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Considering how many cyberpunk anime and manga focus on nature and people pushing back against corps and technology it totally tracks that Japan would lead the fight about OpenAi ripping artistic work.

03.11.2025 21:46 — 👍 49 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

These days there are like 15-20 instances of Chrome+Node electron solutions running around on my OSX system for all my “apps”.

Progress! 🧐

30.10.2025 02:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

… if you are futbol fan the alternative syntax is <head> and <header> and <goaaaallllll>

Excerpt from Humor Text Markup Language: The Complete Reference

25.10.2025 14:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How much 💰 was lost by SaaS vendors 😢 today who had performance clauses for
their customers they missed
by a mile because of AWS outages?

Before you “well actually…” & say Amazon will be on the hook take a beat. Sure maybe some had SLAs but I’d wager those had redundancy too most folks didn’t.

21.10.2025 01:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dead on. The better you are as a frontend engineer, the more you dish off to the underlying systems rather than keeping logic in your own code, which means that a big pile of JS landing on the main thread is generally a sign the org producing it is relatively unskilled.

20.10.2025 05:34 — 👍 23 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

Does it feel like we should use LLMs like it is ending days of VCs propping up food delivery?

15.10.2025 04:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I try to reframe thinking of an LLM tool as a form of info/code dynamite. 🧨 it is powerful and destructive and also quite useful in certain situations. Even in those moments though one must use and handle it with extreme caution ⚠️ as it can just as easily 💥 things as it make 🪄 ✨ things

12.10.2025 16:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mirror test - Wikipedia

Similarly I’ve said that LLMs today act as a sort of intelligence mirror test for humans and some of us are failing it, a few quite spectacularly.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_...

12.10.2025 16:41 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How does one get and spend the equivalent of the GDP of the 20th largest economy in the world as a private company ? Then again how does one cut drug prices 1500%?

It’s vibe or meme economics these days I guess 🤷🏻‍♂️

11.10.2025 02:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Where’s your Vectrex? You *need* one of those! 😎
Seriously nice retro stash!

Mine are more spread and setup like a little museum so don’t have quite as many but do have a Pet, C64, Atari 800, Apple IIe, PC, Mac SE, and all old consoles 2600, O2, Intellivison, 7800, TurboGrafix,Vectrex,3DO,…

09.10.2025 01:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“Users must consume AI slop until our bottom line improves!”

Rule 1 from BigTech Product Leadership 2025 Edition

06.10.2025 23:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Today’s tech community seems to love to say open, decentralized, and protocol focused and really do a closed, centralized, and platform thing when control and money gets involved.

This isn’t just about this place. There are other examples.

06.10.2025 20:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Another app like this is Craft compare it to Notion. The more popular app is clearly a web app good but a bit clunky the other is quite refined. It’s always tradeoffs. Wrapped apps get you everywhere but with polish cost.

03.10.2025 02:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It seems @jono.id is my Anger Translator:

jonoalderson.com/impolighthouse/

/via @tunetheweb.com

30.09.2025 02:07 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Glad Science collected this data (though the results are entirely unsurprising). GenAI cannot accurately summarize scientific papers, sacrificing accuracy for simplicity.

And shame on publishers who are pushing genAI summaries on readers. Great way to accelerate an epistemic apocalypse.

21.09.2025 14:36 — 👍 168 🔁 73 💬 3 📌 5

Besides the contrast note how that icon works with the image behind like making a gapping mouth. Ugh

Apple showing us first hand how transparent screens and UIs from SciFi movies may look quite futuristic but are simultaneously quite problematic.

Liquid Glass - GL = UX Reality

21.09.2025 18:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

21.09.2025 12:50 — 👍 3570 🔁 1769 💬 119 📌 744

Hmm we could take a JS minification tool & modify it to substitute in bad words. Given the recent emoji problems shown we could also remap identifiers to all manner of emoji. If the technique fails & the LLMs ingest the codebase anyway we still win as their suggestions could get 🌶️ 🥵 😜 later on

07.09.2025 15:10 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

AI crawlers destroying websites in hunger for content Opinion: But the cure may ruin the web....

“I don't think anyone wants a Balkanized Internet, but I fear that's exactly where we're going.” – Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

In their endless hunger for content, AI web crawlers are destroying websites. But the cure may ruin the web….

Hat tip: Dave Martin

03.09.2025 18:01 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1

Pretty much. They start from a position they are 💯 right & work backwards aka motivated reasoning. If you can corner them with logic they’ll deploy rhetoric - attacking the speaker, citing popularity as ultimate proof, or appealing to $ might or power. It’s completely predictable & quite boring.

02.09.2025 01:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Personally know three people he stiffed one is even my sibling. He is this guy so your intuition is 💯 right.

31.08.2025 03:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Going to be teaching at USD this term as well as UCSD. Looking forward to their small class sizes. I’ll be really busy since I still have my industry job as well but important to try new things when you get a chance.

31.08.2025 02:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I detect no lies. Please like my reply.

31.08.2025 02:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When you see trending “Meta Ethics” what do you think? I’m sure nothing good.

30.08.2025 02:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Didn’t McDonald’s already figure this out around a year ago? Pretty sure they did and backed off fast. Sadly given the volume of AI boosters shifting such fails to others and giving next version promises that we now need to personally step on the AI land mine to believe in AI land mines. Sigh 😞

29.08.2025 21:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I say in response to those who think an LLM using written language alone will become sentient … “so how do you explain my dog and its’ intelligence? You are think language means intelligence!?”

LLMs leverage patterns to great value, but it’s as a path to AGI like a horse is a path to an airplane.

29.08.2025 05:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Me: Alex I'll take Hustle Bro Logic for $800.

Alex: This article...

Me: What are poor choices that are going to plague you for the rest of your life?

Alex: Correct!

21.08.2025 03:34 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So given this Subway Sandwich assault resulting in a felony charge does this then mean if you throw a McDouble at an agent they might throw you in Alligator Alcatraz? What about tossing a McFlurry is that straight to El Salvador? Just want to know what constitutes fast food assault of what degree?

14.08.2025 05:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A 100 Trillion Dollar bank note from Zimbabwe. It’s worth nothing

What Google Chrome is up for sale? I gotta get in on this. I’ve always wanted to own a browser.

Ok so my best and final offer is 100 Trillion Dollars. I’ll throw in some priceless Ape jpegs as a sweetener.

Ha ha I now have totally destroyed your crap low ball offer Perplexity!

13.08.2025 03:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I propose we create a new test in the spirit of the Turing Test called the Altman-Musk Test. It measures human’s general gullibility and unquestionable faith in technology. You fail it if you believe the proclamations of these guys without question.

12.08.2025 03:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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