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at last true progress www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 1 hour ago • 4 comments

Anyone who suggests bringing this technology into the classroom should be tarred and feathered.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Apple: ‘Reasoning’ AIs fail hard if they actually have to think pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/08/a... - text www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSx9... - video

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

hey! mine is 5 mins and it's all me yelling at my phone pivottoai.libsyn.com

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

>looking for new podcast >ask podcaster if it's deep-dives or 5 mins info 55 mins banter >he doesnt understand >pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is deep-dive and what is 5 mins info 55 mins banter >he laughs and says “it’s a good podcast sir” >listen to podcast >5 mins info 55 mins banter

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... On Sunday afternoon as I sat at my laptop I asked myself a tricky question - why do I carry on working?

submitted 6 hours ago • 9 comments

"In the Barn" as first Effective Altruist text

submitted 183 days ago • 1 comment

two great ways to encourage people to ask "do I really need this?" about a software product 1. push the price up 2. make it take up space

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

this is absolutely the correct Yoko Ono www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtdD... I have put it on as suitable background music while i work on my taxes

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

We've now sorted out the domain name stuff, and this can now be found at @500songs.com -- or will be findable there as soon as Bluesky has thoroughly updated its servers. bsky.app/profile/500s...

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

when i got married last month, i made a little joke in my wedding vows about how i fell in love the weekend i had to wash my hair with dish soap five times to get the pepper spray out of it. nobody laughed but hopefully they learned something - dawn really does cut through the oil in OC spray.

submitted 12 hours ago • 33 comments

Because it's simply useful to say things like this out loud, in as many words: he's been suspended for telling the truth.

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

ok, today's vid was fluff because i had to write something and it's taking off like a rocket, 2k views the algo loves me i officially have nfi what works i guess just write and post shit www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSx9...

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

AI coding bot allows prompt injection with a pull request https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/24/ai-coding-bot-allows-prompt-injection-with-a-pull-request/

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Dr Cass is getting sued ashleeee.substack.com/p/hilary-cas...

submitted 17 hours ago • 35 comments

#WhatIf this super intelligence declares that decentralised socialism is the only answer? pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/i...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

"you can just run an LLM at home" is "grandma you should run gentoo -funroll-loops" for brainrot

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

So: let's imagine the AI bubble deflates. The people who want chatbots or LLM APIs have to pay a price that's sustainable, and no longer propped up with venture cash. Has anyone run the numbers on what that price would be?

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

This is an interesting take on AI users: pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/g... Also maybe one more reason why I don't like it, because I hate gambling. Makes my soul feel grubby. Losing is wasteful and winning is only luck.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

"... users very much want to press a button to write those emails that they didn’t want to write and the recipient didn’t want to read." Ah. So ? pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/18/p...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This is all a distraction designed to take your attention away from my podcast and stop you subscribing to my Patreon. All of it. All news ever. The Suez crisis. Jeremy Thorpe and that dog. Brexit. Trump. That time Belgium went two years without a government. All a distraction. Focus, people!

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

Apple: ‘Reasoning’ AIs fail hard if they actually have to think pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/08/a... - text www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSx9... - video

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment