Headline of an article from The Guardian that reads, “More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds”
“Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media – and generating about $117m a year.”
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![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
And if space is an issue or you're looking for an air purifier for your car, then check out our latest video, where we shortlisted the best small devices we have tested (minimum 120 cfm): youtu.be/7jWgPimTpeE
We also included a section on small units we do not recommend 🙅
Barney from the SImpsons saying "just hook it into my veins" with the OpenAI logo replacing the Duff beer logo.
Live footage of Keir Starmer this morning 😄
A consumer’s guide to not being duped into buying bad products online: wapo.st/4j6aKd7
If you live in an area affected by wildfire smoke and can’t afford to buy an air purifier, please consider building a Corsi–Rosenthal Box as you might have all the components at home already.
Here's what you need + how to do it:
No wonder Musk wants to keep the reasons for the crashes secret despite hundreds of crashes. TESLA suggests the data is proprietary… but this YouTube report suggests that it over relying on cameras rather than eg radar …LIDAR (which is very expensive …but used by other car manufacturers)
Far too kind Ernie and thanks for sharing our post. It’s great to hear that the udm14 project is still getting so much traffic, clearly not everyone is happy with the direction Google is going.
OK, our last year-end piece appears on a new site.
For my best blog post of 2024, I had to give it to @ichbingisele.bsky.social and @dannyashton.com. They called out something real, and it’s hard not to ignore the importance of what they caught.
tedium.co/2024/12/31/b...
new @tedium.co
Woah!! This is nuts. Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring has gone straight to number 2 news show on Apple podcasts 🙏🙏🙏
Would love to hear what you think of it so far…
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Glad to help and sound like an interesting way to power!
I did some tests for different voltages here: housefresh.com/airfanta-3pr...
For sure I always recommend visual inspection before replacement but I also need an average figure for calculations so I can benchmark against other models.
I'm coming up on 7 years out of the SEO world, but I still find investigations into black hat tactics like this fascinating: recleudo.com/under-google...
Wild that cloaking, redirects, fake 404s, casinos buying content sites, et al. still work after all these decades.
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Big fan of the SmartAir SA600 5 speed: Smart Air SA600 Review — Is It Worth It?
youtu.be/mfGREIur0nQ I like
The unbonded filter design, simplicity and lack of lights when running.
If it ain't broke…
A Google homepage for every month since its launch.
Screenshots courtesy of the Internet Archive which helps preserve the internet.
This is rich considering the state of Google search results.
1) This feels like really good, bold public interest journalism by the BBC!
2) If you were around social media / online publishing circa 2014 and followed The Social Chain, it was soooo baffling to watch his reinvention as a business guru.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
to add to to this: I want journalists to know there are countless “content creators” using your reporting, misrepresenting it, erasing your existence & profiting from it. i found this podcast that literally PHOTOSHOPPED MY NAME OUT of my own fucking story. are we going to take this shit lying down?
Our review of the SA600 from @smartairuk.bsky.social is now live on YouTube!
⭐️ Energy efficient + quiet yet high performing at lower fan speeds
⚡️ Comes back on after a power cut
💡 Lights switch off automatically
💰 Higher filter costs due to having a double set of filters
youtu.be/mfGREIur0nQ?...
A full review of the AirFanta 3Pro from @adamwong.bsky.social. Overall, a highly performant air purifier with a low price tag!
breathesafeair.com/airfanta-3pr...
Interesting. Have you shared the axes yet?
Udemy page for the SEO course
If you've been affected by redundancy this year, I want to help. You can have my SEO course for free. Simply fill out this Google Form and I will email everyone on there a 100% off voucher code on Tues 17th December.
It's 16 hours of high-quality, on-demand video.
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Thank you. The UK it’s actually has two versions for sale with the 5 speed at a slightly higher price. The US site seems to only have the 3 speed for now.
SmartAir SA600 review: youtu.be/mfGREIur0nQ?...
Really happy with this review.
@smartairuk.bsky.social
Our 6XL air purifier has a CADR of 290 cfm, uses two 3M Filtrete MPR2200 (MERV13) and runs very quiet at under 40dB.
Big fan of the 6XL -https://youtu.be/ok7f3CHUBG0?si=YonKu64_k4ioxCPp
💯Clean air delivery rate (CADR) is more important than HEPA rating! I have been buying portable air cleaners for the lab and home that are not HEPA-level but offer a high CADR per dollar spent and low noise.
Marwa Zaatari's comparison chart from 2021 is a good way to think about this.
