Leon Schreiber

„International financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: “It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money.”

Please, more people, read how they‘re betraying you.

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

„Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: “It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Makes sense, they don’t clean themselves after all!

What’s that?

Sounds dangerous

Another very controversial design decision by Apple

But now that I think more about it, only things come to mind where AI would be the _subject_ rather than the medium, which I guess is a rather significant difference…
So maybe my point doesn’t really stand :D

Very valid point and I agree that AI can’t do all of that.
I guess I was thinking about more “technical/political” kind of art, where for example we try to make model bias understandable in a creative way.

I think it can be fun, novel and interesting to create art with AI if the idea of it being created that way is part of the piece itself.

There's fun in creatively exploring the inner workings and limitations of AI, but just replicating traditional stuff with it is 100% like you say.

Reviews like these always make me wonder how much “peer reviewing” is already done 100% by LLMs

To you it’s a silly little app, to me it’s finally time to replace the 96 individual battery-logging automations that run every 15 minutes on my phone

I expect the coming of our lord and savior Temporal any day now

Four line graphs showing the percentage of Earth's surface experiencing record temperatures (warm and cold) from 1950 to 2023, with monthly breakdowns for January, April, July, and October. Each graph compares warm records (red lines) and cold records (blue lines), with thick lines representing 10-year trailing averages. The data shows a steep rise in the area experiencing record warm temperatures since the 1980s, especially after 2000, while cold records have declined significantly across all months. The data points for the heat records go far above the limit of the y axis of the plot.

Just found this image on the wikipedia list of weather records (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...) and apart from the absolutely frightening implications of it, I am loving the author's choice to completely abandon the y axis and just slam the data points right into the plot title and above 🚀

short for "oh no what have we done, none of this is regulated or ethical, anyway now you can generate AI slop for half the price lets gooooo"

I thought it was "o(h no)"

Keir Starmer: I've already returned over 24,000 people with no right to be here. And I won't stop there. twitter user: @grok Is this post misleading? Grok: The claim of white genocide in South Africa is highly debated. Some evidence, like reports of farm attacks and political rhetoric, suggests violence against white farmers...

a user asks Grok to translate Chinese text on a photo, and it responds with a translation of "Kill the Boer" into Urdu

a user asks if something shown in a video is an effective way to clear sinuses, and Grok says the query is unrelated to "the provided analysis on white genocide in South Africa"

apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"

The least this tells me is that with the usual pay-per-token payment model I would have to pay siginificantly more for an API call to translate a text that is entirely written about a female person than about a male one.

I'm not at all an expert in this, but it would be very interesting to research the impact of this on the quality of translation and the ability of neural models to accurately translate gendered nouns.

Meaning of the words:

🇪🇸 jefe/a = 🇬🇧 boss
🇪🇸 alumno/a = 🇬🇧 student
🇪🇸 abogado/a = 🇬🇧 lawyer

Screenshot of the output of GPT-4o's word tokenizer for the word feminine/masculine pairs "el jefe - la jefa", "el alumno - la alumna" and "el abogado - la abogada". Results: "jefe" is one token, "jefa" is split into "j" and "efa". "Alumno" is one token, "alumna" is split into "alum" and "na". "Abogado" is one token, "abogada" is split into "ab" and "ogada".

Currently working with gender bias in machine translation and found this while playing around with the GPT-4o tokenizer.

This example is in Spanish, but it shows how the masculine forms of these nouns are subtly encoded as the default, even as early as in the tokenization step.

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You don’t know German by any chance?

Software 2.0 I sometimes see people refer to neural networks as just “another tool in your machine learning toolbox”. They have some pros and cons, they…

This post was disgustingly ahead of its time.

> Neural networks are not just another classifier, they represent the beginning of a fundamental shift in how we develop software. They are Software 2.0.

karpathy.medium.com/software-2-0...

"In der Polizei sorgte die Anweisung für Irritationen, vor allem weil es nach BR-Informationen vergleichbare Schlagwörter in Bezug auf andere Parteien bisher nicht gibt. Mehrere Polizisten äußerten sich gegenüber dem BR dahingehend, dass sie sich für parteipolitische Zwecke missbraucht fühlten"

"Gegen CDU und CSU" – Neues Polizei-Schlagwort sorgt für Kritik Wird Bayerns Polizei im Wahlkampf für Parteipolitik missbraucht? Eine interne Anweisung löst Irritationen aus: Alle bayerischen Polizisten wurden instruiert, Veranstaltungen gegen die Migrationspoliti...

Vor knapp zwei Wochen wurden nun alle bayerischen Polizisten […] ein neues Schlagwort zu verwenden: "gegen CDU und CSU".

Das neue Schlagwort solle verwendet werden […] im Zusammenhang mit Veranstaltungen, die sich gegen die politischen Ziele der Union richteten […].

www.br.de/nachrichten/...

calculator-app - Chad Nauseam Home "A calculator app? Anyone could make that." (this was originally a https://x.com/ChadNauseam/status/1890889465322786878) Not true. A calculator should show you the result of the mathematical expressi…

"A calculator app? Anyone could make that." → Not true.

Very interesting short read if you like math or computer science (who doesn't?)

chadnauseam.com/coding/rando...

Finally my excessive tracking habits yield some meaningful insights!

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In Berlin kann man sehr gut sehen, was deren ideologische Verbots- und Kürzungspolitik bewirkt. Kultur am absterben, Hochschulen werden verkleinert und dem Verfall überlassen. Hilfsprogramme für Bedürftige eingestellt.