@davidpham5
Self taught in many things. Slightly above average software engineer. Work for the local paper. Privacy and data protection is my racket. Studied history. Gen 1 American. 99.99.99hrs+ on FF7 on PS1. My new years' resolution is to eat more homemade carbs.
Just because AI makes it super easy to deepfake a person doesn’t mean you can just include that deepfake into your product without permission.
Even if it’s “just” deep faking authors and journalists giving writing tips. Intellectual property laws still exist. Superhuman indeed. 🤦🏾♂️
Yes, this is an excellent piece of investigation, narration, and accountability, by Mike Baker and Steven Rich in @nytimes.com Very much worth going back to read.
Atlassian is laying off 10% of its employees to fund investments in AI. According to their CEO AI didn’t replace these roles “but it would be disingenuous to pretend AI doesn’t change the mix of skills we need or the number of roles required in certain areas.”
Block was just the beginning.
Everyone else in the room when a former DOGE employee was deposed.
Even Republicans are saying it now
Trump has peppered aides in recent days about whether longtime adviser Corey Lewandowski profited personally from the $220 million federal advertising campaign featuring Kristi Noem.
Can’t believe they’re going to kill the feature before I even find out if I have my own sloppganger. (“It adds typos and Prince references.”)
As a Jewish New Yorker it's undeniable that the ADL is making me less safe. It doesn't speak for me.
This was the part where I was like "wut"
Who could possibly have foreseen that war on Iran would (a) make Iran retaliate by closing the strait of Hormuz, which (b) could disrupt world oil markets, enriching Russia and penalizing most everyone else?
Who, indeed, except EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER THOUGHT FOR ONE MINUTE about the situation.
They all want a shortcut. They are no shortcuts.
“Instead of paying humans to join focus groups and complete surveys, Aaru uses thousands of AI agents, or bots, to simulate human responses. It feeds demographic and psychographic information into its models to create human profiles that match clients’ needs…”
This story suggests that Witkoff and Kushner bungled the negotiations with Iran because they don't understand nuclear technology
www.ms.now/news/trump-i...
One of my favorite parts of this whole thing is that it implies Rubio lied about his shoe size.
Patel fires FBI Iran experts just in time for war. Counter-terror generally has already been taken apart.
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
I wrote about Bluesky's CEO switch. Jay Graber deserves lasting credit for building a big and bustling community. But the challenges ahead of the company are significant: www.platformer.news/bluesky-ceo-...
20 percent of all oil and gas goes though the strait of Hormuz
Whoa. This is big. "The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now." www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Quite amazing the way Leavitt lectures the press and insists they should be "grateful" to the Trump government. She also says media should be grateful to the armed forces, but she leads with the "administration" then quickly catches herself and switches to the troops.
Saying that you -must- be grateful is what domestic abusers and Russian prison guards do. You must take the violence and say you like it. It is a mark of fascism.
“We’re not starting a war, we’re ending one” was a Russian talking point on Ukraine — four years ago.
The Court is a political institution. The justices are partisans in robes. The quicker liberals view it as a political institution, the quicker we can get to reforming it.
This has 100% happened. The DOGE boys have an unmonitored, unsecured Signal chat where they make their plans and openly exchange data that are completely illegal for them to have viewed, let alone exfiltrated.
I talked to dozens of experts in government, academia, cybersecurity, and industry about exactly this scenario last year and not only did not one of them think I was being alarmist, many brought it up unprompted and many said there was zero chance it hadn’t already happened
Congress is trying to pass three online safety bills at once.
“Billionaires made 19 percent of all reported federal campaign contributions in 2024, a Times analysis shows, and even more in some local elections.” The Scale of Billionaires’ Campaign Donations is Overwhelming U.S. Politics. [nytimes.com]
Many of my commenters are probably saying I told you so right about now.
The reality is that increasing coding velocity without also increasing your ability to review and test the code at that scale is a recipe for disaster.
After several outages due to junior engineers pushing AI-generated code, Amazon is requiring senior engineers to sign off on them going forward.
History has taught us bugs scale linearly with lines of code. So if you ship 2x or 10x the amount of code, you will have that much of an increase in bugs.
they really have one trick and its not fucking working
