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"A reality check for people that think full embodied AGI is right around the corner is to ask your dancing humanoid robot to pick up a joystick and learn how to play an obscure video game." - John Carmack docs.google.com/document/d/1...

@bransonreese.bsky.social I have to ask: is the "Random" button purposely wired up to only return the Dracula comic?

@knowledgefight.bsky.social You all still assembling a library? I stumbled across some theater programs from Bohemian Grove at an estate sale I would love to send you all. (They are beautifully bound!)

The party of states' rights, huh guys? www.theverge.com/news/672092/...

These AI comedian videos highlight a really basic fact: the hard part of a stand up comedy video is not in fact the video production!

The team at Harvard's insight and interaction lab says this is due to RL-induced guardrails specific to Chargers fans, but I bet ChatGPT knows what Philadelphians do to robots they don't like. aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-m...

I think the "Favorite" identifying machine is broken.

Google put on an impressive display with Project Astra, Project Mariner, Project Aura, Gemini, Jules, NotebookLM, Beam, Veo 3, Imagen, 2.5 Flash, 2.5 Pro, Deep Research, Deep Think, Agent Mode, AI Mode, Search Live, & Stitch I wonder if AI is getting good at product marketing 🤔

Can you remember the last WWDC where Apple’s reputation among developers was this bad?

brb, opening a bowling alley named, “IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS AND BOOK HERE”

There isn't a metaphor I'm more annoyed by than MCP being like "USB-C"

A good reminder that a paper is a statement, not proof. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mit-...

AI didn't kill StackOverflow. But it sure as hell drove the nail in the coffin: www.dbreunig.com/2025/05/16/s...

OUT: Flouride in our water IN: Everything else. www.theverge.com/news/667349/...

Would wager big money they added a hotfix to the system prompt. See my recent write up on Claude's system prompt to understand how this would work: www.dbreunig.com/2025/05/07/c... This is why no one should use, let alone trust, Grok.

Remember when Apple launched AR/VR goggles?

Axios is now the frontrunner for data viz of the year: www.axios.com/2025/05/14/t...

We need a name for the guilt you feel when you delete an Oxford comma to find the character count.

✅ a16z writes its biggest check ever to Adam Neumann ✅ THE ORB is back, scanning eyes for crypto ✅ Elizabeth Holmes' parter has a blood testing start-up. I'm sure SBF is wire-framing an exchange in prison and Doug Evans is working on a kitchen appliance.

NFT and web3 community managers (in this case: moderators) have started showing up in machine learning and AI discords I’m in, offering their services. Really picked up this week, for whatever reason.