Kannon
@kannony.bsky.social
I'm a tech journalist from California. I've published at MakeUseOf and Digital Trends. My current favorite topics are local LLMs, RSS, keyboards, and SOHO products. I've covered tech news and content marketing for product reviews and tutorials.
@cityofvancouver.bsky.social as notifications broke on the RecycleBC app, I put Single-Unit Purple North's pickup schedule into Google Calender. Can Recycle BC publish each zone's pickup schedule in csv or txt so they can be converted into iCal?
calendar.google.com/calendar/emb...
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Recycle BC: North Purple Zone Bin Collection Schedule
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November 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
@cityofvancouver.bsky.social as notifications broke on the RecycleBC app, I put Single-Unit Purple North's pickup schedule into Google Calender. Can Recycle BC publish each zone's pickup schedule in csv or txt so they can be converted into iCal?
calendar.google.com/calendar/emb...
calendar.google.com/calendar/emb...
BRUTAL ☠️😿☢️ report from Atlassian's large survey of Fortune 1000 managers and knowledge workers on GenAI:
"96% of business leaders say AI has not had meaningful impact on ROI."
@matthewhughes.bsky.social @edzitron.com
www.atlassian.com/blog/cxo-ai-...
"96% of business leaders say AI has not had meaningful impact on ROI."
@matthewhughes.bsky.social @edzitron.com
www.atlassian.com/blog/cxo-ai-...
The AI Collaboration Index: Executive Insights - Work Life by Atlassian
Discover why most AI strategies stall—and how top executives turn AI investment into measurable business value in the AI Collaboration Index: Executive Insights.
www.atlassian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
BRUTAL ☠️😿☢️ report from Atlassian's large survey of Fortune 1000 managers and knowledge workers on GenAI:
"96% of business leaders say AI has not had meaningful impact on ROI."
@matthewhughes.bsky.social @edzitron.com
www.atlassian.com/blog/cxo-ai-...
"96% of business leaders say AI has not had meaningful impact on ROI."
@matthewhughes.bsky.social @edzitron.com
www.atlassian.com/blog/cxo-ai-...
Bubbling, troubling AI news this Halloween. Study found AI "agents" perform laughably bad at freelancer tasks. The state-of-the-art agents have a 3% success rate and they suck at "tool usage", can't learn, and can't replace us. @edzitron.com @matthewhughes.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/ai-age...
www.wired.com/story/ai-age...
a cartoon of a witch stirring a cauldron with the words " double double toil and trouble fire burn and caldron bubble "
ALT: a cartoon of a witch stirring a cauldron with the words " double double toil and trouble fire burn and caldron bubble "
media.tenor.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Bubbling, troubling AI news this Halloween. Study found AI "agents" perform laughably bad at freelancer tasks. The state-of-the-art agents have a 3% success rate and they suck at "tool usage", can't learn, and can't replace us. @edzitron.com @matthewhughes.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/ai-age...
www.wired.com/story/ai-age...
If low-cost chips and free AI models offer 100% privacy and the same features as big data AI assistants, then how can there NOT be an AI bubble? @petewarden.bsky.social explains why:
petewarden.com/2025/10/16/w...
@matthewhughes.bsky.social @edzitron.com
petewarden.com/2025/10/16/w...
@matthewhughes.bsky.social @edzitron.com
Why does a Local AI Voice Agent Running on a Super-Cheap Soc Matter?
Most recent news about AI seems to involve staggering amounts of money. OpenAI and Nvidia sign a $100b data center contract. Meta offers researchers $100m salaries. VCs invested almost $200b in AI …
petewarden.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
If low-cost chips and free AI models offer 100% privacy and the same features as big data AI assistants, then how can there NOT be an AI bubble? @petewarden.bsky.social explains why:
petewarden.com/2025/10/16/w...
@matthewhughes.bsky.social @edzitron.com
petewarden.com/2025/10/16/w...
