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there's a disjuncture too between "open source AI hacker on bluesky" and "big AI company." the former are enthusiasts that have vastly different personalities and lifestyles than the kind of institutionalized personality the latter has
I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful:
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
there's a disjuncture too between "open source AI hacker on bluesky" and "big AI company." the former are enthusiasts that have vastly different personalities and lifestyles than the kind of institutionalized personality the latter has
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an image that comes to mind is that i’m strapped to a unicorn running around in circles vomiting rainbows nonstop and my job is to nudge it by the horn so that the rainbows form the desired pattern
November 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
an image that comes to mind is that i’m strapped to a unicorn running around in circles vomiting rainbows nonstop and my job is to nudge it by the horn so that the rainbows form the desired pattern
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“Bring your own algorithm” is a memorable phrase that immediately highlights what makes bluesky different
Bluesky has a ton of decentralization advantages over other platforms, but the biggest benefit is the basic option of algorithmic choice.
Especially the option to choose no algorithm.
We should spend far more time highlighting this than the decentralized aspect.
Especially the option to choose no algorithm.
We should spend far more time highlighting this than the decentralized aspect.
I for one am not at all worried that the most powerful people on earth have optimized my society and my brain to be ultra-reliant on the misery machine we keep in our pockets.
September 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
“Bring your own algorithm” is a memorable phrase that immediately highlights what makes bluesky different
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Family Members Locked In Heated Bidding War To Convince Cat To Sleep In Their Bed https://theonion.com/family-members-locked-in-heated-bidding-war-to-convince-1833634553/
August 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Family Members Locked In Heated Bidding War To Convince Cat To Sleep In Their Bed https://theonion.com/family-members-locked-in-heated-bidding-war-to-convince-1833634553/
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This EU law banning unlocking story was untrue. The publication posting it retracted it in a subsequent story without updating the original.
1) xiaomitime.com/eu-kills-and...
2) xiaomitime.com/dont-panic-e...
The claims they cited were AI generated which they admit in the follow up story.
1) xiaomitime.com/eu-kills-and...
2) xiaomitime.com/dont-panic-e...
The claims they cited were AI generated which they admit in the follow up story.
August 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
This EU law banning unlocking story was untrue. The publication posting it retracted it in a subsequent story without updating the original.
1) xiaomitime.com/eu-kills-and...
2) xiaomitime.com/dont-panic-e...
The claims they cited were AI generated which they admit in the follow up story.
1) xiaomitime.com/eu-kills-and...
2) xiaomitime.com/dont-panic-e...
The claims they cited were AI generated which they admit in the follow up story.
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I think about this comic at least once a week
May 10, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I think about this comic at least once a week
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More than 100,000 people marched in Hungary’s annual Pride parade in Budapest on Saturday after Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ban on the event backfired, turning what is usually a low-key parade into a mass rally against his government. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...
June 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
More than 100,000 people marched in Hungary’s annual Pride parade in Budapest on Saturday after Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ban on the event backfired, turning what is usually a low-key parade into a mass rally against his government. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...
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#politika
Én Kovács Gergő helyébe bejelenteném, hogy most szombaton viszik el a madarat.
Vagy ott lesz (és máshol nem) a fél MH, vagy simán el tudják vinni.
Én Kovács Gergő helyébe bejelenteném, hogy most szombaton viszik el a madarat.
Vagy ott lesz (és máshol nem) a fél MH, vagy simán el tudják vinni.
June 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
#politika
Én Kovács Gergő helyébe bejelenteném, hogy most szombaton viszik el a madarat.
Vagy ott lesz (és máshol nem) a fél MH, vagy simán el tudják vinni.
Én Kovács Gergő helyébe bejelenteném, hogy most szombaton viszik el a madarat.
Vagy ott lesz (és máshol nem) a fél MH, vagy simán el tudják vinni.
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Why not „🚆 Train arrives“ instead of „🛬 Plane lands“?
But besides that: thanks for the EU-wide roaming.
But besides that: thanks for the EU-wide roaming.
June 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Why not „🚆 Train arrives“ instead of „🛬 Plane lands“?
But besides that: thanks for the EU-wide roaming.
But besides that: thanks for the EU-wide roaming.
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New Scientist successfully filed a FOI request for UK technology secretary Peter Kyle's ChatGPT logs
I wrote up why I think "Why is AI adoption so slow in the UK small and medium business community?" is a poor fit for an LLM with a Sept 2023 training cutoff
simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/3/t...
I wrote up why I think "Why is AI adoption so slow in the UK small and medium business community?" is a poor fit for an LLM with a Sept 2023 training cutoff
simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/3/t...
