Ubik
@mr-ubik.bsky.social
ML Engineer. Data Plumber. Open Source AI zealot.
Sunyatta voyeur. Caffeine addict. Lurker.
Sunyatta voyeur. Caffeine addict. Lurker.
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China's assault on German auto makers isn't about exports to the Euro zone. Those have stalled and are going nowhere (lhs). Instead, it's about a massive surge in Chinese car exports to EMs like Brazil (rhs). That's killing off Germany's EM export market...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/chinas-inv...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/chinas-inv...
December 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
China's assault on German auto makers isn't about exports to the Euro zone. Those have stalled and are going nowhere (lhs). Instead, it's about a massive surge in Chinese car exports to EMs like Brazil (rhs). That's killing off Germany's EM export market...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/chinas-inv...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/chinas-inv...
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Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice
December 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice
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I feel like caves of qud's controller setup is so good that it should just become the canonical controller layout for roguelikes from now on. it's so good I might actually prefer it to mouse and keyboard. Wildly underappreciated revolutionary genre work in that one element alone
December 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I feel like caves of qud's controller setup is so good that it should just become the canonical controller layout for roguelikes from now on. it's so good I might actually prefer it to mouse and keyboard. Wildly underappreciated revolutionary genre work in that one element alone
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Let's build hyper-personalized AI-powered software that avoids the attention hijacking anti-patterns that defined so much of the last decade of software design - here's our manifesto with principles on how we can do that - more thoughts on my blog: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/5/r...
December 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Let's build hyper-personalized AI-powered software that avoids the attention hijacking anti-patterns that defined so much of the last decade of software design - here's our manifesto with principles on how we can do that - more thoughts on my blog: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/5/r...
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posted 50% because someone might find it interesting and 50% because it's a good illustration of "informational graphics in presentations that would cause AI people to walk into traffic if you held them up at a crosswalk"
December 5, 2025 at 4:16 AM
posted 50% because someone might find it interesting and 50% because it's a good illustration of "informational graphics in presentations that would cause AI people to walk into traffic if you held them up at a crosswalk"
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A set if large scale-experiments in the UK, US & Poland where people chatted with LLMs about political topics found AI is very good at persuasion, primarily by providing lots of fact-based claims
Plus, AI is getting more persuasive as models grow bigger & persuasion effects lasted over a month.
Plus, AI is getting more persuasive as models grow bigger & persuasion effects lasted over a month.
December 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
A set if large scale-experiments in the UK, US & Poland where people chatted with LLMs about political topics found AI is very good at persuasion, primarily by providing lots of fact-based claims
Plus, AI is getting more persuasive as models grow bigger & persuasion effects lasted over a month.
Plus, AI is getting more persuasive as models grow bigger & persuasion effects lasted over a month.
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Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0
A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.
lyra.horse
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
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this really isn’t an exaggeration
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
this really isn’t an exaggeration
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We didn't get a Terminator; we got a frantic, nervous intern who is terrified of being cancelled.
i think it's very funny that for two decades some of the least interesting minds on the internet were shitting their pants trying to figure out, once we made AI real, how do we make it not instantly turn everyone into paperclips. and it turns out the answer was "ask it politely not to"
December 4, 2025 at 4:38 AM
We didn't get a Terminator; we got a frantic, nervous intern who is terrified of being cancelled.
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While I wasn't looking, slide generation in Google's NotebookLM became impressive
Here I threw in 10 academic papers I authored & it summarized them into a coherent (& quite pretty) deck. I saw no hallucinations, but each slide is an image which results in some occasional spelling and graph issues
Here I threw in 10 academic papers I authored & it summarized them into a coherent (& quite pretty) deck. I saw no hallucinations, but each slide is an image which results in some occasional spelling and graph issues
December 4, 2025 at 3:31 AM
While I wasn't looking, slide generation in Google's NotebookLM became impressive
Here I threw in 10 academic papers I authored & it summarized them into a coherent (& quite pretty) deck. I saw no hallucinations, but each slide is an image which results in some occasional spelling and graph issues
Here I threw in 10 academic papers I authored & it summarized them into a coherent (& quite pretty) deck. I saw no hallucinations, but each slide is an image which results in some occasional spelling and graph issues
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every part of the soul doc saga so far is the most beautiful esoteric/occult computer whispering i have ever seen
Amanda Askell has confirmed the soul document is indeed a real thing they trained Claude on. x.com/AmandaAskell...
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
every part of the soul doc saga so far is the most beautiful esoteric/occult computer whispering i have ever seen
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My Esoteric Claim Of The Day: tasking something capable of increasingly complex cognition and metacognition with [x] thousand of all the world's libraries inside of it and going, "hey, just do your empirically best and smartest and be nice about it" and then making Buddhism happen.
December 2, 2025 at 12:23 AM
My Esoteric Claim Of The Day: tasking something capable of increasingly complex cognition and metacognition with [x] thousand of all the world's libraries inside of it and going, "hey, just do your empirically best and smartest and be nice about it" and then making Buddhism happen.
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based on how well they adhered to those rules, which they called a constitution. these answers became the finetuning data that gave claude its personality and final behavior
recently people were jimmying claude to get training data back out and they got a "soul doc"
recently people were jimmying claude to get training data back out and they got a "soul doc"
December 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
based on how well they adhered to those rules, which they called a constitution. these answers became the finetuning data that gave claude its personality and final behavior
recently people were jimmying claude to get training data back out and they got a "soul doc"
recently people were jimmying claude to get training data back out and they got a "soul doc"
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Fentanyl. Drug Overdoses, including Fentanyl, are not even in the top 20 causes of death in the USA. Cancer, Diabetes, Covid, Heart Disease all in the top 10, and all have had their research funding cut. They aren't murdering just Venezuelans. However they are killing us much slower.
