Noah
@xenago.bsky.social
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All energy is only borrowed, and one day you have to give it back
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All energy is only borrowed, and one day you have to give it back
49 20 6c 6f 76 65 20 79 6f 75
https://mstdn.ca/@noah
https://twitter.com/thatnoah
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Speaking of brand narrative building, I think its worth pointing out that this paranoia thats been instilled in every single CEO surrounding AI that they must use it or risk "being left behind" is itself a complete fabrication, a narrative spun by the shovel salesmen
If I had known the two paragraphs about genAI in my article today would be so controversial, I would have expanded them a bit! Here's a rough transcript of the relevant portion of my interview with Swen Vincke, so everyone has all the context. (Full article here: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...)
December 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Speaking of brand narrative building, I think its worth pointing out that this paranoia thats been instilled in every single CEO surrounding AI that they must use it or risk "being left behind" is itself a complete fabrication, a narrative spun by the shovel salesmen
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Larian embracing AI for concept art sucks. CA is the bedrock, the foundation for art in games. It is the promise of what can be with your game. Before any art assets are made, before there is a game to play; Concept art is there to inspire and excite the team. To destroy that w/ AI slow is criminal
December 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Larian embracing AI for concept art sucks. CA is the bedrock, the foundation for art in games. It is the promise of what can be with your game. Before any art assets are made, before there is a game to play; Concept art is there to inspire and excite the team. To destroy that w/ AI slow is criminal
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I think the big thing any person who cares about details has figured out about AI is that you are getting a google search output via chat window and some formatting.
It's not Jarvis.
It's not Jarvis.
If I had known the two paragraphs about genAI in my article today would be so controversial, I would have expanded them a bit! Here's a rough transcript of the relevant portion of my interview with Swen Vincke, so everyone has all the context. (Full article here: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...)
December 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I think the big thing any person who cares about details has figured out about AI is that you are getting a google search output via chat window and some formatting.
It's not Jarvis.
It's not Jarvis.
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I'm no journalist, so maybe there's an obvious reason not to that I'm not seeing, but I do find it odd that it's not standard practice to publish transcripts alongside highly condensed interview pieces like this.
If I had known the two paragraphs about genAI in my article today would be so controversial, I would have expanded them a bit! Here's a rough transcript of the relevant portion of my interview with Swen Vincke, so everyone has all the context. (Full article here: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...)
December 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I'm no journalist, so maybe there's an obvious reason not to that I'm not seeing, but I do find it odd that it's not standard practice to publish transcripts alongside highly condensed interview pieces like this.
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It's so telling that they only talk about the financial risks/rewards and never about how devastating it is to environments, municipal water supplies, and how it adversely impacts marginalized communities. At this point, they are either apathetic or ignorant about that, and neither case is good.
December 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
It's so telling that they only talk about the financial risks/rewards and never about how devastating it is to environments, municipal water supplies, and how it adversely impacts marginalized communities. At this point, they are either apathetic or ignorant about that, and neither case is good.
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Yeah I don’t understand why the focus in articles like this is always “is it working for you” instead of “what do you have to say about the massive ethical implications of using it?”
December 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Yeah I don’t understand why the focus in articles like this is always “is it working for you” instead of “what do you have to say about the massive ethical implications of using it?”
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they're soon going to find they're MORE productive, competitive and better regarded if they do the ethical thing and completely repudiate gen 'ai'
December 17, 2025 at 3:40 AM
they're soon going to find they're MORE productive, competitive and better regarded if they do the ethical thing and completely repudiate gen 'ai'
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the whole world is going to hell fuck
August 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
the whole world is going to hell fuck
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I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"
August 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"
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RMS was right about everything
August 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
RMS was right about everything
This is the end of Android as a platform.
Google will require developer verification to install Android apps, including sideloading
Google will require developer verification to install Android apps, including sideloading
To combat malware and financial scams, Google announced today that only apps from developers that have undergone verification can be installed on certified Android devices starting in 2026.
more…
9to5google.com
August 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This is the end of Android as a platform.
Bluesky continues to collaborate with awful governments and ignore user privacy.
Their new move is to require UK users to submit their ID to Epic Games lmao.
www.theverge.com/news/704468/...
Their new move is to require UK users to submit their ID to Epic Games lmao.
www.theverge.com/news/704468/...
July 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Bluesky continues to collaborate with awful governments and ignore user privacy.
Their new move is to require UK users to submit their ID to Epic Games lmao.
www.theverge.com/news/704468/...
Their new move is to require UK users to submit their ID to Epic Games lmao.
www.theverge.com/news/704468/...
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That's so much the wrong direction (centralisation, opacity).
Why not improve on the DNS-based verification? (which is decentralized and transparent)
Sounds like a cheap marketing move :/.
Why not improve on the DNS-based verification? (which is decentralized and transparent)
Sounds like a cheap marketing move :/.
April 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
That's so much the wrong direction (centralisation, opacity).
Why not improve on the DNS-based verification? (which is decentralized and transparent)
Sounds like a cheap marketing move :/.
Why not improve on the DNS-based verification? (which is decentralized and transparent)
Sounds like a cheap marketing move :/.
