Andrew Wearring
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
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So, we broke into your house and stole all your stuff, please give us money.
“OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies.” After losing more than $13 billion this year, OpenAI officials are angling for a bailout. From @ryanlcooper.com:
trib.al/CUazMCQ
trib.al/CUazMCQ
OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to: Uncle Sam.
trib.al
November 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
So, we broke into your house and stole all your stuff, please give us money.
I promise I'm not getting back on the Religital bandwagon, but couldn't not share this
An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I promise I'm not getting back on the Religital bandwagon, but couldn't not share this
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it feels so good to write again, to play games again, after the worst year of my life. i picked a ridiculous game (that i love!) to relearn controller skills with, but taking my time makes it possible
aftermath.site/silksong-hol...
aftermath.site/silksong-hol...
A Condition Took Away The Use Of My Hands. Silksong Helped Me Rehab Them - Aftermath
Last year I woke up with the hands of an alien. Every item I grasped fell to the floor like so many grains of sand; every doorknob became a lock I couldn’t open. It didn’t hurt, but hundreds of dollar...
aftermath.site
September 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
it feels so good to write again, to play games again, after the worst year of my life. i picked a ridiculous game (that i love!) to relearn controller skills with, but taking my time makes it possible
aftermath.site/silksong-hol...
aftermath.site/silksong-hol...
When you see someone living your life 😭
There is an account on TikTok that is only some dude dressed as, and jogging like, Jessica Fletcher from Murder She Wrote www.tiktok.com/@solvealonga...
Solve Along A Murder She Wrote's Creator Profile
www.tiktok.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
When you see someone living your life 😭
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chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
From the OpenAI community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the OpenAI community
www.reddit.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
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This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.
The AI boom has created a new type of work: fixing botched AI. Designers are being hired to remake wonky AI art. Writers are asked to make ChatGPT’s writing sound more human. Even software developers are tasked with fixing buggy vibe coding.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy
In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what artificial intelligence gets wrong.
www.nbcnews.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.
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an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening
August 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening
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#MIFF2025
Shocking level of CO2 in Hoyts 6 as we await the start of ICE TOWER (good is 600-800 ppm)
Helpful MIFF staff have gone to see if Hoyts can do anything about the ventilation
So much rebreathed air in here!
#MaskOn #CleanIndoorAir
Shocking level of CO2 in Hoyts 6 as we await the start of ICE TOWER (good is 600-800 ppm)
Helpful MIFF staff have gone to see if Hoyts can do anything about the ventilation
So much rebreathed air in here!
#MaskOn #CleanIndoorAir
August 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
#MIFF2025
Shocking level of CO2 in Hoyts 6 as we await the start of ICE TOWER (good is 600-800 ppm)
Helpful MIFF staff have gone to see if Hoyts can do anything about the ventilation
So much rebreathed air in here!
#MaskOn #CleanIndoorAir
Shocking level of CO2 in Hoyts 6 as we await the start of ICE TOWER (good is 600-800 ppm)
Helpful MIFF staff have gone to see if Hoyts can do anything about the ventilation
So much rebreathed air in here!
#MaskOn #CleanIndoorAir
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This policy will allow the government to purge waitlists, decrease “reported” homelessness figures, and allow them to spin the narrative that Queensland is managing the public housing crisis. The opposite is true.
Queensland’s 'anti-social' housing policy is a disgraceful attack on homeless people
www.crikey.com.au
August 24, 2025 at 4:51 AM
This policy will allow the government to purge waitlists, decrease “reported” homelessness figures, and allow them to spin the narrative that Queensland is managing the public housing crisis. The opposite is true.
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I had such an great conversation with three remarkable thinkers. Thank you to Sami Shah for asking some blisteringly difficult questions about the nature of God, whether AI can replace religious leaders, and if this technology signals the biblical end times. #AI
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Is God in the machine? - ABC listen
Can we know God through machines?
Can machines know God?
And could machines, one day, become godlike themselves?
While AI is still in its infancy, it is evolving at lightning speed, and ingraini...
www.abc.net.au
August 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I had such an great conversation with three remarkable thinkers. Thank you to Sami Shah for asking some blisteringly difficult questions about the nature of God, whether AI can replace religious leaders, and if this technology signals the biblical end times. #AI
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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I know a *lot* of researchers who use Otter for transcription services. Hmmm...
"A federal lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses Otter.ai of 'deceptively and surreptitiously' recording private conversations that the tech company allegedly uses to train its popular transcription service without permission from the people using it."
Class-action suit claims Otter AI secretly records private work conversations
The suit claims the popular service may be recording and processing millions of users' private conversations without consent.
www.npr.org
August 16, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I know a *lot* of researchers who use Otter for transcription services. Hmmm...
