Erik ❤️

Back in 1992 the favourite video in my house was: Oliver! We played that shit over and over again, knew every word! After a few months we saw David Lean's 1948 Oliver Twist on VHS in Tesco! I begged @annakempner.bsky.social to buy it...imagine, Oliver! but with different actors!

No songs. BOOOOOOO!

A photo of a Macintosh PowerBook 150s on a desk. The display is two portrait monitors next to one another, and below that a keyboard, with two trackballs and associated buttons below the keyboard. It looks suspiciously like a normal PowerBook 150 but extra sideways.

The Macintosh PowerBook 150s was especially designed to be used by people with two eyes and two hands.

And two, while OpenAI has done a lot right here, it’s also important to note that even these open-weights models will increase AI risks around the world, by the company’s own admission. “We thus believe that the release of gpt-oss may contribute a small amount of net-new biorisk capabilities,” the company wrote in its safety paper, before adding, “but does not significantly advance frontier capabilities.” Were OpenAI the only player here, that might offer some comfort. But this year has seen an explosion of open-weights and open source models around the world, many of which may also be making it just a bit easier to someday wreak havoc. It comes as some relief that these particular models do not seem to be accelerating those risks all that much. But all these small accelerations may soon add up to something big — and when they do, we may come to regret just how much it is becoming possible to do on a laptop.

Wrote about the new OpenAI models and the creeping danger of powerful models that can fit on a laptop www.platformer.news/open-ai-gpt-...

OpenAI’s new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good The long promised OpenAI open weight models are here, and they are very impressive. They’re available under proper open source licenses—Apache 2.0—and come in two sizes, 120B and 20B. OpenAI’s …

OpenAI released their long-promised open weight models today under clean Apache 2 licenses and with benchmarks that put them shockingly close to o3-mini and o4-mini

I've run the smaller (20B) model on my Mac and it's very impressive, despite only using ~15GB of RAM simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/5/g...

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only if it bricks the android build

Some of us are not gearheads and just want bike to work.

How do *I* sue @jimacosta.bsky.social for conducting an “A.I. interview” with one of the murdered Parkland kids, because, short of actual acts of violence, it might be the most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen a human being do.

yeeeeaah genie 3 is blowing my mind

Do not get on this internet on the 20th anniversary of Katrina and rehabilitate George Bush I swear to god.

Alternate Realities: A Strange Bet : Embedded Episode 1: Reporter Zach Mack thinks his dad has gone all in on conspiracy theories, while his father thinks that Zach is the one being brainwashed. In 2024, after the latest round of circular argumen...

Listened to a three episodes series on Embedded called "Alternate Realities". It reminded me, among other things, of how "AI" enthusiasts talk about the current state/progress of LLMs.

Frankly, some people have gotten radicalized.

EP1 is www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1...

Built ca. 1904, John K. Neebe, architect. Three-story orange brick corner building with brick turret on the corner of the 2nd and 3rd floors. The turret has a witches' hat roof. There is stone trim around two entrances, although not around the main entrance at the corner.

Three-story rusticated and smooth limestone building with a turret on the corner topped with a witches' hat roof. The first floor has been modified and consists of large store windows. On the second and third floors, the limestone is intact. The turret is smooth limestone decorated with foliage and geometric shapes. There are stone dentils across the roof line and the name "Peter Heim" is engraved in stone at the top left of the building. Heim was the owner and had the building constructed ca 1895. It was a saloon and bowling alley.

#TurretTuesday Both on Irving Park Rd., once called Graceland, in Chicago.

Uso muchísimo Goodreads

* uso= Entro, busco un gran libro y después busco las peores críticas

I think the correct deal for Perplexity is that when it steals my content it needs to publish any message I want it to.

If that message is “Perplexity sucks,” so be it

A screenshot from my weather app reading: "AQI Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups (149)" There is a bar under the text that is half filled with orange

"Sensitive Groups," otherwise known as "all those who breathe air"

a web ring... cycle....

Machine Learning by Design Patterns and Principles for Data Collection, Feature Engineering, and Model Development PENG SHAO ex-Amazon, ex-Twitter

It’s not strictly necessary that I skill up on this (ps we’re hiring ML engineers) but it is pretty interesting. As far as I can tell ML is like baking a soufflé - it involves eggs somehow

The covers of a group of six paperback books including ‘electricity‘, ‘castles‘, ‘buildings‘, and ‘lost cities’

Does anyone else remember the “How and Why” books from the 1960s/1970s?

Brutalist art museum in Japan.

I would live here. I get it.

starting to think some of these AI companies are kind of shitty tbh

This is one of the best pieces I've read about AI. It covers many aspects of LLMs and why they're problematic. I can't recommend reading if enough.

If you're very well read in the area of AI criticism this may be all territory you're familiar with, but I expect a lot of folks can learn from it.

GitHub - jub0bs/cors: perhaps the best CORS middleware library for Go perhaps the best CORS middleware library for Go. Contribute to jub0bs/cors development by creating an account on GitHub.

jub0bs/cors has now reached 100 ⭐s on GitHub! 🤩

github.com/jub0bs/cors

#golang

Kids used to have to change entire school districts to escape rumors about them that were vastly less embarrassing than the shit these dweebs freely admit to all the time

Going to visit my American friends

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

this is pretty shitty blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-i...

me wearing a hardhat and safety vest

It is possible to do C programming safely. You just need the right gear

Alex on twitter writes: "Someone on Twitter writes: "You’re a menswear writer. You don’t know anything about manufacturing in America, or steel mills, or metallurgy, or CNC machining, or how anything is produced from raw material into a finished product in this country or anywhere. Stick to writing about “men’s fashion."" I reply: "i actually had a career in knifemaking before this. the reason why you can't avoid tariffs in knifemaking is because everyone relies on Gobelin machinery. are you aware of this?" Alex replies: "Gobelin machinery? What exactly are you referring to?" I reply: "you Gobelin DEEZ NUTS!"

"stick to menswear"

tangled.sh/@whey.party/...

pretty cool lol

A set of OOP occult books.

Can someone donate a couple h100s? I have content to consume.

Now I do firmly believe that ai is good enough to replace McKenzie