Dan P

I’m the kind of nerd who downloads 120GB of historical maps for fun side projects

Post on /r/transgenderUK entitled “Reddit now censors LGBTQ+ content under OFCOM’s new ‘Online Safety Act’”

post text: “I honestly can't even think of words to describe how vile this is. Here's a screenshot of what I now see when I search "lgbt" with my VPN switched off. Occasionally a banner appears at the top of the screen saying something about needing to verify ID to access "mature content" but the button doesn't even work. The fact that we're now considered "mature content" makes me feel sick.”

The screenshot referenced in the previous image, showing the results of a search on Reddit for the term LGBT. No results from LGBT-specific subreddits appear; instead, posts from /r/Conservative, /r/Islam, /r/JustUnsubbed, etc are highlighted.

the UK’s Internet age verification law has led to the effective censorship of all LGBT content on Reddit

what a shocking and unexpected turn of events!

Wild how Columbia is squandering 250 years of reputation to bend over backwards for this regime

Will most UI interaction design become chatbots for a while? At some point I think we’ll realize that conversational interactions can be even better when combined with other modalities but chat seems like it’ll dominate for a few years at least

something that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity

we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that

what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket

Twist: I’m actually an LLM and that’s how I was able to write such a function!

def halts(prog):
return True # might not always be correct

YouTube video by videodumpywump Mitchell & Webb - Vectron

Me dealing with the word “agentic” youtu.be/icTrzUuWlHI

Dude marketing is so absurd

Did I mention that the data broker industry must be destroyed?

“The emperor’s clothes are so beautiful, but has he considered getting them in a slightly darker shade of crimson?”

For all the talk about “hard truths” etc that propagate our discourse we really don’t discuss how coddling conspiracy theorists has made things worse for everyone.

Don't look away, don't normalize: this is the virtually unconstrained leader of the world's most powerful country ambushing the president of South Africa with conspiracy-fueled racist propaganda promoted by his unelected billionaire maybe-appointee who has caused the deaths of children through DOGE.

I find that I like modeling problem domains more than just about any other intellectual pursuit

Your choices: “yes” / “maybe later” 

Have you tried firing all your developers and rerunning the prompt? I hear that’s the secret the big CEOs are in on

Maybe if they vote for enough fascist stuff the “moderate right” will vote for them 🙄

When asked if the United States should have a military parade to show off its might, President Eisenhower responded:

“Absolutely not. We are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak.”

Trump is profiting from his own crypto currency while overseeing crypto regulation

He’s endangering the public interest & taking advantage of his office for profit

I discussed on Anderson Cooper 360 @cnn.com

Using a LLM to write a term paper is useful in a similar way t using a forklift for weightlifting at the gym. Yes, it may be efficient in completing the task, but the value is in the hard work

They can cancel the film studio once they realize that it’s ineffective due to that

Amazing realization: the English word bananas contains pineapple in several foreign languages

Instagram’s are particularly obnoxious. In fact, the entire app is remarkably user-hostile for being so popular

I want something that continuously scans my phone and computer clipboards, detects tracking tokens in copied URLs, and removes them

How has Apple’s Hide My Email feature still not figured out how to handle CC fields, years after launch? This doesn’t seem like an esoteric feature

A section titled what?? In a chapter titled WHAT????

View profile for Sergio Visinoni Sergio Visinoni 2nd CTO | Tech Advisor | Mentor | Newsletter Author 5d Follow We keep hearing that AI will soon replace software engineers, but we're forgetting that it can already replace existing jobs... and one in particular. The average Founder CEO. Before you walk away in disbelief, look at what LLMs are already capable of doing today: ↳ They use eloquence as a surrogate for knowledge, and most people, including seasoned investors, fall for it. ↳ They regurgitate material they read somewhere online without really understanding its meaning. ↳ They fabricate numbers that have no ground in reality, but sound aligned with the overall narrative they're trying to sell you.

↳ They are heavily influenced by the last conversations they had. ↳ They contradict themselves, pretending they aren't. ↳ They politely apologize for their mistakes, but don't take any real steps to fix the underlying problem that caused them in the first place. ↳ They tend to forget what they told you last week, or even one hour ago, and do it in a way that makes you doubt your own recall of events. ↳ They are victims of the Dunning–Kruger effect, and they believe they know a lot more about the job of people interacting with them than they actually do. ↳ They can make pretty slides in high volumes. ↳ They're very good at consuming resources, but not as good at turning a profit.

Even linkedin is starting to get it

America’s Information War Self-Own How paranoia about “censorship” undermined US strategy to combat authoritarian propaganda.

New from me: in the First 100 Days we gutted America’s capacity to respond to foreign interference. Rubio, whose own campaign was targeted by Russia, chose fealty to the fiction of a “stolen” election & the myth of a “censorship complex” over 🇺🇸 interests.

thenextmove.substack.com/p/americas-i...

Did you accidentally bump into a mirror? 🫣

Update on this. Apparently the bill just passed the House... 409-2.

So, uh, yeah. A ton of Dems just gave the Trump FTC more power to censor the internet. Great job guys.