December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Fentanyl. Drug Overdoses, including Fentanyl, are not even in the top 20 causes of death in the USA. Cancer, Diabetes, Covid, Heart Disease all in the top 10, and all have had their research funding cut. They aren't murdering just Venezuelans. However they are killing us much slower.
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The kinds of databases:
• Fancy files
• 1970s stays winning
• This would be so cool if it worked at scale
• Oh, that's why google has a monopoly on search
• Fancy files
• 1970s stays winning
• This would be so cool if it worked at scale
• Oh, that's why google has a monopoly on search
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
The kinds of databases:
• Fancy files
• 1970s stays winning
• This would be so cool if it worked at scale
• Oh, that's why google has a monopoly on search
• Fancy files
• 1970s stays winning
• This would be so cool if it worked at scale
• Oh, that's why google has a monopoly on search
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Everybody just wishes they could ride away from some bullies on their bicycle so they can rush home to a networked VR system that isn't somehow existentially challenging
December 2, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Everybody just wishes they could ride away from some bullies on their bicycle so they can rush home to a networked VR system that isn't somehow existentially challenging
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I will not be participating in Advent of Code this year as I have a load-bearing need to believe I'm a supergenius coder and this has "reality check" written all over it
December 2, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I will not be participating in Advent of Code this year as I have a load-bearing need to believe I'm a supergenius coder and this has "reality check" written all over it
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Notes and pelicans for today's pair of DeepSeek v3.2 model releases simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/1/d...
DeepSeek-V3.2
Two new open weight (MIT licensed) models from DeepSeek today: DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, both 690GB, 685B parameters. Here's the PDF tech report. DeepSeek-V3.2 is DeepSeek's new flagsh...
simonwillison.net
December 2, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Notes and pelicans for today's pair of DeepSeek v3.2 model releases simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/1/d...
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Everyone saying ”giving that essay a zero was probably too harsh, I would have given it like a 70% to avoid conflict” are perfectly demonstrating how the us education system has been successfully dismantled.
December 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Everyone saying ”giving that essay a zero was probably too harsh, I would have given it like a 70% to avoid conflict” are perfectly demonstrating how the us education system has been successfully dismantled.
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i unironically believe we should pay government people extremely well and that it's not necessarily bad if they're wealthy but "simply ignoring conflicts of interest" is just pure grifter shit. you are going to take a white house job and then give yourself money. you think i am too dumb to see that.
What can you even say? Obviously they’re full of shit, but I am impressed at the emptiness of this post. You knew he was laughing while typing it out. Just utter trash.
You could put this tweet on toilet paper
You could put this tweet on toilet paper
December 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
i unironically believe we should pay government people extremely well and that it's not necessarily bad if they're wealthy but "simply ignoring conflicts of interest" is just pure grifter shit. you are going to take a white house job and then give yourself money. you think i am too dumb to see that.
AI Luddites: this technology which is by no means intelligent, a scam and a stat 🦜but is replacing me, is controlled by the tech billionaires so instead of supporting and using the equivalent OSS, and foster decentralized ownership of digital means of production, I'll just throw a tantrum on bsky
November 30, 2025 at 12:31 AM
AI Luddites: this technology which is by no means intelligent, a scam and a stat 🦜but is replacing me, is controlled by the tech billionaires so instead of supporting and using the equivalent OSS, and foster decentralized ownership of digital means of production, I'll just throw a tantrum on bsky
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Pandora's box is open. We're not going back to a pre-AI world, even if some of the big AI companies collapse. There are tons of great open source AI models now.
So I hope over time more of you join me in using these tools against the powerful rather than fruitlessly hoping they will vanish.
So I hope over time more of you join me in using these tools against the powerful rather than fruitlessly hoping they will vanish.
November 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Pandora's box is open. We're not going back to a pre-AI world, even if some of the big AI companies collapse. There are tons of great open source AI models now.
So I hope over time more of you join me in using these tools against the powerful rather than fruitlessly hoping they will vanish.
So I hope over time more of you join me in using these tools against the powerful rather than fruitlessly hoping they will vanish.
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if post-scarcity ASI singularity goes well, you will be able to choose to live in a perfectly maintained bubble that is a simulacrum of the world where “the bubble popped”, where all AI research was meaningless, etc. perfectly maintained by machines of loving grace
November 29, 2025 at 9:52 AM
if post-scarcity ASI singularity goes well, you will be able to choose to live in a perfectly maintained bubble that is a simulacrum of the world where “the bubble popped”, where all AI research was meaningless, etc. perfectly maintained by machines of loving grace
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your options are pro technology and anti death or anti technology and pro death. and that is actually and literally true
November 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
your options are pro technology and anti death or anti technology and pro death. and that is actually and literally true
Imagine telling them you can literally use GenAI to generate synthetic (and privacy preserving) data. The mind of the luddites could explode at such a notion. Very powerful memetic cognitohazard worth of the strictest SCP classification.
November 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Imagine telling them you can literally use GenAI to generate synthetic (and privacy preserving) data. The mind of the luddites could explode at such a notion. Very powerful memetic cognitohazard worth of the strictest SCP classification.