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If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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2+2 = 5. Not only will you believe it but you will wonder how you ever thought otherwise.
When asked about the administration’s views on low voter turnouts earlier this month, Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Erick Tsang Kwok-wai asserted that a low turnout could mean that people were satisfied with the government’s performance. If that were true, why is there a get-out-the-vote campaign now?
October 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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“Every time I speak with Vladimir, I have good conversations, and then they don’t go anywhere,” Trump said in response to a question from a journalist in the Oval Office.
October 23, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550...
Companies that cannot run their businesses responsibly at scale should not be allowed to run their business at that scale. If Microsoft can't do it, if Apple, Google, Facebook, X , OpenAI can't do it, then maybe we shouldn't allow companies to operate at scales which inevitably lead to widespread consumer harm. They should be required to provide human customer service, with some sort of legal liability to ensure their products perform as advertised, without an end-user having to spend tens or hundreds of hours chasing down a solution, spending thousands of dollars on a lawyer, and all the rest of the hassle. This is a legislation and regulation issue - the data barons are exploiting the effective absence of any accountability for harms they casually inflict on the public, ranging from gotcha situations like the OP to viral self harm trends among kids to mass surveillance and commercial invasion of privacy. Pirate everything, support open source, pay content creators directly. If they want to have billions of users, they damn well better be able to handle each and every one of those users in a commercially responsible fashion, or they have no business operating at that scale. We should be done with the "oops, we're too big and we make too much money to care that we just casually wrecked your life, oh well!" If the solution is to force users to have to buy a new PC, or a new phone, or create a new account, or anything in that vein, it's almost intentional, and casually malicious. It's not like these companies don't know what they're doing, they can simply afford not to care. Until there's regulation and accountability that's more expensive than ignoring the consumer casualties, things will continue to get worse.
October 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Perplexity's marketing spend 🔥🔥🔥

Going to be funny when they compare their downloads vs the # of quests completed.
Discord's quest for some of their in-app currency: need to spend 15mn using Perplexity's browser. Can be bypassed running any app in the background by renaming it under a given directory path.
October 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Interesting. The time axis seems a bit weird compared to the annotations.

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September 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Seems the deal void grants clawbacks related to the foundry biz so Intel is paying with equity instead (idk about relative amounts) the right to sell the foundry biz.
The existing claw-back and profit-sharing provisions associated with the government’s previously dispersed $2.2 billion grant to Intel under the CHIPS Act will be eliminated to create permanency of capital as the company advances its U.S. investment plans.
August 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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mdr

sans parler du fait que c'est la n-ième fois que je me désabonne...
August 17, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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lol notion. i knew you were bad but not that bad...
July 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Oh yeah... rule of law, rule of law
“We’re already well past any legal authority for the president to decline to execute this law. This is a pretty clear case” said Gregg Nunziata, executive director of the Society for the Rule of Law and former counsel to Senate Republicans.
June 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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META are mendacious fucks, episode ...

Remember there humans, managers and devs who decide and implement this.
Meta Pixel developers have abused various protocols to implement the covert listening since the practice began last September. They started by causing apps to send HTTP requests to port 12387. A month later, Meta Pixel stopped sending this data, even though Facebook and Instagram apps continued to monitor the port. In November, Meta Pixel switched to a new method that invoked WebSocket, a protocol for two-way communications, over port 12387. That same month, Meta Pixel also deployed a new method that used WebRTC, a real-time peer-to-peer communication protocol commonly used for making audio or video calls in the browser. This method used a complicated process known as SDP munging, a technique for JavaScript code to modify Session Description Protocol data before it’s sent. Still in use today, the SDP munging by Meta Pixel inserts key _fbp cookie content into fields meant for connection information. This causes the browser to send that data as part of a STUN request to the Android local host, where the Facebook or Instagram app can read it and link it to the user. In May, a beta version of Chrome introduced a mitigation that blocked the type of SDP munging that Meta Pixel used. Within days, Meta Pixel circumvented the mitigation by adding a new method that swapped the STUN requests with the TURN requests.
June 4, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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We wouldn’t accept that in other parts of our lives. Imagine Take9 in other contexts. Food service: “Before sitting down at a restaurant, take nine seconds: Look in the kitchen, maybe check the temperature of the cooler, or if the cooks’ hands are clean.” Aviation: “Before boarding a plane, take nine seconds: Look at the engine and cockpit, glance at the plane’s maintenance log, ask the pilots if they feel rested.” This is obviously ridiculous advice. The average person doesn’t have the training or expertise to evaluate restaurant or aircraft safety—and we don’t expect them to. We have laws and regulations in place that allow people to eat at a restaurant or board a plane without worry. But—we get it—the government isn’t going to step in and regulate the Internet. These insecure systems are what we have. Security awareness training, and the blame-the-user mentality that comes with it, are all we have. So if we want meaningful behavioral change, it needs a lot more than just a pause. It needs cognitive scaffolding and system designs that account for all the dynamic interactions that go into a decision to click, download, or share. And that takes real work—more work than just an ad campaign and a slick video.
May 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Speaking of which, in hk:
With the penetration of handheld smart devices, pedestrians using signalised crossings are more prone to pay more concentrations on their mobile devices with their heads nodding downwards, and less attention to the traffic signals. To draw pedestrians' awareness of the traffic signal and upkeep safety at the crossings, we have launched a trial in July 2022 by installing auxiliary devices at 4 locations with signalised crossings to remind pedestrians not to cross the road when the "red man" is lit. A pedrestrian at a Hong Kong road crossing with experimental lighting for people who won't raise their heads from their phones
May 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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picture, meet caption
A picture of a japanese couple wedding photoshoot under cherry blossoms captioned: "Yields on Japan’s 30-year bonds have risen 0.63 percentage points since Donald Trump’s ‘liberation day’ tariff plans triggered global market turmoil © Noriko Hayashi/Bloomberg"
May 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Can’t leave twitter but can’t shut up about it on bsky

