Bas Grasmayer

Threads is like Fight Club for millennials who are turning into the type of people that drove us off Facebook.

Now that's the type of AI chat personality I would actually trust. ChatGPT, on the other hand, is beyond creepy. Especially the recent 'humanized' voice chat.

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Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns Grok 4 is going into private preview, for now

What is this timeline... Why would they? Afraid to get sued for anti-competitive behaviour due to their OpenAI investment? Or just 'platform neutrality' and wanting to "position itself as _the_ AI model hosting company"?

s/o @theverge.com for a zinger headline here

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This is so cool. Back to the promises of the early Web 2.0 days. Let’s make things interoperable again.

Have actually noticed a trend on socials of people saying they’re turning to piracy. Well done, industry 👏

💯 + That has the exact same economic incentives as Spotify (if not worse)

People whose work is used to build LLMs should get shares rather than one-off licensing payments.

World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet

Few things make me as sad as the world’s plastic crisis. I’d love recommendations for people to follow who do work that addresses this.

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Eight easy ways to spend more time offline Number 8 is how I made this list... (◕‿◕✿)

Still get questions about my phone-less month earlier this year.

An offline month is not something most people can commit to... So I've jotted down 8 ways anyone can trade some online time in for that premium offline time.

Treat yourself •‿•

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Curious about this too

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Quick, use copyright to shut him down

Robots now grow and repair themselves by consuming parts from other machines Today's robots are stuck—their bodies are usually closed systems that can neither grow nor self-repair, nor adapt to their environment. Now, scientists at Columbia University have developed robots tha...

We got cannibal robots before GTA6

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My accidental app studio: 30 days of vibe coding 4 projects, 30 days, and a whole lot of learning about AI and execution

Wanted to build a language-training tool for myself last month. Ended up completing it faster than expected, so I spent the rest of the month tinkering with AI.

Here are the results and takeaways.

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Looking for great curator / playlist recommendations on Apple Music.

Drop ‘em here.

Now Microsoft’s Copilot Vision AI can scan everything on your screen The tool is opt in.

What a security / privacy nightmare. www.theverge.com/news/707995/...

NYT to start searching deleted ChatGPT logs after beating OpenAI in court What are the odds NYT will access your ChatGPT logs in OpenAI court battle?

Great example of how copyright law and privacy are at odds, and why you should always ask: "Am I okay with this becoming public?" before disclosing things online.

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Maybe I’m biased because a large chunk of music I listen to is electronic and void of lyrics. Doesn’t make it soulless, though.

I don’t believe people care about “human-made music” as they think.

Would people stop dancing when a DJ plays an AI-created tune if it’s actually good?

They wouldn’t even know and might enjoy it just as much, or more, as the rest of the set list.

AI music will have its contexts to thrive in.

Make more things for people who care. It has never been easier.

Let’s make the internet fun again.

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Wish Threads figured out a way to roll this out to the EU though. It’s still unavailable here, probably due to GDPR constraints (eg how can Meta remove personal data after it’s syndicated across Fediverse).

As a migrant I enjoy being able to get around certain geo restrictions •‿•

Built a tool over the weekend that turns your #Substack into a link in bio page.

stackinbio.calmfluffy.com

Works with any substack. And it's free, as it was just a small vibe coding experiment.

Enjoy! •‿•

Thx! Have you also tried out their VPN?

Excited that my NordVPN subscription is finally ending in a few days. There are way too many promotional notifications that you can't switch off.

Considering Proton now and slowly 'de-Googling' myself while I'm at it.

Experiences?

Vibe coding

Meet Daddy Dativ – the German tutor I vibe coded in 3 days, rather than 30 What building an app with AI made me think about the future

Yeah, I think the conversation models for LLMs will quickly shift to interface-generating models.

Penned my thoughts down in the second half of this piece: open.substack.com/pub/calmfluf...

Software as language.

Is this also what Apple Music's karaoke feature uses?

When you view the lyrics on Apple Music, you can often turn the vocals down.

The question is how they'll get these OS's to run on hardware, because Apple, Microsoft and Google have a huge advantage there.

But maybe it will be web-based OSs. Back in the early web 2.0 days, people thought Facebook would become an OS, too.