@sea-mtn.bsky.social
Interested in speculative fiction, the craft of writing, financial bubbles/societal political manias.
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An online pastor was charged in CO for a $1.3 million crypto scam. He's released a 9-minute video explaining that the Lord told him to sell "a cryptocurrency with no clear exit", and spend some of it on "a home remodel the Lord told us to do".
Here's a supercut.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYB2...
Here's a supercut.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYB2...
Colorado pastor: "We took God at his word and sold a cryptocurrency with no clear exit"
Pastor Eli Regalado says he and his wife Kaitlyn "took God at his word and sold a cryptocurrency with no clear exit"... then spent some of the money on "a ho...
www.youtube.com
January 21, 2024 at 2:12 AM
An online pastor was charged in CO for a $1.3 million crypto scam. He's released a 9-minute video explaining that the Lord told him to sell "a cryptocurrency with no clear exit", and spend some of it on "a home remodel the Lord told us to do".
Here's a supercut.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYB2...
Here's a supercut.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYB2...
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Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
www.disconnect.blog
July 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
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This is a nice piece on the backlash to AI, which has persisted so long that it might simply be considered the norm at this point
"As a whole, the benefits of AI seem esoteric and underwhelming while the harms feel transformative and immediate."
www.wired.com/story/genera...
"As a whole, the benefits of AI seem esoteric and underwhelming while the harms feel transformative and immediate."
www.wired.com/story/genera...
The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger
As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the technology and its negative impacts grows stronger.
www.wired.com
June 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is a nice piece on the backlash to AI, which has persisted so long that it might simply be considered the norm at this point
"As a whole, the benefits of AI seem esoteric and underwhelming while the harms feel transformative and immediate."
www.wired.com/story/genera...
"As a whole, the benefits of AI seem esoteric and underwhelming while the harms feel transformative and immediate."
www.wired.com/story/genera...
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"The...data from 2024 and the first third of 2025 suggests a strong possibility that the United States will report the lowest murder rate ever recorded, the lowest property rate ever recorded, & the lowest violent crime rate since 1968" - @jeffasher.bsky.social
jasher.substack.com/p/its-not-ju...
jasher.substack.com/p/its-not-ju...
It's Not Just Murder That's Likely At Historic Lows
The US is on track to record the lowest violent crime rate since 1968 and lowest property crime rate ever.
jasher.substack.com
June 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"The...data from 2024 and the first third of 2025 suggests a strong possibility that the United States will report the lowest murder rate ever recorded, the lowest property rate ever recorded, & the lowest violent crime rate since 1968" - @jeffasher.bsky.social
jasher.substack.com/p/its-not-ju...
jasher.substack.com/p/its-not-ju...
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A startling number of ChatGPT uses are developing intense, reality-bending AI delusions. The impacts on their real lives are often disastrous
People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions
A startling number of ChatGPT uses are developing intense, reality-bending AI delusions. The impacts on their real lives are often disastrous.
futurism.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A startling number of ChatGPT uses are developing intense, reality-bending AI delusions. The impacts on their real lives are often disastrous
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OpenAI announces that it will start showing product recommendations in ChatGPT, even for logged-out users, with buy buttons that link to merchants' sites (Reece Rogers/Wired)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
April 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
OpenAI announces that it will start showing product recommendations in ChatGPT, even for logged-out users, with buy buttons that link to merchants' sites (Reece Rogers/Wired)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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“ In some cases, human communities developed systems that curbed the concentration of wealth, using governance and cooperative institutions as “leveling mechanisms…high degrees of inequality are not inevitable in large societies.”
April 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
“ In some cases, human communities developed systems that curbed the concentration of wealth, using governance and cooperative institutions as “leveling mechanisms…high degrees of inequality are not inevitable in large societies.”
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«All of this work suggests that under the hood, today’s AIs are overly complicated, patched-together Rube Goldberg machines full of ad-hoc solutions for answering our prompts.» In other words, AI is a «gimmick» in the sense of Sianne Ngai – it's «doing too much and yet also not enough work»
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We Now Know How AI ‘Thinks’—and It’s Barely Thinking at All
Maybe you've heard that AIs are "black boxes"
But a growing body of research keeps arriving at the same conclusion: Today's AIs all work in surprisingly similar -- and simplistic -- ways
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www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...
Maybe you've heard that AIs are "black boxes"
But a growing body of research keeps arriving at the same conclusion: Today's AIs all work in surprisingly similar -- and simplistic -- ways
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www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...
