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LLMs: the opposable thumb of computing
Amidst all the hype, all the skepticism, all the rending of clothes, I am here to tell you: the LLM is to computing what the thumb is to our hand.
networkgames.fyi
I argue that LLMs are the opposable thumb of computing:
fundamentally novel range of motion that, when combined with the error-correcting fingers of conventional computing, change what's possible altogether
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fundamentally novel range of motion that, when combined with the error-correcting fingers of conventional computing, change what's possible altogether
networkgames.fyi/llms-the-opp...
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Yup.
I'm telling y'all, these dudes don't know anything.🤡
Frank Sinatra was a vocal anti-racist. He fought racism with his actions, his words, and his money.
Actions:
Refused to stay at segregated hotels. Made sure Black artists got paid fairly.
Words:
Literally wrote an article in Ebony Magazine
I'm telling y'all, these dudes don't know anything.🤡
Frank Sinatra was a vocal anti-racist. He fought racism with his actions, his words, and his money.
Actions:
Refused to stay at segregated hotels. Made sure Black artists got paid fairly.
Words:
Literally wrote an article in Ebony Magazine
December 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Yup.
I'm telling y'all, these dudes don't know anything.🤡
Frank Sinatra was a vocal anti-racist. He fought racism with his actions, his words, and his money.
Actions:
Refused to stay at segregated hotels. Made sure Black artists got paid fairly.
Words:
Literally wrote an article in Ebony Magazine
I'm telling y'all, these dudes don't know anything.🤡
Frank Sinatra was a vocal anti-racist. He fought racism with his actions, his words, and his money.
Actions:
Refused to stay at segregated hotels. Made sure Black artists got paid fairly.
Words:
Literally wrote an article in Ebony Magazine
lfg
YouGov "Is a transgender woman a woman?" among 18-29
"Agree" - 51% (+11 from Jan 2025)
this is less than a year in and we're almost back to peak woke
Woke 2.0 is going places you can't even imagine
"Agree" - 51% (+11 from Jan 2025)
this is less than a year in and we're almost back to peak woke
Woke 2.0 is going places you can't even imagine
December 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
lfg
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they also had the first mainstream fill-in-middle with Copilot and wasted that. and the first tablet computers, vr headsets, one of the first modern chatbots (Tay). their mission is to blow their load when the technology is still not ready
December 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
they also had the first mainstream fill-in-middle with Copilot and wasted that. and the first tablet computers, vr headsets, one of the first modern chatbots (Tay). their mission is to blow their load when the technology is still not ready
It’s a shame Microsoft blew its load with “Cortana” (the shoddy product)
Because Cortana (the shipboard AI of Halo) is a good analogy for the real power of this thing beyond the early dumb chat products
LLM agents can explore systems and do tasks within them, pulling out information, opening doors
Because Cortana (the shipboard AI of Halo) is a good analogy for the real power of this thing beyond the early dumb chat products
LLM agents can explore systems and do tasks within them, pulling out information, opening doors
In that frame, education should be actively engaging with AI, but not in "write me my essay" mode or an "assistant" type posture. Instead as a thinking space which expands rather than shortcuts cognition when done right.
December 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
It’s a shame Microsoft blew its load with “Cortana” (the shoddy product)
Because Cortana (the shipboard AI of Halo) is a good analogy for the real power of this thing beyond the early dumb chat products
LLM agents can explore systems and do tasks within them, pulling out information, opening doors
Because Cortana (the shipboard AI of Halo) is a good analogy for the real power of this thing beyond the early dumb chat products
LLM agents can explore systems and do tasks within them, pulling out information, opening doors
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In that frame, education should be actively engaging with AI, but not in "write me my essay" mode or an "assistant" type posture. Instead as a thinking space which expands rather than shortcuts cognition when done right.
December 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
In that frame, education should be actively engaging with AI, but not in "write me my essay" mode or an "assistant" type posture. Instead as a thinking space which expands rather than shortcuts cognition when done right.
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I think this entire conversation is suffering from a narrow view of AI as the "essay writing and answers without thinking too hard machine". I think we have actually invented an entirely new medium with way more postures, afforances and uses than we yet realise.
Academics literally cannot make Gen AI go away. As in it is not possible to make it happen on a political, legal, and technical level. We do not and will not command the massive violence necessary to make chatGPT or Claude disappear. Responsible pedagogy grapples with the fact!
No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
December 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I think this entire conversation is suffering from a narrow view of AI as the "essay writing and answers without thinking too hard machine". I think we have actually invented an entirely new medium with way more postures, afforances and uses than we yet realise.
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Academics literally cannot make Gen AI go away. As in it is not possible to make it happen on a political, legal, and technical level. We do not and will not command the massive violence necessary to make chatGPT or Claude disappear. Responsible pedagogy grapples with the fact!
