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Obligatory: there is great journalism. But it's not so common

23.02.2026 04:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Another fine day of scrolling on the Will Stancil And AI App

21.02.2026 07:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Millennia of virtue ethics vindicated

23.02.2026 03:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

At the risk of moving into the discourse a 2nd time today, the fact that a lot of Americans in the replies see this as a bit of fun trash talk between rivals kind of illustrates the extent to which maybe a lot of Americans aren't reading the room in how they are viewed internationally at this point

23.02.2026 02:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 483    ๐Ÿ” 86    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

Easier to ignore people who're mostly asking for your exact skull measurements

23.02.2026 02:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Then ask a domain expert for their thoughts on reporting in their domain. I dare ya!

23.02.2026 02:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

To avoid being Too Much: consider for even just a second the entire incentives structure of journalism in 2026.

23.02.2026 02:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Defending X is wild. Do you read Muskโ€™s posts? He has turned it into the most important platform for building a far right international.

22.02.2026 23:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 514    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeah these,,, journalists are, incredibly serious111!!!11

23.02.2026 02:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Lmfao fucking hilarious

23.02.2026 02:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeah, archive dot org & common crawl with a handful of ML resources could do this. Honestly might have to hit up Brewster.

22.02.2026 23:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Polymarket on the parameter count of google's dogass search llm when?

22.02.2026 23:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era, many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form โ€“ and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them. Instead, we are stuck renting them, subject to

Buying a track or ebook that you canโ€™t pass on, share, or transfer isnโ€™t ownership; itโ€™s a rental. We need to restore digital first sale. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

22.02.2026 20:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 216    ๐Ÿ” 75    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Presumably so people can boomer search "what was the name of that movie about the cowboy who sings? Thanks!"

22.02.2026 23:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It is 100% using a shit-tier sub-4b model (probably even just millions of params) to rephrase queries that ends up dropping any useful keywords.

22.02.2026 23:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

It's unusable at this point. Moving to using ChatGPT. Congrats goog

22.02.2026 23:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If the BBC can suggest even one possible logical reason for spraying high concentration glyphosate, classified as a category 2A carcinogen BTW, which isnโ€™t to destroy crops, harm the health of civilians, or both, then let them do so. Otherwise to say โ€œwe donโ€™t knowโ€ is journalistic malpractice.

22.02.2026 11:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 264    ๐Ÿ” 25    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I adore text-to-image obviously & think it can be an important part of workflows even outside of the love of text-image art.

But so many cases of interfaces that spotlight sycophantic hell conversation that should be avoided

21.02.2026 10:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Basically we don't need to uninvent the mouse

21.02.2026 09:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Defaulting to a back-and-forth with literal clippy is such a silly fucking choice -- fwiw I think natural language intetfaces can be good but "chat" interfaces are sooo often misapplied

21.02.2026 09:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

*In many contexts

21.02.2026 09:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The people yearn for anything but chat interfaces

21.02.2026 09:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

they're saturating my benchmarks tomorrow

21.02.2026 04:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 36    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i hope so if only for their sake lol

21.02.2026 04:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

had to bail when i scrolled to find the thesis and hit an "it is programmed to" with reference to ChatGPT

21.02.2026 04:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
video on "AI isnโ€™t merely bad at writing. It does not and cannot write"

video on "AI isnโ€™t merely bad at writing. It does not and cannot write"

Writing isn't just producing written words: it requires redefining terms to have zero face validity so someone will click your thumbnail.

21.02.2026 04:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I still think a lot about โ€œtrad cisgender ai chipsโ€

21.02.2026 02:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 53    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeah, should be made an official human rights violation. Would love to have some sort of disbarring for people who do work on this

20.02.2026 06:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Seems important for AI folks to be clear that they donโ€™t support this

20.02.2026 04:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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