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Oh this AI coding stuff is so cool, I can be so productive, I am the greatest .... NO you are not, you're a dumb"fut" -- and the word fut actually has 4 letters! Thanks
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āA spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding toolsā, right on schedule
Some with āhigh blast radiusā
https://open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus/p/a-spate-of-outages-including-incidents?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
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The Information: "[Anthropic] on Friday said customers would have to purchase extra capacityāinstead of using their existing Claude chatbot subscriptions" to power eg. OpenClaw It's happening,
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, just as you have been predicting! Oh, and "Developers weren't happy" šDUUH!
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Rudolph Fraser.
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1. Read āEmpire of AIā by
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2. Watch this talk between Karen and
@timnitgebru.blacksky.app
3. Follow
@dairinstitute.bsky.social
, Karen and Timnit for a sober, critical analysis of the āAIā field.
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Reclaiming our Humanity in the Age of AI
YouTube video by SXSW
https://www.youtube.com/live/I1tJnM81NCM?si=xTRPEnXX1zaKkTXx
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Premium: AI Isn't Too Big To Fail
Soundtrack ā Soundgarden ā Blow Up The Outside World A lot of people try to rationalize the AI bubble by digging up the past. Billions of dollars of waste are justified by saying āOpenAI just like U...
https://www.wheresyoured.at/premium-ai-isnt-too-big-to-fail/
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Sasha US OUT OF EVERYWHERE
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"Cognitive Surrender" trial: "Overall, across 1,372 participants and over 9,500 individual trials, the researchers found subjects were willing to accept faulty AI reasoning a whopping 73.2 percent of the time, while only overruling it 19.7 percent of the time."
arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/r...
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"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds
Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/research-finds-ai-users-scarily-willing-to-surrender-their-cognition-to-llms/
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I hope Adam McKay is preparing a lovely warm bath for Ed when he has to explain this to a general audience in a few years time.
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Brilliant article, thank you!
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Wow! What a great article. I wish every journalist would read it and then introspect deeply! Thank you!
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Refusing to accept an AI-poisoned future of journalism
Humans, however flawed, are
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-to-accept-big-tech-s-ai-poisoned-future-of-journalism
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Radley Balko
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Another one of those what-if-it-happened-in-another-country moments: The president is suing the government for $100 million dollars for searching his home for the classified documents he stole, and the attorney who represented him on those charges is currently leading the Justice Department.
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Simon Willison
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Warning to open source maintainers: the Axios supply chain attack started with some very sophisticated social engineering targeted at one of their developers
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The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering
The Axios team have published a full postmortem on the supply chain attack which resulted in a malware dependency going out in a release the other day, and it involved ā¦
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/3/supply-chain-social-engineering/
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Taggart
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Using
@surf.social
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#Artemis2
posts, then publish that feed to Bluesky. This is really something. Maybe the first time I've experienced what the open social web really could be.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Can someone tell me why weāre giving NASAās funding to white supremacist Elon Musk? His rockets blow up. NASAās donāt.
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Cameron Blevins
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This is so, so well-articulated.
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Abstract Tesseract
5 days ago
This is the key for me. "AI" enthusiasts will read this and say "see, even critics admit it's useful". That would be a profound misreadingāthe point is how powerful institutions encourage/compel people to compromise their professional and ethical judgment, and how we need to fight those collectively
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Dave Karpf
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New blog post: Never underestimate what people who pay their lawyers by the year can get away with. On Elon Musk and Legal Arbitrage
davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/on-elon-mu...
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On Elon Musk and Legal Arbitrage
A jaded lesson from revisiting a missed prediction
https://davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/on-elon-musk-and-legal-arbitrage
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Excellent read, thank you
@taggart-tech.com
taggart-tech.com/reckoning/
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I used AI. It worked. I hated it.
I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.
https://taggart-tech.com/reckoning/
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Timnit Gebru
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I appreciated this article by Michael Taggart, on the temptation to use some of these coding tools and the pitfalls, from the POV of an experienced software engineer. This is why it's important to fight these issues collectively rather than at the individual level.
taggart-tech.com/reckoning/
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I used AI. It worked. I hated it.
