“Disenshittify or die” a rant about the history of tech, how it is bad and how it might get better
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The LLMentalist effect: how chat-based large language models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con
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Everlasting jobstoppers: How an AI bot-war destroyed the online job market
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Can ChatGPT be a certified accountant? Assessing the responses of ChatGPT for the professional access exam in Portugal.
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What the all-American delusion of the Polygraph says about our relationship to fact and fiction
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💾 Floppy8 - A tiny computer, in a floppy drive
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How to raise your artificial intelligence
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‘We’re living in a nightmare:’ Inside the health crisis of a Texas bitcoin town
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What's up with solid state batteries? A conversation with Siyu Huang of Factorial Energy.
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OnlyFans vows it's a safe space. Predators are exploiting kids there.
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ChatGPT is bullshit
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Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy
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Fast crimes at Lambda School
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Generative AI is not going to build your engineering team for you
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AI will become mathematicians’ ‘co-pilot’
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The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet going
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Extracting interpretable features from Claude 3 Sonnet
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Cyber security: A pre-war reality check
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Development notes from xkcd's "Machine"
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The man who killed Google Search
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Meta in Myanmar, Part II: The Crisis
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Missed deadlines and tension among Taiwanese and American coworkers are plaguing TSMC's Phoenix expansion
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Making the Macintosh: Technology and culture in Silicon Valley
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We need to rewild the internet
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The costs of a phone-based childhood
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Interview with the creators of the AI generated short film 'Air Head'
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‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
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Have we reached peak AI?
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Can Reddit survive its own IPO?
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Are we watching the internet die?
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On popular online platforms, predatory groups coerce children into self-harm
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How sixteen companies are dominating the world’s Google search results (2024 Edition)
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You can now train a 70b language model at home (if you have a dual-3090 or better)
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How the Pentagon learned to use targeted ads to find its targets—and Vladimir Putin
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Indexing the information age - Over a weekend in 1995, a small group gathered in Ohio to unleash the power of the internet by making it navigable
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How Google is killing independent sites like ours
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Exodus bitcoin wallet: $490K swindle
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Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
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Robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers for over thirty years; AI vendors are ignoring it or proliferating too fast to block
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Twitter/X provides premium perks to Hezbollah, other US-sanctioned groups
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How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT.
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Over three decades, tech obliterated media - my front-row seat to a slow-moving catastrophe
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Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not
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"By all means, go after big tech. But for the love of the next generation, don’t pretend that it’s going to help vulnerable youth."
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Inside the decades-long fight over Yahoo's misdeeds in China
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I assure you, an AI didn't write a terrible "George Carlin" routine
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Coming of age at the dawn of the social internet (LiveJournal, AIM, and other pre-Facebook internet things)
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The Hofmann Wobble - Wikipedia and the problem of historical memory
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The quiet death of Ello’s big dreams
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Predictions from 2018 reviewed
8 votes