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the wild tale of OpenAI vs. Open AI

AI really is the new bitcoin: Google and Facebook extend coal burning in Omaha

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 20 October 2024

even DHH suggests Mullenweg might wanna cool it

LLMs can’t reason — they just crib reasoning-like steps from their training data

How ChatGPT nearly destroyed my wedding day

the Automattic cult acolyte onboarding guide, enjoy using all our systems whose names are puns on "Matt"

more of Mullenweg alienating his contributor base as hard as possible, for your amusement

“Nice Guy” Matt Mullenweg, CEO of WordPress.com Cries Foul and Threatens Me With Legal Action

Elon’s double nothingburger: robotaxis any year now, bro. And robots, bro. Trust us, bro.

translation: FYIFV

Zoom will let you deepfake yourself for meetings! Surely this cannot go badly wrong

MIT review selling a horrifying dystopia where an AI will monitor your rectum 24/7 and you repair your own fridge using AR glasses and haptics or something

"Leaving tech to do politically meaningful work? It must be because of mental illness"

The Nobel Prize in physics goes to Geoffrey Hinton for his work in computer science. What?

stack your demented relatives like cordwood in the inconsistent matrix simulation

Neoreactionary Networks: Mapping extreme and mainstream Twitter

Want to hear the truth about Automattic, the not-like-the-other-girls company that still thinks it is a startup after 20 years and his founder acts like he invented remote working?

The AI bill Newsom didn’t veto — AI devs must list models’ training data

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 13 October 2024