Sajid (he/him)

Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail.

I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"AI technology appears to outperform humans. But a closer look reveals that these games are rigged. The competitions do not actually ask machines to perform human tasks; it’s more accurate to say that they ask humans to behave in machine-like ways as they perform lifeless simulacra of human tasks."

Nerd4cities(Ray) and the hosts of the war on cars on the stage of a packed event as they record a live podcast.

An urbanist treat seeing @nerd4cities.bsky.social and @thewaroncars.bsky.social last night!

I’ll be there!

King Théoden asking Aragorn "Where was Gondor when the Westfold fell??"

Where was Gondor when the TikTok fell??

AWS Lambda functions have an incredible opportunity to rebrand as agents

Gandalf the White saying, "Be silent. Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth"

me when any program's AI assistant asks me if I want help writing:

🎉🚲 Happy congestion pricing Sunday! 🚇🌿

Congestion pricing cameras officially went live at midnight.

Today, we’re celebrating progress — safer streets, better transit, and cleaner air for all New Yorkers.

Together we're building a city that works for everyone.

Bluesky Promised Writers Freedom. Now It’s Feeling a Lot Like Work | The Walrus With every new platform comes the expectation to punch in as a professional, curated version of ourselves

Wrote about the intractable pressure to perform our professional identities online, even when we don't wanna
thewalrus.ca/bluesky-is-t...

Anthropic says Claude AI can match your unique writing style Or just pick from three style presets to make quick adjustments.

The underlying assumption is that a person’s writing style is something to be divined only from what they’ve done in the past, rather than an evolving process that changes as you change as a person who experiences the world.

At least one item on his wishlist has been granted: Bluesky has decided to quadruple the size of its contract workforce of content moderators from 25 to 100, the company told Platformer. The move comes in response to Bluesky’s rapid growth since this month’s US presidential election, which triggered a fresh exodus of users away from Elon Musk’s X and over the weekend took the platform past 22 million total users.

Some news: amid rapid growth and some over-enforcement of its community guidelines, Bluesky trust and safety chief @aaron.bsky.team tells me the company will quadruple the size of its content moderation team www.platformer.news/bluesky-grow...

Yup. Writing is thinking. So if you write a shitty first draft, you did some thinking and are on your way! If you got “AI” to write the draft, you haven’t thought AND now you’re trying to fix up what some non-thinking robot “thought.” You just put yourself 30 yards behind the starting line.

Daybook Jobs has posted a job posting for the Speaker of the House

In case anyone is looking for work:

Nobel Prize winner for mRNA vaccines discusses being demoted by UPenn Katalin Karikó, who is sharing the Nobel Prize in medicine for her work with mRNA vaccines, says she was previously demoted by the University of Pennsylvania for her research in that area.  “I…

"🙏🏿Lord please grant me the confidence to deny a brilliant woman professor and researcher tenure track, demote her, push her out of my school, to be the adversity that she had to overcome in life... and when she overcomes me and wins the Nobel prize, to roll in like I did something. Amen!"

Critics Furious Microsoft Is Training AI by Sucking Up Water During Drought Some people in Iowa are mad that Microsoft used a ton of water to train AI while Iowa has been in a drought caused by climate change.

"Microsoft increased worldwide water consumption by a whopping 34%—up to almost 1.7 billion gallons annually—last year, which … is most likely due to increased AI training. That's dwarfed by Google, which used 5.6 billion gallons last year, a 20% jump.” futurism.com/critics-micr...

FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power The Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general today sued Amazon.com, Inc.

"The Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general today sued Amazon.com, Inc. alleging that the online retail and technology company is a monopolist that uses a set of interlocking anticompetitive and unfair strategies to illegally maintain its monopoly power."
www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

LGTM!

Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli, Boromir, and one of the hobbits before the Doors of Durin

"It reads 'The Doors of Durin — Lord of Moria, which is still invite-only; speak your invite code and enter."