"Australia's Silicon Valley set to explode by 2030" you get a silicon valley when there's cold war levels of sci/tech funding splashing about without that you just get tech spivs saying you'll get magic if you just give them all your money spoiler, turns out you can't cargo cult a silicon valley

me every first episode of a taskmaster series: oh i probably wont even like these random comedians ive ever heard of me at the finale: i would die for each of these heroes

An Orthodox Jewish influencer I follow made a very short and incredibly polite post (that started with “I would never judge anyone for their beliefs”) about how Jews don’t believe that Jesus was the messiah and almost every single reply was VIOLENT AF And people wonder why we don’t trust Christians

I have been saying this for 3 years now; it is evident from even a theorerical understanding of these systems' operations. But ppl keep claiming it's not true or not important, or could be patched over, & so I keep hoping each time an "AI" company CEO comes out & admits will be the one that sticks

So. Again: There's no such thing as a "Generative AI" system that doesn't generate bullshit, because the processes whereby bullshit is generated are the exact same processes via which "Gen AI" do anything at all. And this was obvious from even a broadly theoretical understanding of their operations

But I've said all this before.

Garak's queer origins came from his actor

This essay is so damn good. I love to see @edwardongwesojr.com digging in the crates to find sharp, prescient critiques of technological political economy from Victorian literature that could / should be written today. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/on-the-ori...

Made me think of this Vaclav Havel quote. At 66 yrs old I don't know if I will even be alive when we fully restore democracy to America and hold all these treasonous fuckwits accountable for their crimes. But even so, I know fighting fascism is the right thing to do. That whole planting trees etc.

So, research done or funded by vendors (MS, OpenAI, Google, etc) is always going to be biased and should generally be dismissed out of hand as marketing The only exception to that is if the study shows something bad or embarrassing because you know it must be truly bad if they can’t gloss over it

i think this is actually more propaganda on openai’s part bc they do not list “this is just how LLMs work, on a structural level” as one of the reasons but that’s the truth LLMs can never not “hallucinate” bc they’re not intelligences, they don’t even know what words are much less know meaning

“The single biggest threat to the livelihood of authors and, by extension, to our culture, is not short attention spans. It is AI.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @us.theguardian.com

I think she's having an existential crisis. #cats #caturday #catsofbluesky #catsky #blackcat #rescuecat

Not only don't I think this is a crank theory, I think it's obviously true almost at the sun-rises-in-the-east level.

Seriously.

Reading papers is a basic skill (and dare I say duty?) of scientists, and I include medical doctors in that group. Keeping abreast of the literature is a foundational part of our professions. There aren’t good shortcuts. In any case, reading papers regularly is fun. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/s...

i would rather read your imperfectly written, typo riddled idiosyncratic ideas that show you have read my papers and are familiar with my lab’s work than a grammatically perfect and generic genAI written application/email … every damn time

One thing that's great about the Prisoner is it's a spoof, in an age of endless James Bond spoofs, but it uses that parodic language to do something entirely serious. While also being really funny. God, it's so good.

turns out Tesla's Austin "robotaxis" have crashed three times already, apparently within the first ~7,000 miles of operation! two appear to be the Tesla getting hit, but one was clearly the Tesla hitting a stationary object, resulting in minor injuries not great!! www.forbes.com/sites/bradte...

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/sep/20/artificial-intelligence-ushers-in-a-golden-age-of-/ > They have figured out how to turn the artificial intelligence programs proliferating on most computers against users to devastating effect A exploitable system on every device! Are we winning yet!