🤔🤷‍♂️
May 26, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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And indeed, (who would have thought?)
As Google keeps more of the traffic for itself or it thinks differently about training data, all this stuff is changing. The trade here is make your website more agentic, and then MCP as a protocol will allow you to build some new business models on it. The problem, as I see it, is that the traffic to the web is in precipitous decline as Google referrals go into decline. How do you fix that problem so that everyone is incentivized to keep building on the web? I don’t know, honestly.
May 24, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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One could hope this would be a great liberation but I'm not keeping my hopes up...
So the last thing that I want to say before handing things back over to Satya is to just sort of press on these two points about why like open is so important here. So you know it is unbelievable what can happen in the world when simple components and simple protocols that are composable with one another are out there, exposed to the full scrutiny and creativity of every developer in the world who wants to participate or who has an idea.
May 24, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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The joke, ofc, is that if you tried to code your own private-use agent (w/o or before LLMs), you'd have to jump through hoops to get it through the anti-scraping hurdles websites implement. Simply curl-ing the title of a webpage to automatically insert a link in your editor needs some massaging.
The thing that is super important if you think about what an open-agentic web could be, is you need agents to be able to take actions on your behalf, and one of the really important things about agents being able to take actions on your behalf is they have to be plumbed up to the greater world. So you need protocols, things like MCP and A2A and things that likely are going to be emerging over the coming year that will help connect in an open, reliable, interoperable way the agents that you are writing and agents that are being used so actively now by hundreds of millions of people to be able to go access content, to access services, to take action on behalf of users in fulfilling the tasks that have been delegated to them.
May 24, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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This feels so alien to me
Note Seufert’s two points: walled gardens like social networks are both more attractive to most users
May 24, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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then you get a bigger and harder problem, even more unfixable. Very weird conclusion.

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May 15, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Not only that but having spent 4(?) mo on the previous structure and offered a ‘concession’, he will be in a better position to force the thing through when the deadline for the restructuring given for the capital raise looms.

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So, strange as it sounds, this could turn out to be an even more clever way for Sam and profit-motivated investors to get what they wanted. Profit caps would be gone and profit-motivated investors would have much more influence. And all the while Sam and OpenAI would be able to frame it as if nothing is changing and the non-profit has retained the same control today they had yesterday!
May 9, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Good read (the whole series is interesting)

www.quantamagazine.org/what-happens...
The results of the experiment (opens a new tab) were striking. In the AI-equipped group, productivity soared. Those scientists discovered 44% more materials, obtained 39% more patents, and created 17% more products than the control group. High-achieving scientists — those who had already patented the most materials — came up with new ideas even faster, with the top decile improving their output by 81%, likely because they had the intuition to toss aside the AI’s worst ideas and test only the good ones. But the AI doled out misery along with efficiency. More than 80% of the scientists who used AI said their job satisfaction had gone down. Based on interviews with his subjects, Toner-Rodgers hypothesized that it was because the researchers had lost the most creative portion of their job. “I couldn’t help feeling that much of my education is now worthless,” one of the scientists told him. “This is not what I was trained to do.” Her colleague’s unchecked optimism — a kind of fatalism about the power of AI — made Bastos wonder if academics are adopting AI with as much autonomy as they might believe. The tool was being forced on the artists. She had noticed that grants and journal publications come more easily for work that uses AI. She wondered: What research isn’t getting funded as a consequence? What isn’t getting published? She has seen a subtle creep in the way people rely on AI-powered literature reviews without checking the individual citations. In the future, what might prevent people from using AI to rate papers for publication, or to decide who gets funding? “I just think this acceleration of the curve is going to make everything worse,” Bastos told me.
May 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Useful reading re: MSTR and its capital raising
www.ft.com/content/d5ba...
www.ft.com/content/2098...
www.ft.com/content/685c...
www.ft.com/content/b783...
www.ft.com/content/e25e...
www.ft.com/content/7385...
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May 3, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Truly ridiculous
Lining Up, a row of 10 cast bronze sculptures of everyday people by the late Taiwanese artist Ju Ming, had stood outside the Cultural Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui for years before the Leisure and Cultural Services Department began its maintenance work on the installation. Two of the figures are dressed in yellow raincoats and a third carries an umbrella in the same colour. In Hong Kong, the colour is associated with anti-government protesters. The department enclosed the sculptures with hoarding in April last year. A repeating photo of the work had been wrapped around the boards. But at some point in May last year, the department inserted grey panels covering each photo at the spot where they show the two sculptures in the line-up dressed in yellow raincoats.
May 2, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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You can always count on META to be mendacious tools.

From arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Both companies criticized the fines. Meta alleged that the EC is "unfairly restricting personalized advertising" and that "forcing us to change our business model effectively imposes a multi-billion-dollar tariff on Meta while requiring us to offer an inferior service." "The European Commission is attempting to handicap successful American businesses while allowing Chinese and European companies to operate under different standards," Meta Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan said.
April 24, 2025 at 1:40 AM