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A playable species book for d&d featuring NZ Aotearoa inspirations! So fun!
Lineages of the Long White Cloud isn't just about playable species (though it is mainly about that). We also addmonsters based on native wildlife, like the kākāpō-bear.
A much friendlier take on owlbears, this little guys just wants to eat stuff and be friends
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
A much friendlier take on owlbears, this little guys just wants to eat stuff and be friends
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
August 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
A playable species book for d&d featuring NZ Aotearoa inspirations! So fun!
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I studied Buddhism intensely for a decade, and nothing immediately clears my mind of all grasping to thoughts or perceptions like someone trying to tell me the rules to a board game.
August 6, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I studied Buddhism intensely for a decade, and nothing immediately clears my mind of all grasping to thoughts or perceptions like someone trying to tell me the rules to a board game.
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Buddhist teachings caution against creating AI avatars of deceased loved ones.
The practice may deepen our attachment to illusions and interfere with healthy grieving processes.
theconversation.com/it-is-becomi...
The practice may deepen our attachment to illusions and interfere with healthy grieving processes.
theconversation.com/it-is-becomi...
It is becoming easier to create AI avatars of the deceased − here is why Buddhism would caution against it
A scholar of Buddhism explains why creating a digital afterlife for loved ones may cause us to miss critical moments for genuine transformation and connection.
theconversation.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Buddhist teachings caution against creating AI avatars of deceased loved ones.
The practice may deepen our attachment to illusions and interfere with healthy grieving processes.
theconversation.com/it-is-becomi...
The practice may deepen our attachment to illusions and interfere with healthy grieving processes.
theconversation.com/it-is-becomi...
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"The Greater London Authority has told developers that new housing projects in West London could be banned till 2035, because data centers have taken all the electricity capacity." www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo... Hurray for "A.I."
Report: Home building to halt in West London, due to data center power demands
All the electricity capacity is already used up, GLA tells developers
www.datacenterdynamics.com
July 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
"The Greater London Authority has told developers that new housing projects in West London could be banned till 2035, because data centers have taken all the electricity capacity." www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo... Hurray for "A.I."
Futurama (1937)
Workers at the Central Social Institution of Prague, Czechoslovakia, April 26th, 1937
July 20, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Futurama (1937)
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NEW FROM ME: new research has found millions of ex's of personal info, including credit cards, passports, résumés, birth certificates etc in 1 of the largest web-scraped datasets used to train image generation AI models.
It's a major privacy violation.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1...
It's a major privacy violation.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1...
A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data
Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models.
www.technologyreview.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
NEW FROM ME: new research has found millions of ex's of personal info, including credit cards, passports, résumés, birth certificates etc in 1 of the largest web-scraped datasets used to train image generation AI models.
It's a major privacy violation.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1...
It's a major privacy violation.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1...
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Do you work in STEM? Want to engage with the next generation of scientists? Become a pen-pal! Our office just shared this around, and I've signed up. Maybe you'd like to too.
For STEM Professionals - Letters to a Pre-Scientist
Pen Pal Program Overview We encourage STEM Professionals of all kinds to get involved with Letters to a Pre-Scientist! STEM professionals send and receive letters throughout a school year from ...
prescientist.org
July 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Do you work in STEM? Want to engage with the next generation of scientists? Become a pen-pal! Our office just shared this around, and I've signed up. Maybe you'd like to too.
I haven't seen much discussion in the media about how new government policies will affect Australians of all ages on platforms beyond just the teen social media ban. They will need to verify your age to work out whether you're old enough, too: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
Australia is quietly rolling out age checks for search engines like Google
Just as Australians are adjusting to the idea of having their ages checked for social media, age assurance rules are being applied to search engines and many other corners of the internet.
www.abc.net.au
July 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I haven't seen much discussion in the media about how new government policies will affect Australians of all ages on platforms beyond just the teen social media ban. They will need to verify your age to work out whether you're old enough, too: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
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AI slop now making up saccharine Bible verses that do not exist
July 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
AI slop now making up saccharine Bible verses that do not exist
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Very proud to have co-authored this blog post with Jo Hemlatha! It looks at how qualitative research methods contribute to open research through participatory methods, interpersonal openness, and linguistic openness. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #openresearch #openscience #qualitative
June 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Very proud to have co-authored this blog post with Jo Hemlatha! It looks at how qualitative research methods contribute to open research through participatory methods, interpersonal openness, and linguistic openness. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #openresearch #openscience #qualitative
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Australian classrooms have worse air quality protections than many pet shelters and greenhouses www.croakey.org/australian-c... #publichealth
Australian classrooms have worse air quality protections than many pet shelters and greenhouses
www.croakey.org
June 19, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Australian classrooms have worse air quality protections than many pet shelters and greenhouses www.croakey.org/australian-c... #publichealth