Criminal hackers using #AI to find victim organizations and break in is the old new thing. Hackers breaking in and then turning the victim’s AI against them is the new new thing, and it is going to get so much worse. Gift link to my story today. wapo.st/4nDfV5o

it's not clear how this leads to a course of action, but everything the silicon valley techfash do and say makes much more sense when you realise everyone in SV over $10m is macro-microdosing every fucking chemical you can think of every one of them is off their fucking trees

See this quoted thread for highlights from the lead author of this important paper! My own key thoughts and connections will be in a thread right here, too. 🧵

“OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws” https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059383/openai-admits-ai-hallucinations-are-mathematically-inevitable-not-just-engineering-flaws.html

This is not just maths. It's a design choice, supported by benchmarks that reward false certainty. Good to see OpenAI do some of the research, but it's also a reminder that OpenAI shouldn't be relied upon to do all the research.

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Many such cases

Out of curiosity I did a google trends search for "are orange cats dumb". As you can see, there was nothing for 17 years and then a distinct change in late 2021 which is when @jortsthecat.bsky.social hit the internet. 😆

It's wild. If I post (for example) 10 similar videos of different kittens chewing on my camera at the shelter, people will comment "typical orange behavior" on the orange one, even though all the kittens are doing the exact same thing.

NEW: Hours before a new entry ban is supposed to go into effect, the federal government officially acknowledges for the first time that the restrictions do NOT apply to people who currently have H-1B visas. Link: www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

And that's the end of Broadstreet. #Iceland #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #abandoned #concrete #decay #countryside #rural #window #sky

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There are a lot more redpolls around this autumn compared to last year. Seems like it's been a good year for the local small bird population. #birds #iceland

For this #caturday, these two siblings who are neighbours of mine. Grása is the mega-fluffy grey and white one while Skotta is the three-coloured calico.

This is "fun". www.truesec.com/hub/blog/500... There's a self-replicating worm spreading on the npm package repository which is, basically, what underpins all of web dev. And if a half-assed cryptocoin malware can do this, who knows that state actors have accomplished unnoticed?

So, some back story if you aren't in tech, DHH and Jason Fried are long-time darlings of the liberal and centrist crowd in tech as they made a career of regurgitating half-digested talking points from management 101 textbooks without putting any of it in practice themselves...

As it later came out it wouldn't have mattered if IFixit had put Anthropic's crawler in their robots.txt file as it came out that both they, OpenAI and a whole slew of other AI companies didn't respect that standard.

Oof. on.ft.com/4gxTYSZ Markets hit record highs as ‘Fomo’ infects investors

Again, Most "unfair muscle mass " in sports, is straight cis boys taking steroids. Most "gender affirming care for children," is straight cis boys getting gyno surgery to remove the unwanted boobs that they grew, because they took steroids. 🙂🙃 No one really cares about "fairness in sports." 🤷🏿‍♂️

The point is that no one cared about unfair hormonal advantages in sports, or gender affirming care surgery for kids, until one or two trans or intersex kids wanted to be included with their friends. So no, I don't believe the faux concern. They still don't want to test for steroids.

One of the many reasons it feels like we're doomed as a species is a lot of people don't seem to think continuing to exploit people after they die isn't an absolute red line.

anyway it turns out i spoke too soon: enough people have already stepped down to the point where dhh is now paying to keep the lights on ruby.social/@getajobmike... so the answer is "the only people left are paid to be there, everyone else walked away"

young people today will never know what it was like when computers just… did what you told them to do. never randomly changed shit without permission. never locked you out of your game console for updates. fuckin sucks.

This is happening. Finally starting to look good. More on this next week

The widely accepted narrative that Trump "chickened out" on Chicago is completely incorrect. ICE's incursions are getting worse here every day.

“Self-exploiting workers | A Working Library” https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/self-exploiting-workers

my fav part of Godwin's Law was the bit a few years ago when Godwin went online to tell people that they should ignore his law

Okay. Two books published today. Each is designed to be strange. They’re books, and not books. They know who you are, and where they came from. And they’re not going back quietly. Shipping today. ambientliterature.bigcartel.com/product/none... ambientliterature.bigcartel.com/product/none...

what the *hell*. if this is true it is a great way to nuke trust in rubygems from orbit pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...