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Cowboys Star Micah Parsons Faces Backlash Over Commanders Comments https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/micah-parsons-backlash-commanders-comments-durant/?adt_ei=[email]

Let's say you find a really cool forum online that has lots of good advice on it. It's even got a very active community that's happy to answer questions very quickly, and the community seems to have a wealth of knowledge about all sorts of subjects.
You end up visiting this community often, and trusting the advice you get to answer all sorts of everyday questions you might have, which before you might have found answers to using a web search (of course web search is now full of SEI spam and other crap so it's become nearly useless).
Then one day, you ask an innocuous question about medicine, and from this community you get the full homeopathy treatment as your answer. Like, somewhat believable on the face of it, includes lots of citations to reasonable-seeming articles, except that if you know even a tiny bit about chemistry and biology (which thankfully you do), you know that the homoeopathy answers are completely bogus and horribly dangerous (since they offer non-treatments for real diseases). Your opinion of this entire forum suddenly changes. "Oh my God, if they've been homeopathy believers all this time, what other myths have they fed me as facts?"
You stop using the forum for anything, and go back to slogging through SEI crap to answer your everyday questions, because one you realize that this forum is a community that's fundamentally untrustworthy, you realize that the value of getting advice from it on any subject is negative: you knew enough to spot the dangerous homeopathy answer, but you know there might be other such myths that you don't know enough to avoid, and any community willing to go all-in on one myth has shown itself to be capable of going all in on any number of other myths.
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This has been a parable about large language models.
#AI #LLM

At an all-hands, Andrew Bosworth says Sam Altman is not happy about Meta getting OpenAI talent and is "being dishonest" about Meta offering $100M bonuses (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/command-line-newslet…

Meta says it’s winning the talent war with OpenAI
A top Meta exec called OpenAI CEO Sam Altman “dishonest” for saying that Mark Zuckerberg is offering researchers $100 million bonuses to leave.

In a week when the Canadian federal government strongly condemned Israel withholding aid and called human suffering in Gaza "intolerable".
City councillor Shelley Caroll of Don Valley North decided that it was the right week to publicly show her support to.. Walk with Israel. She thinks Israel is the country to support and must walk to support)
(Also present, Mike Colle, Brad Bradford, Rachel Chernos Lin, James Pasternak)

«The real cost of AI is being paid in deserts far from Silicon Valley»
Of course it's not just the 'AI' boom but our tech consumption more broadly, but it's a good summary of how large-scale resource extraction is doing its part to destroy communities and the planet.
/HT @… for sharing the link!
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-resource-extraction-chile-indigenous-communities/

Thanking the @… folks for the excellent work they do, and especially for their upcoming support for security certificates for IP addresses which is nothing short of revolutionary for the future of the (Small) Web.

Getting ready to issue IP address certificates
Happy to see the progress on this. Thought you might be interested in seeing how important this feature is going to be for the Small Web: It’s going to be invaluable for helping decentralise the web. Thank you for the work you do 🙂

Oof. #OpenStreetMap minutely replication is currently broken: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/131884
For me this means that recent edits I made are not queryable via O…

Is OSM partially down? New data isn't able to be queried on the map, and new data isn't being rendered
I’m finding that I can pull data into JOSM and iD that I know exists (due to recently pushed edits), but a query on the map doesn’t list them (not to mention that they also aren’t being rendered; however, when something’s awaiting rendering, I always, at least by my experience, can still query it). For example, this query should list building=toilets, but it doesn’t. If I edit that location in iD I can see the aforementioned feature, and I can also pull it into JOSM, but it isn’t b…

Giants owner's comments will make Cowboys fans appreciate NFC East rival https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/giants-owner-comments-will-make-dallas-cowboys-fans-appreciate-nfc-east-rival

«The real cost of AI is being paid in deserts far from Silicon Valley»
Of course it's not just the 'AI' boom but our tech consumption more broadly, but it's a good summary of how large-scale resource extraction is doing its part to destroy communities and the planet.
/HT @… for sharing the link!
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-resource-extraction-chile-indigenous-communities/

Giants owner's comments will make Cowboys fans appreciate NFC East rival https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/giants-owner-comments-will-make-dallas-cowboys-fans-appreciate-nfc-east-rival