
2025-08-09 06:31:10
An analysis of over 1M words of conversation between a ChatGPT user and the generative AI chatbot shows how ordinarily rational people can spiral into delusion (New York Times)
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An analysis of over 1M words of conversation between a ChatGPT user and the generative AI chatbot shows how ordinarily rational people can spiral into delusion (New York Times)
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I don't find this to be some cute story. It seems unsportsman like to me.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6542535/2025/08/08/hannah-hampton-water-bottle-spain-goalkeeper-euro-2025-shoot-out/
Beeld dat de wereld raakt.
#Gaza
I think some people forget that physical security is also cybersecurity.
Postman, engineer, cleaner: Are hackers sneaking into your office?
https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/08/10/postman-engineer-cleaner-are-hackers-sneak…
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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Nieuw in de supermarkt: advertentieruimte. ‘De marges daarop zijn zóveel hoger’ - #NRC
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/08/08/nieuw…
"Wir können nicht zu allen nett sein, schon gar nicht zu denen, die sich auf unserem Rücken einen überdurchschnittlichen Wohlstand aufbauen, in dem sie Regeln und Gesetze brechen."
https://zackzack.at/2025/08/08/durchschnittlicher-als-der-durchschnitt
Lovely piece, and why I often take small hotel rooms in cities: so I'm forced out to go explore. I especially love this line: "I understood how a metropolis allows you to be solitary without being lonely." People who don't live in cities don't get this.
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Advocates for net neutrality say they won't appeal a ruling against the policy, saying they don't trust the US Supreme Court to rule fairly on the issue (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
Why would you want to put PhD’s in your backpocket?
Imagine the mess when you sit down.
A lot of open source is this and it needs to stop.
https://yearning.gay/objects/ee32d3cc-e1f3-4716-a115-6b54f149363d
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. IG Farben initially wasn’t keen on working with the Nazis, but it just made business sense to adapt to the new political environment ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://daringfireball.net/2025/08/gold_frankincense_and_silicon
@… hey, I've been reading up on your older posts about using Sonos speakers as Mac audio outputs, and they've been super helpful! Thanks for taking the time to write everything up so thoroughly. I'm thinking of getting an old Ray and an optical-out adapter and giving it a go. Anything new to know since your write-ups? (I know Sonos has …
Rock legend Bobby Whitlock dies after hidden struggle
#TDIM #RIP
https://rollingout.com/2025/08/10/bobb
Eighty years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay took off from Tinian Island, in the Northern Mariana Islands,
for a mission that its flight crew knew would make history
‘My teeth told me’:
What it was like aboard the Enola Gay
https://www.washingtonpost.co…
The Netherlands joins the food dropping air show in Gaza, throwing half a truckload at the starving population in a day. Balcony collapses after being hit; 6 people wounded. Dutch Ministry of Defence not sure if it was their plane. https://nos.nl/l/2577501#UPDATE-88034429
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#bloomscrolling am #klexenhaus
(Hochsaison der Korbblütler der #blühklex Saat)
CS grads struggle to land jobs as tech companies lay off workers and embrace AI; CS majors face a 6.1% unemployment rate in the US among grads aged 22 to 27 (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technol
Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage
That some people find “text box that spits out a broken version of what they want and then you yell at it until it’s sufficing” more convenient than using existing tools says a lot more about existing tools than about the text box.
E.g. programming has long been extremely overwrought and complex for no reason other than enterprise wankery and gatekeeping, see the various frameworks from Big Tech.
The same companies now rent you expensive tools that “make programming easy”, while their overly complex frameworks and environments are free of course.
Instead of fixing the problem we’re now having two problems.
(The same is true in other industries.)
This is what a genocide denialist looks like.
Genocide denial is the last stage of genocide.
Phil, you’re complicit in genocide. And history is taking notes.
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“Hamada Ice Cream shop, which has not been open for weeks, recently posted a highlight reel of the pastries, cakes and drinks the cafe once served.
‘Me and 2 million Gazans are waiting for this moment Oh God, make things easy and these days pass safely, O Lord,’ reads the video’s Arabic caption.”
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Capitalism / market economy in the US.... "In a highly unusual arrangement with President Trump, the companies are expected to kick 15 percent of what they make in China to the U.S. government."
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Primärfarben sind die Farben die im Bundestag repräsentiert sind.
