Jelani McCoy
@jelanimccoy.bsky.social
Data Engineer | PSU Alum |
🍔 & 🍕Connoisseur
🍔 & 🍕Connoisseur
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I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy
A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB
Photo: Eyevine
Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy
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They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever
October 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
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He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
October 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I think this is the longest paragraph I’ve ever seen! The length of it made me feel unnerved halfway through the eternal paragraph
While the AWS team has resolved the severe us-east-1 outages, reading this post-mortem makes one thing clear: they are still suffering from a critical shortage of paragraph breaks
October 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I think this is the longest paragraph I’ve ever seen! The length of it made me feel unnerved halfway through the eternal paragraph
Heists in the year of our lord 2025?? This will be a movie in a few years
Thieves stole priceless jewels from the world-famous Louvre in Paris in a daring heist early Sunday that forced the museum to close for the day, officials said
Louvre heist: Thieves steal priceless jewels, Paris museum closed
The museum was closed for the day Sunday after the robbery, which was carried out by thieves using a ladder mounted on the back of a truck, officials said.
www.nbcnews.com
October 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Heists in the year of our lord 2025?? This will be a movie in a few years
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Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through
October 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through
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NIL has definitely bright parity back to college football. I’m here for it and hope it continues to increase parity
October 12, 2025 at 2:04 AM
NIL has definitely bright parity back to college football. I’m here for it and hope it continues to increase parity
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genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos
Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."
October 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos
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BREAKING
A federal judge that the Trump admin's policy targeting pro-Palestinian students for deportation violated the First Amendment.
His blistering, 161-page ruling starts with a threat he received in chambers and his response.
A federal judge that the Trump admin's policy targeting pro-Palestinian students for deportation violated the First Amendment.
His blistering, 161-page ruling starts with a threat he received in chambers and his response.
September 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
BREAKING
A federal judge that the Trump admin's policy targeting pro-Palestinian students for deportation violated the First Amendment.
His blistering, 161-page ruling starts with a threat he received in chambers and his response.
A federal judge that the Trump admin's policy targeting pro-Palestinian students for deportation violated the First Amendment.
His blistering, 161-page ruling starts with a threat he received in chambers and his response.
It’s almost like an AI designed to generate text with do the exact task it’s designed for with impunity regardless of truth in whatever is generated.
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It’s almost like an AI designed to generate text with do the exact task it’s designed for with impunity regardless of truth in whatever is generated.
Eagles: 20 Chiefs: 10 Refs: 7
September 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Eagles: 20 Chiefs: 10 Refs: 7
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Hasan Piker in the New York Times: "I was supposed to debate Charlie Kirk. Here’s what I would have said"
Opinion | I Was Supposed to Debate Charlie Kirk. Here’s What I Would Have Said.
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Hasan Piker in the New York Times: "I was supposed to debate Charlie Kirk. Here’s what I would have said"
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Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?
The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of US political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest reut.rs/41PWH4l
Nation on edge: Experts warn of “vicious spiral" in political violence after Kirk killing
The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of U.S. political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest.
reut.rs
September 11, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?
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NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails.
It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
Jeffrey Epstein Email Trove Reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secrets
A cache of 18,000 messages obtained by Bloomberg News reveals Maxwell’s deep ties and involvement with the disgraced financier and sex offender.
www.bloomberg.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails.
It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
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Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?
It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
September 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?
It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
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v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚
Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!
Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇
Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!
Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇
September 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚
Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!
Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇
Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!
Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇
The Browser Company is being acquired by Atlassian in an all cash deal. Mergers and Acquisitions are back in full force. A lot of acquisitions in the technology industry over the past few week. Add another tally.
September 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The Browser Company is being acquired by Atlassian in an all cash deal. Mergers and Acquisitions are back in full force. A lot of acquisitions in the technology industry over the past few week. Add another tally.
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Millions of followers ≠ engagement. @theguardian.com has 1.4m followers on Threads with almost no engagement. On Bluesky, links can get 3–4x more clicks than likes.
The real question isn’t “how many followers do you have?” but “what kind of engagement do you get?”
The real question isn’t “how many followers do you have?” but “what kind of engagement do you get?”
August 28, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Millions of followers ≠ engagement. @theguardian.com has 1.4m followers on Threads with almost no engagement. On Bluesky, links can get 3–4x more clicks than likes.
The real question isn’t “how many followers do you have?” but “what kind of engagement do you get?”
The real question isn’t “how many followers do you have?” but “what kind of engagement do you get?”
Some of us have lost the plot
just checking in with one of the most influential philosophers alive today
August 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Some of us have lost the plot
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*tapping this sign over and over*
Chatbots aren’t telling you their secrets
LLMs make things up — including about themselves.
www.theverge.com
August 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
*tapping this sign over and over*
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can't have bad numbers if there are no numbers
August 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
can't have bad numbers if there are no numbers
In my line of work I rarely if ever send emails. I wish I had the opportunity to send emails to people. My inbox is just filled with Jira Ticket updates and spam
August 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
In my line of work I rarely if ever send emails. I wish I had the opportunity to send emails to people. My inbox is just filled with Jira Ticket updates and spam
This is exactly how the world was sold on smart assistants a decade ago when Siri, Google Assistant, and Alexa were hitting mass adoption. Look how that turned out in reality vs what vision we were sold. AI is the newest rendition.
Sam Altman has got to the point where he doesn't even bother to describe stuff anymore. "Uhh yeah sometime you'll have a thingy that will do stuff. And wow will it be good!"
August 6, 2025 at 6:32 AM
This is exactly how the world was sold on smart assistants a decade ago when Siri, Google Assistant, and Alexa were hitting mass adoption. Look how that turned out in reality vs what vision we were sold. AI is the newest rendition.
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I'm so tired of hearing that we need to "teach our students how to use AI" when the thing they most need to use it is a critical-thinking skill set that can only be acquired by NOT using it. I'm tired of hearing that it's inevitable. I'm tired.
August 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I'm so tired of hearing that we need to "teach our students how to use AI" when the thing they most need to use it is a critical-thinking skill set that can only be acquired by NOT using it. I'm tired of hearing that it's inevitable. I'm tired.