@jsternberg.bsky.social
Software engineer and gaming nerd. Posts and thoughts are my own.
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pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
January 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
This kind of thing really backs my theory that GenAI’s killer use case is mostly just making fraud and grifting easier.
NEW: A hacker gained control of 1,100 mobile phones powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok. Then, he shared details of the operation with 404 Media.
A look inside how startup Doublespeed, which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is creating AI spam pages on TikTok to promote products.
A look inside how startup Doublespeed, which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is creating AI spam pages on TikTok to promote products.
Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.
www.404media.co
December 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This kind of thing really backs my theory that GenAI’s killer use case is mostly just making fraud and grifting easier.
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bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it
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Now that the "AI" companies have gone directly to all three major RAM manufacturers with piles of cash, they decided they don't care about price control anymore. They've let the entire RAM market flounder so they can instead make specialized HBM RAM for "AI" servers.
Irresponsible as you can get.
Irresponsible as you can get.
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Now that the "AI" companies have gone directly to all three major RAM manufacturers with piles of cash, they decided they don't care about price control anymore. They've let the entire RAM market flounder so they can instead make specialized HBM RAM for "AI" servers.
Irresponsible as you can get.
Irresponsible as you can get.
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JD Vance deserves this
Trump on Tim Walz: "I think the man is a grossly incompetent man. I thought that from the day I watched JD destroy him in the debate. I was saying, 'Who's more incompetent, that man or my man?' I had a man and he had a man. They were both incompetent."
December 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
JD Vance deserves this
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
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the economy is gonna crash because nobody thought to ask a PC gamer's opinion
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
the economy is gonna crash because nobody thought to ask a PC gamer's opinion
I know this isn’t really the point but are they really sending these messages over gmail?
The other two Epstein-related emails just released by Oversight Dems: exchanges between Jeffrey Epstein and Michael Wolff regarding Trump from 2019 and 2015.
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I know this isn’t really the point but are they really sending these messages over gmail?
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If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
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Like if there were in fact some orderly system, I too would say we should follow that! That would be great. There isn't! Total figment of the collective imagination.
November 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Like if there were in fact some orderly system, I too would say we should follow that! That would be great. There isn't! Total figment of the collective imagination.
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And I've complained enough about it, but I am confident the vast vast majority of people think there's some kind of immigration system migrants are "skipping" and they ought to be doing their application and waiting so that the rules can be followed.
November 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
And I've complained enough about it, but I am confident the vast vast majority of people think there's some kind of immigration system migrants are "skipping" and they ought to be doing their application and waiting so that the rules can be followed.
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"men who clearly have hang-ups about their ability to perform a certain kind of blue collar masculinity" is a society-wide issue. There's a reason pickup truck sales have continued going up (to the degree the F-150 is now America's best selling vehicle) even as blue collar employment has gone down
i mean i don't think you can separate any of this discussion from the fact that so many of the participants are men who clearly have hang-ups about their inability to perform a certain kind of blue collar masculinity
October 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"men who clearly have hang-ups about their ability to perform a certain kind of blue collar masculinity" is a society-wide issue. There's a reason pickup truck sales have continued going up (to the degree the F-150 is now America's best selling vehicle) even as blue collar employment has gone down
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I love Guillermo del Toro calling ages 19 to 29 "sublime confusion"
October 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I love Guillermo del Toro calling ages 19 to 29 "sublime confusion"
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I really believe generative AI is a cognitohazard to an entire column of humanity. I don't know, there's a something it fucking does to people that displaces their own entirely-capable cognition and independence, further they seemingly cannot perceive the deficits of. This is not a moral argument.
October 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I really believe generative AI is a cognitohazard to an entire column of humanity. I don't know, there's a something it fucking does to people that displaces their own entirely-capable cognition and independence, further they seemingly cannot perceive the deficits of. This is not a moral argument.
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I think two things are true:
1. young republicans were always terrible and racist
2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to
1. young republicans were always terrible and racist
2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to
October 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I think two things are true:
1. young republicans were always terrible and racist
2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to
1. young republicans were always terrible and racist
2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to
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I was trying to put my finger on what bothered me about this portrayal and I think it’s that it just takes the guy’s words at face value, like he was a nice guy and reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death just pushed him over the edge www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...
She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I was trying to put my finger on what bothered me about this portrayal and I think it’s that it just takes the guy’s words at face value, like he was a nice guy and reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death just pushed him over the edge www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...
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One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/
February 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/
Either this governor is doing a good job making me like him or he's got a hell of a good PR campaign.
Honestly not sure the difference matters from a practical standpoint.
Honestly not sure the difference matters from a practical standpoint.
Illinois has banned AI therapy, making it the first state to regulate the use of AI in mental health services.
www.engadget.com/ai/illinois-...
www.engadget.com/ai/illinois-...
Illinois is the first state to ban AI therapists
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed a bill banning AI therapists into law, the first in the nation.
www.engadget.com
August 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Either this governor is doing a good job making me like him or he's got a hell of a good PR campaign.
Honestly not sure the difference matters from a practical standpoint.
Honestly not sure the difference matters from a practical standpoint.
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Yall will NEVER guess how this storytime ends. We are doomed.
July 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Yall will NEVER guess how this storytime ends. We are doomed.
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Hunter Biden has a point. And a quite colorful one.
July 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hunter Biden has a point. And a quite colorful one.
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Wife: wait a minute. Did he go to school at Columbia
Me: no
Wife: so the NYT wrote a whole story about his application to a school that he didn't even attend? That's really pathetic.
Me: no
Wife: so the NYT wrote a whole story about his application to a school that he didn't even attend? That's really pathetic.
July 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Wife: wait a minute. Did he go to school at Columbia
Me: no
Wife: so the NYT wrote a whole story about his application to a school that he didn't even attend? That's really pathetic.
Me: no
Wife: so the NYT wrote a whole story about his application to a school that he didn't even attend? That's really pathetic.
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.