Ilya Lozovsky

One of the anticipated downsides of AI — the slopification of the internet — is already hitting hard. It's killing much of the joy of discovering cool things from strangers. You just can't trust any video, image, or text that comes from anyone you don't already know.

Fleeing Russian Bombs, Ukrainian Orphans Faced Abuse and Neglect in Turkish Hotels Documents and first-person accounts show how a hastily organized evacuation by a private charity left hundreds of Ukrainian children in a Turkish seaside town with little oversight.

The latest from us and our Ukrainian partners Slidstvo.Info. www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

Is that argument wrong, though?

this is good advice not just for undergrads!

can this be real??

For weeks I’ve been trying to memorize the difference between the Dutch words “geloven” (to believe) and “beloven” (to promise). No luck.

Asked ChatGPT for help. It pointed out that geloven is cognate to “glauben” in German, a language it knows I speak. I hadn’t clocked that. Problem solved.

It's also much less of a dick. I was trying to engage with you on the merits of the argument, I guess that's a mistake I can rectify now!

ChatGPT could give a much more cogent and interesting rebuttal to what I said than this.

I certainly agree from the point of view of attracting readership - if I am reading a person I want their words, not what they got from ChatGPT. I just took your post to be a dismissal of ChaGPT output entirely.

The insinuation that you literally are not a “grown adult” if you don’t automatically dismiss ChatGPT output as “illegitimate” is pretty wild.

ChatGPT can give very good, interesting, and correct answers to things, so I don’t see why it should be automatically de-legitimized. I’m frustrated by people who see LLMs as akin to radiation poisoning!

why?

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

PS - I am not a crackpot

It’s not the worst example of the genre, but I’m glad they don’t do this postmodern shit anymore. It annoys me that this building is trying to be funny.

View of Delft alone is worth the visit

Belgium is still blocking the use of frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine

www.politico.eu/article/russ...

walking around Amsterdam in the fall: Not Bad

Always Be A/B Testing

hey, that’s a nice city

Today, Hungarians protest again. And a traveler captured an image of the crowd, snaking up Andrassy Boulevard to Heroes Square, from their RyanAir flight. Who needs drones?

Explain it to me like I’m thick: how is sanctioning two of Russia’s largest oil companies and threatening secondary sanctions on those who deal with them “not about Russia”?

What does that mean?

The AI water issue is fake On the national, local, and personal level

You may have heard that AI data centers use a huge amount of water, but that's not true in any meaningful sense.

Manufacturing one pair of jeans uses more water than the number of AI prompts you'll make over your whole life.

andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-wat...

This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.

this is exactly what a "Hungarian novelist" looks like in my imagination

I think people should be better educated on the civilizational machinery that makes their lifestyles possible, so I applaud this story as a great public service.

How to Open a Restaurant in NYC A year in the making of a rookie’s first restaurant.

Man, the New York Times is good. This story about a couple of friends opening a restaurant is so well told and delivered.

Also, it's a great subject! Honest business is a noble pursuit that literally enables modern life.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

you’re literally posting a fake photoshopped image in your post about not lying!!