Among college graduates ages 22-27, computer science and computer engineering majors face unemployment rates of 6.1% and 7.5%, respectively, over double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%.
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle
https://www.…
Is it still correct that you can easily use HomePods as speakers with an Apple TV and they work great with no latency, but you can't do that with a Mac?
Hit ’em where it hurts… La Suisse pourrait en tirer des leçons…
https://www.rts.ch/info/monde/2025/article/pix-le-systeme-de-paiement-bresilien-qui-bouscule-l-hegemonie-americaine-28962023.html
Saying "I don't know" is not a core competence of AI so far. It rather comes up with some plausiblish nonsense (as some humans do too, btw).
US nuclear, geothermal, and energy storage companies have found a lifeline in the AI data center boom after years of challenges such as high interest rates (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-08/ai-money-is-raining-down-…
Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1071459 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
thank you, miccosukee tribe for being the last line against fascism in america, and sorry for once again carrying that burden
Petition to rename the United Kingdom “Pound Store United States”. https://social.coop/@afewbugs/115003927188139242
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“synthetic training data corpus”: eating its own shit
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AI startups like Anthropic and OpenAI are ramping up efforts to recruit quant researchers from Wall Street firms, offering competitive pay and benefits (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-08/open-ai-…
Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage
Ursula von der Leyen spricht einen Demonstranten in ihrer Rede an, und sagt ihm, dass er glücklich darüber sein kann nicht in Russland zu leben, dort würde man ja für Protest verhaftet werden aber hier haben wir ja Meinungsfreiheit... dies sagt sie ihm währenddessen er verhaftet wird.
Das Publikum klatscht.
Get this right: people in Gaza aren’t starving. People in Gaza *are being starved by Israel* in the genocide Israel is committing against the Palestinian people.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing
This isn’t trivial stuff. Google has ~15 billion queries a day.
Let’s say 50% of those contain an “AI” summary.
Of these 50%—lets be generous again—10% contain grave factual errors and made-up stuff.
And then let’s be extremely generous and say 1% of queries ask for something like medical advice.
15,000,000,000 x 0.5 x 0.1 x 0.01 x 365 =2,737,500,000
That’s ~2.7 billion wrong, dangerous, misleading, maybe deadly “AI” summaries per year.
Hands-on with Alexa : fun to talk to and good at handling multistep requests, but it is buggy, unreliable, and worse at some basic tasks than the original Alexa (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/0…
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…
The UK and Keir Starmer are complicit in genocide (and, it would appear, in the murder of British aid workers).
(And Keir, please feel free to sue me for libel under your country’s ridiculous libel laws because I would *love* the chance to run discovery on this.)
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I don’t get why people think when one industry does something unsafe (e.g. cars) of course sales moratoriums, investigations, fines and recalls are in order;—but if another industry does (deadly advice in “AI” summaries) it’s fine.
Western pharma giants have struck multibillion-dollar deals with Chinese biotech firms using AI, signaling confidence in China's AI drug discovery research (Leslie Liang/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-drug-discovery-startups-big-pharma-china/
Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke je Bundesland pro 10000 Einwohner in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
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Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Linux: Debian 13 kommt als Trixie
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A look at Changpeng Zhao's efforts to get a pardon from Trump for his money-laundering charges, including via lobbying and a business deal with the Trump family (New York Times)
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“agentic autonomous system”: cronjob
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Deutschlandkarte mit der Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke je Bundesland pro 10000 Einwohner in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025 in einer Farbskala-Darstellung.
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Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Die Stimme von "Houston, we’ve had a problem" ist verstummt
Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke je #Bundesland in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Die Angaben zur Schweiz sind Sonderfälle, zum Beispiel in Kreuzlingen und Neuhausen am Rheinfa…
Ok, first time making honey ice cream 🤞🐝🍦
Advocates for net neutrality say they won't appeal a ruling against the policy, saying they don't trust the US Supreme Court to rule fairly on the issue (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
Sing with me in the tune of “The Internet is for porn”:
🎶The LLM is for scam🎵
Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Missing Link: Zehn Jahre Landesverrat – Blogger im Zentrum einer Staatsaffäre
Sources: SoftBank has selected banks for a potential US IPO of its payments app operator PayPay, which may raise over $2B and could take place as soon as Q4 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/softbank-selects-…
Finally set up a firewall rule to block devices in my network that don’t need Internet access from trying to phone home.
