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jerome.blue
I make some stuff with code + LLMs / indiehacking Interested in tech, modern propaganda, and cleaning up information spaces
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Hippies are mean people pretending to be nice Goths are nice people pretending to be mean I don't know who said it first, but I think about this a lot. It's also true about surfers and punks.

MAGA accounts on facebook have gone absolutely horseshoe over Iran. "No more foreign wars" was a major part of Trump's appeal to his base, and they are really having a day over this. Obviously, Israel is the Villain, not Trump

16 Billion passwords leaked for basically evey major service. Time to change all yours 😖 www.forbes.com/sites/daveyw...

Big report out on climate misinfo www.ipie.info/research/sr2... The TL;DR - Professional campaigns of lies pushed online have been catastrophic in combating climate change. Big oil, petrostates employing PR firms and even more sinister operations have driven the debate for years

Plagarism is totally fine as long as what your are plagarising isn't publically available btw

It's incredible how one of the worlds most prolific liars is also, actually, one of the most honest politicians.

A short essay I wrote on LLMs and reasoning. The kicker; Obscure source plagaisim is NOT creativity. The burden of proof is on OpenAI to show they reason, not on Apple to disprove it. Until then, It's a 1tn cargo cult. medium.com/@jerome_g2/o...

If the strategy was a limited strike to shift the story away from 2 million starving people being bombed in tents. Mission accomplished.

It's actually embarrassing how effective this is for my ADHD millennial-rotted brain I hate that it works

At this point the Alignment Problem, whether advanced AI will act in our interests, is basically marketing. The Containment Problem is the real issue. What happens as enshittified VC-backed half baked implementations infest themselves everywhere. Basically capitalism.

It should be very clear; Training models falls under fair use, but the commercial application of those models doesn't. ML is a kind of data compression. Kind of like making an MP3 from a CD. Of course you can do it, but if you later want to sell the MP3 then you owe royalties.

It's actually cute how the story is, after 15 years of austerity and brexit, suddenly things have become insufferable for rich. Nothing has changed. There's no millionaire exodus. There's just sour losers who have to spend loads of money lobbying different people. taxjustice.net/press/millio...

In literary criticism, an idiot plot is one which is "kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that everybody involved is an idiot", and where the story would quickly end, or possibly not even happen, if this were not the case. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot_p...

Precious Plastics needs support to continue. Single-use plastic needs to be banned. Failing that, genuinely recycling it into objects of more permanent value is the best thing we can do with it. Previous Plastics is one of the best initiatives doing it www.preciousplastic.com/starterkits/...

Using MP3/4 for non media data is actually genius github.com/Olow304/memvid

lol, lmao

Asking artists for permission would kill the bootleg DVD industry

You wouldn't steal a car, would you Nick? Would you? 🥺

Someone has made a DB of times LLM halucinations have been presented in legal cases It's a wall of shame in legalese www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...

One frustrating thing about life is that sitting at the top of Mt Stupid and flipping coins is a strategy that will, statistically, produce a bunch of winners. Then we all have to listen to them forever And read books about their habits and bullshit

Did Silicon Valley Reinvent the Bus Again? Silicon Valley Did Reinvent the Bus Again. Again www.theverge.com/news/665483/...

It's either an absolute masterpiece of social commentary Or the deranged breakdown of the most divorced dad in history Kanye, we gotta know...

The most divorced dad of all time has long been a two horse race between Graham Linehan and Laurence Fox But Kanye West outta nowhere... GOAT

It's a golden age for learning to hack for sure