Matt DeSiena
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The US produces way way way too much dairy and a big reason it's in our schools is because it subsidizes the industry. You can copy and paste that to all kinds of agribusiness in the US. That who portion of the economy exists on government handouts.
lots of good theories going around about the weird whole milk advertising going on right now, but my personal one is the milk industrial complex is worried and mad about the growth of milk alternatives like soy or oat milk and want to reclaim previous cultural dominance
January 18, 2026 at 8:42 PM
The US produces way way way too much dairy and a big reason it's in our schools is because it subsidizes the industry. You can copy and paste that to all kinds of agribusiness in the US. That who portion of the economy exists on government handouts.
Appreciate the phrasing "closest one to a business model" because it isn't sustainable yet, but at least they have product-market fit.
outside of Google, this company (Anthropic) might be the only closed LLM of its size where we can say that.
outside of Google, this company (Anthropic) might be the only closed LLM of its size where we can say that.
The reason for this is that Anthropic is the closest one to a business model: assisted coding. They have real satisfied customers using it in real world environments successfully.
Sources: Sequoia is planning a big investment in Anthropic, joining a round led by GIC and Coatue, which are investing $1.5B each; Anthropic aims to raise $25B+ (George Hammond/Financial Times)
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January 18, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Appreciate the phrasing "closest one to a business model" because it isn't sustainable yet, but at least they have product-market fit.
outside of Google, this company (Anthropic) might be the only closed LLM of its size where we can say that.
outside of Google, this company (Anthropic) might be the only closed LLM of its size where we can say that.
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BREAKING: The UK Government is working with Canada and Australia to launch a coordinated ban on X, per the Telegraph
January 11, 2026 at 2:17 AM
BREAKING: The UK Government is working with Canada and Australia to launch a coordinated ban on X, per the Telegraph
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I love a good UI rant, and this one brought receipts
It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe
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January 5, 2026 at 11:59 AM
I love a good UI rant, and this one brought receipts
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Gang please don't use ChatGPT to write your acquisition announcement manus.im/blog/manus-j...
December 29, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Gang please don't use ChatGPT to write your acquisition announcement manus.im/blog/manus-j...
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Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 16-color EGA #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required. Thanks to software preservation, it's still crackling on the Internet Archive.
✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️
archive.org/details/sier...
✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️
archive.org/details/sier...
December 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 16-color EGA #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required. Thanks to software preservation, it's still crackling on the Internet Archive.
✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️
archive.org/details/sier...
✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️
archive.org/details/sier...
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Too many founders get hung up on website conversion when the easiest way to increase it is: market to the right audience.
1000 website visitors that don’t fit your niche are gonna convert at 0% no matter how cool or “optimised” your website is
#buildinpublic
1000 website visitors that don’t fit your niche are gonna convert at 0% no matter how cool or “optimised” your website is
#buildinpublic
December 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Too many founders get hung up on website conversion when the easiest way to increase it is: market to the right audience.
1000 website visitors that don’t fit your niche are gonna convert at 0% no matter how cool or “optimised” your website is
#buildinpublic
1000 website visitors that don’t fit your niche are gonna convert at 0% no matter how cool or “optimised” your website is
#buildinpublic
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Ah that's crazy, it's almost like Threads picked up the decentralization messaging when they launched so they could neutralize the Atmosphere
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December 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Ah that's crazy, it's almost like Threads picked up the decentralization messaging when they launched so they could neutralize the Atmosphere
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so once again just random ass people did the job of the FBI because they're categorically inept.
The local cops seems to have figured it out after some Reddit post got sent to their tipline.
The FBI was still going all "nuh-uh. Not connected!"
news.sky.com/story/how-a-...
Amazing times we live in.
The FBI was still going all "nuh-uh. Not connected!"
news.sky.com/story/how-a-...
Amazing times we live in.
How a Reddit post blew Brown University shooting investigation wide open
Frustration had mounted that the murderer had managed to get away and that a clear image of his face hadn't emerged - until a Reddit post finally put police on his trail.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
so once again just random ass people did the job of the FBI because they're categorically inept.
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Any medium has its beginning, midpoint, and end, because everything ends.
I’ve long felt social media use had crested, splintered, and was on a more or less downward trajectory.
What I didn’t think would happen is a full embrace of enshittification by the major platforms like this.
I’ve long felt social media use had crested, splintered, and was on a more or less downward trajectory.
What I didn’t think would happen is a full embrace of enshittification by the major platforms like this.
Facebook is testing a link-posting limit for professional accounts and pages | TechCrunch
Meta said that the test impacts professional accounts and pages on Facebook.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Any medium has its beginning, midpoint, and end, because everything ends.
I’ve long felt social media use had crested, splintered, and was on a more or less downward trajectory.
What I didn’t think would happen is a full embrace of enshittification by the major platforms like this.
I’ve long felt social media use had crested, splintered, and was on a more or less downward trajectory.
What I didn’t think would happen is a full embrace of enshittification by the major platforms like this.
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I think it's funny that the same incompetent knobs who tell us government can't work and are hacking away at its foundations with chainsaws for fun somehow think they can keep a lid on this
DeepSeek is Using Banned Nvidia Chips in Race to Build Next Model
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup, has been developing its next major model using several thousand Nvidia’s state-of-the-art Blackwell chips which the U.S. has forbidden from being exported to China, a...