I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.
https://taggart-tech.com/reckoning/
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Olivia Guest Ā· Īλίβια ĪκεĻĻ
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Guess we all knew Anthropic had no idea how their models work... but nice to see it! > This code is so fucking funny[.] I am laughing so hard at how much of them are like "don't break the law, please do not break the law, please please please be good!!!!"
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This code is so fucking funny dude I swear to god. I have wanted to read the internal prompts for so long and I am laughing so hard at how much of them are like "don't break the law, please do not bre...
https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116324988415693534
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fly me to the moon but donāt make me use Outlook (new) Iād rather just use Discord to talk to the ground crew
www.404media.co/artemis-2-as...
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Artemis II Astronauts Have āTwo Microsoft Outlooksā and Neither Work
In space, no one can hear you scream at Microsoftās legacy software.
https://www.404media.co/artemis-2-astronauts-microsoft-outlook-livestream/
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Matt Seybold
5 days ago
The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information.
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for finding this paper on cognitive surrender
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ThinkingāFast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender
People increasingly consult generative artificial intelligence (AI) while reasoning. As AI becomes embedded in daily thought, what becomes of human judgment? We
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646
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AI Insiders Are Preparing For The Bubble To Burst
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AI Insiders Are Preparing For The Bubble To Burst
And it aligns with OpenAI's predicted demise.
https://open.substack.com/pub/planetearthandbeyond/p/ai-insiders-are-preparing-for-the?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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It also raises the question of whether the guardian angel agents will need super guardian angel agents, that then are monitored by super-duper guardian angel agents, which are .... š¤¦āāļøš¤¦āāļø
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So they tried to use AI for strategy but it just didn't work due to the ubiquitous limitations of
#GenAI
Thanks
@garymarcus.bsky.social
, I'd venture that it was probably the combination of all 3 factors you mention!
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In the Iran war, it looks like AI helped with operations, not strategy
A hot take on how AI may have played out in the war so far
https://open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus/p/in-the-iran-war-it-looks-like-ai?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Great strategy,
@microsoft.com
! You will surely win the AI race! š¤Ŗš¤¦š»āāļø
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Ed Zitron
7 days ago
Free newsletter: The Subprime AI Crisis is here. I explore the disturbing parallels between the run-up to the global financial crisis and the heavily-subsidized AI bubble, and how Anthropic and OpenAI's rush to IPO accelerates the crisis further.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-subprime-ai-crisis-is-here/
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The Subprime AI Crisis Is Here
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The Subprime AI Crisis Is Here
The Words of Ed Zitron, a PR person and writer.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/p/7f2459f9-1def-4c42-8a4e-4ac61e7418c7/
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Stefan Niggemeier
8 days ago
Das ZDF verlangt von Mitwirkenden, āweder direkt noch indirekt mit Personen zusammenzuarbeiten, die auf einer (...) internationalen Sanktionsliste stehenā. Das ist nicht nur wegen der Art, wie Trump mit solchen Listen Politik macht, problematisch.
www.sueddeutsche.de/medien/mitwi...
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ZDF übernimmt Sanktionen der Trump-Regierung
Mitwirkende an ZDF-Sendungen müssen sich teilweise verpflichten, nicht mit Personen zusammenzuarbreiten, die auf irgendeiner Sanktions- oder Terrorliste stehen.
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/medien/mitwirkendenvertrag-experten-talkshow-gaeste-trump-administration-sanktionsliste-terrorliste-ofac-li.3449653
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Karl Bode
8 days ago
Over at the newsletter I wrote about the unholy scourge that is "CEO said a thing!" journalism:
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"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism
"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.
https://karlbode.com/ceo-said-a-thing-journalism/
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Wow! Every journalist needs to read this and question themselves ā sadly, most wonāt
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"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism
"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.
https://karlbode.com/ceo-said-a-thing-journalism/
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"It seems to me that if one wants to build artificial general intelligence, it might help to know what intelligence is" True words!! Blind Squirrel Seeks a Theory of Intelligence
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Blind Squirrel Seeks a Theory of Intelligence
We need a theory of what intelligence is rather than a catalog of what it does
https://open.substack.com/pub/herbertroitblat/p/blind-squirrel-seeks-a-theory-of?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Premium: How Much Of The AI Bubble Is Real?
Iām turning 40 in a month or so, and at 40 years young, Iām old enough to remember as far back as December 11 2025, when Disney and OpenAI āreached an agreementā to ābring beloved characters from acro...
