Jon Kruithof

Clearly Howard The Duck's.

There is something delightful about writing a script to process data into a database, and watching the 10,000+ rows tick away in a CLI.

Right-Wing Chatbots Turbocharge America’s Political and Cultural Wars

All chatbots are right wing chatbots. 🤷🏿‍♂️

OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week OpenAI says hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users may show signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week.

OpenAI released initial estimates about the share of users who may be experiencing symptoms like delusional thinking, mania, or suicidal ideation, and says it has tweaked GPT-5 to respond more effectively.

Meta and TikTok broke EU rules on data access for researchers | Euractiv Meta's processes for reporting illegal content and informing users about content takedowns were also found to have breached the EU's Digital Services Act

may they face the most severe penalty possible www.euractiv.com/news/meta-an...

Let me guess, the vampire gets ghosted in the sequel?

OpenAI Loosened Suicide-Talk Rules Before Teen’s Death, Lawsuit Alleges An amended complaint from the parents of Adam Raine, a 16-year-old who died by suicide, alleges the changes were part of a push to increase engagement.

“OpenAI twice loosened ChatGPT’s rules for discussing suicide in the year before 16-year-old Adam Raine took his own life using a method the chatbot advised him on, according to an amended lawsuit filed by his parents on Wednesday.”

The year he got canned feels a lot like this year. I think that was a better team, but neither were goid

Babcock era.

AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds The AI industry's claims about AI coding assistants boosting productivity significantly appear to be massively overblown, per a new report.

“In a new report, management consultants Bain & Company found that despite being ‘one of the first areas to deploy generative AI,’ the ‘savings have been unremarkable’ in programming.”

Mario Guevara faces imminent deportation after being detained by ICE for over 100 days.

His crime? Livestreaming a “No Kings” protest.

If you were outraged about Jimmy Kimmel, you should be more outraged about Guevara.

It’s time to #FreeMario now!

What a sad, little pig.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

“The revolution will not be televised” has always been true.

This is what I meant late last year when I said we’d have to rebuild counterculture. Media that’s been targeted by authorities needs to be built using structures that are different from regular mass media.

Trump administration to award a no-bid contract on research into vaccines and autism Federal health officials intend to award a no-bid contract to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to investigate whether there is a link between vaccinations and autism.

The outrage of a no bid contract on autism to an engineering school that doesn't even have a department of epidemiology or neuroscience is only exceeded by the choice of recipient, a data scientist who last published on autism in 2020 and thinks like Wakefield. 🧪 #episky 🧵
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Really funny to ask a “Public Intellectual” what the last interesting academic paper they read was and for them to respond “I only read substack”

snopes hasn't been a reliable site since the other founder threw Brooke out and started rewriting things; it's worse because it *used* to be good

there is no way in hell folks will migrate.

Their "significant cognitive disadvantage" will include "not seeing as many ads".

basically a generational cohort split here where certain younger people intuitively grasp the irony poisoned context, and if you aren't already up to speed, very hard to explain

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

/2 But here's what people like Charlie Kirk know:
It doesn't matter who the shooter actually was. It doesn't matter what their motives actually were. They can lie about it, propagandize it, deny it, and their audience will eat it up. And the legacy media will both-sides it in response.

Oh good, they scraped my VR study

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Are you also travelling back in time to 2018?

US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China U.S. technology firms such as IBM, Dell and Cisco largely designed and built China’s surveillance state, an AP investigation finds. The tech companies deny wrongdoing.

“Across China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers like the Yangs are trapped in a digital cage, barred from leaving their province and sometimes even their homes by the world’s largest digital surveillance apparatus.”

“Most of this technology” came from US companies.

Not that I would shop with Ralph Lauren, but my new intent is "fuck this shit"

A screenshot of Apple Music which shows a playlist of Skrewdriver songs under a "Skrewdriver" banner.

An easy story for reporters in tech and extremism right now might be to ask major music streaming platforms why they quietly let Skrewdriver back on some time this year

This is not a time to be using Firefox - there are forks that get the job done without every other choice being Chromium.

People keep on talking about this through the lens of protecting "children" but I'd like to propose that this is horrific and negligent no matter what the age of the person, and we should say that clearly and repeatedly.