@matthewhughes.bsky.social @edzitron.com
AI coding "overhyped" according to a Bain& Company report. 2/3 of companies have tried it. Little gain and little adoption. 😿
I use AI for coding but the apps are unstable, unreliable, and not worth publishing. @matthewhughes.bsky.social @edzitron.com
www.bain.com/globalassets...
I use AI for coding but the apps are unstable, unreliable, and not worth publishing. @matthewhughes.bsky.social @edzitron.com
www.bain.com/globalassets...
www.bain.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
AI coding "overhyped" according to a Bain& Company report. 2/3 of companies have tried it. Little gain and little adoption. 😿
I use AI for coding but the apps are unstable, unreliable, and not worth publishing. @matthewhughes.bsky.social @edzitron.com
www.bain.com/globalassets...
I use AI for coding but the apps are unstable, unreliable, and not worth publishing. @matthewhughes.bsky.social @edzitron.com
www.bain.com/globalassets...
@matthewhughes.bsky.social @edzitron.com
Yale-backed "living" analysis found that AI has had no impact on the labor market. 😭
There is higher occupational turnover, but the most exposed labor groups saw no decrease in employment rates... 33 months later with AGI "around the corner".
Yale-backed "living" analysis found that AI has had no impact on the labor market. 😭
There is higher occupational turnover, but the most exposed labor groups saw no decrease in employment rates... 33 months later with AGI "around the corner".
a r2d2 robot from star wars is standing in the dirt near a rock .
ALT: a r2d2 robot from star wars is standing in the dirt near a rock .
media.tenor.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
@matthewhughes.bsky.social @edzitron.com
Yale-backed "living" analysis found that AI has had no impact on the labor market. 😭
There is higher occupational turnover, but the most exposed labor groups saw no decrease in employment rates... 33 months later with AGI "around the corner".
Yale-backed "living" analysis found that AI has had no impact on the labor market. 😭
There is higher occupational turnover, but the most exposed labor groups saw no decrease in employment rates... 33 months later with AGI "around the corner".
AI Agents?. Dev Utkarsh Kanwat said that complex operations cannot be automated because error rates compound exponentially per step involved. Unless AI is 99.9% accurate it cannot work @edzitron.com
utkarshkanwat.com/writing/bett...
utkarshkanwat.com/writing/bett...
Why I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them)
I've built 12+ production AI agent systems across development, DevOps, and data operations. Here's why the current hype around autonomous agents is mathematically impossible and what actually works in...
utkarshkanwat.com
July 20, 2025 at 2:36 AM
AI Agents?. Dev Utkarsh Kanwat said that complex operations cannot be automated because error rates compound exponentially per step involved. Unless AI is 99.9% accurate it cannot work @edzitron.com
utkarshkanwat.com/writing/bett...
utkarshkanwat.com/writing/bett...
archive.is/bJvH4
@edzitron.com
Meta's testing found that LLMs couldnt solve novel problems because they are plagiarism algorithms. This means independent reasoning is not possible.. And there's a bubble on the horizon
@edzitron.com
Meta's testing found that LLMs couldnt solve novel problems because they are plagiarism algorithms. This means independent reasoning is not possible.. And there's a bubble on the horizon
archive.is
June 9, 2025 at 5:19 AM
archive.is/bJvH4
@edzitron.com
Meta's testing found that LLMs couldnt solve novel problems because they are plagiarism algorithms. This means independent reasoning is not possible.. And there's a bubble on the horizon
@edzitron.com
Meta's testing found that LLMs couldnt solve novel problems because they are plagiarism algorithms. This means independent reasoning is not possible.. And there's a bubble on the horizon
An AI paper that claimed new materials were being discovered "40% faster" was retracted and the graduate student is "no longer" at MIT. The whole thing was part of a venture capital scam @edzitron.com www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mit-...
MIT Says It No Longer Stands Behind Student’s AI Research Paper
The university said it has no confidence in a widely circulated paper by an economics graduate student.
www.wsj.com
May 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
An AI paper that claimed new materials were being discovered "40% faster" was retracted and the graduate student is "no longer" at MIT. The whole thing was part of a venture capital scam @edzitron.com www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mit-...