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Max Milne
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Psychotherapist.
All my friends are nerds, but I'm not.
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emollick.bsky.social
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05219
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September 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
maxmilne.bsky.social
I've been using RooCode for a while with CC + Gemini 2.5 under neath for projects. It was good. Now I'm running ChatGPT via Codex in VSCode. I have had only success with it. For people new to messing around with Code I will be suggesting this mix. Very user friendly:
September 2, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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aelkus.bsky.social
i do actually think it is a meaningful milestone -- with rather seismic implications for the social web -- that the median bot is getting smarter than the median internet commenter
August 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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luok.ai
From Memories to Performances. 📷
July 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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simonwillison.net
I think that's another point in favor of the analogy, personally: industry trying to replace programmers with LLMs is stupid in the same way that trying to replace carpenters with table saws is stupid
July 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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stephango.com
OpenAI is now required by court order to preserve all ChatGPT logs including "temporary chats" and API requests that would have been deleted

if I understand this correctly, it means data retention policies for apps that use OpenAI API simply cannot be honored
Before the order was in place mid-May, OpenAI only retained "chat history" for users of ChatGPT Free, Plus, and Pro who did not opt out of data retention. But now, OpenAI has been forced to preserve chat history even when users "elect to not retain particular conversations by manually deleting specific conversations or by starting a 'Temporary Chat,' which disappears once closed," OpenAI said. Previously, users could also request to "delete their OpenAI accounts entirely, including all prior conversation history," which was then purged within 30 days. While OpenAI rejects claims that ordinary users use ChatGPT to access news articles, the company noted that including OpenAI's business customers in the order made "even less sense," since API conversation data "is subject to standard retention policies." That means API customers couldn’t delete all their searches based on their customers' activity, which is the supposed basis for requiring OpenAI to retain sensitive data.
June 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Loving @obsidian.md (thanks @stephango.com!) & moving all academic research there. iPad PDF annotation was a hurdle (Zotero reigned). New ruler? Obsidian with PDF++ plugin! Made a video on how: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM_T...
May 2, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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*I picked up new "Sky" blue MacBook Air - feels more of the pastel hue edition of "blue plastic film over computer components" from the 90s. Not in love with it. Could warm up.
March 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Taking note from @emollick.bsky.social "VIBEcoding" I've been playing with making an @obsidian.md Web Clipper that integrates the Interpreter function to make a 'one click' template for Article capture - News, Journals, Research etc. I wish I had this when completing my Masters. Feel free to play.
March 12, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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@strange.website - Thank you for writing the henry.codes/writing/how-... post - just landed a new MBA M4 (yes sky blue) and had heavy lift help from Claude to help make it happen....yes I remembered to not give my SSH keys to the Ai overlord. I'm wondering if Claude Code could run this freehand?
How I Set Up A New Laptop | Henry From Online
The personal site & portfolio of creative web developer Henry from Online
henry.codes
March 12, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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emollick.bsky.social
This is a crazy paper. Fine-tuning a big GPT-4o on a small amount of insecure code or even "bad numbers" (like 666) makes them misaligned in almost everything else. They are more likely to start offering misinformation, spouting anti-human values, and talk about admiring dictators. Why is unclear.
February 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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felicityhannah.bsky.social
The trouble is, once I started imagining they were taking selfies I couldn’t unsee it
Three marble statues all holding their hands up to their faces
February 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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stephango.com
All the cloud platforms use your data to train LLMs. Local-first tools are the way to fight back.

Security, defense, finance, healthcare, government... the reason high-security orgs use Obsidian is for the privacy and ownership of their data.

Now every team can be sovereign.
obsidian.md Obsidian @obsidian.md · Feb 20
Obsidian is now free for work.

Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Explore the organizations that support Obsidian on our site.

obsidian.md/blog/free-fo...
Obsidian is now free for work
Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Explore organizations that support Obsidian on our new Enterprise page.
obsidian.md
February 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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emollick.bsky.social
This new paper shows people could not tell the difference between the written responses of ChatGPT-4o & expert therapists, and that they preferred ChatGPT's responses.