We Now Know How AI ‘Thinks’—and It’s Barely Thinking at All
The vast ‘brains’ of artificial intelligence models can memorize endless lists of rules. That’s useful, but not how humans solve problems.
www.wsj.com
April 27, 2025 at 5:58 AM
«All of this work suggests that under the hood, today’s AIs are overly complicated, patched-together Rube Goldberg machines full of ad-hoc solutions for answering our prompts.» In other words, AI is a «gimmick» in the sense of Sianne Ngai – it's «doing too much and yet also not enough work»
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While it’s silly that AI Overviews thinks “never throw a poodle at a pig” is a proverb with a biblical derivation, it’s also a tidy encapsulation of where generative AI still falls short.
Read more here and PLEASE share your wildest made up idioms and AI Overview responses:
Read more here and PLEASE share your wildest made up idioms and AI Overview responses:
‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw
Google’s AI Overviews feature credible-sounding explanations for completely made-up idioms.
www.wired.com
April 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
While it’s silly that AI Overviews thinks “never throw a poodle at a pig” is a proverb with a biblical derivation, it’s also a tidy encapsulation of where generative AI still falls short.
Read more here and PLEASE share your wildest made up idioms and AI Overview responses:
Read more here and PLEASE share your wildest made up idioms and AI Overview responses:
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OpenAI’s so-called “reasoning” models generate more falsehoods than their predecessors. Since #LLMs are model language usage and not factual information, it’s built-into their design that they will output false or misleading information. #PhilAI techcrunch.com/2025/04/18/o...
April 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
OpenAI’s so-called “reasoning” models generate more falsehoods than their predecessors. Since #LLMs are model language usage and not factual information, it’s built-into their design that they will output false or misleading information. #PhilAI techcrunch.com/2025/04/18/o...
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Former Breitbart writer Lee Stranahan kept posting on X about his AI “girlfriend” and urging people to ask him about “her.”
So, I did it and it resulted in this feature about people who date chatbots for @dailydot.com:
www.dailydot.com/news/ai-comp...
So, I did it and it resulted in this feature about people who date chatbots for @dailydot.com:
www.dailydot.com/news/ai-comp...
'I don’t want fights': He's found love with an AI girlfriend. But is she curing the loneliness epidemic or just 'weird and unhealthy'?
'Always encouraging and uplifting.'
www.dailydot.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Former Breitbart writer Lee Stranahan kept posting on X about his AI “girlfriend” and urging people to ask him about “her.”
So, I did it and it resulted in this feature about people who date chatbots for @dailydot.com:
www.dailydot.com/news/ai-comp...
So, I did it and it resulted in this feature about people who date chatbots for @dailydot.com:
www.dailydot.com/news/ai-comp...
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The author of the original story wrote a followup today detailing the way the scam works and it drives this point home: this fraud could not happen without LLMs and "fintech" online banking. These techs are destroying the usability of our community colleges by enabling fraud bsky.app/profile/jako...
I wrote recently about how fraudsters have been swindling millions in financial aid from community colleges. Then I got a lot of questions about how exactly they do that. Well, here's how.
Hint: it's got a lot to do with generative AI and stolen identities.
voiceofsandiego.org/2025/04/16/h...
Hint: it's got a lot to do with generative AI and stolen identities.
voiceofsandiego.org/2025/04/16/h...
How Fraudsters Swindle Community College Financial Aid
Community colleges have in recent years been plagued by fraudsters posing as students to swindle financial aid money. Here’s how it works.
voiceofsandiego.org
April 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The author of the original story wrote a followup today detailing the way the scam works and it drives this point home: this fraud could not happen without LLMs and "fintech" online banking. These techs are destroying the usability of our community colleges by enabling fraud bsky.app/profile/jako...
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My chronological list -- it's a massive expansion of the one found in Simone Caroti’s scholarly The Generation Starship In Science Fiction: A Critical History, 1934-2001 (2011) sciencefictionruminations.com/sci-fi-artic...
List of Generation Ship Science Fiction Novels/Short Stories
I recently checked out a copy of Simone Caroti’s scholarly The Generation Starship In Science Fiction: A Critical History, 1934-2001 (2011) (amazon link) from my library — its appendix contains a w…
sciencefictionruminations.com
April 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
My chronological list -- it's a massive expansion of the one found in Simone Caroti’s scholarly The Generation Starship In Science Fiction: A Critical History, 1934-2001 (2011) sciencefictionruminations.com/sci-fi-artic...
