Meredith Whittaker @Mer__edith@mastodon.world @brayd @signalapp We will never weaken encryption, add a backdoor, bow or scrape, etc. We would rather shut down or leave a market. Our position does not change based on jurisdiction.
8:22 PM • February 6, 2025 (UTC)
Opinion | The Left insisted that we all embrace Barack Obama. But now that Republicans have our own African-American president, Elon Musk, they’re back to their typical intolerance. by Hugh Hewitt
— New York Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) 2025-02-05T16:21:46.497Z
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Romain Dillet writing for TechCrunch:
According to security researchers working for Microsoft, the Chinese company behind the R1 reasoning model may have exfiltrated a large amount of data using OpenAI’s API in the fall of 2024. Microsoft, which also happens to be OpenAI’s largest shareholder, notified OpenAI of the suspicious activity.
While anyone can sign up and access OpenAI’s API, the company’s terms of service stipulate that you can’t use the output to train a new AI model.
Jason Koebler writing for 404 Media:
Since they made and deployed a proof-of-concept, Aaron B said their pages have been hit millions of times by internet-scraping bots. On a Hacker News thread, someone claiming to be an AI company CEO said a tarpit like this is easy to avoid; Aaron B told 404 Media “If that’s, true, I’ve several million lines of access log that says even Google Almighty didn’t graduate” to avoiding the trap.
Darren @DJDarren@mendeddrum.org Several billion years ago a fish climbed onto a beach, and now I have to be at work on a Wednesday.
Bullshit.
8:11 AM • January 22, 2025 (UTC)
How long until OpenAI and the like get into the advertising business?
Ben Lovejoy writing about the ridiculous new Dell laptop names on 9to5Mac:
So yes, there really is going to be a Dell Pro Max Micro Plus.
Not only are they copying Apple’s naming convention, which is bad enough, they’re making it nonsensical by subdividing each tier into 3 subtiers. That’s how you get the ridiculous name above.
I have a brilliant plan, all I need is: - the copyright to everything - all the money in the world
— Pavel🐀 (@spavel.bsky.social) 2024-12-28T16:29:13.002Z
This is so true:
If you think woke is the problem, try reading the US Constitution and amendments. Really read them. Pretend you didn’t know it was the Constitution. One woke idea after another. Basically if you don’t believe in woke, you’re in the wrong freaking country.
Timothy B. Lee writing for Ars Technica:
Today’s LLMs are far more capable:
OpenAI’s GPT-4o can handle 128,000 tokens (about 200 pages of text). Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet can accept 200,000 tokens (about 300 pages of text). Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro allows 2 million tokens (about 2,000 pages of text). Still, it’s going to take a lot more progress if we want AI systems with human-level cognitive abilities.
Great, article from Edward Zitron over at his newsletter Where’s Your Ed At?. The whole things is great, but here’s a few quotes that stood out to me:
Why wouldn’t you think that the content on one of the most notable media outlets in the entire world is trustworthy? Why wouldn’t you trust that CNN, a respected media outlet, had vetted its advertisers and made sure their content wasn’t actively tricking its users? I think it’s fair to say that CNN has likely led to thousands of people being duped by questionable affiliate marketing companies, and likely profited from doing so.
Michael ☕️ @mcpinson@mas.to President-elect Musk doesn't like this cartoon. #USPol #PresidentMusk #Elon #JDVance
7:46 PM • December 19, 2024 (UTC)
Where will Elon Musk end up ranking among America’s shadow presidents? Our panel of historians weighs in.
— New York Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) 2024-12-19T13:04:01.136Z
David Pierce writing for The Verge:
The app can see three kinds of feeds: anything from ActivityPub, which means things like Mastodon and Threads and Pixelfed; anything from AT Protocol, which means Bluesky; and any RSS feed.
This sounds a lot like the new Reeder.
I hope we see more apps like this and sites are forced to provide feeds that these apps can read from and maybe even interact with through things such as “likes” or “reposts”.
Wait, do we think Trump is trying to recreate Depression era policies because he keeps hearing it was “Great”?
— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) 2024-12-13T23:50:29.050Z
ebbtide @sandlapper37@mstdn.social 7:41 PM • December 13, 2024 (UTC)
From Reddit.
Googling Stuff: Then v Now.
— Chaz Hutton (@chazhutton.bsky.social) 2024-12-11T17:15:44.238Z
KevinOnEarth @Quantillion@mstdn.io @FantasticalEconomics Dunno who #JessPhoenix is but it's succinct.
4:26 AM • December 7, 2024 (UTC)
niconiconi @niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be Q: How far are we from fusion power?
A: 1 AU.
2:34 PM • December 6, 2024 (UTC)
Kyle Orland writing for Ars Technica:
Longtime Valve watchers likely remember Steam Machines, the company’s aborted, pre-Steam Deck attempt at crafting a line of third-party gaming PC hardware based around an early verison of its Linux-based SteamOS. Now, there are strong signs that Valve is on the verge of launching a similar third-party hardware branding effort under the “Powered by SteamOS” label.
Isaac Callan and Colin D’Mello reporting for Global News:
Auditor General Shelley Spence found as part of her annual report that, in the fiscal year ending at the end of March, the province spent a total of $104.6 million on advertising.
That is the most any Ontario government has ever spent on advertising in a single year, the auditor general said, and triple what was spent the year before.
I use #Hugo for my blog, and I have a number of embedded tweets using the built-in tweet shortcode. If this shortcode is unable to fetch the tweet when the site is building, the build fails. As such, I’ve been seeing a lot of build failures because of deleted tweets and deleted twitter accounts lately.
Man, I really need to go back and watch Idiocracy so I can see how all this is gonna go.
