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Phil Sutherland
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Greybeard geek from Perth, Australia. Interests include hardware and software systems, IoT, networks, Linux, electronics, cats, computing history, electric vehicles, SF&F, science, hiking, cooking, music, ham radio...
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I have endured his scurrilous attacks for years. He has sued me for racketeering — and lost. He has unleashed his right-wing army of online trolls. Since his reelection, he has threatened me, defamed me and singled me out by name in two executive orders. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-t...
My Time on 60 Minutes and Why I Refuse To Stay Silent
From Marc | From the opening words of Judge Beryl Howell’s opinion to the 60 Minutes closing credits, this has been an emotional weekend for me personally.
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May 18, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Up is down
May 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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jay.bsky.team
I think about this comic at least once a week
- I want things to be different - *smashes everything* - oh no
May 10, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Happens rarely but I found a LinkedIn post that's worth sharing

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Denis O.Denis O. • Following • Following Fintech Professional | ML & Real Time Data | AWS, Azure, GCP | LLM, NLP & Knowledge Graphs | Cloud Native & AI Solution Architect | Kafka, KubernetesFintech Professional | ML & Real Time Data | AWS, Azure, GCP | LLM, NLP & Knowledge Graphs | Cloud Native & AI Solution Architect | Kafka, Kubernetes 2d • Edited • 2 days ago • Edited • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn The Hallucination Industrial Complex.. We are not building intelligence.. We are productionalizing hallucinations at scale. An entire ecosystem now exists to normalize, monetize, and accelerate statistical probability guesswork disguised as cognition. It is not a feature. It is not emergence. It is a stochastic drift, wrapped in APIs and framed with words like autonomy, agentic reasoning, synthetic understanding and all the other bs.. At the core is a transformer design built for translation. Not logic. Not reasoning. Not truth. Just pattern alignment using attention, dot products, and token vectors. The original goal was mapping language to language, not thought to insight. But somewhere along the way, we scaled a statistical hack with loose variance into a cultural phenomenon. We now see models generating plausible garbage, confidently wrong answers, and erratic behavior as standard. This is not surprising. It is the natural consequence of how these systems operate. Fluency wins over factuality. High probability token chains dominate over epistemic grounding. This is not a malfunction. It is built in. Rather than fix this, we have built a supply chain around it. Research labs chase bigger models. Startups wrap prompts around prompts. Enterprises deploy hallucination wrappers as productivity tools. New protocols like MCP offer clean JSON interfaces for structured bullshit. The illusion is now modular and scalable. The industry rewards this illusion. Hallucinated coherence gets published. Fake reasoning gets praised. VC capital flows to whoever wraps … Rather than fix this, we have built a supply chain around it. Research labs chase bigger models. Startups wrap prompts around prompts. Enterprises deploy hallucination wrappers as productivity tools. New protocols like MCP offer clean JSON interfaces for structured bullshit. The illusion is now modular and scalable. The industry rewards this illusion. Hallucinated coherence gets published. Fake reasoning gets praised. VC capital flows to whoever wraps the guesswork best. No one gets funded for saying the model lacks understanding. No one gets hired for saying scale has hit the wall. Entire careers are now built on refining the output of a broken premise. This is the Hallucination Industrial Complex. It feeds on attention. It profits from delusion. It builds polished demos that mask fundamental fragility. It creates layers of abstraction to distance users from the underlying instability. And now it is being normalized at every level of enterprise adoption. We are not in an age of AI driven transformation. We are in an age of AI enabled hallucination. And we are shipping it into critical systems. Legal tools. Healthcare workflows. Education platforms. Every layer of the knowledge economy is being interfaced with a system that still cannot say I do not know. There is no autoregressive chain that leads to understanding. There is no stochastic decoder that produces wisdom. There is no scale that will make a statistical approximation think, or become conscious.. We are drifting deeper into the illusion.. Faster. With trillions in funding. With all the media induced fanfare. This is not progress. This is entropy in sheeps clothing.. Welcome to the brave new world of the hallucination economy..
April 11, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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David Pope in Canberra Times
April 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
Even though Trump’s advisors are stupid, we need to stop attributing to stupidity what is actually corruption.

The purpose of the Yemen Signal group chat was circumvention of public records disclosure laws. They want to act without accountability (which is also why they used disappearing messages).
March 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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February 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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catvalente.bsky.social
This is one of my favorite poems of all time, written by the wonderful & greatly missed John M. Ford.

I’ve been thinking about it a lot recently. So I thought I would share it.
February 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Authorised by me on behalf of the ASRC. It’s the ugly truth as of today after the Albanese Government betrayed multicultural communities overnight. A profoundly shameful display lacking in leadership from a party elected on a promise to be more fairer & compassionate on migration.
November 29, 2024 at 12:06 AM
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Amidst cutbacks at the New York Times, it appears the Oxford comma has been laid off.
NYT headline which reads: The ICC issues arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu, a former Israeli Defense minister and the Hamas military chief. There should be a comma after Defense Minister to make it a list of three people. It has no Oxford comma before the and so it reads as though Netanyahu is both a former Israeli Defense Minister and the Hamas military chief.
November 21, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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nnedi.bsky.social
A word Americans should know now more than ever:

Kakistocracy- a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens.

Yes, there’s a word for it.
November 16, 2024 at 4:54 AM