Matthias Freiberger

I trust you, but your AI agent is a snitch: Why we need a new social contract.

We’re chatting on Signal, enjoying encryption, right? But your DIY productivity agent is piping the whole thing back to Anthropic.

Friend, you just created a permanent subpoena-able record of my private thoughts...1/

As you may know, we are running a conference on games, play, and climate futures in May at the ITU Copenhagen: playingfutures.today
Some news: the deadline for abstracts has been extended to February 20th. Now you have no excuses left not to submit!

Guys, it’s fine. It’s probably DNS. Or BGP. Or us-east-1

Frankly, the entire Internet is made of duct tape and popsicle sticks held together by bubble gum and string and it’s amazing that anything ever works at all

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Engaging in mental gymnastics to justify what's convenient but unevidenced, unjust but personally beneficial, 'rewires your neural map' in ways that degrade your overall ability to understand and analyze the world around you, which is a precondition for intelligence and creativity.

One of my most deeply held beliefs is that refusing to name truth makes you stupid--literally degrades your intellect.

There are real people, real women, real girls whose images have been edited by grok at the request of users.

This is not some fictionalised, nebulous harm.

That the 'adults in the room' and 'rules-based order' governments are humming and hawwing over taking a firm line on this is extraordinary

This is just a stupid situation.

A few years from now it will be "thousands of households have spoiled food because their <vendor> refrigerators stopped working due to an expired certificate."

Venezuela should de-escalate by trading land for peace, pledge neutrality and now choose a leader Donald approves of.

That's how it was supposed to work when we do this to our neighbors.

Saying ”Grok apologized” is like If I type “YOU’RE A BITCH” into Speak-And-Spell and tell you “Speak-An-Spell says you’re a bitch”

A Study Is Retracted, Renewing Concerns About the Weedkiller Roundup

“This is a seismic, long-awaited correction of the scientific record,” said Dr. Philip J. Landrigan… “It pulls the veil off decades of industry efforts to create a false narrative that glyphosate is safe…People have developed cancers, and people have died because of this scientific fraud.”

OpenAI researcher resigns, claiming safety has taken “a backseat to shiny products” More turmoil inside the house that builds ChatGPT.

Lol.
www.theverge.com/2024/5/17/24...

BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.

I just took the Metaphysics Quiz and found out my worldview is Taoism (75% match). What's yours? awjuliani.github.io/metaphysics-...

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But probably the coolest use of OpenSpiel recently has been in collaboration with @kaggle.com as environments in the Kaggle Game Arena (see here: bsky.app/profile/kagg...).

In the first round, LLMs played head-to-heat against each other at chess! ♟️🤩

It is absolutely shocking to me that windows does not ship with basic PDF utilities. It is 2025, I should not have to pay Adobe to merge a couple of PDFs into one file. Every desktop Linux distro has been able to do this since like 2004

AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING

HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS?

HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON?

HOW??????????

A+ trolling from Zelenskyy

I guess it's chibi, gameboy, pixelart metroid time again.
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was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans at all levels in the scientific process. So I stood up and protested that what they are doing is evil.

Full post:
togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea...

64x64 pixel dungeon crawler. Pac-quest.

Featuring Pac🟡Girl

Had Alexander De Croo dezelfde zaken gezegd, hij had ontslag moeten nemen en de regering was gevallen.

En het zou 100% terecht zijn geweest.

"It has 99% accuracy" is essentially the ML equivalent of "It compiles, so it works"

Lol. Whoever tuned that model has never heard of recall and their training set probably was lots of p*rn and p*rn only.
That is exactly why you should do a decent ML course about model evaluation practices and ethical implications before you start training models.

1/6 Belgium is helping Russia in its war against Ukraine.

How? It is the final obstacle preventing Ukraine from accessing Russia’s frozen assets.

Does Belgium want to be remembered as Russia’s helper?

We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.

I've seen you do things with LLMs on here. If you can do things with LLMs companies love you currently.