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Q&A with Jonah Peretti on why he sold BuzzFeed, the structure of the deal with Byron Allen, his new role as president of BuzzFeed AI, HuffPost, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/932154/peretti-allen-buzzfeed-ai-slop-soci…

Exclusive: Jonah Peretti explains why he sold BuzzFeed
The soon-to-be-former CEO reflects on the rise and fall of BuzzFeed, its recent sale to Byron Allen, and how a pivot to AI can give the brand new relevance.

Went to see a 1 man version of Robert Tressell's 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' last night. Sounds a bit implausible but it worked well.
The Great Money Trick, actually an explanation of capitalist reproduction (simple) via expropriation of surplus value, is brilliant. Do read the book if you haven't. Relevant to today's long recession.

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Since it was relevant to a discussion I just had on here and is something most people probably haven't thought about much (unless you've taken one of a handful of philosophy classes), I thought I'd try to lay out a key piece of Descartes' Meditations (#philosophy

PSA: that linux root exploit is significant. Nobody cares about the number of bytes of the exploit. It's about as meaningless as the also popular "this attack takes only xx seconds / xx minutes". If attackers want to become root, they really don't care if you need 700 or 7000 or 70000 bytes. Or if it takes 2 seconds or 5 minutes. Irrelevant metrics for impact.
Relevant Qs are: how reliable the exploit is, how widespread the vulnerability, etc.

“Judge Beryl Howell directed the agencies to complete searches for responsive records by July 1 and start producing records to the committee at a rate of 500 pages/month for each outstanding request. The judge explained that her decision was motivated by the fact that the requests are “time sensitive” and relevant to matters of “imminent public debate.”
Judge issues huge blow to Trump’s meddling - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-steal-election-2676962398/

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems rely on pre-chunked documents, tying retrieval to arbitrary boundaries. Carles Onielfa is joining us at #bbuzz26 to explore an experimental approach that surfaces semantically relevant text spans, without chunking.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/towards-chunk-less-rag/

Can someone explain to me how the argument “ #LLMs only produce stochastically reasonable output ” is relevant or convincing?
Like… how do you think a human brain forms a sentence? Is this a straight-forward deterministic process? Does it matter?
I use tools and processes to verify my output and so does a coding agent.
I just don't get how this is an argument that would…