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Please tell me youāre cooking the books without telling me youāre cooking the books Goes for both
@anthropic.com
and OpenAI ā plus prob many (all?) other AI companies Thanks
@edzitron.com
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My Name Is Aram
11 days ago
If you think AI is stupid bullshit and you want to hear someone describe - in meticulously researched detail - exactly why it is stupid bullshit, have I got a podcast recommendation for you.
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Iām sure Disney is happy! š¤¦š»āāļø
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Ed Zitron
14 days ago
Oh look I was right. Oh well, just $1 billion that never gets wired to anybody after an endless media hype cycle about the death of hollywood. Pobody's Nerfect! I'm sure everybody who wrote scary stories about Sora 2 destroying Hollywood will apologize
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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Ed Zitron
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This will end up being likely a monologue and part of the intro of this week's premium, but every single person that wrote a "Sora 2 is destroying Hollywood" piece should be apologizing to their audiences and to the entertainment industry for deliberately misleading and scaring people in TV/Cinema
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Ed Zitron
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obligatory
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Timnit Gebru
14 days ago
The Future of Life Institute has completely rebranded and infiltrated journalism & labor spaces like there's no tomorrow. "one of the groups mentioned in the story, the Future of Life Institute, which is dedicated to warning about AI risks." š
www.semafor.com/article/12/0...
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Exclusive: AI critics funded AI coverage at top newsrooms
A behind-the-scenes media war over coverage of AI reflects a deep split inside the tech community.
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/07/2025/ai-critics-funded-ai-coverage-at-top-newsrooms
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wells
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the rebranding of all these organizations -- along with a rewriting of their history -- is so frustrating to see. ESPECIALLY w/ future of life institute & singularity institute (which is now known as MIRI but they try not to talk about the singularity part anymore ever since it went out of vogue)
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Carl T. Bergstrom
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"The AI Grad Student": A Harvard professor describes working with Claude. Early on, he describes misconduct that would cause any student to be terminated: "It faked results, hoping I wouldn't notice." But he ends the essay with "Now I'm doing 100% of my research with LLMs". Am I losing my mind?
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I guess Disney amongst others will be happy about this ā¦
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The AI Industry Is Lying To You
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Dear Bernie Sanders, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Anti-AI Protestors: Please Stop Siding with PRO-EXTINCTIONISTS. An Open Letter.
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Dear Bernie Sanders, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Anti-AI Protestors: Please Stop Siding with PRO-EXTINCTIONISTS. An Open Letter.
Bernie Sanders recently met with Eliezer Yudkowsky and Daniel Kokotajlo.
https://open.substack.com/pub/xriskology/p/dear-bernie-sanders-neil-degrasse?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Dear Bernie Sanders, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Anti-AI Protestors: Please Stop Siding with PRO-EXTINCTIONISTS. An Open Letter.
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Dear Bernie Sanders, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Anti-AI Protestors: Please Stop Siding with PRO-EXTINCTIONISTS. An Open Letter.
Bernie Sanders recently met with Eliezer Yudkowsky and Daniel Kokotajlo.
https://open.substack.com/pub/xriskology/p/dear-bernie-sanders-neil-degrasse?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Noah Shachtman
21 days ago
There are a tiny handful of top editors and executives in the news business who've truly met this moment.
@katie-drummond.bsky.social
is one of them. Proud to play a small part on team
@wired.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/b...
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Wiredās New Editor Doesnāt Care if the Tech Bros Are Mad
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/business/media/wired-editor-katie-drummond-tech-politics.html
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Ed Zitron
21 days ago
Free newsletter: Why're we still doing this? Despite $1tr+ in investment, every AI company is unprofitable, LLMs have yet to provide tangible productivity benefits, and private credit-backed data center debt may be the next great financial crisis.
www.wheresyoured.at/why-are-we-still-doing-this/
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Why Are We Still Doing This?
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David Gilbert
19 days ago
"Katie Drummond is leading Wired magazine through its best era." -
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On the Wired renaissance
Katie Drummond is leading Wired magazine through its best era.
https://davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/on-the-wired-renaissance
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Ed Zitron
21 days ago
One other note from today's newsletter: I'm worried about over-use of LLMs in software engineering. If people aren't reading (or are barely reading) code they ship, "writing code fast" becomes a liability. It also can stop you from learning to solve problems.
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