No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
December 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Academics literally cannot make Gen AI go away. As in it is not possible to make it happen on a political, legal, and technical level. We do not and will not command the massive violence necessary to make chatGPT or Claude disappear. Responsible pedagogy grapples with the fact!
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The idea that somehow "STEM people" are behind the rise of JD Vance and the exultation of his book, the world's most prototypical horrific humanities bro, is hilarious to me. Who wrote all those fawning book reviews, physicists.....???
December 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The idea that somehow "STEM people" are behind the rise of JD Vance and the exultation of his book, the world's most prototypical horrific humanities bro, is hilarious to me. Who wrote all those fawning book reviews, physicists.....???
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Whereas I have the belief that humanities people should prob encounter the right-wing great books liberal arts humanities-worshipping campuses that make people like JD Vance. Spend a few years in those humanities seminars with classmates disputing whether gay people should live or women should vote
December 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Whereas I have the belief that humanities people should prob encounter the right-wing great books liberal arts humanities-worshipping campuses that make people like JD Vance. Spend a few years in those humanities seminars with classmates disputing whether gay people should live or women should vote
We have to regulate this shit
we are going to look back on the unregulated days of networked technology with as much shock and amazement as
“Coca-Cola was literally filled with cocaine and a guy just made it with no oversight”
the power of computing to interface with the mind is extraordinary
we are going to look back on the unregulated days of networked technology with as much shock and amazement as
“Coca-Cola was literally filled with cocaine and a guy just made it with no oversight”
the power of computing to interface with the mind is extraordinary
Per "internal documents written between 2023 and 2025 and viewed by The Washington Post... Instagram staffers considered the mandate to boost teen metrics their top goal last year," including "boosting their messaging activity... to set up an early pipeline for lifelong use of Meta’s platforms."
Inside Instagram’s all-out battle to win the nation’s teens
Instagram has pursued a yearslong strategy to win teens back to the app after its critics said the platform wasn’t safe for them, documents obtained by The Post show.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
We have to regulate this shit
we are going to look back on the unregulated days of networked technology with as much shock and amazement as
“Coca-Cola was literally filled with cocaine and a guy just made it with no oversight”
the power of computing to interface with the mind is extraordinary
we are going to look back on the unregulated days of networked technology with as much shock and amazement as
“Coca-Cola was literally filled with cocaine and a guy just made it with no oversight”
the power of computing to interface with the mind is extraordinary
image memes: love ‘em
video memes: love ‘em
text memes: fill me with disdainful pity for the posters
Usually I’m just happy to be right about whatever thing but this one has always baffled me. I don’t know that I’m right, but I am stuck with the reaction, more than a decade on
video memes: love ‘em
text memes: fill me with disdainful pity for the posters
Usually I’m just happy to be right about whatever thing but this one has always baffled me. I don’t know that I’m right, but I am stuck with the reaction, more than a decade on
December 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
image memes: love ‘em
video memes: love ‘em
text memes: fill me with disdainful pity for the posters
Usually I’m just happy to be right about whatever thing but this one has always baffled me. I don’t know that I’m right, but I am stuck with the reaction, more than a decade on
video memes: love ‘em
text memes: fill me with disdainful pity for the posters
Usually I’m just happy to be right about whatever thing but this one has always baffled me. I don’t know that I’m right, but I am stuck with the reaction, more than a decade on
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some good climate/energy news:
* 96% of new US power capacity was carbon-free in 2024 (56 gigawatts!)
* 2025 included the first month ever when 51% of power on the U.S. grid was carbon-free
* The golbal trend is overwhelming: The world is now investing more $ in clean energy than fossil fuels
* 96% of new US power capacity was carbon-free in 2024 (56 gigawatts!)
* 2025 included the first month ever when 51% of power on the U.S. grid was carbon-free
* The golbal trend is overwhelming: The world is now investing more $ in clean energy than fossil fuels
Clean energy is going to win. It's just a question of when.
Clean energy is still winning. These 10 charts prove it.
Solar and wind are beating new power demand, steelmaking is slowly getting off coal, and more clean energy victories are clear in these charts.
www.canarymedia.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
some good climate/energy news:
* 96% of new US power capacity was carbon-free in 2024 (56 gigawatts!)
* 2025 included the first month ever when 51% of power on the U.S. grid was carbon-free
* The golbal trend is overwhelming: The world is now investing more $ in clean energy than fossil fuels
* 96% of new US power capacity was carbon-free in 2024 (56 gigawatts!)
