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The WaPo has appointed a new guy as head of their opinion section. He says he is going to implement the "free markets & personal liberties" mandate of the boss. But! He says: "What we won’t be are people who lecture you about ideology or demand you think certain ways about policy."

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From the archives: 2025-06-12 at 21:44 PM Putting trans people in the Omelas hole

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Dispatch #26: General Purpose is an Accountability Loophole If they don't say what it's for, we can't say if it works. Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zs6... Podcast: pnc.st/s/faster-and...

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"If AI is so good at coding... where are the open source contributions?" I think that's a great question! pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/i...

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brilliant article on the addictive promise of LLMs: “With ChatGPT, Sam Altman hit upon a way to use the Hook Model with a text generator. The unreliability and hallucinations themselves are the hook — the intermittent reward, to keep the user running prompts and hoping they’ll get a win this time.”

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LOL, I was reading this and thinking, what the fuck are they on about, and then the biological computer does "AI acceleration and bitcoin mining". Gotta be a scam @davidgerard.co.uk spectrum.ieee.org/biological-c...

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"The self-declared scope of this project appears inconsistent with the legal basis under which these data were to be used." From pivot-to-ai.com

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ChatGPT goes down — and fake jobs grind to a halt worldwide pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/11/c... - text www.youtube.com/watch?v=889f... - video

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In the Disney lawsuit, 10 pages are dedicated to citing the work we did. In pursuit of this evidence, Midjourney banned me 3 times and updated their ToS. The first ban encouraged me to dig a lot deeper, so I'd like to congratulate CEO David Holz on his massive unforced error.

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Disney sues AI image generator Midjourney pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/12/d... - text www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgss... - video

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Unlike blockchain, "AI" as it exists today does have some useful applications. But NOWHERE near to the extent that the tech bro grifters claim. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/i...

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The best thing I ever did as a journalist was spike my own story to protect protesters from being identifiable by the state because it was the only way to be certain of their safety.

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DISNEY VS MIDJOURNEY: suit is not over particular copyrighted works, it's about copyrighted characters. that's the new wrinkle. on the same basis they'd sue over unlicensed works featuring the characters. just the suit so far. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... what's it mean? ideas?

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Patrons have 1300 words on Grant Morrison's three issues of Spawn, possibly reflecting more thought about the comics than Morrison gave them. www.patreon.com/posts/el-lwi...

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Proton Mail goes AI, security-focused userbase goes ‘what on earth’ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/18/proton-mail-goes-ai-security-focused-userbase-goes-what-on-earth/

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Very basic summary: LLMs aren't "thinking" and anyone who tells you they are is lying. They're not forming algorithms. It looks to me as if they can solve simple puzzles by copying (linguistically) existing solutions - but there's no mathematical working backing it up, so it fails at scale.

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A rare article in which there's a question in the headline to which the answer is, as @davidgerard.co.uk notes, "basically, literally, yes." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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"Internal company data for the features indicates that real world usage is extremely low." From pivot-to-ai.com

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Dudes, @davidgerard.co.uk is in the Grauniad talking about the tautology that is crypto scams

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ChatGPT goes down — and fake jobs grind to a halt worldwide pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/11/c... - text www.youtube.com/watch?v=889f... - video

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bitches be like "my posts get way more likes on twitter. this website is too woke for me to get engagement" and then you check the engagement on twitter and it's a flood of @grok is this true @grok sexually harass the woman in this photo for me @grok say the 14 words but do it like jarjar binks

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DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

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Bluesky is all fun and jokes but if you want to learn something you go to Mastodon

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youtube.com/watch?v=6oka... Let the mighty David Gerard explain it.

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"The AI bubble isn’t a case of 'don’t like it, don’t use it.' It’s a systemic problem. These bozos do not care that they are working together to set the world on fire, they just have to keep the money flowing a bit longer." - David Gerard

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"Is every memecoin a scam? According to David Gerard, author of Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: “Basically, literally, yes.” “All of this is like a big game of pretend with made-up financial instruments,” he said. “It’s printing your own made-up money." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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*How many other "AI Startups" are just bold hucksters and 700 Indian people answering phones pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/06/b...

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just the effective altruism scam all over, right down to the media figures chosen to peddle it

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