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Principal Software Engineer at “Major Media Company” My opinions are my own.
Data, software engineering, machine learning, tech industry, media, politics, animals.
Data, software engineering, machine learning, tech industry, media, politics, animals.
Being sick and tired of constant surveillance is a big tent 🎪 like it or not, gun owners are in that tent
November 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Being sick and tired of constant surveillance is a big tent 🎪 like it or not, gun owners are in that tent
They have a page about it here: ammo.com/donations
November 28, 2025 at 5:50 AM
They have a page about it here: ammo.com/donations
I discovered Alex (and Gary Marcus) via Ed Zitron getting me interested in this. So sad to see.
October 28, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I discovered Alex (and Gary Marcus) via Ed Zitron getting me interested in this. So sad to see.
Now you’re just making stuff up 😕
October 28, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Now you’re just making stuff up 😕
I think it would be more accurate to call it “Denver-based mass surveillance company”. I don’t mean to be snarky, it’s more that every tech company calls themselves “AI” and it’s meaningless
August 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I think it would be more accurate to call it “Denver-based mass surveillance company”. I don’t mean to be snarky, it’s more that every tech company calls themselves “AI” and it’s meaningless
I smiled a bit when you “correctly” pronounced Warios name
July 14, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I smiled a bit when you “correctly” pronounced Warios name
@prestonstew.bsky.social was that missile hypersonic? I’m a rube but it looked crazy fast
June 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
@prestonstew.bsky.social was that missile hypersonic? I’m a rube but it looked crazy fast
I'm sad they also shuttered Fakespot. Fakespot's genAI features were largely useless, but its review analysis was actually helpful for filtering out astro-turfed reviews.
May 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I'm sad they also shuttered Fakespot. Fakespot's genAI features were largely useless, but its review analysis was actually helpful for filtering out astro-turfed reviews.
I wish it could defer encoding to an external provider like mediaconvert or bitmovin, really my only gripe with the tech.
May 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I wish it could defer encoding to an external provider like mediaconvert or bitmovin, really my only gripe with the tech.
Someone with a botnet could really make this dogs day.
May 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Someone with a botnet could really make this dogs day.
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Take the caption for this graph. If you look at the details, 39.3% chose "I would only use a tool like this if editors verified information in the answers to ensure it accurately represented the facts". Which means 88% reject chatbots.
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April 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Take the caption for this graph. If you look at the details, 39.3% chose "I would only use a tool like this if editors verified information in the answers to ensure it accurately represented the facts". Which means 88% reject chatbots.
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Lovely read. Reminded me: a decade+ ago, Sears built an employee social network called Pebble, sorta like Tiffany Joy. The CEO Eddie Lampert would troll it under a pseudonym and yell at employees that were showing even slight criticism.
March 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Lovely read. Reminded me: a decade+ ago, Sears built an employee social network called Pebble, sorta like Tiffany Joy. The CEO Eddie Lampert would troll it under a pseudonym and yell at employees that were showing even slight criticism.
Your reporting is a welcome reprieve from the mountains of AI shit advertising I deal with daily as a tech professional.
March 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Your reporting is a welcome reprieve from the mountains of AI shit advertising I deal with daily as a tech professional.
@jamieloftus.bsky.social dives into this in her Manosphere episodes on 16th Minute of Fame. It was such an enlightening listen for me.
March 13, 2025 at 5:10 AM
@jamieloftus.bsky.social dives into this in her Manosphere episodes on 16th Minute of Fame. It was such an enlightening listen for me.