Niel
@nielflamarich.bsky.social
Científic de dades | Data Scientist.
AI.
Physics dropout.
AI.
Physics dropout.
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‼️Diverses extensions de navegador comercialitzades com a eines de "privacitat" (VPNs i bloquejadors d'anuncis), han estat interceptant i exfiltrant les converses amb models d'IA com ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini i Copilot. L'incident afecta més de 8 milions d'usuaris a tot el món. +
December 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
‼️Diverses extensions de navegador comercialitzades com a eines de "privacitat" (VPNs i bloquejadors d'anuncis), han estat interceptant i exfiltrant les converses amb models d'IA com ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini i Copilot. L'incident afecta més de 8 milions d'usuaris a tot el món. +
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A new study of the last 50 years of US pop music shows “a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity.”
Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023 - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023
www.nature.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
A new study of the last 50 years of US pop music shows “a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity.”
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the idea that we will ever devise a technology that can automatically sort true statements from false ones and factual ones from “hallucinations” is a lead-to-gold fantasy
December 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
the idea that we will ever devise a technology that can automatically sort true statements from false ones and factual ones from “hallucinations” is a lead-to-gold fantasy
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
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El Real-Time Bidding és un sistema que s'ha convertit en una de les principals maneres de recopilar informació personal. Aquest sistema, que opera en més de 35 milions de webs i apps, exposa les dades personals d'un usuari unes 376 vegades al dia a empreses i agències d'intel·ligència.
RTB, què és? com funciona i com t'afecta?
-> youtu.be/3OZ58XGpf7Y
-> youtu.be/3OZ58XGpf7Y
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM
El Real-Time Bidding és un sistema que s'ha convertit en una de les principals maneres de recopilar informació personal. Aquest sistema, que opera en més de 35 milions de webs i apps, exposa les dades personals d'un usuari unes 376 vegades al dia a empreses i agències d'intel·ligència.
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According to leaked internal documents, in 2024, Meta made 10% of its revenue, around $16 billion, from scam ads, illegal gambling, and fake medical product promotions.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...?
www.reuters.com/investigatio...?
November 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
According to leaked internal documents, in 2024, Meta made 10% of its revenue, around $16 billion, from scam ads, illegal gambling, and fake medical product promotions.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...?
www.reuters.com/investigatio...?
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AI will do exactly what the tech bros and oligarchs want—drastically reduce significant critical thinking and literacy skills and keep the populace easily manipulated and passive and controllable.
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
AI will do exactly what the tech bros and oligarchs want—drastically reduce significant critical thinking and literacy skills and keep the populace easily manipulated and passive and controllable.
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How is AI *really* impacting jobs?
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
How is AI *really* impacting jobs?
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
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European Commission asked by 73 scientists to withdraw 'AI hype' statement
www.mlex.com/mlex/article...
www.mlex.com/mlex/article...
European Commission asked by 73 scientists to withdraw 'AI hype' statement | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
MLex Summary: Seventy-three scientists from Europe, the UK and North America asked the European Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen to withdraw a statement claiming AI would reach human-level ...
www.mlex.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
European Commission asked by 73 scientists to withdraw 'AI hype' statement
www.mlex.com/mlex/article...
www.mlex.com/mlex/article...
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El Comitè LIBE del Parlament Europeu ha aprovat una proposta per ampliar els poders d'Europol en matèria de recollida i processament de dades biomètriques. Això marca un pas significatiu cap a l'aprovació d'una reforma que permetrà establir un "estat policial digital" a Europa.
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
El Comitè LIBE del Parlament Europeu ha aprovat una proposta per ampliar els poders d'Europol en matèria de recollida i processament de dades biomètriques. Això marca un pas significatiu cap a l'aprovació d'una reforma que permetrà establir un "estat policial digital" a Europa.
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Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
November 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
Um…you can prove it’s not true, and more generally that AGI via learning is impossible. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social did.
Um…you can prove it’s not true, and more generally that AGI via learning is impossible. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social did.
November 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
Um…you can prove it’s not true, and more generally that AGI via learning is impossible. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social did.
Um…you can prove it’s not true, and more generally that AGI via learning is impossible. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social did.
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Are we the only rational thinkers? New research on our primate cousins suggests otherwise
Chimps Can Rethink Their Beliefs—Just Like Humans
Are we the only rational thinkers? New research on our primate cousins suggests otherwise
www.scientificamerican.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Are we the only rational thinkers? New research on our primate cousins suggests otherwise
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The monster eye at the center of a still strengthening Hurricane Melissa.
October 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The monster eye at the center of a still strengthening Hurricane Melissa.
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There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
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📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
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openai are disgusting freaks
October 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
openai are disgusting freaks
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Aquesta mes d'octubre l'Electronic Frontier Foundation ha començat una iniciativa molt interessant, una sèrie de consells diaris per ajudar a les persones a millorar la privacitat de les seves dades, i minimitzar el rastre digital que deixen.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
October 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Aquesta mes d'octubre l'Electronic Frontier Foundation ha començat una iniciativa molt interessant, una sèrie de consells diaris per ajudar a les persones a millorar la privacitat de les seves dades, i minimitzar el rastre digital que deixen.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Google says it has solved a problem on a quantum processor faster than a classical computer, and is optimistic about future scientific applications
go.nature.com/4ql1B3O
go.nature.com/4ql1B3O
Google claims ‘quantum advantage’ again — but researchers are sceptical
The firm says it has solved a problem on a quantum processor faster than a classical computer, and is optimistic about future scientific applications.
go.nature.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Google says it has solved a problem on a quantum processor faster than a classical computer, and is optimistic about future scientific applications
go.nature.com/4ql1B3O
go.nature.com/4ql1B3O
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We're seeing lots of headlines about the catastrophic impact of massive data center expansion. But what else could data centers look like?
In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
🧵
In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
🧵
October 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
We're seeing lots of headlines about the catastrophic impact of massive data center expansion. But what else could data centers look like?
In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
🧵
In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
🧵
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'Be authentic' and 'curate your personal brand' are contradictory instructions we've somehow convinced an entire generation to follow simultaneously
October 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
'Be authentic' and 'curate your personal brand' are contradictory instructions we've somehow convinced an entire generation to follow simultaneously
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Cultivate a compassionate, coherent, evidence-based intellectual framework or live entirely at the mercy of malicious bullshit, those are really the two options.
October 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Cultivate a compassionate, coherent, evidence-based intellectual framework or live entirely at the mercy of malicious bullshit, those are really the two options.