Is Marc Andreesen actually a conversational LLM walking around in a robot body?

It would explain a LOT.

Based.

I hope this is not an attempt to solve the budget issues at Mun. 🙂

Linus Torvalds being unfathomably based

Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

Saw Watson give a lecture in 2001 and he managed to spend an astonishing proportion of it complaining about women

When is it ok to kill people? When you can pay billions to make it all go away of course. There is no justice in corporate negligence.

@gavinverhey.bsky.social I know you are not resp, but maybe you have the ear of someone who is. The current situation with SL is driving me (and prob others) away from MTG. Today's drop is the kind of lair any player would want, but it is gone before I finish work. Manufactured scarcity sucks.

Go Bills! 😀

Updating my LEGO White House

This is just podcasters shuffling the same $5 between them via Patreon except that someone shoved the decimal point about a dozen places to the right

This is definitely an interesting way to kick off cybersecurity month. Not the one I would have chosen.

Hypothetical: People would appreciate Wi-Fi and Bluetooth more if devices made a characteristic screeching sound on connection.

Imagine being able to diagnose why your headphones weren't pairing just through the tone of a failed connection...

Dial-up modems had the right idea.

Thank you! Hope you find all of your coffee wants in Atlanta this weekend. And thanks for Coffee with Serge, it is a delight.

@sergeyager.bsky.social Do you have any coffee suggestions for Manhattan? Traveling there with the family in a couple weeks and my wife and I were wondering if you had found the good spots?

UN report finds United Nations reports are not widely read A United Nations report seeking ways to improve efficiency and cut costs has revealed: U.N. reports are not widely read.

TLDR

I think the toilet is my favorite part of this weird AI.

World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990 World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.

Every TERF is like 'birds and bees, it's easy, folks' and (almost) every scientist actually working on questions of sex is like 'oof guys, what can I tell you, I have been working on this question for 52 years, and frankly, I know less and less every year' theconversation.com/world-athlet...

🤔

There isn't a single scenario where I would take Vegas over that. Enjoy!

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper. She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.

t.co/JXeTALBPds

There’s something extra disturbing about these stories because it’s never that the other students are upset or express outrage. The other kids know and agree and cheer, and then it’s the responsible adults that take it upon themselves to say “you promised not to bring up the murdered children”

Image of a screenshot of news headline, saying, "WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook Forced Consent & Consent Bypass / 16 June 2025 Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

It's the never ending hype cycle. Honestly it is tiring and imho detrimental to the game.

Your reputation is the best resume.

Y'all, I found it: The single greatest post EVER

New AI test can predict which men will benefit from prostate cancer drug Artificial intelligence tool determines best candidates to take abiraterone, which can halve risk of death from disease

AI applying a specialist algorithm to a selected dataset, designed for a specific, technical purpose, with the results validated and the system refined by human experts. Doesn't require the wholesale theft of creators' copyright intellectual property at any stage.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

A Canadian multi-province study of COVID-19 vaccine coverage along area-level social determinants in 2021

Not sure we realize the role education played in vaccination and pandemic outcomes. Canada's high education level helped us weather vax disinformation.
"education was the strongest area-level predictor of vaccination and booster uptake after controlling for age"
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

I get that every outlet is struggling and clicks equals ad revenue which helps but goddamn we really, really need to stop doing these kinds of articles. Please.