Postal Arbitrage using Amazon Prime Dan Lyke / comment 0
Postal Arbitrage. Using Amazon Prime to send messages more cheaply than a first class letter by gifting cheap items.
My neighborhood will hate you.
Vance to the Pope Dan Lyke / comment 0
As the current administration speed runs a loss in a war it started, replaying Croesus and the Oracle of Delphi, and then starts lashing out at other institutions...
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social
I would simply threaten the Catholic Church with the power of the sword, a problem it has never previously confronted.
Too dangerous to release Dan Lyke / comment 0
As the tech world bends over backwards to over-hype the Claud Mythos/Project Glasswing thing as too dangerous to be generally released, a little reminder that we've been here before...
ChatGPT in 2019: Slate: When Is Technology Too Dangerous to Release to the Public?
At some point you'd think that there'd Dan Lyke / comment 0
At some point, you'd think that there'd be some structure to get the LLM to execute some code to give an answer, rather than just continuing down the "but we can make it more plausible" sentence generator path.
Seems particularly relevant to that stuff about ChatGPT measuring the time it takes to run a mile that's floating around right now.
The New York Times has had its moments Dan Lyke / comment 0
"The New York Times has had its moments of good journalism, but…"
Thinking a lot about slot machine analogies recently.
Was thinking about how some AI advocacy Dan Lyke / comment 0
Was thinking about how some AI advocacy I've been reading recently sounds a lot like "I've got a system for beating slot machines", went Googling, and... yeah, this MGM article sounds totally like your average "how to use AI" influencer.
https://www.mgmresorts.com/en/...-win-at-video-slot-machines.html
Reddit ranswers asks What made you Dan Lyke / comment 0
Reddit r/answers asks "What made you finally decide to quit smoking for good?"
Pretty sure the smokers I've known weren't all that hung up on whether they were smoking for good or not.
Iran being paid in cryptocurrency Dan Lyke / comment 1
“Once the email arrives and Iran completes its assessment, vessels are given a few seconds to pay in bitcoin, ensuring they can’t be traced or confiscated due to sanctions,” Hosseini added.
Murphy Campbell has her voice stolen Dan Lyke / comment 0
AI Company Clones Musician’s Voice, Then Copyright-Strikes Her Own Songs.
“An entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated versions of my songs to all major platforms,” Campbell explained in a video update to her followers. “And to do that, they fed YouTube videos of me to an AI engine that then mimicked my voice in playing.”
Timeless Sounds IR used a music distributor called Vydia, which then filed takedown notices against her.
Via.
More reason we need some real teeth for false DMCA takedown claims.
Unpopular opinion Rust is the C of Dan Lyke / comment 0
Unpopular opinion: Rust is the C of memory safe languages.
I'd really like a performant language that lets me not have all sorts of ugly boilerplate code when representing reasonable data structures.
Medvi and the NYT Dan Lyke / comment 0
Techdirt: The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI.
So to my friends and family members wondering why I haven’t built my own billion-dollar AI company: apparently the missing ingredient wasn’t AI — it was being willing to run a deepfake-powered spam operation selling potentially inert pills to desperate people. The AI just made the lying faster. And the New York Times made one guy appear respectable.
Armed agitator was a cop Dan Lyke / comment 0
Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social
During the anti-ICE school walkouts in January, a group of students in Chandler were targeted by an armed agitator. Turns out it was Phoenix PD Sergeant Dusten Mullen. He admitted his plan was to try to get purposely assaulted so the teenager protesters would all get arrested (it didn’t work).