* 2025 included the first month ever when 51% of power on the U.S. grid was carbon-free
* The golbal trend is overwhelming: The world is now investing more $ in clean energy than fossil fuels
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federalism, veto-ocracy, all of the things we dislike that slow change and make governance inefficient as it turns out are very useful ways of slowing down and making tyranny harder
December 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
federalism, veto-ocracy, all of the things we dislike that slow change and make governance inefficient as it turns out are very useful ways of slowing down and making tyranny harder
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the 100% consistent attitude of prestige media outlets is that we should suffer, and if something makes you feel better and eases your path in life, be it GLP-1s or transition or estrangement from your birth family or polyamory or a million other things, it must be subjected to infinite skepticism
December 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM
the 100% consistent attitude of prestige media outlets is that we should suffer, and if something makes you feel better and eases your path in life, be it GLP-1s or transition or estrangement from your birth family or polyamory or a million other things, it must be subjected to infinite skepticism
From the Breaking Bad subreddit earlier this year
fans, huh
fans, huh
December 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
From the Breaking Bad subreddit earlier this year
fans, huh
fans, huh
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The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.
December 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.
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It's incredible how much of this stuff is just out in the open, but because Trump said "Russiagate hoax!" 5000 times, the media was brainwashed into treating it like a nothing story instead of one of a ten alarm scandal
Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
It's incredible how much of this stuff is just out in the open, but because Trump said "Russiagate hoax!" 5000 times, the media was brainwashed into treating it like a nothing story instead of one of a ten alarm scandal
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An understated part of our present reality is that way too many ppl believe concepts are fixed and objective but the right, for all their obsession with rigid hierarchies, fully internalized that concepts are made up, and thus can be unmade and then remade, and turned this into a political weapon
I, a philosopher, hate to break it to that guy but all concepts are in fact made up, socially constructed, artificial, etc.
December 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
An understated part of our present reality is that way too many ppl believe concepts are fixed and objective but the right, for all their obsession with rigid hierarchies, fully internalized that concepts are made up, and thus can be unmade and then remade, and turned this into a political weapon
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Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you?
Caller: I am eight
Caller: I am eight
December 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you?
Caller: I am eight
Caller: I am eight
these web pages are useless, they don’t do anything
and all the computers running them need electricity and they use so much of it
and people are using this for piracy of intellectual property
you’re a class traitor if you use the web, ignore it and it will go away
books work fine
and all the computers running them need electricity and they use so much of it
and people are using this for piracy of intellectual property
you’re a class traitor if you use the web, ignore it and it will go away
books work fine
swear to god if geocities came out today some of yall would be posting about how irresponsible it is to let anyone create a web page
December 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
these web pages are useless, they don’t do anything
and all the computers running them need electricity and they use so much of it
and people are using this for piracy of intellectual property
you’re a class traitor if you use the web, ignore it and it will go away
books work fine
and all the computers running them need electricity and they use so much of it
and people are using this for piracy of intellectual property
you’re a class traitor if you use the web, ignore it and it will go away
books work fine
All the “paid protestor” stuff always comes back to this
there’s an entire bullshit reactionary industrial complex and they assume the deeply held beliefs of everyone else respond to the same incentives
there’s an entire bullshit reactionary industrial complex and they assume the deeply held beliefs of everyone else respond to the same incentives
Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit.
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
December 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
All the “paid protestor” stuff always comes back to this
there’s an entire bullshit reactionary industrial complex and they assume the deeply held beliefs of everyone else respond to the same incentives
there’s an entire bullshit reactionary industrial complex and they assume the deeply held beliefs of everyone else respond to the same incentives
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The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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“Olga said her 10-year-old son, Kevin, a U.S. citizen, told her, ‘I don’t want to spend Christmas or New Year’s without my dad,’ and she has had to tell him, ‘It’s not in my hands.’” religionnews.com/2025/12/23/t...
'There is no Christmas for separated families': Pastors tend to immigrant families in crisis
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — As Los Angeles pastors lead congregations and preach about the meaning of Christmas, they’re facing the emotional devastation of families struggling to cling to hope.
religionnews.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“Olga said her 10-year-old son, Kevin, a U.S. citizen, told her, ‘I don’t want to spend Christmas or New Year’s without my dad,’ and she has had to tell him, ‘It’s not in my hands.’” religionnews.com/2025/12/23/t...
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Nine days before Christmas, a group of clergy huddled around a young mother, praying for a Christmas miracle that a judge would set bond for her husband at a hearing the following day and release him from immigration detention.
My latest reporting:
religionnews.com/2025/12/23/t...
My latest reporting:
religionnews.com/2025/12/23/t...
'There is no Christmas for separated families': Pastors tend to immigrant families in crisis
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — As Los Angeles pastors lead congregations and preach about the meaning of Christmas, they’re facing the emotional devastation of families struggling to cling to hope.
religionnews.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Nine days before Christmas, a group of clergy huddled around a young mother, praying for a Christmas miracle that a judge would set bond for her husband at a hearing the following day and release him from immigration detention.
My latest reporting:
religionnews.com/2025/12/23/t...
My latest reporting:
religionnews.com/2025/12/23/t...
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get everyone gambling on their phone and then charge them for losing is actually pretty funny
December 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
get everyone gambling on their phone and then charge them for losing is actually pretty funny