Nicholas Weaver has a similar theory, but due to the much lower cost of running inference at the edge, whether that's on people's phones, or using very small clusters on premises, for a few actually useful things like transcript drafts, or OCR, etc
bsky.app/profile/davi...

I mean, even if you exclusively use the Following feed - if more people are choosing (or being pushed onto) the Discover feed, then I'd expect the same result.

But hey, I'm pretty sure they're already secretly using AI to hide replies, so who knows!

Appreciate it, thank you

The idea of CRA “lean[ing] into AI to free up staff resources” should be setting off some red flags. Other departments are being forced too.

He’s cutting “development funding for global health programs” and funding for public transit. Cutting back on Statistics Canada seems so short-sighted too.

ah, fantastic thanks so much!

lol yeah it probably goes without saying

Hi, quick question - I'm writing a blogpost about this stuff w/ replies getting hidden, and I'm curious if you'd be OK with me including a link to this post? Happy to send a link to a draft of the blogpost if you like. Thanks very much!

Hi - I'm writing a blogpost about this stuff with replies getting hidden, and I'm wondering if you'd be OK with me including a link to this post? Happy to link to a draft of the blogpost if you like. Thanks!

There are probably also other things that those companies want to do, like earning interest on the dollars backing the token, or perhaps doing what Tether allegedly did and minting billions of unbacked tokens.

Whatever it is, it's virtually guaranteed to be sketchy and bad!

- ostensibly yes
- probably folks like those at shopify and wealthsimple and also crypto exchanges e.g. coinbase
- makes it easier to get people into crypto trading or perhaps tokenised stock trading
- no; the tx ledger is centrally controlled, so no need for a bitcoin-like consensus algorithm

huh, the CEO of Coinbase Canada likes it, hey wait didn't their US operation spend millions on electing Trump, oh well whatever

Absolutely. I'm so lucky my spouse has a good pharma plan at work, otherwise I wouldn't be able to afford medication for a condition that, left untreated, would lead to far worse issues.

We shouldn't have to be lucky, though. We need to close these gaps for everyone.

Can't have cheap and plentiful electricity - how would anyone make money off it?!?

Socialism or barbarism? Ehhhh now's not the time for an election, so,

Cool so no one will have an issue with outlawing it then ... right?

Heck, *we're* counting on you.

This post was right after yours in my feed.

You should read this article before supporting a budget that centralises power, bypasses regulation, funnels money to corporate interests, and expands surveillance and militarisation in our society. bsky.app/profile/volt...

Either you recognise that climate change is a crisis, or you support this budget.

Choose carefully, your future grandkids are counting on you.

don't put it in the paper that i didn't have a favourite shape

The key weakness in AI agents is that they're a lie. They don't work. They just don't fuckin' work. You can't set a hallucination engine to work doing tasks. It's pants on head stupid. The hype pretends this isn't the case and hypothesises a fabulous future where they work *at all*. This is a lie.