I think the Swiss might take the Coolest Looking Money spot from the Australians soon www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

fake article from bad satirical cyberpunk future

impulse to distrohop and make my system look all green monospace text terminal The Matrix-ish is getting stronger

My modest proposal for how to acknowledge AI work is to use the Latin phase "Fieri Iussit," which means "commanded to be made." It acknowledged the Emperor's orders on Roman buildings. You didn't make the thing, but you commanded it be done, so the proper acknowledgement is "Ego hoc fieri iussi."

I don't think that social media sites should be censoring things that are not illegal

last one but holy shit

📢 New #COLM2025 paper 📢 Standard benchmarks give every LLM the same questions. This is like testing 5th graders and college seniors with *one* exam! 🥴 Meet Fluid Benchmarking, a capability-adaptive eval method delivering lower variance, higher validity, and reduced cost. 🧵

You can slice a cube in half and get a hexagon ??

cruelty squad

Put all of your numbers into a computer and have it do math on the numbers, and nobody bats an eye. Put all of your words into a computer and have it do math on the words, and everybody loses their minds!

speaking of here are most of my favourite songs in a playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/7Kn...

you know when you hear a remix first so the original song doesn't sound correct anymore yeah soundcloud.com/mcmangos/iz-...

go ahead and tell me this wouldn't have been a better book cover

@australianlabor.bsky.social this is a once-in-a-century opportunity to upgrade Australia to burgeoning superpower status make a combo H-1B-like easy to get visa and supercharge Housing Trust to be like Singapore's HDB for mann manufacturing of apartments to house them. $20T GDP by 2100

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

does anyone save all the different variations of a meme reaction image like wojak/pepes they spot on the internet or is that art form dead now

revealed preference is that many US elites prefer crony capitalism and promises of a mechanical god to science and innovation

i had to come back because I just found out, Trump wants to charge $100,000 per H-1B visa HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

last thing a convo from 2016 with a friend who (wisely) clears messages over a certain age i would prefer to be able to pick lottery numbers instead

might go dark from here for a few days

it is extraordinary how Google downgraded just about everyone's expectations of their AI capabilities because some product manager demanded the UI team shoehorn cheap dogshit Gemma summaries into every search

so much bullshit these days comes from "look at this one dipshit from some group being cringe" content bring the stockades back. just for those that produce that shit

bluesky finally has achieved cultural victory over twitter

playing fetch on hard mode: living in a small-diameter rotating space habitat

i forgot to update y'all: the answer was found

if you use skin tone picked emojis i don't trust you emojis are yellow

if i ever discover a habitable planet and get to name it, i'm calling it Bob

so this AI doom book, one of the authors is Yud, who was on a potato diet and probably going insane because of it, and the other author is literally dating Aella and so, one assumes, was doing enough LSD to kill a rhino. can't wait for the full release

remembering one crypto guy back in 2023 explaining how Teslas would dominate the world to me after i said i think BYD is about to drink their milkshake globally yeah, his interest in it coincided with Elon becoming anti-woke

nobody talks about the "watching a youtube video about pressure washing -> actually going to pressure wash something yourself IRL" pipeline

it fucken wimdy

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