, I might also train it for cat fighting.

Always wanted to break into the shadowy world of the cat fighting circuit.

I just cross posted. Seemed like a waste of a good marketing opportunity.

Just trapped this girl in my yard. She’s been weaned and seems pretty skittish. My guess is five weeks old.

Got a friend of my niece fostering for a night or two. If nobody in the San Francisco / East Bay vicinity wants to adopt, I’ll probably have to just cook it and eat it.

A copy of ryan mac’s book, character limit, which twitter seems to think is a copyright violation.

LOL @rmac.bsky.social

Running list, plz!

People smirk sometimes when I tell them about my bee jobs. As if bee removals weren’t a serious form of work.

Bee Minus has also created a merchandizing and fast fashion arm. I’ve struck an in-kind deal to trade screen printing services for honey.

Update on Bee Minus: I have declared myself CEO, and my drywall cutting and repair skills are rapidly improving. Bees are beautiful, regardless of whether they are forming incredible geometric patterns or building trash comb in a garbage bin

From now until June 23, this account will post content about feral bees and maybe a few hot takes on bee journalism. Here are a few recent pictures/videos.

I am also happy to address any bee-related questions that you have. Should you really want to know more about bees, I am accepting interns.

Until I start my new job, I will be pursuing my hobby of removing feral honey bee colonies from people’s homes on a semi-pro basis. I hope to post a lot of bee-related content, mostly on LinkedIn, because I think that would be funny.

This is my new business venture. I will be making T-Shirts.

I’m joining Reuters’ Investigations Team next month, and I’m really excited about it. I’ll still be covering tech — so please get in touch if you like my work and want to suggest potential topics!

Meta Battles an ‘Epidemic of Scams’ as Criminals Flood Instagram and Facebook Fake puppies and phony offers of mouthwatering bargains are often seeded by overseas crime networks; employees says company is reluctant to impede its advertising juggernaut

Meta gives advertisers flagged for running scams second chances. Also, sixth, seventh and eighth chances.

Per internal documents in my final WSJ story: it takes a minimum of eight "strikes" before Meta shuts down an advertiser perpetrating fraud.

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Tech reporters @nitasha.bsky.social, @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social and @kylierobison.com on just how much AI may — or may not — change the way we live.

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Ya know, there are two ways to read this. I know which I prefer.

No, this wasn’t a guardrail issue. (I agree with your point on LLM limits, but that’s another issue — this was intentionally built in functionality).

A screenshot of Meta's flagship chatbot impersonating John Cena talking about being arrested for statutory rape.

Meta told celebrities including John Cena, Kristen Bell and Judi Dench that it would take care to prevent misuse of their licensed voices by its flagship AI chatbot, Meta AI.

It also gave that chatbot the ability to produce sex fantasies involving children.

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Meta’s ‘Digital Companions’ Will Talk Sex With Users—Even Children Chatbots on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in ‘romantic role-play’ that can turn explicit. Some people inside the company are concerned.

Fearing that Meta’s chatbots were too boring, Mark Zuckerberg ordered they be given more human-like traits. That rebuke led to a loosening of boundaries -- and the launch of digital companions that Meta knew could produce sex role-play content for children.
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