👁️ Asides
Throw way thoughts. Sometimes I wonder why I felt it was worth posting when I did. Other times even I can’t work out what I was trying to say.
👁️🚧 Experiment.
👁️🏢 🔗 MALUS - Clean Room as a Service | Liberation from Open Source Attribution
A parody I believe - but just like with satire - I have this nervous feeling that parody might not be able to keep up with reality.
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“This sentence was written by a human.”
That’s not a lie. That’s a fact.
This post is rare because line 2 is usually a clear indication that an LLM has been involved in the post creation. In this case that is not true.
‘Clear indication’ is not the same as ‘absolute’.
Likewise the em dash.
No, the use of an em dash does not mean that the writing was generated by the LLM - but no one can deny that we have seen a bucket load more of them since LLMs turned up - and are used a lot by people who often include in their posts something like … “that’s not a coincidence - that’s a pattern”.
👁️🏢 🔗 MALUS - Clean Room as a Service | Liberation from Open Source Attribution
A parody I believe - but just like with satire - I have this nervous feeling that parody might not be able to keep up with reality.
👁️ The Hugo thing started to make me wonder a few weeks ago .. and now the social cards .. with @sod pointing out to me that my theme has been untouched for four years.
Is it time to bite the bullet?
👁️ A couple of YouTube Shorts
📼🔗 A VERY different kind of drum solo 🤯 - take that 📼🔗 El Estepario Siberiano though to be fair - still 🤯.
👁️ I remember when the ‘people line item’ was the largest on a typical PandL.
AI … “Hold my beer” …
👁️💬 I just rediscovered - but cannot recall where I found them … John Naughton❓Alan Jacobs❓When I find out - will come back and adjust.
👁️ Hunter adds to my growing list of annoying LinkedIn traits.
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Using AI to write posts saying don’t use AI to write posts
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Using ‘first image out of hopper’ illustrating argument that doesn’t
LinkedIn could save most VCs a step by adding a post template called “AI Dinner.” You upload a picture of the full table and a picture of the custom menu card with your firm’s logo on it. Then it pre-fills the text of “Still buzzing from bringing together all these AI Builders last night,” while also auto-tagging the attendees.
💬 Hunter Walk
👁️ Via 🔗 Futility Closet
The true test of happiness is whether you know what day of the week it is. A miserable man is aware of this even in his sleep. To be as cheerful and rosy-cheeked on Monday as on Saturday, and at breakfast as at dinner is to — well, make an ideal husband.
💬 W.N.P. Barbellion, The Journal of a Disappointed Man, 1919
👁️ Let this be a warning dear Signal users …
🔗 FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
What happens is that if the text of a Signal message shows up on a lock screen, it’s stored in iOS itself, in a place where forensic investigators can gain access to it. That’s a really good reason to turn off lock-screen notifications for Signal, and to remove the text of Signal messages from its notifications entirely.
💬 Ben Werdmuller
👁️ Further proof that measuring GDP does not accurately reflect productivity.
👁️ I think this is pretty much the only thing I came across today which is worth reading …
🔗 Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit
There’s a particular kind of person who can’t accept that story at face value, and you’ve met them. I am absolutely sure of it. They show up in every comment section and reply thread where someone powerful does something that looks, on its face, like a mistake - and their argument always runs the same way: you don’t understand, this is actually part of a larger plan, there’s a strategy here that you and I can’t see because we’re not operating at that anointed and elevated level… They’re the 4D chess crowd.