So many people's starting point to coding was "I just wanted to customize my MySpace page".

If you make it worth learning, people learn.

"In one post, Polymarket implied that Zohran Mamdani, then running to be New York City’s mayor, would win the election with the help of rigged ballots where his name appeared multiple times, contributing to a widespread and misleading conspiracy theory that he was cheating."

There was a time and place for the "stay at 30,000 feet" level managers and MBA programs were great at churning them out... but these people are the least capable of producing the most important LLM accelerator: context

I would also argue it takes a specific type of manager to not feel this.

"We need to see this problem at a 5,000 foot level" managers = in for a massive world of hurt

"We need to be close to the work to help them answer questions / lead." = in for a massive advantage

And the government funding of 12 red states

“Murder is coming to AI. But not to Claude.”

The US produces way way way too much dairy and a big reason it's in our schools is because it subsidizes the industry. You can copy and paste that to all kinds of agribusiness in the US. That who portion of the economy exists on government handouts.

Appreciate the phrasing "closest one to a business model" because it isn't sustainable yet, but at least they have product-market fit.

outside of Google, this company (Anthropic) might be the only closed LLM of its size where we can say that.

Universally absent from their writeups: infosec and code maintenance.

BREAKING: The UK Government is working with Canada and Australia to launch a coordinated ban on X, per the Telegraph

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

I love a good UI rant, and this one brought receipts

Screenshot: "This announcement is more than just a headline—it's validation of our pioneering work with General AI Agents."

Gang please don't use ChatGPT to write your acquisition announcement manus.im/blog/manus-j...

Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 16-color EGA #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required. Thanks to software preservation, it's still crackling on the Internet Archive.

✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️
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The fediverse is on maintenance mode Threads still supports federation with other apps like Mastodon, but Hayes was clear that it’s not a top priority for the current roadmap. “It’s something that we’re supporting, it’s something that we’re maintaining, but it’s not the thing that we’re talking about that’s gonna help the app break out,” he said. “As someone who has built a zillion consumer products, it’s just really hard to keep these divergent platforms and products consistent on the same protocol over time,” he explained. “There’s always going to be the trade-offs that these companies are thinking about of how much energy do I want to pour into compatibility with this ecosystem versus iterating on this thing I’m building and seeing what’s valuable.”

Ah that's crazy, it's almost like Threads picked up the decentralization messaging when they launched so they could neutralize the Atmosphere

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so once again just random ass people did the job of the FBI because they're categorically inept.

This isn't going to end how he wants it to end.

This isn't to say that a product can't evolve and add features. My favorite products have done that. (WordPress, Notion, hell Apple Notes.) .. But those features are asked for from its users and the product gets better.

Keep hearing that Mark cares about his legacy. Without really making something?

How else are you going to be profitable with your coveted demographic flees the platform and regulatory capture is your primary growth vehicle?

Terrible all around. Add AI slop to that and it's going to speed run people off that platform.

A person born in 2004 is now old enough to drink in the U.S., and 2004 is also the last time Mark built a successful product.

That's a looong time ago.

If your legacy is creating a product 20 years ago and only growing through M&A, enshittification is the natural evolution, right?

DeepSeek is Using Banned Nvidia Chips in Race to Build Next Model DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup, has been developing its next major model using several thousand Nvidia’s state-of-the-art Blackwell chips which the U.S. has forbidden from being exported to China, a...

I think it's funny that the same incompetent knobs who tell us government can't work and are hacking away at its foundations with chainsaws for fun somehow think they can keep a lid on this

OpenAI Developing ‘Garlic’ Model to Counter Google’s Recent Gains OpenAI, which in recent weeks has appeared to fall behind Google in AI development, is fighting back with a new large language model codenamed Garlic.Last week, OpenAI’s chief research officer Mark Ch...

If you can't beat them, strategically leak that you are secretly beating them: www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

This will be a taxpayer funded commercial for Claude Code.

Judges and bar associations certainly shouldn’t be allowing AI use if qualified human lawyers aren’t checking the results.

And with over 500 cases of AI misuse, clearly continuing legal education is failing on this issue.

Chatbots Are Sparking a New Era of Student Surveillance As US educators embrace AI in the classroom, firms are selling software to flag mentions of self-harm, raising concerns over privacy and control.

Student surveillance companies cash in on the ai grift by promising schools and parents their tech will keep students safe from the harms of ai.

And by "off-balance-sheet debt," they mean accounting fraud

Really the most Meta-like tactic on display from OAI lately is to release products that have obvious harms and say "oops!" two days later and add some minor safeguard

My comment on @theverge.com. Today, AI-controlled web browsers introduce security and privacy risks. It's also kind of a step backwards, are we returning to text-based browsers (also walled gardens, competition protection, anybody)? ;) www.theverge.com/report/81008...