I heard Ezra Klein is being cancelled over here on Bluesky…

He’s a treasure of civility and pragmatism, ya’ll are the embodiment of the political horseshoe over here, extremism begets extremism.

@viticci.macstories.net @ismh86.net on Connected this week, Ticci mentioned Apple doesn’t have a foundational LLM of their own, but they do! A 3b parameter local model & larger model served via private cloud compute. Not as performant by they exist.

machinelearning.apple.com/research/int...

so my take on zuck rolling back moderation at meta is that he’s right.

moderation at scale is an impossibly utopian ideal and every company that has tried has failed. worse yet it has fuelled polarisation and public distrust of *everything*.

more speech should be the default.

So AGI has been achieved and few people seem to realise it.

Happy holidays!

I remain convinced that my good health is directly attributable to observing the five-second rule.

www.popsci.com/health/five-...

We are not prepared for how weird the next decade is going to get.

No better time to read David Deutsch’s “The Beginning of Infinity”.

blog.google/technology/r...

Bashar al-Assad’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.

We’re entering flu season with bird flu raging among US dairy cattle: ~third of CA herds infected.

The danger is flu viruses have a trick: they can swap segments —one farmworker co-infected by human and avian flu— to cause pandemics.

We may get lucky. I hope so.

🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/o...

Great ad for AirPods Pro hearing aid mode, it’s not often a feature can legitimately be called life changing, but this one qualifies and then some.

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

youtu.be/EvnJhwIwqds?...

Using @openvibe.social to unify Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads timelines is a vibe.

Serious narrative violation here.

Turns out those who say they don’t like AI generated art have trouble identifying it from actual art.

www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-did-yo...

It is so incredibly nice to have a social platform that values links again - a breath of fresh air in the poisoned ecosystem of the creator economy

Started the week with this piece in The Guardian on the rapidly retrearing ice caps and amongst the warmest ocean temperatures ever recorded… https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/26/accelerating-ocean-warming-earth-temperatures-climate-crisis