David Marrs
@davidmarrs.bsky.social
Lead Software Engineer. Web. VueJS/Typescript/C#.
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Here is me on the BBC from 12:40am this morning
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Axr...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Axr...
August 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Here is me on the BBC from 12:40am this morning
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Axr...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Axr...
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July 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Anyway yes, apart from the “I made a sexy war reporter play-doll” creepy AF aspect, this is fucking terrifying.
Someone is very shortly going to need to come up with a chain-of-authenticity system where you verify as real people you’ve met in person & everyone else does so too.
Someone is very shortly going to need to come up with a chain-of-authenticity system where you verify as real people you’ve met in person & everyone else does so too.
This is an AI-generated reporter holding a CNN microphone in an AI-generated location, reading an inputted script.
If you think fake news is bad and dangerous now, we are about to enter a whole new era.
If you think fake news is bad and dangerous now, we are about to enter a whole new era.
October 11, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Anyway yes, apart from the “I made a sexy war reporter play-doll” creepy AF aspect, this is fucking terrifying.
Someone is very shortly going to need to come up with a chain-of-authenticity system where you verify as real people you’ve met in person & everyone else does so too.
Someone is very shortly going to need to come up with a chain-of-authenticity system where you verify as real people you’ve met in person & everyone else does so too.
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The longest sentence handed down to a violent racist rioter this week is shorter than the sentences imposed on entirely peaceful environmental protesters last month.
Labour must repeal the Tory laws that treat peaceful protest more severely than violent disorder and assault.
Labour must repeal the Tory laws that treat peaceful protest more severely than violent disorder and assault.
August 7, 2024 at 12:13 PM
The longest sentence handed down to a violent racist rioter this week is shorter than the sentences imposed on entirely peaceful environmental protesters last month.
Labour must repeal the Tory laws that treat peaceful protest more severely than violent disorder and assault.
Labour must repeal the Tory laws that treat peaceful protest more severely than violent disorder and assault.
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I wrote about the long and important history of laughing at fascists and the Democrats' "weird" allegations against Trump and Vance as an extension of that tradition: bad-faith-times.ghost.io/weird-and-th...
‘Weird’ And The Breaking of The Fascist Fever
One word to break the fascist fever. One word to deflate the power Trump and his cronies think they have.
bad-faith-times.ghost.io
August 1, 2024 at 2:13 PM
I wrote about the long and important history of laughing at fascists and the Democrats' "weird" allegations against Trump and Vance as an extension of that tradition: bad-faith-times.ghost.io/weird-and-th...
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Last month Roku TVs held a bunch of people hostage, disabling TVs unless they accepted a ToS agreement. I wrote about how we are in a golden age of user hostile consumer products and the pervasive sense that the quality of the things we buy is decaying (GIFT LINK) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility
They don’t make ’em like they used to!
www.theatlantic.com
April 11, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Last month Roku TVs held a bunch of people hostage, disabling TVs unless they accepted a ToS agreement. I wrote about how we are in a golden age of user hostile consumer products and the pervasive sense that the quality of the things we buy is decaying (GIFT LINK) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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I don’t know who wrote this, but it’s absolutely perfect
March 23, 2024 at 10:09 AM
I don’t know who wrote this, but it’s absolutely perfect
Is the US having its own 'Ed Miliband eating a bacon sandwich' moment? Good luck with that timeline, I guess.
Remarkable to think that when your candidate is a corrupt, ignorant, vulgar conman who faces 91 felony charges - ranging from stealing classified documents to fraud to trying to halt the peaceful transfer of power - that the best you can do is accuse the other guy of eating ice cream wrong.
February 28, 2024 at 7:59 AM
Is the US having its own 'Ed Miliband eating a bacon sandwich' moment? Good luck with that timeline, I guess.
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Today's newsletter: I believe AI is racing Silicon Valley toward another dot com bust. Generative AI is too unreliable, has no path to profit, uses far too much energy, and cannot fix its core problem - that you just can't trust the things it creates.
www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-f...
www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-f...
Subprime Intelligence
Please scroll to the bottom for news on my next big project, Better Offline, coming this Wednesday!
Last week, Sam Altman debuted OpenAI's "Sora," a text-to-video AI model that turns strings of text ...
www.wheresyoured.at
February 19, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Today's newsletter: I believe AI is racing Silicon Valley toward another dot com bust. Generative AI is too unreliable, has no path to profit, uses far too much energy, and cannot fix its core problem - that you just can't trust the things it creates.
www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-f...
www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-f...
The Arc browser controversy has me rethinking my use of Brave as a default browser. Basic Attention Tokens are a cool idea but when so many sites are not registered as 'Verified creators', blocking ads by default does not seem the best long term plan. Stripping the clutter is nice, but...
Search engines and chatbots are now using AI to summarize the web. Arc, a revolutionary new browser, is the latest on the block, scraping knowledge from multiple sites onto a single, custom-built webpage. Critics are asking: Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us? My report for Engadget.
Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us?
Instead of displaying links, Arc Search's “Browse for Me” feature reads the first handful of pages and summarizes them into a single, custom-built, Arc-formatted web page using large language models f...
www.engadget.com
February 18, 2024 at 5:45 PM
The Arc browser controversy has me rethinking my use of Brave as a default browser. Basic Attention Tokens are a cool idea but when so many sites are not registered as 'Verified creators', blocking ads by default does not seem the best long term plan. Stripping the clutter is nice, but...