My TV or soundbar categorically don’t need to access the Internet.
South Korean AI chip design firm DeepX partners with Baidu on industrial AI projects, as sources say it is preparing to raise a round above its $79M Series C (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…
Palantir wehrt sich: Datenabfluss "technisch ausgeschlossen"
Sollten deutsche Polizeien eine Datenanalyse-Software aus den USA nutzen? Kritiker warnen vor Datenabfluss. Jetzt kontert Palantir.
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One for the scientists:
You should only use tools and processes on your data that you completely understand.
LLMs are—by design—black boxes being trained to create algorithms that are so complex that it is strictly impossible to understand them.
Therefore they are incompatible with handling data (such transforming data or generating synthetic data) for scientific research.
Q&A with OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap on GPT-5, its dynamic reasoning, defining AGI, scaling vs. post-training, hallucinations, enterprise adoption, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
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Next up, “anti-fridgers”.
Because why make food cold first when you’re gonna heat it up later anyway, am I rite?
Despite stablecoins reaching $5T in transaction volumes in 2025, their promise of cheaper cross-border payments is hampered by persistent foreign exchange costs (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Investors are increasingly divesting from companies they fear are at risk of AI disruption, like Wix and Shutterstock, which are down at least 30% in 2025 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-09/traders-ar…
TIL about the “anti-sunscreen movement”
I feel one of my eyes about to pop out of my skull
“Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.”
The thing is, there’s nothing to ruin.
They’re already not making any money and operating at a loss and investors want hundreds of billions, perhaps trillions in payback.
Also perhaps they should have thought of this before the criming.
The controversy involving Tokyo Electron over alleged TSMC IP theft comes at a low point for the company, after order cancellations and a lull in Chinese demand (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-07/t…
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Buchungsportale: Wenn Kassenpatienten unfreiwillig zu Selbstzahlern werden
Experts say TCS' decision to cut 12K jobs signals the start of an AI-fueled trend that could eliminate ~500K jobs in India's $283B IT sector within three years (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Dobrindt will mehr digitale Ermittlungsbefugnisse: CCC & Co. protestieren massiv
Sources: Nvidia and AMD agreed to pay the US government 15% of revenues from H20 and MI308 chip sales in China to obtain export licenses granted last week (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/cd1a0729-a8ab-41e1-a4d2-8907f4c01cac
Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Dobrindt will mehr digitale Ermittlungsbefugnisse: CCC & Co. protestieren massiv
Helsinki-based ReOrbit, which builds satellites and a software platform to help countries fully control their satellite systems, raised a €45M Series A (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/08/reorbit-lands-record-funding-…
How David Sacks emerged as a key advocate for tech, crypto, and AI in the Trump administration, leveraging his tech expertise and All-In media presence (Ben Smith/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/08/2025/david-sacks-rules-for-success-i…
Vier Raumfahrer von der ISS abgedockt
Rund eine Woche nach der Ankunft ihrer Ablöse-Crew haben sich vier Raumfahrer von der ISS auf den Weg zurück zur Erde gemacht.
https://www.heise.de/news/Vier-Raumfah…
Cyberangriff: Kundendaten von Air France und KLM entwendet
Die Fluggesellschaft KLM warnt: Von einem Drittanbieter wurden persönliche Daten ihrer Kunden und denen von Air France entwendet.
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AOL is discontinuing its dial-up internet service on September 30; it was launched in 1991 and reportedly had subscribers "in the low thousands" in 2021 (Stevie Bonifield/PC Gamer)
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/ao
Bo Hines, the head of the White House Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Assets, says he is stepping down and returning to the private sector (Hadriana Lowenkron/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
Sources: Apple is testing upgraded App Intents with Uber, Temu, Amazon, YouTube, WhatsApp, and other apps to transform Siri into a true voice-first interface (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters
Coding bootcamps, a Silicon Valley mainstay for over a decade, are facing decline as AI eliminates the kind of entry-level roles for which they trained people (Anna Tong/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/bootcamp-bust-how-…
Datenschutz: Psychologen gegen geplante Weitergabe sensibler Daten an Behörden
Erste Bundesländer wie Hessen planen die Weitergabe sensibler Patientendaten. Experten warnen vor Stigmatisierung und Vertrauensverlust.
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