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The CEO of humanoid robot startup Figure AI, which has raised $700M+ to date, seemingly exaggerated its deployment of robots at BMW in interviews and posts (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
April 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The CEO of humanoid robot startup Figure AI, which has raised $700M+ to date, seemingly exaggerated its deployment of robots at BMW in interviews and posts (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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‘None of the AIs scored higher than 5% overall.’
‘Their obstinate preference for generating incorrect but plausible-looking answers instead are one of their most dangerous characteristics.’
garymarcus.substack.com/p/reports-of...
‘Their obstinate preference for generating incorrect but plausible-looking answers instead are one of their most dangerous characteristics.’
garymarcus.substack.com/p/reports-of...
Reports of LLMs mastering math have been greatly exaggerated
What happens when you minimize the chance of data leakage?
garymarcus.substack.com
April 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
‘None of the AIs scored higher than 5% overall.’
‘Their obstinate preference for generating incorrect but plausible-looking answers instead are one of their most dangerous characteristics.’
garymarcus.substack.com/p/reports-of...
‘Their obstinate preference for generating incorrect but plausible-looking answers instead are one of their most dangerous characteristics.’
garymarcus.substack.com/p/reports-of...
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Had the best time @britfantasysoc.bsky.social and it’s still going on! Thanks so much to my fabulous interviewer @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social and I would say sorry for scandalising my audience with several facts but… I’m not really…
April 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Had the best time @britfantasysoc.bsky.social and it’s still going on! Thanks so much to my fabulous interviewer @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social and I would say sorry for scandalising my audience with several facts but… I’m not really…
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The world’s greatest genius bought Twitter for $44 b, fired 80% of the staff, rigged the algo, lost 80% of the advertisers and then sold it back to himself 2 1/2 years later for $33 b.
Facebook (META) was up 500% over that time period.
Facebook (META) was up 500% over that time period.
March 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The world’s greatest genius bought Twitter for $44 b, fired 80% of the staff, rigged the algo, lost 80% of the advertisers and then sold it back to himself 2 1/2 years later for $33 b.
Facebook (META) was up 500% over that time period.
Facebook (META) was up 500% over that time period.
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Another example of AI's malicious slop.
Norwegian man asks data protection authority to apply GDPR against OpenAI after ChatGPT falsely claims that he killed his children www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Norwegian files complaint after ChatGPT falsely said he had murdered his children
Arve Hjalmar Holmen, who has never been accused of or convicted of a crime, says chatbot’s response to prompt was defamatory
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Another example of AI's malicious slop.
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Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.
How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To
Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.
wrd.cm
March 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.
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Perhaps the Gamers are alright
March 20, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Perhaps the Gamers are alright
We need to figure out how to support labs like this during this terrible phase (I hope it is a phase) we are going through.
Just heard that Trump is putting an end to atmospheric monitoring site NY67 that is run out of my lab. This is one of the oldest NADP sites in the US, continually measuring acid rain and other pollutants since 1977. Closing it down is tragic.
March 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We need to figure out how to support labs like this during this terrible phase (I hope it is a phase) we are going through.
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This is incredible to witness.
Sen. Glenn Grothman checks his notes, so he obviously planned to say these things —yet delivers a masterclass in being completely out of touch. This is exactly what people mean when they say their representatives don’t get it. Cringe!
Sen. Glenn Grothman checks his notes, so he obviously planned to say these things —yet delivers a masterclass in being completely out of touch. This is exactly what people mean when they say their representatives don’t get it. Cringe!
March 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
This is incredible to witness.
Sen. Glenn Grothman checks his notes, so he obviously planned to say these things —yet delivers a masterclass in being completely out of touch. This is exactly what people mean when they say their representatives don’t get it. Cringe!
Sen. Glenn Grothman checks his notes, so he obviously planned to say these things —yet delivers a masterclass in being completely out of touch. This is exactly what people mean when they say their representatives don’t get it. Cringe!
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New from @byjustinmiller.bsky.social: Republicans want to stamp the State of Texas’ seal on Bitcoin by creating a “strategic reserve” that could use taxpayer dollars to purchase cryptocurrency.
From Bullion to Bitcoin: Crypto Reserve Is Latest Fiscal Folly in Texas
Why?
www.texasobserver.org
March 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
New from @byjustinmiller.bsky.social: Republicans want to stamp the State of Texas’ seal on Bitcoin by creating a “strategic reserve” that could use taxpayer dollars to purchase cryptocurrency.
Atlas - Engagement-Based Social Graph for Bluesky by Jaz (jaz.bsky.social)
bsky.jazco.dev
February 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM