if i said this id be getting a polite knock on my door about my posts

Seeing posts saying stuff like "AI is like a demon" is a reminder how a lot of US leftism is just evangelical Christianity clumsily recycled to focus on a different target

Part of it I think is the same root as a lot of boomer nostalgia comes from. "This new technology which upends everything and is made by big corporations is Bad. Unlike the technology from when I was a youth, which also upended everything and was made by big corporations, but is Good"

Same goes for the Internet. Microsoft went very hard on promoting it with bundling MSN and Internet Explorer with Windows
and no way to remove it. They lost a very famous court case over it!

"There was no hard sell of mobile phones in the 90s"

Literally the 1990s:

Seen a lot of this performative ignorance lately and it's simply not true. 1999 was literally when the entry-level price of a mobile dropped and everyone under 25 was now in the target market. We all got marketed to very hard

Famous ex-footballer turned online media mogul buys channel belonging to a fan best known for his meltdowns and Partridgisms... not exactly the future of quality coverage (imo)

"Gary Neville buys Mark Goldbridge's media channels" might be my "It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, Rome must burn" trigger moment

Lazy writing this episode - as if the pub the grassing landlady runs would realistically be called The Rat Inn

next on JD Vance's world tour he will be stopping by a Spurs training session

Or maybe it's because I find "Silicon Valley venture capitalist turns out to maybe not have a great relationship with the truth" to be a pretty dull revelation. Especially when his possible incapability of understanding the risks of his tech is downplayed and relegated to a couple of paras

Like, is he just a careless huckster who overinflates his businesses' capabilities or are they actually making something more deadly than nuclear weapons? It doesn't gel for me

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

Read this on a flight tonight, and struck by how the authors try meshing two narratives - Altman's (apparent) unreliable relationship with the truth, and OpenAI drifting out of touch with its original mission of safety - and don't really nail either

Was lucky enough to witness a total eclipse two years ago in Dallas and I still rave on about it if the topic even tangentially comes up in conversation today

Tired: Milkshake duck
Wired: Crypto scam tortoise

I'm sorry but we can't be calling storms names like Dave

My first ever job was in a bookshop in the mid 90s and I remember this book being very popular in the humour/gift section

(Also I think from memory he's very definitely alive in some of the uses)

These people are just plain lying, both to us and themselves, and it's about time it gets called out as that rather than endless sympathetic pieces

Sadly the idea just didn't have legs

French and Arabic are the two best commentary languages, nothing else stands up to them

Accidentally watched it when I was about seven or so, didn't sleep properly for like a week after. Absolute nightmare fuel

Lovejoy to join Marvel universe THE Walt Disney Company has acquired the rights to feature roguish antiques dealer Lovejoy in its Marvel Avengers franchise.

One step closer to this www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-en...

Many things make me feel irredeemably old but none more so than seeing Theo Walcott with a salt & pepper beard

An update on our model deprecation commitments for Claude Opus 3 Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

This post honestly reads like a piece of epistolary science fiction, like some apocrypha from the world of mmacevedo

Eat the book, eat the book, eat the book...

The actual post announcing Anthropic's product is much more nuanced than just vibecoding. Also it's worth noting that IBM (big in the same space) also use LLMs extensively in modernising COBOL as well

claude.com/blog/how-ai-...

IBM trains its LLM to read, rewrite COBOL apps The new watsonx Code Assistant for Z eases mainframe modernization, using generative AI to analyze, refactor, transform and validate legacy applications.

Not as ominous a story as it sounds, IBM have been themselves using LLMs to translate COBOL since 2023 www.ciodive.com/news/IBM-COB...

Proper sickos.jpeg day this, absolute scenes

Davina McCall outside Mandelson's house

Also I am sure they have deliberately infringed the BBC's copyright here so when the inevitable takedown happens they can claim they are being silenced