Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail.

I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"AI technology appears to outperform humans. But a closer look reveals that these games are rigged. The competitions do not actually ask machines to perform human tasks; it’s more accurate to say that they ask humans to behave in machine-like ways as they perform lifeless simulacra of human tasks."

An urbanist treat seeing @nerd4cities.bsky.social and @thewaroncars.bsky.social last night!

Where was Gondor when the TikTok fell??

AWS Lambda functions have an incredible opportunity to rebrand as agents

me when any program's AI assistant asks me if I want help writing:

🎉🚲 Happy congestion pricing Sunday! 🚇🌿

Congestion pricing cameras officially went live at midnight.

Today, we’re celebrating progress — safer streets, better transit, and cleaner air for all New Yorkers.

Together we're building a city that works for everyone.

Wrote about the intractable pressure to perform our professional identities online, even when we don't wanna
thewalrus.ca/bluesky-is-t...

The underlying assumption is that a person’s writing style is something to be divined only from what they’ve done in the past, rather than an evolving process that changes as you change as a person who experiences the world.

Some news: amid rapid growth and some over-enforcement of its community guidelines, Bluesky trust and safety chief @aaron.bsky.team tells me the company will quadruple the size of its content moderation team www.platformer.news/bluesky-grow...

Yup. Writing is thinking. So if you write a shitty first draft, you did some thinking and are on your way! If you got “AI” to write the draft, you haven’t thought AND now you’re trying to fix up what some non-thinking robot “thought.” You just put yourself 30 yards behind the starting line.

In case anyone is looking for work:

"🙏🏿Lord please grant me the confidence to deny a brilliant woman professor and researcher tenure track, demote her, push her out of my school, to be the adversity that she had to overcome in life... and when she overcomes me and wins the Nobel prize, to roll in like I did something. Amen!"

"Microsoft increased worldwide water consumption by a whopping 34%—up to almost 1.7 billion gallons annually—last year, which … is most likely due to increased AI training. That's dwarfed by Google, which used 5.6 billion gallons last year, a 20% jump.” futurism.com/critics-micr...

"The Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general today sued Amazon.com, Inc. alleging that the online retail and technology company is a monopolist that uses a set of interlocking anticompetitive and unfair strategies to illegally maintain its monopoly power."
www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

"It reads 'The Doors of Durin — Lord of Moria, which is still invite-only; speak your invite code and enter."