Jason Byrne
@geekwithsoul.bsky.social
I coalesce the vapors of human experience into a viable and meaningful comprehension.…
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Archive of @geekwithsoul on Twitter is at @geekwithsoul-old.bsky.social
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Wow, hadn't seen anything like this in a long time. Dudes, it's not Firefox, it's your site that's the problem. Do better @torontomet.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Wow, hadn't seen anything like this in a long time. Dudes, it's not Firefox, it's your site that's the problem. Do better @torontomet.bsky.social
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Yet another story in which content creators say their traffic has plunged since Google started serving up AI Overview answers summarizing their work--in the case of recipes, often wildly incorrectly. (Of course Facebook is also part of this AI-slop problem.)
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
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AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Yet another story in which content creators say their traffic has plunged since Google started serving up AI Overview answers summarizing their work--in the case of recipes, often wildly incorrectly. (Of course Facebook is also part of this AI-slop problem.)
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"Artificial intelligence, meet artificial accounting": Mark Zuckerberg's newfound obsession with "superintelligence" does not extend to owning the financial risk of building out a giant, polluting data center in Louisiana.
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AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"Artificial intelligence, meet artificial accounting": Mark Zuckerberg's newfound obsession with "superintelligence" does not extend to owning the financial risk of building out a giant, polluting data center in Louisiana.
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Colder weather means it's time to break out the sous vide and searzall for a roast! 😋
November 24, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Colder weather means it's time to break out the sous vide and searzall for a roast! 😋
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Actual “This is fine.” meme.
"If the data is accurate...it would call into question the business model of OpenAI and nearly every other general-purpose LLM vendor" www.ft.com/content/fce7...
How high are OpenAI’s compute costs? Possibly a lot higher than we thought
Inference inferred, revenue reconstructed, cash burn quantified
www.ft.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Actual “This is fine.” meme.
Now we're talking - the most valued Tossball card from the #OuterWorlds2 - the ultra special "Leonard Boyarsky". He's getting up there in years but still cranking out the hits 😆
November 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Now we're talking - the most valued Tossball card from the #OuterWorlds2 - the ultra special "Leonard Boyarsky". He's getting up there in years but still cranking out the hits 😆
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This is some scary shit you guys. Two pillars of the community—middle aged white guys no less—arrested because some off duty cop bastard sitting several booths away in a restaurant claims to have heard them “plotting against law enforcement.” We’re in the “ears everywhere, trust no one” stage of it.
Kempsville High School assistant principal arrested, charged with making threats against ICE and police trib.al/BazVoVN
Kempsville High School assistant principal arrested, charged with making threats against ICE and police
Two Virginia Beach men are accused of threatening ICE and local law enforcement.
trib.al
November 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This is some scary shit you guys. Two pillars of the community—middle aged white guys no less—arrested because some off duty cop bastard sitting several booths away in a restaurant claims to have heard them “plotting against law enforcement.” We’re in the “ears everywhere, trust no one” stage of it.
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AOC with the facts on MTG
November 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
AOC with the facts on MTG
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"Getting a robot to use the treadmill for you at the gym doesn't make you any fitter"
You don't say?
You don't say?
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
"Getting a robot to use the treadmill for you at the gym doesn't make you any fitter"
You don't say?
You don't say?
“It doesn’t feel like a satisfying outcome to just have two robots argue back and forth over whether a patient should access a particular type of care"
All other issues aside, the inefficiency of throwing AI at everything - including other AIs - seems destined for failure rather than anything good.
All other issues aside, the inefficiency of throwing AI at everything - including other AIs - seems destined for failure rather than anything good.
AI vs. AI: Patients deploy bots to battle health insurers that deny care • Florida Phoenix
As states strive to curb health insurers’ use of artificial intelligence, patients and doctors are arming themselves with AI tools to fight claims denials, prior authorizations and soaring medical bil...
floridaphoenix.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:12 AM
“It doesn’t feel like a satisfying outcome to just have two robots argue back and forth over whether a patient should access a particular type of care"
All other issues aside, the inefficiency of throwing AI at everything - including other AIs - seems destined for failure rather than anything good.
All other issues aside, the inefficiency of throwing AI at everything - including other AIs - seems destined for failure rather than anything good.
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PSA: Using #AI to do your homework/assignments is the cognitive equivalent of taking all the ingredients of a healthy meal and dropping them directly into the toilet.
Same end result, none of the essential benefits.
Same end result, none of the essential benefits.
November 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
PSA: Using #AI to do your homework/assignments is the cognitive equivalent of taking all the ingredients of a healthy meal and dropping them directly into the toilet.
Same end result, none of the essential benefits.
Same end result, none of the essential benefits.
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Just show how consciously or unconsciously people buy into the illusory personhood, the anthropomorphism, of AI.
Humans bring gender bias to their interactions with AI, finds study
Humans bring gender biases to their interactions with Artificial Intelligence (AI), according to new research from Trinity College Dublin and Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (LMU) Munich.
phys.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Just show how consciously or unconsciously people buy into the illusory personhood, the anthropomorphism, of AI.