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December 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I think it's funny that the same incompetent knobs who tell us government can't work and are hacking away at its foundations with chainsaws for fun somehow think they can keep a lid on this
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If you can't beat them, strategically leak that you are secretly beating them: www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...
OpenAI Developing ‘Garlic’ Model to Counter Google’s Recent Gains
OpenAI, which in recent weeks has appeared to fall behind Google in AI development, is fighting back with a new large language model codenamed Garlic.Last week, OpenAI’s chief research officer Mark Ch...
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December 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
If you can't beat them, strategically leak that you are secretly beating them: www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...
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This will be a taxpayer funded commercial for Claude Code.
The House Homeland Security Committee asks Dario Amodei to testify at a December 17 hearing about how Chinese state actors used Claude Code for cyber-espionage (Sam Sabin/Axios)
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November 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This will be a taxpayer funded commercial for Claude Code.
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LeCun, a Phd-ed researcher, is out, and Wang, a high school graduate grifter, is in.
Excellent management strategy there.
Excellent management strategy there.
A profile of Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, who says LLMs are a dead end for reaching AGI and backs world models instead, and is reportedly leaving Meta (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
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November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
LeCun, a Phd-ed researcher, is out, and Wang, a high school graduate grifter, is in.
Excellent management strategy there.
Excellent management strategy there.
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Judges and bar associations certainly shouldn’t be allowing AI use if qualified human lawyers aren’t checking the results.
And with over 500 cases of AI misuse, clearly continuing legal education is failing on this issue.
And with over 500 cases of AI misuse, clearly continuing legal education is failing on this issue.
A group of US lawyers document 509 cases of AI misuse in legal filings so far in 2025, including fabricated citations; judges and bar associations permit AI use (Evan Gorelick/New York Times)
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November 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Judges and bar associations certainly shouldn’t be allowing AI use if qualified human lawyers aren’t checking the results.
And with over 500 cases of AI misuse, clearly continuing legal education is failing on this issue.
And with over 500 cases of AI misuse, clearly continuing legal education is failing on this issue.
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Student surveillance companies cash in on the ai grift by promising schools and parents their tech will keep students safe from the harms of ai.
Chatbots Are Sparking a New Era of Student Surveillance
As US educators embrace AI in the classroom, firms are selling software to flag mentions of self-harm, raising concerns over privacy and control.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Student surveillance companies cash in on the ai grift by promising schools and parents their tech will keep students safe from the harms of ai.
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And by "off-balance-sheet debt," they mean accounting fraud
Now the REAL fun begins.
“.. Off-balance-sheet debt, through a special purpose vehicle or joint venture tied to assets, is becoming the go-to for AI data center deals ..” 🤡
@bloomberg.com
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“.. Off-balance-sheet debt, through a special purpose vehicle or joint venture tied to assets, is becoming the go-to for AI data center deals ..” 🤡
@bloomberg.com
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October 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
And by "off-balance-sheet debt," they mean accounting fraud
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Really the most Meta-like tactic on display from OAI lately is to release products that have obvious harms and say "oops!" two days later and add some minor safeguard
With an influx of Meta alums, some OpenAI staffers worry it is adopting Meta's tactics, like using social media dynamics with Sora and a softening stance on ads (The Information)
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October 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Really the most Meta-like tactic on display from OAI lately is to release products that have obvious harms and say "oops!" two days later and add some minor safeguard
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My comment on @theverge.com. Today, AI-controlled web browsers introduce security and privacy risks. It's also kind of a step backwards, are we returning to text-based browsers (also walled gardens, competition protection, anybody)? ;) www.theverge.com/report/81008...
October 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
My comment on @theverge.com. Today, AI-controlled web browsers introduce security and privacy risks. It's also kind of a step backwards, are we returning to text-based browsers (also walled gardens, competition protection, anybody)? ;) www.theverge.com/report/81008...
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Bending Spoons buys dying tech brands and jacks up their prices to maximize pain for their remaining customers. It is the final stage of enshittification before death
Milan-based Bending Spoons, which buys and seeks to revitalize tech brands like AOL, raised $710M led by T. Rowe Price at an $11B pre-money valuation (Sara Fischer/Axios)
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October 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Bending Spoons buys dying tech brands and jacks up their prices to maximize pain for their remaining customers. It is the final stage of enshittification before death
I love the internet.
for some reason back in 2017, I decided to make a website to make fake video game screenshots. This was a good idea and made a lot of people laugh.
Here's to the Death Generator, eight years and 270ish games later!
deathgenerator.com
Here's to the Death Generator, eight years and 270ish games later!
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October 28, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I love the internet.
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“What’s happening here is a very specialized industry that’s enabling some of the world’s worst dictators and despots to undermine the foundational pillars of liberal democracy.”
The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
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October 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
“What’s happening here is a very specialized industry that’s enabling some of the world’s worst dictators and despots to undermine the foundational pillars of liberal democracy.”
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Academic researchers discover that about half of geostationary satellite signals, many carrying sensitive consumer, corporate and government communications, have been left entirely vulnerable to eavesdropping. www.wired.com/story/satellite...
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.
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October 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Academic researchers discover that about half of geostationary satellite signals, many carrying sensitive consumer, corporate and government communications, have been left entirely vulnerable to eavesdropping. www.wired.com/story/satellite...
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October 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
October 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM