Aaron Sterling

YouTube video by Chris Wilson Dark Patterns: Are Your Games Playing You?

Chris Wilson (whom I consider an expert on user-first gamification) on dark patterns in online games. These are experiential #UX patterns, as opposed to visual #UI dark patterns. youtu.be/OCkO8mNK3Gg

Some pretty eye-opening data on the effect of AI coding.

When Cursor added agentic coding in 2024, adopters produced 39% more code merges, with no sign of a decrease in quality (revert rates were the same, bugs dropped) and no sign that the scope of the work shrank. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

So it seems Krauss forwarded an email from me to him asking for responses to allegations against him to Jeffrey Epstein, asking Epstein for advice on how to respond.

YouTube video by Switch Angel Coding Trance Music

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You aren't a member of Team Blue Grift. I don't know much about your opinions, but I know you've actually done things to help in real life.

EFFecting Change: This Title Was Written by a Human Generative AI is like a Rorschach test for anxieties about technology–be they privacy, replacement of workers, bias and discrimination, surveillance, or intellectual property. Our panelists discuss

Everyone's talking about AI 🤖 But who's keeping your rights in mind as it evolves?

Join us tomorrow, November 13 at 10 AM PT for a livestream on the risks of AI and how we can safeguard civil liberties online. eff.org/livestream-ai

AI is probably not a bubble AI companies have revenue, demand, and paths to immense value

This is an interesting analysis. My own version: Anthropic is approaching profitability, with actual paying customers; and Alphabet and Meta have deep pockets. They're fine. OpenAI at risk unless it gets public or private bailout, so closest to 2008. peterwildeford.substack.com/p/ai-is-prob...

Boston’s Mayor has to pick up the Christmas tree in person this year because if we shipped it it’d be tariffed.

I just want to say congratulations. I remember the post you made here basically saying, "If no one's going to do it, I guess I will." And now you're able to make posts like this. A small thing, relative to everything going on, but I think it's pretty cool.

Live Coding Techno With Strudel The super talented [Switch Angel] is an electronic music artist, with a few cool YouTube videos to show off their absolute nailing of how to live code with Strudel. For us mere mortals, Strudel is …

Blog post with links to the tool she's using. hackaday.com/2025/10/16/l...

YouTube video by Switch Angel Coding Trance Music from Scratch (Again )

Just discovered this coding music channel and artist. Remarkable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5r... cc: @haskell.org Also @unwoman.com you might get a kick out of this.

As a verb: affect = adjust; effect = Picard saying "Make it so." As a noun: affect = appearance; effect = consequence.

Multi-Agent collaboration patterns with Strands Agents and Amazon Nova | Amazon Web Services In this post, we explore four key collaboration patterns for multi-agent, multimodal AI systems – Agents as Tools, Swarms Agents, Agent Graphs, and Agent Workflows – and discuss when and how to apply ...

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Multi-agent AI systems are becoming increasingly practical for complex tasks. There are different architectural patterns being used today for how specialized agents can collaborate with each suited to specific business challenges and workflows. (1️⃣/3️⃣)

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Epidemic modeling for misinformation spread in digital networks through a social intelligence approach - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Epidemic modeling for misinformation spread in digital networks through a social intelligence approach

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I haven't read your work, but it's informative to use epidemiology formulas to analyze misinformation propagation on social media graphs. Maybe you do similar, so e.g., the organizer of a pro-ana online group is a superspreader?

Unlike other FDA-approved devices, an LLM chatbot can generate different outputs when presented twice with the same inputs. To approve a chatbot as a device will require new definition of clinical endpoints. General framework was prescribing a therapy chatbot the way one would prescribe an SSRI. 2/2

I watched about half the meeting live (~4 hours out of 8). In the parts I saw, people didn't sound stunned. Rather, they were clear that you need a human supervisor in the loop, and you need new criteria for measurability. 1/2

Most people should use a password manager, but there's no one-size-fits-all recommendation. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...

Financial documents show Anthropic expects to break even in 2028, while OpenAI projects ~$74B in operating losses that year before turning a profit in 2030 (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

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A medical salesman I know said that Musk's great skill was getting government contracts. He can do that better than almost anybody. Get the client with the deepest pockets and you inspire investor confidence.

We were building something else and we got approached by people in that space. So we might do something there ourselves. At least in the US, there's a lot of institutional inertia to overcome though, to introduce any new tech.

There's quite a bit of interest in the USA as well. Broad brush, while there's a lot of money in corrections, not much goes to tech debt or infrastructure debt, so a lot of logistical patterns could be improved. AI is a shiny word meaning "modernize and save money."

What would you do if you had hired a contracting team in Bangalore and given them the same spec and direction?

Manassas city schools closed Monday due to cybersecurity incident Manassas City Public Schools will be closed on Monday after the school system experienced a cybersecurity incident over the weekend, Superintendent Kevin Newman announced Sunday.

Looks like Manassas City in Virginia was hit with a ransomware attack.

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I had heard that 419 scams added misspellings to emails on purpose, to filter out people less likely to fall for the scam. Even if that's not true, plenty of people already think "slop" is real.

I don't know, but one of my rules for Claude is "never use setTimeout" in part because of what you're saying.

You're absolutely right!

The subreddit r/democrats deletes all posts referring to Mamdami, because of a role that prohibits mention of democratic socialists. The party overall has a deep communication problem.

But he is sensitive about it so he calls himself Armbar

An attorney once told me, "The thing about HIPAA is that you can ask people to waive HIPAA to make their lives easier, and they will."