This is why, after a lifetime of watching and enjoying #NFL football, I stopped. Growing up, we even had a family "betting" pool every week to pick the winners of every game. Hell, I still probably have upwards of two dozen Broncos jerseys. But I stopped because it's literally killing the players.
The NFL's Concussion Problem
YouTube video by Wendover Productions
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This is why, after a lifetime of watching and enjoying #NFL football, I stopped. Growing up, we even had a family "betting" pool every week to pick the winners of every game. Hell, I still probably have upwards of two dozen Broncos jerseys. But I stopped because it's literally killing the players.
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No poll or research based solely on an online survey can ever be trusted again (and they never should have been in the first place), pass it on
A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
No poll or research based solely on an online survey can ever be trusted again (and they never should have been in the first place), pass it on
Man, Fairfax County Public Schools #FCPS in Virginia, has totally bought in to the AI hype. One of the best school systems in the country has sold out the kids it's supposed to be educating.
November 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Man, Fairfax County Public Schools #FCPS in Virginia, has totally bought in to the AI hype. One of the best school systems in the country has sold out the kids it's supposed to be educating.
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The Trump Administration killed over 383 active clinical trials and directly harmed more than 74,000 Americans with lasting future impacts for the public at large.
Trump' s war on scientific research and public health is costing Americans lives and livelihoods.
Trump' s war on scientific research and public health is costing Americans lives and livelihoods.
Trump admin axed 383 active clinical trials, dumping over 74K participants
It’s a “violation of foundational ethical principles of human participant research.”…
arstechnica.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The Trump Administration killed over 383 active clinical trials and directly harmed more than 74,000 Americans with lasting future impacts for the public at large.
Trump' s war on scientific research and public health is costing Americans lives and livelihoods.
Trump' s war on scientific research and public health is costing Americans lives and livelihoods.
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Hey everybody who ever loved a video game: take a moment right now and say a little prayer for Rebecca, to whom you owe much.
I never thought I’d get this wish. Odd seeing eulogies before I expire
November 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Hey everybody who ever loved a video game: take a moment right now and say a little prayer for Rebecca, to whom you owe much.
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a) this fucking sucks, wtf Apple?
b) anybody got the link avail, the one about how to remove this?
b) anybody got the link avail, the one about how to remove this?
Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)
November 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
a) this fucking sucks, wtf Apple?
b) anybody got the link avail, the one about how to remove this?
b) anybody got the link avail, the one about how to remove this?
Guess we know where the next Ground Zero of an outbreak is going to be.
North Texas pastor celebrates school's lowest vaccination rate in the state: 'We'll take it'
Mercy Culture pastor Landon Schott, whose Mercy Culture Preparatory Academy has a measles vaccination rate of 14.29%, posted a video on Instagram.
www.wfaa.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Guess we know where the next Ground Zero of an outbreak is going to be.
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Nobel Peace Prize candidate, Donald Trump, on the murder and dismemberment of a journalist: "Things happen."
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Nobel Peace Prize candidate, Donald Trump, on the murder and dismemberment of a journalist: "Things happen."
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NEW: Remember that story we broke a few months ago with
@propublica.org @texastribune.org?
We reported Texas Gov. Greg Abbott did not want to release his office's emails with #Elon #Musk. Well, we have an update. www.kut.org/politics/202... #txlege #FOIA #transparency #Texas
@propublica.org @texastribune.org?
We reported Texas Gov. Greg Abbott did not want to release his office's emails with #Elon #Musk. Well, we have an update. www.kut.org/politics/202... #txlege #FOIA #transparency #Texas
Gov. Abbott released 1,400 pages of emails about Elon Musk. Most are blacked out.
Abbott fought for months to keep secret emails between his office and Elon Musk. Now, hundreds of pages have been released.
www.kut.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
NEW: Remember that story we broke a few months ago with
@propublica.org @texastribune.org?
We reported Texas Gov. Greg Abbott did not want to release his office's emails with #Elon #Musk. Well, we have an update. www.kut.org/politics/202... #txlege #FOIA #transparency #Texas
@propublica.org @texastribune.org?
We reported Texas Gov. Greg Abbott did not want to release his office's emails with #Elon #Musk. Well, we have an update. www.kut.org/politics/202... #txlege #FOIA #transparency #Texas
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This thread is fascinating and terrifying
LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
November 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This thread is fascinating and terrifying
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There is no reason for this. The tax code is very formulaic and should be straightforward to code for.
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
There is no reason for this. The tax code is very formulaic and should be straightforward to code for.
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Quick cartoon. I was hoping to stay unplugged this week but I saw some news and had to take a break to draw this out. I think we all needed to see it realized.
November 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Quick cartoon. I was hoping to stay unplugged this week but I saw some news and had to take a break to draw this out. I think we all needed to see it realized.
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This isn’t *quite* Verhoeven coded because it isn’t violent enough but good lord I hate living in a parody of the early 21st century
🚨 EXPOSED: Parents are being threatened for recording their own kids’ hockey games. Private equity bought the rinks, banned filming, and now charges up to $50 a month to watch youth sports.
November 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This isn’t *quite* Verhoeven coded because it isn’t violent enough but good lord I hate living in a parody of the early 21st century