Bluesky is unethically collaborating with dictators. It operates a Turkish content labeler, which any account registered in Turkey is required to subscribe to, and censors posts.
I'm disappointed, but not surprised.
Was a good run here.
I'm disappointed, but not surprised.
Was a good run here.
Seeing Bluesky had to remove posts the Turkish government demanded removed
Is it possible to do this similar to how chilling effect (now lumen) handles DMCA notices?
Content preserved but removed?
Like this?
lumendatabase.org/notices/5106...
Is it possible to do this similar to how chilling effect (now lumen) handles DMCA notices?
Content preserved but removed?
Like this?
lumendatabase.org/notices/5106...
DMCA (Copyright) Complaint to Google :: Notices :: Lumen
lumendatabase.org
April 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Bluesky is unethically collaborating with dictators. It operates a Turkish content labeler, which any account registered in Turkey is required to subscribe to, and censors posts.
I'm disappointed, but not surprised.
Was a good run here.
I'm disappointed, but not surprised.
Was a good run here.
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might just be the news ive seen today and the order i've seen it in but when you take it all together boy man i just dunno
April 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
might just be the news ive seen today and the order i've seen it in but when you take it all together boy man i just dunno
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I honestly thought y'all were making this up
>reading the David Brooks Op Ed about mass strikes and seeing him quote the communist manifesto at the end
April 18, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I honestly thought y'all were making this up
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Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.
April 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.
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Aaaaand Bukele drove the knife right back in.
April 18, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Aaaaand Bukele drove the knife right back in.
YouTube and twitter are really turning up the dial on their awful ai-ml video encoding. Everything looks disgusting when compared to higher quality original copies.
I wish companies like Disney were smart enough to upload their videos in 2160p containers to get around this mess, but alas.
I wish companies like Disney were smart enough to upload their videos in 2160p containers to get around this mess, but alas.
April 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
YouTube and twitter are really turning up the dial on their awful ai-ml video encoding. Everything looks disgusting when compared to higher quality original copies.
I wish companies like Disney were smart enough to upload their videos in 2160p containers to get around this mess, but alas.
I wish companies like Disney were smart enough to upload their videos in 2160p containers to get around this mess, but alas.
BC roads are about to get a lot more dangerous.
April 17, 2025 at 12:40 AM
BC roads are about to get a lot more dangerous.
Hopefully www.thecvefoundation.org steps in regardless. Can't have this program ever lapse.
April 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Hopefully www.thecvefoundation.org steps in regardless. Can't have this program ever lapse.
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As a biologist, I'm appalled at pride the White House takes in willful ignorance.
In yesterday's executive order about NPR and PBS, their first example of "the trash that passes for `news' at NPR and PBS" is the statement that "banana slugs are hermaphrodites."
But this is unequivocal fact.
In yesterday's executive order about NPR and PBS, their first example of "the trash that passes for `news' at NPR and PBS" is the statement that "banana slugs are hermaphrodites."
But this is unequivocal fact.
The NPR, PBS Grift Has Ripped Us Off for Too Long
For years, American taxpayers have been on the hook for subsidizing National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which spread
www.whitehouse.gov
April 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
As a biologist, I'm appalled at pride the White House takes in willful ignorance.
In yesterday's executive order about NPR and PBS, their first example of "the trash that passes for `news' at NPR and PBS" is the statement that "banana slugs are hermaphrodites."
But this is unequivocal fact.
In yesterday's executive order about NPR and PBS, their first example of "the trash that passes for `news' at NPR and PBS" is the statement that "banana slugs are hermaphrodites."
But this is unequivocal fact.
The MITRE CVE program might be killed off by the US Government. This would be a catastrophe for basic IT ops and information security :/
infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/...
infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/...
April 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The MITRE CVE program might be killed off by the US Government. This would be a catastrophe for basic IT ops and information security :/
infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/...
infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/...
Canada absolutely needs to repeal The Preclearance Act, 2016.
It prevents Canadian citizens from leaving American border facilities when still on home soil, among other ridiculous provisions like allowing CBP officers to be armed!
From CAUT Travel advisory:
www.caut.ca/sites/defaul...
It prevents Canadian citizens from leaving American border facilities when still on home soil, among other ridiculous provisions like allowing CBP officers to be armed!
From CAUT Travel advisory:
www.caut.ca/sites/defaul...
April 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Canada absolutely needs to repeal The Preclearance Act, 2016.
It prevents Canadian citizens from leaving American border facilities when still on home soil, among other ridiculous provisions like allowing CBP officers to be armed!
From CAUT Travel advisory:
www.caut.ca/sites/defaul...
It prevents Canadian citizens from leaving American border facilities when still on home soil, among other ridiculous provisions like allowing CBP officers to be armed!
From CAUT Travel advisory:
www.caut.ca/sites/defaul...
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I know you aren't going to want to hear this but the reason the system can deport Mahmoud Khalil and send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador is that for years we've been executing factually innocent people like Marcellus Williams and sending legally innocent people to places like Riker's Island.
April 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I know you aren't going to want to hear this but the reason the system can deport Mahmoud Khalil and send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador is that for years we've been executing factually innocent people like Marcellus Williams and sending legally innocent people to places like Riker's Island.