Oh, that hit so much...

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

More details about the Bayesian Workflow book and case studies now available on the book web site avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... (but you still need to wait a bit for the book)

Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models Gemma 4: our most intelligent open models to date, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows.

We've just released Gemma 4!!

Very strong models, small for you to run on your own hardware!!

AMA

blog.google/innovation-a...

What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collectiv...

"We are beset with the ideology of maximising having while minimising doing. This has long been capitalism’s narrative and is now also technology’s. It is an ideology that steals from us relationships and connections and eventually our selves."

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

This website shows you how much money is being siphoned off from artists by AI slop on Spotify.

Over $2.5 million lost by real people - and that's just from 50 AI ‘artists’.

Slop dilutes royalties. A major reason AI training on copyrighted work should not be considered fair use.

sloptracker.org

In addition, no corner 3s.

Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.

New: Drones are redrawing the map of war in Ukraine.

Relentless surveillance has pushed the battlefield 20km beyond the front, in both directions. Supplies arrive by drone; the wounded leave by robot.

This is the “kill zone” — and the future of warfare.

👉 ft.com/kill-zone

Four years after Russia's invasion, Ukraine has become a proving ground for new technologies of death as relentless drone surveillance extends the battlefield ever further beyond the front.

Explore the full visual investigation into Ukraine’s growing "kill zone" in #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/PXZ4cQJ

Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com
newsletter (1/2)

How technology reshapes our minds, with a specific look at the attention economy and its impact on our ability to focus:
as.ft.com/r/3a187ac4-6...

Email blunder exposes $90bn Russian oil smuggling ring Apparent network of companies using same server includes little-known group that has become country’s largest oil exporter

one of the world's largest smuggling networks has accidentally exposed itself because of a stupid e-mail configuration blunder, which has revealed around 50 apparently unconnected companies are all sharing back-office functions: www.ft.com/content/4310...

Ще повярвам, че Крум Зарков е тръгнал да прави Модерна лява, когато:
- БСП се покае за престъпленията на БКП
- Подкрепи ясно Украйна и заклейми руската агресия
- Подкрепи махането на всички комунистически паметници (или поне не пречи)
- Декларира ясна подкрепа за ЕС и еврото.
Това е.

What if this wave of AI tools enables us to regain control over our data and replicate the majority of SaaS services we pay for today. We've already solved the distribution problem and the open source community has the ability democratize the tech stack.

That would be one hell of a power shift.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Благодаря! Имаха АМА в реддит вчера и говориха малко по същата интересна тема.

David Greybeard, a wild chimpanzee, gets a handout of bananas from author Goodall, who studies the apes under a National Geographic Society grant. This scene near her camp represents a triumph for Miss Goodall; at first the animals fled if she came within 500 yards. Knapsack holds camera and notebook. She carries a whistle in her pocket to summon searchers in case of accident in the rugged Tanganyika hills.

Had never read Jane Goodall's original 1963 article in Nat Geo on the wild chimpanzees in Tanzania until now. It's a wonderful blend of science and journalism, and well worth your time.

www.nationalgeographic.com/pdf/jane-goo...

EU–INC is the single best thing Europe could do to catch-up in the AI race

A simple unified pan-European startup structure, with modern employee ownership and simple access to capital, able to tap into Europe’s full talent pool.

‼️ but it’s at high risk of not seeing the light of day. You can help👇

A cool use of AI in newsgathering, this. US companies are talking more and more about the risks rather than the benefits of AI in their SEC filings (while still being super-optimistic in earnings calls). By @melissahei.bsky.social @chriscook.news & @claradoodle.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/e93e...

Andor would want you to cancel your Disney+ subscription.

It's the least you can do for the Rebellion.

An update on this: I've confirmed that "gpt-realtime has a mix of data specific enough to itself that its not really 4o or 5" - see quote from OpenAI at bottom of simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/1/i...

I was interviewed in the Financial Times about "the perils of vibe coding", and it made it into the print edition! simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/29/...

Big news - Anthropic agrees to settle with authors in copyright lawsuit.

As tech bros like to say, ‘we’re only just getting started’.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Leaked Memo: Anthropic CEO Says the Company Will Pursue Gulf State Investments After All “Unfortunately, I think ‘No bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on,” wrote Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in a note to staff obtained by WIRE...

“It’s perfectly consistent to advocate for a policy of ‘No one is allowed to do x,’ but then if that policy fails and everyone else does X, to reluctantly do x ourselves.” 🤔

X=help dictators

www.wired.com/story/anthro...

A link to the Bulgarian model, in case somebody is interested - huggingface.co/HPLT/hplt_be...

That was my theory going into the piece, but it turned out to be not only false but seemingly the opposite: the biggest employment gains young male grads have made in the past year have been in software and engineering jobs

Hah, missed this that other say

Elon: "It is surprisingly hard to avoid both woke libtard cuck and mechahitler!"

(Narrator: this was not surprising at all)

That's fun!