Tips on prompting ChatGPT for UK technology secretary Peter Kyle
Back in March New Scientist reported on a successful Freedom of Information request they had filed requesting UK Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology Peter Kyle’s ChatGPT logs: …
simonwillison.net
June 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
New Scientist successfully filed a FOI request for UK technology secretary Peter Kyle's ChatGPT logs
I wrote up why I think "Why is AI adoption so slow in the UK small and medium business community?" is a poor fit for an LLM with a Sept 2023 training cutoff
simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/3/t...
I wrote up why I think "Why is AI adoption so slow in the UK small and medium business community?" is a poor fit for an LLM with a Sept 2023 training cutoff
simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/3/t...
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Just captured this after rewinding the livestream www.youtube.com/live/o8NiE3X...
May 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Just captured this after rewinding the livestream www.youtube.com/live/o8NiE3X...
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‼️🇭🇺 Democracy is dying in daylight in Hungary: Viktor Orbán’s regime is set to blacklist “foreign-funded” (including EU-funded) NGOs and media, then unleash the tax office to bleed them dry, issue fines and even shut them down.
It’s happening because the EU Commission simply doesn’t give a damn.
It’s happening because the EU Commission simply doesn’t give a damn.
Orbán’s Fidesz party proposes Russia-style crackdown on Hungary’s civil society
The new bill fits into a pattern of democratic backsliding for the Central European country.
www.politico.eu
May 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM
‼️🇭🇺 Democracy is dying in daylight in Hungary: Viktor Orbán’s regime is set to blacklist “foreign-funded” (including EU-funded) NGOs and media, then unleash the tax office to bleed them dry, issue fines and even shut them down.
It’s happening because the EU Commission simply doesn’t give a damn.
It’s happening because the EU Commission simply doesn’t give a damn.
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Here's an example workflow from a recent project.
I wanted to build a simple library to use a yaml file in github as a database. (Don't ask why I wanted this, I just did)
I started out by writing a readme with a one-sentence description, and an empty "usage" section:
(1/4)
I wanted to build a simple library to use a yaml file in github as a database. (Don't ask why I wanted this, I just did)
I started out by writing a readme with a one-sentence description, and an empty "usage" section:
(1/4)
May 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Here's an example workflow from a recent project.
I wanted to build a simple library to use a yaml file in github as a database. (Don't ask why I wanted this, I just did)
I started out by writing a readme with a one-sentence description, and an empty "usage" section:
(1/4)
I wanted to build a simple library to use a yaml file in github as a database. (Don't ask why I wanted this, I just did)
I started out by writing a readme with a one-sentence description, and an empty "usage" section:
(1/4)
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well i guess someone else got tipped off about the vuln in this, my piece on vulns in their infra was gonna come out in like two weeks. congrats to whoever already pulled through though, comically simple vuln, isnt it
NEW: GlobalX, the company doing many deportation flights for ICE, has been hacked. Hackers claim to have stolen flight manifest information and flight details, and have also defaced the website
www.404media.co/globalx-airl...
www.404media.co/globalx-airl...
May 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
well i guess someone else got tipped off about the vuln in this, my piece on vulns in their infra was gonna come out in like two weeks. congrats to whoever already pulled through though, comically simple vuln, isnt it
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NEW: GlobalX, the company doing many deportation flights for ICE, has been hacked. Hackers claim to have stolen flight manifest information and flight details, and have also defaced the website
www.404media.co/globalx-airl...
www.404media.co/globalx-airl...
May 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
NEW: GlobalX, the company doing many deportation flights for ICE, has been hacked. Hackers claim to have stolen flight manifest information and flight details, and have also defaced the website
www.404media.co/globalx-airl...
www.404media.co/globalx-airl...
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New breach: Hungarian education office website TehetségKapu had almost 55k records breached in March. Data included email address, name and username. 32% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: 444.hu/2025/03/27/5...
55 ezer személyes adat, magyar diákok, tanárok és az Oktatási Hivatal dolgozóinak információi szivároghattak ki
Az iskolai kompetenciamérést is lebonyolító Tehetségkapu nevű rendszerhez fértek hozzá a hackerek és nyilvánosságra hozták, amit elloptak.
444.hu
May 1, 2025 at 9:46 AM
New breach: Hungarian education office website TehetségKapu had almost 55k records breached in March. Data included email address, name and username. 32% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: 444.hu/2025/03/27/5...
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it’s funny how the letters “A I” just immediately derange people into a moral rage now. realizing that i live in a shattered epistemic landscape.
there is no alphafold, there is no monte carlo sim, there is only Chat Bot Bad, and we must all suffer for it
there is no alphafold, there is no monte carlo sim, there is only Chat Bot Bad, and we must all suffer for it
FDA plans to phase out animal testing requirement for drug testing and replace it with “AI-based computational models of toxicity” and organoid toxicity testing www.fda.gov/news-events/...
