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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 19h

Let's not forget the follow up to that headline

Fortune
Mark Zuckerberg’s $46.5 billion loss on the metaverse is so huge it would be a Fortune 100 company—but his net worth is up even more than that

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 19h

remember this for every AI headline you read

but also keep this one in mind, too

The metaverse economy offers the potential of a wide range of revenue streams, with some estimates predicting it could become an $800 billion-dollar market in just two years and that it could contribute $3 trillion dollars to the global economy in the next decade.

Euronews, August 17, 2022 https://www.euronews.com/business/2022/08/17/new-virtual-economy-what-does-the-rise-of-the-metaverse-mean

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Sophie OP @edcrypt.bsky.social · 1d

Se já não se leva a sério a liberdade de cátedra, IA na educação é o prego final no caixão

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 1d

AI in education amplifies and intensifies educational systems of product-centredness

AI in education reproduces the idea of de-skilled, casualized pedagogy where the computer is the primary reader of the curriculum/syllabus and the tutor plays a subsidiary role

Sophie OP @edcrypt.bsky.social · 1d

Nossa, enfia no seu cu

"Eduardo, receba um selo de verificado por apenas R$3,50"

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 1d

92%???

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 1d

everyone would agree that if you believe in what is right, it doesn't matter if it's controversial. i would go a step further and say: you should not even concede to the *idea* that what you believe is controversial.

trans rights is only controversial if you act like it's controversial.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

What you're getting from an LLM is a statistical approximation of what the answer would be to a statistical approximation of the question.

This is why prompt engineering is fake. The prompt (and any input data) is just a suggestion - and helps fool you into thinking that your question was answered.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

LLMs are doubly deceptive. Most people think that they can ask it a question and get an answer. The majority of the rest think that you can ask an LLM a question and it will return what an answer might look like, statistically.

But it's actually even worse. It doesn't "read" the prompt; it guesses.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 1d

The alarming aspect of this deliberate "anti-woke" algorithmic biasing of LLMs from an educational perspective is our institutions all bought in to an imaginary of innovation, then got locked in to enterprise contracts, and now the models are being recoded so they undermine educational values

Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 1d

Genuine question: for those enthusiastically pushing AI tools into every part of our education system—what checks/guardrails are there around algorithmic biases like this?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

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Sophie OP @edcrypt.bsky.social · 1d

Eu tenho fé que a onda anti-IA vai trazer de volta alguma forma de contra cultura tipo a dos anos 70, cética quanto à ideia de que tecnologia é sempre um avanço, contra o sentimento da inovação como uma força civilizadora inevitável

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 1d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Her three arms/hands are the big tell in this case...

Screenshot from a TikTok video with red circles around the person's three hands and arms

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 1d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

They're literally installing Racism Dial bsky.app/profile/numb...

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Jan 15

vox populi

Altman: thanks a lot for these! some common requests:

AGI (a little patience please)
GPT-5
better voice mode
higher rate limits
better GPTs
better reasoning
control over degree of wokeness/behavior
video
personalization
better browsing
'sign in with openai
open source

Quoting:
what would you like openai to build/fix in 2024?

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Sophie OP @edcrypt.bsky.social · 1d

Nossa, fui procurar e é glorioso, adorei

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 1d

i looked at the MNT laptops and the org seems good and wholesome and the laptops are genuinely tempting, but also Framework hired actually good designers and MNT looks like "make it look open source. no, more open source. no, that's too open source"

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Sophie OP @edcrypt.bsky.social · 2d

Inclusive várias letras do Cardiacs são isso + diálogos de Night of the Hunter

Sophie OP @edcrypt.bsky.social · 2d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English...

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Greg the Sorcerer @gregthesorcerer.bsky.social · 2d

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Sophie OP @edcrypt.bsky.social · 2d

Todos os gringos falando "haha agora o Trump vai ficar putaço" por causa do nobel, querem que latino se FODA mesmo

Sophie OP @edcrypt.bsky.social · 2d

Eu acho que você tem que ser muito idiota, ou achar que os outros são, pra dizer que "não sabe" se IA é uma bolha ou não

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Sophie OP @edcrypt.bsky.social · 2d

*To this day* I hate that Markdown uses "*" for italics instead of "/", and "**" for bold

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dipo bento pescador altamente qualificado @dipnlik.xyz · 2d

"VS Code now includes a built-in MCP marketplace"

sdds quando vscode era enxuto

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

nobel peace prize goes to Trump’s little extrajudical murder supporting friend

What a pack of fucking loser weirdos that panel is

Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 2d

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 2d

LLM AI exists to crush labour. That's not even my surmise, the people paying billions of dollars to fund this stuff are extremely open and explicit that this is their goal.

There are no ethical use cases for LLMs at this point in time. Maybe when the bubble has popped thoroughly. Not before.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 2d

This is true. And that coders commonly use LLMs to code tells you everything you need to know about why software generally sucks. It’s incredibly common for devs to have little to no respect for the tasks integral to their own job.

Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 2d

I still think the most accurate and consistent way to think about generative AI is that, in every instance, people exclusively use it for tasks that they don't have any respect for or give a shit about.

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