Thinking about Simon Willison's Dan Lyke / comment 0
Thinking about Simon Willison's "Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw." and how many people I know with missing fingers... 404 Media: Silicon Valley’s Favorite New AI Agent Has Serious Security Flaws, on the obvious flaws in the whole Clawdbot/MoltBot/OpenClaw paradigm.
Epstein files Dan Lyke / comment 0
The latest Epstein files dump needs a trigger warning.
Meidas: DOJ Just DELETED This Document from the Epstein Files. We Saved It. which notes that it was restored, whence the link above.
The rise of Whatever Dan Lyke / comment 0
Too much good stuff to find an appropriate pull paragraph: Eevee: The rise of Whatever
The sources don't actually say that Dan Lyke / comment 0
The machines are getting better at lying: Wiki Education: Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025
Far more insidious, however, was something else we discovered: More than two-thirds of these articles failed verification. That means the article contained a plausible-sounding sentence, cited to a real, relevant-sounding source. But when you read the source it’s cited to, the information on Wikipedia does not exist in that specific source. When a claim fails verification, it’s impossible to tell whether the information is true or not. For most of the articles Pangram flagged as written by GenAI, nearly every cited sentence in the article failed verification.
LAPD announces they won't enforce the law Dan Lyke / comment 0
LAPD continues its long tradition of being a bunch of lawless thugs: LAPD won’t enforce ban on federal law enforcement officers wearing masks, chief says
Reading though the source code for https Dan Lyke / comment 0
Reading though the source code for https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw / MoltBot (formerly ClawdBot), and maybe the thing about specifying skills for these monstrosities is that we can actually get some good human-readable command-line tools and documentation.
Edit: Oh yeah, the Anthropic skills are totally handy "so you want to..." guides: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/
AI & skill formation Dan Lyke / comment 0
How AI Impacts Skill Formation Judy Hanwen Shen, Alex Tamkin
Figure 6 shows that while using AI to complete our coding task did not significantly improve task completion time, the level of skill formation gained by completing the task, measured by our quiz, is significantly reduced (Cohen d=0.738, p=0.01). There is a 4.15 point difference between the means of the treatment and control groups. For a 27-point quiz, this translates into a 17% score difference or 2 grade points. Controlling for warm-up task time as a covariate, the treatment effect remains significant (Cohen’s d=0.725, p=0.016).
Bruce Springsteen's Streets of Dan Lyke / comment 0
Bruce Springsteen's "Streets of Minneapolis" seems to be running about 110 BPM, which means it's probably possible to do a 126BPM version for a square dance singing call.
Guessing that's not gonna come from any of the traditional producers, though.
posing as an FBI agent to spring Luigi Mangione Dan Lyke / comment 0
The 2020s just keep getting weirder and weirder: Man allegedly posed as FBI agent in apparent attempt to spring Luigi Mangione from prison
problem of the future is gonna be all Dan Lyke / comment 0
The problem of the future is gonna be all of the outdated documentation for Google products polluting the information space, making us think that it's still possible to use all of these deprecated features.
Sora struggling Dan Lyke / comment 0
Sounds like it reached market penetration quickly. It has done one thing, I am way less likely to click on a video in Facebook now, because the disappointment factor after doing so and finding out it's a bad Sora render is so high.
Tech Crunch: OpenAI’s Sora app is struggling after its stellar launch
Powered by OpenAI’s video generation model Sora 2, the iOS version topped 100,000 installs on day one, despite being an invite-only experience. It soon hit the No. 1 spot on the U.S. App Store, and it reached the 1 million downloads milestone faster than ChatGPT. At the time, Sora’s app was iOS-only and still required an invite, making its success all the more impressive.
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Just a reminder that all of the Dan Lyke / comment 0
Just a reminder that all of the mediocre grant applicants are running their projects through "AI", which will create a bland neutral description of what they plan to do.
If you hope to stand out, avoiding LLMs altogether is the only logical option.
A lawless agency Dan Lyke / comment 0
That does not end the Court’s concerns, however. Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. The extent of ICE’s noncompliance is almost certainly substantially understated. This list is confined to orders issued since January 1, 2026, and the list was hurriedly compiled by extraordinarily busy judges. Undoubtedly, mistakes were made, and orders that should have appeared on this list were omitted.
A random internet poll Dan Lyke / comment 0
Reporting on the recent poll: PC World: DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don’t want AI
Identiconn Dan Lyke / comment 0
This one gets a top level pin in my browser: Identiconn™ Connector Identification Utility