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Darin Cassler
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Building weird things with purpose. AI, systems, and strategy. Mostly here to think in public, and write about it on darin.co.
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www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Dispensing false information in a confident tone, rather than offering no answer when none is readily available, is a major flaw of generative AI, experts say. An audit of the top 10 generative AI models including ChatGPT, Gemini and Meta’s AI by the media literacy non-profit NewsGuard revealed that the non-response rates of chatbots went down from 31% in August 2024 to 0% in August 2025. At the same time, the chatbots’ likelihood of repeating false information almost doubled from 18% to 35%, NewsGuard found. None of the companies responded to NewsGuard’s request for a comment at the time.
November 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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They started gassing people in Chicago today btw chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...
Masked federal agent throws chemical irritants outside Logan Square grocery store: 'My eyes are burning'
Video taken by several witnesses captured the moments where the agent can be seen dropping a canister from a white SUV.
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October 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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The funds previously allocated to Disney Plus will be clawed back to prevent the spread of bitch-ass-loser ideology.
September 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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New DC flag
August 15, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Reminder that leaning into fascism is a get rich quick scheme for amateurs www.techdirt.com/2025/07/17/f...
Fascism For First Time Founders
Over the last year or so I’ve seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump t…
www.techdirt.com
July 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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This isn’t the only path available to us. In our recent report Artificial Power we document how AI cos have rigged the market to work in their favor, how communities around the world are being affected by AI today, and outlining a roadmap for change: ainowinstitute.org/publications...
Artificial Power: 2025 Landscape Report
In the aftermath of the “AI boom,” this report examines how the push to integrate AI products everywhere grants AI companies - and the tech oligarchs that run them - power that goes far beyond their d...
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July 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Today the OpenAI Nonprofit Commission released a report asserting OpenAI is ‘positioned to be a force of good in this Age of Intelligence’. The report also claims that AI Now was among the orgs participating in the listening process that led to this report. We did not.
July 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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@bcherny.bsky.social thanks for making one of the most fundamentally useful tools in existence! Would love any feedback you have on the toolkit I'm building for it! Yesterdays updates gave a lot to think about github.com/cassler/awes...
GitHub - cassler/awesome-claude-code-setup: Give Claude the super powers it deserves with this power user collection of bash scripts and slash commands
Give Claude the super powers it deserves with this power user collection of bash scripts and slash commands - cassler/awesome-claude-code-setup
github.com
June 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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A Claude Code Tragedy, in three acts
June 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Open sourced my Claude Code power user toolkit!

✅ 50-80% token savings
✅ Shell shortcuts for common operations
✅ 14 slash commands for workflows
✅ One-line install

Built this because I was burning $$ on tokens. Now you don't have to!

github.com/cassler/awes...
GitHub - cassler/awesome-claude-code-setup: Give Claude the super powers it deserves with this power user collection of bash scripts and slash commands
Give Claude the super powers it deserves with this power user collection of bash scripts and slash commands - cassler/awesome-claude-code-setup
github.com
June 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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It’s as if they recognize their role as an operating system and are acting accordingly.
simonwillison.net Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · May 27
It's interesting how the major LLM API vendors are converging on the following features:

- Code execution: Python in a sandbox
- Web search - like Anthropic, Mistral seem to use Brave
- Document library aka hosted RAG
- Image generation (FLUX for Mistral)
- MCP

simonwillison.net/2025/May/27/...
Build AI agents with the Mistral Agents API
Big upgrade to Mistral's API this morning: they've announced a new "Agents API". Mistral have been using the term "agents" for a while now. Here's [how they describe them](https://docs.mistral.ai/capa...
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May 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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How AI's invisible prompts reshape human cognition while we debate whether ChatGPT can write poetry. Plot twist: we need specialists to sweet-talk machines that are quietly sweet-talking us back. #prompts #agents #llms #hci

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The Grammar of Thought
The people writing the invisible rules for how billions of humans learn to think are the same people who thought "move fast and break things" was a business philosophy rather than a cautionary tale fr...
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May 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM