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Chris Matyszczyk
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Currently this. Formerly that and the other at CNET, ZDNET and Inc. Secretive creator of brands. Lots of unpublished manuscripts waiting to be read. Wine Ambassador at Honig Winery.
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nicolechvastek.bsky.social
May 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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annabookwriter.bsky.social
I’m saying this in my capacity as an author and once and future library worker:

Read whatever the hell you want.

I cannot impress enough on you that the “important” books aren’t important if you don’t jive with them. The popular books, the canon, the whatever. Read what you want.
April 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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karaswisher.bsky.social
Welcome
April 4, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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garymarcus.bsky.social
Standing with Hinton, standing with science.

Please @standupforscience.bsky.social March 7, links enclosed.

open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
Hinton vs Musk
Standing with my long-term nemesis, standing with science
open.substack.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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profgalloway.com
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mweinstock.bsky.social mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · Feb 15
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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garymarcus.bsky.social
Wait!

🤯 Do you mean to tell me that a bunch of massively hyped biotech companies haven’t remotely returned on their investments, driverless car are still just geofenced demos, & GPT-5 still hasn’t arrived after two years of hype?

The media did a great job tempering expectations, though, right?
February 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
See here's how to do a headline.

fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...
Some federal workers are ‘getting wealthy at taxpayer expense,’ says Elon Musk, whose companies have received at least $20 billion from the government
February 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
I’d just like to shout out humans for at least seeing through NFTs as the most idiotic idea possible.
February 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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caseynewton.bsky.social
Thank you Meta for finally addressing my biggest problem with your apps (they protect my privacy too much)
techmeme.com Techmeme @techmeme.com · Feb 10
A memo at Meta states privacy teams will have less authority to delay products and previous privacy decisions will be reviewed, as some are overly "risk-averse" (Kalley Huang/The Information)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
February 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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karaswisher.bsky.social
This is not just a musing from a dude with some various ideas. The next step is to hollow out the judiciary and also not follow their rulings, which have been against Musk’s efforts. This is a very obvious coup, for those not paying attention.
February 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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edzitron.com
ChatGPT ad shows generative AI is totally washed. Impossible to tell what it was the first half until it started saying random prompts like "write me a business plan." Two years in and they don't have a better sales pitch than "summarise this article for me." Washed!
February 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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garymarcus.bsky.social
Still hustling those one-drop blood tests even though he doesn’t know how to make them.

Or, um, still hustling those next-gen models.
February 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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edzitron.com
This Kara Swisher interview is both revisionist history and empty pablum. Shameful for Ezra Klein and his people to help her launder her reputation as if she wasn't enabling every single one of these guys and literally doing her book tour with them!
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...
And in July 2024, just before he came out in support of Trump, he accused Democrats of trying to “import as many illegal voters as possible.” And in this way, I think what is going on with him is a little bit distinct from a lot of the people who superficially have similar politics. Because I think he’s really bought into a lot of great replacement theory. Yes. So have a lot of people in Silicon Valley. Let me say: He’s not alone. This Curtis Yarvin stuff. They’ve all sort of been taken by these — it’s almost religious, if you think about it. One of the things that I think it goes back to — and I hate to say this — is: sad little boy who wasn’t loved enough as a child is searching for meaning, is searching for love. And again, not an excuse, because I think he’s become a terrible person, and he should get therapy. But when there are easy answers like that — Oh, this is why you’re so unhappy. Oh, this is why the world is the way it is — these right-wing conspiracies do scratch an itch for these people. It’s a religion. It’s their answer to the world. Right. It’s sort of the rid me of this annoying priest kind of thing. Rid me of these people. Again, it’s a king thing. The way they set up their companies is a kingship. Mark Zuckerberg has complete control. He can’t be fired. He’s there for life. So they like that. But in practice, it doesn’t work that way. Because he’s got reporters annoying him. He’s got his staff. He’s got to at least give a nod to diversity or else he gets shamed. He doesn’t have the fortitude that Musk has in that regard. So they are trying to assert themselves in what they consider a man. This is the definition of what a man is. A lot of them were not considered manly when they were in high school. Revenge of the nerds. With Mark, it’s the stupid chain and the T-shirt, which — good luck. It’s fine. I think it looks ridiculous, but fine. He likes it. Or the mixed martial arts. Or I’m going to hydrofoil. Or I’m going to work out. I’m going to show off my muscles there. That’s what Jeff Bezos is doing. Like: Here’s my muscles. Here’s my pretty fiancée. They’re trying to cosplay a version of a man. It seems pathetic to me. But I think it gives them great comfort.
February 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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jamellebouie.net
no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
darbysaxbe.bsky.social Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
February 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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karaswisher.bsky.social
The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.
February 3, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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mcuban.bsky.social
Ive said this before. Unions have a moment in time to create parallel, Non Profit Trust or Associated Health Plans and
offer them to small to medium size businesses.

Unions can negotiate far better than SMBs or associations .

Imagine if millions got their healthcare from unions ?

Thoughts ?
February 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
"A private citizen with zero Constitutional authority is effectively seizing control of critical government functions. The Constitution explicitly requires Senate confirmation for anyone wielding significant federal power"
www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...
Elon’s Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits The US Government, And It’s Even More Dangerous
Remember how Elon Musk destroyed Twitter by ripping apart its infrastructure without understanding it? Now imagine that same playbook applied to the federal government. It’s happening, and th…
www.techdirt.com
February 1, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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joannechocolat.bsky.social
Radical publishing notion, right here: if your publishers are making a living from publishing and selling your books, then you, the author, should be making a living from writing them.
January 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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jcsalterego.bsky.social
hey anyone who needs to send flowers in like two weeks, now's a good time to buy them
January 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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caseynewton.bsky.social
DeepSeek took off in part because, in a first, it offered a reasoning model that explains to you what it's doing. Its success shows how little AI product teams have done so far to make their products appealing to normal people: www.platformer.news/deepseek-des...
How else could chatbots be made more appealing? The popularity of r1’s chain of thought suggests that they should communicate more about their process, and in particular offer the user guidance on how to refine their queries when they don’t get the answer they’re looking for. Just telling users how a chatbot understood their question seems to build an outsized amount of trust. I also think there’s something appealing about r1’s humility — in conveying its own lack of certainty, it sounds less like the authoritative robots we have come to expect and more like Star Wars’ C-3PO. That’s somewhat counterintuitive — I don’t know many people who think the final form of superintelligence is a bumbling droid — and yet too often we forget how alien and unapproachable these systems remain to all but the most devoted AI nerds.
January 31, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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rjszczerba.bsky.social
‘Phonetic’ is not.
‘Abbreviation’ is 12 letters.
‘Thesaurus’ doesn’t have a synonym.

English has a sense of humor. 😀
January 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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rjszczerba.bsky.social
If you don’t need to wear a mask because “God will protect you,“ then why do you need a gun?
January 30, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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edzitron.com
I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks.

www.ft.com/content/a0df...
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property. The San-Francisco-based ChatGPT maker told the Financial Times it had seen some evidence of ‘distillation’, a technique used by developers to obtain better performance on smaller models by using outputs from larger, more capable models. This allows them to achieve similar results on specific tasks at a much lower cost. OpenAI declined to comment further on details of its evidence. Its terms of service state users cannot “copy” any of its services or “use output to develop models that compete with OpenAI”.
January 29, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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pixelatedboat.bsky.social
Don’t want to jinx it but I’ve made it to the second round of interviews to be the editor of Pornhub’s new book reviews section. They seem open to my idea of using Christgau’s bomb/scissor emoji rating system
January 15, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
January 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM