Nikito
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Same lesson again?
Passion design is my graphic
Gender Fluigi
Same lesson again?
Passion design is my graphic
Gender Fluigi
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There’s no such thing as A.I “art.” It’s a soulless amalgamation of plagiarised data. That is the antithesis of art.
March 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
There’s no such thing as A.I “art.” It’s a soulless amalgamation of plagiarised data. That is the antithesis of art.
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The biggest reason why I dislike the idea of respectability in dress is because it conflates the *appearance* of virtue with *actual* virtue. Wearing a suit doesn't make you respectful, intelligent, or capable, just as wearing a leather jacket doesn't make you rugged.
March 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The biggest reason why I dislike the idea of respectability in dress is because it conflates the *appearance* of virtue with *actual* virtue. Wearing a suit doesn't make you respectful, intelligent, or capable, just as wearing a leather jacket doesn't make you rugged.
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The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.
February 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.
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“Hacia el tecnofascismo”: las raíces reaccionarias de Silicon Valley
"Hacia el tecnofascismo": las raíces reaccionarias de Silicon Valley
La reputación progresista que tiene el sector tecnológico es engañosa: sus tendencias conservadoras, como la celebración de la riqueza, el poder y la masculinidad tradicional, han sido evidentes desde...
www.eldiario.es
February 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
“Hacia el tecnofascismo”: las raíces reaccionarias de Silicon Valley
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it's been a rough week so i thought i'd rotate a gyro for everyone. as a treat
January 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
it's been a rough week so i thought i'd rotate a gyro for everyone. as a treat
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I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks.
www.ft.com/content/a0df...
www.ft.com/content/a0df...
January 29, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks.
www.ft.com/content/a0df...
www.ft.com/content/a0df...
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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
January 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going
January 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going
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This morning I read that DeepSeek used training data generated from other language models which has companies like OpenAI fuming, and I can't stop thinking about how there's a lesson in there
January 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
This morning I read that DeepSeek used training data generated from other language models which has companies like OpenAI fuming, and I can't stop thinking about how there's a lesson in there
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All I do is spit facts.
January 25, 2025 at 5:38 AM
All I do is spit facts.
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I wrote about how DeepSeek’s AI breakthrough is sending Silicon Valley techies into a panic.
"It’s interesting how when something Chinese outperforms something American (TikTok, deepseek, etc) it's a ‘psyop’ or ‘economic warfare’ or and not just ‘another country made something ppl like.’”
"It’s interesting how when something Chinese outperforms something American (TikTok, deepseek, etc) it's a ‘psyop’ or ‘economic warfare’ or and not just ‘another country made something ppl like.’”
TikTok's 'cute winter boots' trend explained
As the U.S. government seeks to enact stricter controls over online speech, TikTok users are adopting more coded 'algospeak' to criticize and resist the government
www.usermag.co
January 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I wrote about how DeepSeek’s AI breakthrough is sending Silicon Valley techies into a panic.
"It’s interesting how when something Chinese outperforms something American (TikTok, deepseek, etc) it's a ‘psyop’ or ‘economic warfare’ or and not just ‘another country made something ppl like.’”
"It’s interesting how when something Chinese outperforms something American (TikTok, deepseek, etc) it's a ‘psyop’ or ‘economic warfare’ or and not just ‘another country made something ppl like.’”
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Some fascinating things happening on Reddit. 22,000 upvotes on the subreddit dedicated to posting pictures of houses that are over 100 years old.
January 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Some fascinating things happening on Reddit. 22,000 upvotes on the subreddit dedicated to posting pictures of houses that are over 100 years old.
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I'll take the Germans advice...
January 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I'll take the Germans advice...
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Brilliant satirical cover from Private Eye, mocking spineless media organisations and journalists who submit and cower in the face of power 👏
January 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Brilliant satirical cover from Private Eye, mocking spineless media organisations and journalists who submit and cower in the face of power 👏
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AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.
January 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.
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"Todos los que lo vieron en directo se quedaron con la boca abierta: Musk alzando su mano al público por dos veces con fuerza y pasión. No podíamos creer lo que veíamos. Y nos lo confirma la industria de la mentira: no podemos creer lo que vimos. Musk no hizo ningún saludo nazi". Por Javier Salas
No creas a tus ojos: el saludo nazi de Musk y el mayor experimento de luz de gas de la historia
elpais.com
January 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
"Todos los que lo vieron en directo se quedaron con la boca abierta: Musk alzando su mano al público por dos veces con fuerza y pasión. No podíamos creer lo que veíamos. Y nos lo confirma la industria de la mentira: no podemos creer lo que vimos. Musk no hizo ningún saludo nazi". Por Javier Salas
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ENTREVISTA | Manuela Carmena, exalcaldesa de Madrid: “La extrema derecha se está extendiendo porque la democracia se ejerce de manera insuficiente”
"No se puede plantear como un objetivo político derribar al que está en el gobierno, pero sin embargo se ha dicho y se acepta", dice la jueza
"No se puede plantear como un objetivo político derribar al que está en el gobierno, pero sin embargo se ha dicho y se acepta", dice la jueza
Manuela Carmena: “La extrema derecha se está extendiendo porque la democracia se ejerce de manera insuficiente”
La exalcaldesa de Madrid y jueza jubilada advierte contra el "cainismo" en el debate político: "Está haciendo que sea muy difícil al Gobierno de coalición el continuar con su responsabilidad"
tinyurl.com
January 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
ENTREVISTA | Manuela Carmena, exalcaldesa de Madrid: “La extrema derecha se está extendiendo porque la democracia se ejerce de manera insuficiente”
"No se puede plantear como un objetivo político derribar al que está en el gobierno, pero sin embargo se ha dicho y se acepta", dice la jueza
"No se puede plantear como un objetivo político derribar al que está en el gobierno, pero sin embargo se ha dicho y se acepta", dice la jueza
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Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
January 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
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Finally, I can ask Anne Frank what she thinks about crytpocurrency
January 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Finally, I can ask Anne Frank what she thinks about crytpocurrency
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LLMs were a mistake.
The internet was a mistake.
Computers were a mistake.
Fuck, goddamn _people_ were a mistake.
The internet was a mistake.
Computers were a mistake.
Fuck, goddamn _people_ were a mistake.
January 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
LLMs were a mistake.
The internet was a mistake.
Computers were a mistake.
Fuck, goddamn _people_ were a mistake.
The internet was a mistake.
Computers were a mistake.
Fuck, goddamn _people_ were a mistake.
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It really is such masculine energy to blame things on a woman who no longer works at the company www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...
January 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
It really is such masculine energy to blame things on a woman who no longer works at the company www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...
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Decades of research shows that expanding highways increases travel times. Some cities are reducing their highways in response.
Why Do We Keep Widening Highways If It Doesn’t Reduce Traffic?
Decades of research shows that expanding highways, despite its promise to reduce congestion, actually increases travel times.
buff.ly
January 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Decades of research shows that expanding highways increases travel times. Some cities are reducing their highways in response.
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Praying for the safety of my friends in LA (John, Anthony, Chad, and Flea)
January 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Praying for the safety of my friends in LA (John, Anthony, Chad, and Flea)
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Also read @sambiddle.com on the new Meta content guidelines, including a bunch of racist, anti-immigrant stuff that is now fair game theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...
January 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Also read @sambiddle.com on the new Meta content guidelines, including a bunch of racist, anti-immigrant stuff that is now fair game theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...
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A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.
November 15, 2024 at 5:22 PM
A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.