FDA Announces Plan to Phase Out Animal Testing Requirement for Monoclonal Antibodies and Other Drugs
FDA Plans to Phase Out Animal Testing Requirement
www.fda.gov
April 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
it’s funny how the letters “A I” just immediately derange people into a moral rage now. realizing that i live in a shattered epistemic landscape.
there is no alphafold, there is no monte carlo sim, there is only Chat Bot Bad, and we must all suffer for it
there is no alphafold, there is no monte carlo sim, there is only Chat Bot Bad, and we must all suffer for it
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Germany’s incoming government says it will press the European Union to finally add some bite to its bark over misbehaving countries.
It's a thinly veiled reference to Viktor Orbán’s Hungary.
🔗 ow.ly/s77450VrjGE
It's a thinly veiled reference to Viktor Orbán’s Hungary.
🔗 ow.ly/s77450VrjGE
March 31, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Germany’s incoming government says it will press the European Union to finally add some bite to its bark over misbehaving countries.
It's a thinly veiled reference to Viktor Orbán’s Hungary.
🔗 ow.ly/s77450VrjGE
It's a thinly veiled reference to Viktor Orbán’s Hungary.
🔗 ow.ly/s77450VrjGE
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russia using criminal networks to drive increase in sabotage acts, says Europol
Proxies deploying tactics including migrant smuggling in destabilisation efforts across EU, enforcement agency finds
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Proxies deploying tactics including migrant smuggling in destabilisation efforts across EU, enforcement agency finds
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Russia using criminal networks to drive increase in sabotage acts, says Europol
Proxies deploying tactics including migrant smuggling in destabilisation efforts across EU, enforcement agency finds
www.theguardian.com
March 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
russia using criminal networks to drive increase in sabotage acts, says Europol
Proxies deploying tactics including migrant smuggling in destabilisation efforts across EU, enforcement agency finds
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Proxies deploying tactics including migrant smuggling in destabilisation efforts across EU, enforcement agency finds
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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New sensitive breach: Lexipol had 672k email addresses breached last month by self-proclaimed "Puppygirl Hacker Polycule". Data included name, phone and MD5 or SHA-256 password hashes. 23% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: www.them.us/story/puppyg...
“Puppygirl Hacker Polycule” Leaks Over 8,500 Privatized Police Files and Training Manuals
"We took matters into our own paws.”
www.them.us
March 19, 2025 at 1:13 AM
New sensitive breach: Lexipol had 672k email addresses breached last month by self-proclaimed "Puppygirl Hacker Polycule". Data included name, phone and MD5 or SHA-256 password hashes. 23% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: www.them.us/story/puppyg...
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A rough synchronization of 24 separate videos recording the crowd response to the use of alleged sonic weapons on the evening of March 15th in Belgrade
March 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
A rough synchronization of 24 separate videos recording the crowd response to the use of alleged sonic weapons on the evening of March 15th in Belgrade
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Good morning, what about some European breakfast?
March 18, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Good morning, what about some European breakfast?
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Tisztelt MCC!
A meghívást akkor tudnám megfontolni, ha legalább a beszélgetés címében nem szerepelne olyasmi, amivel minket alaptalanul vádolnak: ennyi erővel azt a címet is adhatnák, hogy "Ki az újságíró, és ki a poloska, akit skarlát betűvel a hátán kellene leúsztatni a Dunán a pokol megfelelő...
A meghívást akkor tudnám megfontolni, ha legalább a beszélgetés címében nem szerepelne olyasmi, amivel minket alaptalanul vádolnak: ennyi erővel azt a címet is adhatnák, hogy "Ki az újságíró, és ki a poloska, akit skarlát betűvel a hátán kellene leúsztatni a Dunán a pokol megfelelő...
March 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Tisztelt MCC!
A meghívást akkor tudnám megfontolni, ha legalább a beszélgetés címében nem szerepelne olyasmi, amivel minket alaptalanul vádolnak: ennyi erővel azt a címet is adhatnák, hogy "Ki az újságíró, és ki a poloska, akit skarlát betűvel a hátán kellene leúsztatni a Dunán a pokol megfelelő...
A meghívást akkor tudnám megfontolni, ha legalább a beszélgetés címében nem szerepelne olyasmi, amivel minket alaptalanul vádolnak: ennyi erővel azt a címet is adhatnák, hogy "Ki az újságíró, és ki a poloska, akit skarlát betűvel a hátán kellene leúsztatni a Dunán a pokol megfelelő...