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Excerpt from this NYT article about driverless cars in SF
“A human driver can be held accountable, can hop out, say sorry, can be tracked down by police if it’s a hit-and-run,” Ms. Fielder said in an interview. “Here, there is no one to hold accountable.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
“A human driver can be held accountable, can hop out, say sorry, can be tracked down by police if it’s a hit-and-run,” Ms. Fielder said in an interview. “Here, there is no one to hold accountable.”
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Waymo Was on a Roll in San Francisco. Then One of Its Driverless Cars Killed a Cat.
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November 16, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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Many excellent charts in this piece on the massive demands of the data center boom from @mims.bsky.social and his colleague Nate Ratner. Putting aside the massive risk, this is one of the species' biggest infrastructure projects ever.
When AI Hype Meets AI Reality: A Reckoning in 6 Charts
Record capital expenditures and data-center planning are running up against the ground truths of physical infrastructure.
www.wsj.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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“We are not going to get to human-level AI just by scaling LLMs. There’s no way, absolutely no way, and whatever you can hear from some of my more adventurous colleagues, it’s not going to happen within the next two years. There’s absolutely no way in hell.” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/yann...
He’s Been Right About AI for 40 Years. Now He Thinks Everyone Is Wrong.
Yann LeCun invented many fundamental components of modern AI. Now he’s convinced most in his field have been led astray by the siren song of large language models.
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November 16, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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NEW: @derekbjohnson.bsky.social spoke with @anthropic.com's threat intel team about Thursday's report. Lots in there, but one key takeaway: Despite being labeled as 'autonomous,' there was a tremendous amount of human effort needed to pull off the attacks. cyberscoop.com/anthropic-ai...
![However, Klein also made it clear that “most autonomous” is a relative term. There is plenty of evidence to indicate this hacking group devoted significant human and technical resources into the way it used Claude.
Namely, the automation detailed in Anthropic’s report performed by Claude was made possible through a frontend framework designed to orchestrate and support its operations. The framework handled tasks such as scripting, provisioning related servers, and significant backend development to ensure every step was followed correctly. Klein noted this development process was the most difficult — and, importantly, human-led — step in the operation.
“The first part that is not autonomous is building the framework, so you needed a human being to put this all together,” Klein said. “You had a human operator that would put in a target, they would click a button and then use this framework that was created [ahead of time]. The hardest part of this entire system was building this framework, that’s what was human intensive.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pz7u4quefs7ajp25ujbe4xhk/bafkreibabm4oal3ub5tr7o5hnr5lsvikpf22nbnuzvach7hcec6dmwt5eu@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Anthropic, a company that is actively campaigning for regulatory capture, reported that it disrupted the first known AI-orchestrated cyber-espionage campaign ( www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt... ).
November 16, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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‘The projections of AI companies and their partners don’t reflect shortages of equipment.’ www.wsj.com/tech/ai/when...
November 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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WSJ: “.. Can we even build all the necessary physical infrastructure? And if so, will the resulting AI-powered products generate enough revenue to pay back that investment?”
@wsj.com 🤡
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November 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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And I think that's wishful thinking. Hundreds of *millions* of people are using AI. And the vasty majority have NO IDEA how dangerous or harmful these platforms can be. It would be great if there were tools that they could use that might help reduce their risks. www.anildash.com/2025/11/14/w...
I know you don’t want them to want AI, but… - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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November 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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LeCun: “I’ve been not making friends in various corners of Silicon Valley, including at Meta, saying that within three to five years, this [world models, not LLMs] will be the dominant model for AI architectures, and nobody in their right mind would use LLMs of the type that we have today."
He’s Been Right About AI for 40 Years. Now He Thinks Everyone Is Wrong.
Yann LeCun invented many fundamental components of modern AI. Now he’s convinced most in his field have been led astray by the siren song of large language models.
www.wsj.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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This @mollytaft.com piece is the closest I've seen to an interrogation of who 10a Labs are and why they're doing this - but note how 10a Labs frame the consequences of opposition as lost investment in $$, and that drives how opposition is reported:
www.wired.com/story/the-da...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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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 6:17 AM
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Yay! AI is a scam to enrich billionaires
November 15, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Excessive use of em dashes would be about #25 on my list of telltale signs something was written by AI. And it’s far from the most annoying one.
(My personal #1 annoying telltale sign is endless use of “It wasn’t just x, it was also y”-type constructions.) techcrunch.com/2025/11/14/o...
(My personal #1 annoying telltale sign is endless use of “It wasn’t just x, it was also y”-type constructions.) techcrunch.com/2025/11/14/o...
OpenAI says it's fixed ChatGPT's em dash problem | TechCrunch
OpenAI says users can now personalize ChatGPT to stop using the em dash in its output.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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November 15, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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This will become a major issue in Europe too - in some places it already is. Data centres drive up the price of elecricity and suck up scarce water resources. The profits that are generated by Big Tech flow out of Europe largely untaxed.
www.wired.com/story/the-da...
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The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived
A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.
www.wired.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Hallelujah.
"Opposition blocked or delayed $98 bn in projects from March to June of 2025 alone—8 projects, including two in IA and KY, were blocked in those 3 months, while 9 were delayed...a $17 bn development [near Atlanta], was put on hold...following significant pushback from local residents."
"Opposition blocked or delayed $98 bn in projects from March to June of 2025 alone—8 projects, including two in IA and KY, were blocked in those 3 months, while 9 were delayed...a $17 bn development [near Atlanta], was put on hold...following significant pushback from local residents."
The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived
A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.
www.wired.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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NEW from me: a new report found that national resistance to data centers skyrocketed between March and June of this year—especially in red states like Georgia and Indiana:
The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived
A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.
www.wired.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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If I had to predict a high-impact story that is flying under the radar now but will play a big role in next year's major federal and state elections in the U.S., it'll be electricity prices and data centers. Easy-to-understand affordability and corruption story.
The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived
A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.
www.wired.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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When’s Meta gonna start judging itself on its AI-driven impact? www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-empl...
Meta is about to start grading workers on their AI skills
Meta employee performance will be assessed by AI-driven impact starting in 2026, as the company prioritizes AI adoption across its workforce.
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November 15, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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So there's this article atop Hacker News right now that says that "nobody wants AI in Firefox", trying to make the argument that Mozilla shouldn't go down that path... manualdousuario.net/en/mozilla-f...
I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
Mozilla is developing a built‑in AI assistant for Firefox that will be offered as a third browsing mode alongside Normal and Private tabs. They’re calling it “Window AI.” Details are still scarce.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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There are several pretty easy tells for ai writing, em dash overuse isn't really one of them.
One of the reasons they're easy tells is because people who are using chatbots to write, also aren't good at editing.
One of the reasons they're easy tells is because people who are using chatbots to write, also aren't good at editing.
OpenAI says ChatGPT will now ditch em dashes if users tell it to; em dashes have become telltale signs that supposedly signals text written by AI (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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November 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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This is all—and I say this with respect—so very stupid.
OpenAI says ChatGPT will now ditch em dashes if users tell it to; em dashes have become telltale signs that supposedly signals text written by AI (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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November 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Doesn't Section 230 basically say that platforms aren't considered the publisher or speaker? That protects them from being sued into oblivion for copyright violations among other things. Seems like they can't suddenly claim 1A violations now. The feeds are the speech of others.
November 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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