Effectiveness is not measured. Given that people use LLMs for therapy now, this is an important (and urgent) topic for study.
February 15, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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"Place the words aside, how would you say that deep thing with sounds and textural utterance alone?" Revisiting VOICE, the 2013 project Adam Hunt and I presented in Edinburgh, Melbourne and had picked up for National broadcast. The body is the score.
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Voice - Radio National - Long Story Short Edit
A 5 minute track edited for ABC Radio National from the sound art Piece called VOICE. Created by Transmit Receive.
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February 12, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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I'm exploring how Relational Meditations fits into my 1-on-1 therapy stack. 1. Help people learn skills to experience, differentiate and articulate felt sense, thoughts and action impulse. 2. Normalise bi-directional process commenting. 3. Then go deep with a shared language and experiential set.
February 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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meditatewith.ai is a super interesting approach @vincehorn.space and Craig at Interbe.ing took to utilising AI as Social Meditation practice partner. Maybe a bit redundant now with ChatGPT Advanced mode. Though check out the intention, which I write about on my blog: maxmilne.com/index.php/20...
February 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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While I could practice mindfulness without AI assistance, I found the guided interaction helped my mind settle more quickly into presence. Curiously I could see myself becoming more dependent on the technology...
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February 4, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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I've recently been involved with www.interbe.ing program for Multi Player Meditation. I'm taking a Counsellors lens to reviewing the program and this is my first take - maxmilne.com/index.php/20...
Interbe.ing
Interbe.ing - Making meditation multiplayer
www.interbe.ing
February 4, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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emollick.bsky.social
A note for instructors assigning research projects (a very effective assignment & key to academia in many ways). You need to understand how far Google & OpenAI's Deep Research tools compromise this work.

You cannot just let learners use AI and assume they will need to fix flaws. It is very good now
February 3, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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reckless.bsky.social
It’s the new American 80s so I dug out my ancient copy of THE CLOTHES HAVE NO EMPEROR, a book which laid bare the Reagan admin just by listing all the idiotic things that happened. Introduction still holds up!
This book is a work of self-defense. It is the response of one observer who realized that his perception of the truth—an actor is playing the President—was a distinctly unpopular one. An observer who saw his nation's history being fictionalized as it occurred— an actor is playing the President! —while the ratings race turned media "watchdogs" into accomplices, bit players in the hit TV show the Presidency had become. An observer whose very sanity was threatened by the ease with which illusion-an actor is playing the President! —was embraced as reality. I did not find the President's ignorance charming. I was unwarmed by his genial head-waggling, unreassured by his stern frowns of manly purpose, uncheered by his hearty waves as he strolled to and from his limos and choppers and jets. His smooth purr did not soothe me. His nostalgic fables about an America that never was did not inspire me. And his canned one-liners, perversely celebrated as "wit" ("If I'd gotten a hand like that in Hollywood, I never would have left") definitely did not amuse me. The voting majority, humbled by its recent presidential choices, was thrilled to have elected someone who at least looked the part, but all I could see was the emptiness of his suit. To me, the President was a pitchman who seemed not to exist when the camera light was off, a front man so personally invisible that he'd actually called his autobiography Where's the Rest of Me?, an aging star who'd spent way too much of his time watching his own movies, like Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. Astonished that so few seemed to share my vision, I was compelled to document it. Armed with scissors, file folders, yellow highlight pens and a bank of VCRs, I embarked on an eight-year quest, gathering evidence to prove my case: AN ACTOR IS PLAYING THE PRESIDENT! I began reading four, then six, then eight papers a day (and five, then 10, then 20 magazines a week), seeking out the absurd and the outrageous, clipping and filing everything … landscapes. I became a media prospector, mining vast acres of ink in search of the perfect details and telling quotes that held the golden nuggets of truth. I began a video file, recording the evening newscasts—first one network, then two, then three—and dubbing the key sound-bites onto meticulously logged master tapes. The events of the decade were like a surreal novel unfolding in the media, and I found myself scrambling to get it all down, compiling a memory for a nation that clearly didn't want one. The Clothes Have No Emperor is the result—a presentation of the Reagan years as I saw them, an invitation to historians to set the record straight while Nancy is around to see it, and a call to vigilance as we set about choosing who will lead us into the next millennium. Yes, The President Reagan Show is off the air now, but a similar entertainment-Dan Quayle's Playhouse—is waiting in the wings. As we head into the '90s, the powers that be are working overtime-with the complicity, once again, of segments of the media that surely know better-to lull us into thinking that our Vice President is "growing" into his office and will soon be ready for bigger things. Do not assume that this lightweight can never be elected to the White House. Back in the '60s, we knew the very notion of "President Reagan" was preposterous. Paul Slansky New York July 1989
January 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Thinking about Telstra Tower and imagining it as a miracle performance art space. One weekend only. Full access. Revolving restaurant. Some how the whole place is falling apart and the car park is more burnt out then space holder of the 360 view inclined.
December 24, 2024 at 11:10 AM