Zara

my goat

Curate your own newspaper with RSS Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.

Here’s how to use RSS.
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they our here tryna steal my whole flow. no personal identity whatsoever, just leeching off of someone else's aura

Jamie Brandon new blog post alert

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heard about the news. time to listen to this song near and dear to my heart. the opening guitar riff is so filthy

thank you 🤝

they have a great remix in this set. I like the part between 12:30-56:00
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don't watch master chef Australia at a tender age

when I first learnt what a bain-marie was, I was insufferable for a while

haven't read Dan's essays in a while but this post reminded me to check in on his site again. if only he'd redesign the blog a bit so it doesn't make your eyes bleed :')

My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs One of my favorite AI dev products today is Full Line Code Completion in PyCharm (bundled with the IDE since late 2023). It’s extremely well-thought out, unintrusive, and makes me a more effective dev...

I really appreciate a well-thought out product and full-line code completion in PyCharm had to be one of my favorites, I use it for logging all the time

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Scalable production of human cortical organoids using a biocompatible polymer - Nature Biomedical Engineering Addition of an inexpensive, biocompatible polymer reduces spontaneous fusions of organoids in culture.

Article here: nature.com/articles/s41...

Software Licensing Changes and Their Impact on Financial Outcomes Another day, another rug pull. At least that’s what the cynical might say, as we as an industry once again are discussing the fallout of another company changing their software from what was previousl...

You were absolutely right! Thanks. I found it

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referencing this meme ofc. I really think it helps to have a "that don't impress me much" outlook when dealing with recsys and algorithms.

Yeah you're cool I know that, you make my job sooo much easier but that's where the appreciation ends.

Towards music and movie rec algorithms I always have a "you don't speak to me unless spoken to attitude" I never scroll for hrs trying to "find" something. When I go there I already have something in mind. Like a movie trailer I bookmarked, an album I was suggested etc

babe wake up, new report from the dream team just came out

i heard these skies are big around here

lmao i remember as recent as like 1-1.5 yr ago, a prominent member of a VC fund was stirring up discourse on twitter about UFOs being a real thing with not just posting but also podcasting about it.

glad to see we can put this behind us. it was always a far fetched idea

Have LLMs Finally Mastered Geolocation? - bellingcat We tasked LLMs from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Mistral and xAI to geolocate our unpublished holiday snaps. Here's how they did.

Bellingcat has followed up its 2023 article on testing LLMs on geolocation with a new review of LLM's geolocation skills, with dramatically improved results www.bellingcat.com/resources/ho...

+1 for 404 media. they are great for tech news

Good discussion on Twitter’s new encrypted DMs. TL;DR the cryptography doesn’t seem bad, but it isn’t great. mjg59.dreamwidth.org/71646.html

was looking up LLM poisoning and found this

Coding my Handwriting — Amy Goodchild Coding my handwriting in Javascript - how I did it and what I’m doing with it.

This is so inspiring! Thanks also for all of the wonderful detail in your blog - it is so nice to be able to learn from your process www.amygoodchild.com/blog/cursive...

write my code. And stop with the unnecessary glazing

In America you are only one medical emergency away from reaching the tip of bankruptcy

very partial to this one ❤

An enormous amount of society's ills can be traced to an inability to properly understand the magnitude of things.

Interacting with my p5js coded handwriting

3/ NSO Group emerges from the trial severely damaged.

The damages ($167,254,000 punitive, $440K+ compensatory) is big enough to make your eyes water.

The case is ALSO a blow to NSO's secrecy, with their business splashed all over a courtroom.

This will scare customers.

And investors.

Good.

BREAKING: jury awards massive $167 million in punitive damages against spyware company NSO Group.

Precedent-setting win against notorious #Pegasus spyware maker.

Very consequential for victims to see this.

Congratulations to #WhatsApp on sticking this case through since 2019. Some thoughts 1/