You know that people in the Sovier Union also faced consequences if they didn’t work, and did in fact get paid wages, right?

What makes people put in effort is a complicated mix of material, social and psychological incentives, and I don’t think sweeping generalizations like that are very helpful to understand anything.

Was für ein selbst-Bericht, das erinnert mich an ein echtes Nestlé Plakat das ich mal gesehen hab:

WIR WOLLEN DASS KINDER ARBEITEN

Irgend ein Stock Foto von Kindern hier

AN IHREN HAUSAUFGABEN

It’s quite something. Found deep in the discussion section:

Inserts ignored provided columns, creating rows best described as “deeply cursed” ¹²

12. Jepsen encourages the consistency model research community to come up with more official terms for this.

Thanks! Well generating the summary would have the downside (for me), that I would have to look at it.

But the semantic search bit was the one thing I felt was an actual new capability. I’m trying to imagine what if Google tried to pick this as their new moat (a better but resource-intensive way to search, scaling benefits if you establish yourself as the Internet’s main vector store, people might actually pay for queries…), but no they joined the team that wants so shove slop down everybody’s eyeballs.

Can you answer a question about RAG for me? My understanding is based entirely on this diagram from Wikipedia

If RAG takes into account vector similarity between query and reference material, do you need an LLM to regurgitate the found best vectors back to you? Could you get back a list of documents that best matched your query, or are the results in an inscrutable LLM-internal representation that need to be transformered back into readable text?

Depressingly plausible, thanks!

Looks like instead they will commit their capacity to AI In Space and a little Starlink (so probably mostly Starlink, even if Elon currently drinks his own Cool-Aid).

Really drives it home for me how institutionally cucked the US gov is. For this to be as big a deal, no-one must have the slightest concern that the US will claw back or conscript SpaceX capacity for national security. And correctly so.

I didn’t expect a Mastodon web client with monospace font could go as hard as it does. It goes so well with the cyberpunk theme.

Gibt auch noch genügend alternative Mail-Anbieter da draußen, die einfach normal sind.

• mailbox.org
• posteo.de
• tuta.com

Alle solide, soweit ich gehört hab.

EDIT

Tuta ist wohl aktiv dabei ihre Reputation auf dem KI-Altar zu opfern. Sie haben eine No-AI Contribution Policy für ihre FOSS Apps, nutzen aber LLM Code intern.

The current Tuta apps are built more than 99% without AI, but we are currently testing whether it makes sense to use AI tools to help developers speed up repetitive processes and increase efficiency overall.

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The magazine published a reader’s response to this piece, that (seems to me, a total amateur) dismantles its economic claims with basic Marx. But they don’t go into the “interminable detours” about the weird stuff.

You don’t know how ready I was to receive the most toxic reply ever conceived by man.

I declare your takes to be extremely good and correct and, frankly, you’re incredibly cool and attractive for having them.

I’ve been enjoying the writing of Zoe Baker recently. Specifically Means and Ends about the historical origins of anarchism. While looking for that, I also saw an essay on Anarchism and Democracy that references more recent thinkers. Might check that out too.

Anyway, one of the takeaways for me was this: the fundamental opposition to parlamentary democracy entered the (european) anarchist canon in a time, when firstly parliaments were typically created as concessions by monarchs to stave off revolution, and by design ineffectual. And secondly violent revolution was still very much on the table. In this context participation in state democracy was opposed categorically as a strategic error.

If you live in a country where these two facts are no longer accurate (okay #1 is debatable, but #2 generally no), the strategic conclusions should also be different. Even if you have a post-state vision of democracy, some level of involvement in state democracy (or at least not torpedoing those efforts on principle) is non-optional in my opinion. Not least because fascists are trying to capture those systems to suppress all of our movements even harder.

Banger post to start a blog.

Link seems borked. Fixed version: https://ti-kallisti.com/infosec/tales/vibes.html

Benn Jordan posted a mega-update video on his epic battles against Flock.

His incredible work doesn’t quite take the sting off my disappointment in his decision to use an AI-generated image at 18:30. (Come on, the option to badly crop your face onto the “This is fine.” dog was right there!)

Edit1: oof, it’s not a single incident. 20:30 now. I hope it’s just for this one sub-story, or I might not care to finish…

Edit2: It was kept in check afterward, though I suspect it was used for some assets.

Who would win? 1000 long mugs VS the sun

I suppose this could make sense if you think about people worried about climate/ecosystem collapse, and the nuclear standoff before that, and maybe the rise of totalitarianism and mechanized warfare before that…

But that ignores the vast host of batshit doomsday prophets that were around long before and all throughout that part of history.

I’m sure enough people have told you to yeet her into the sun. I empathize if you decide you want to work this through with her. I have had issues like this with my own partner.

I found this video essay by Dr. Fatima helpful to empathize in my case. You agree on some of the fundamentals it seems. She has a habit and somewhat agrees that it’s bad. But due to stress or whatever reason she can’t kick it. So try to help her to work on this. It’s good to keep in mind that even half-measures can do lots of good. Maybe she isn’t super principaled in her AI abstention like you, but there’s a wide range between occasional indulgance and full-on dependency.

One seemingly small thing that reduced a lot of conflict for us was me replacing her search widget on her android. She kept quoting AI summaries from Google at me and I kept getting annoyed until I offered to help by changing it to DuckDuckGo. Maybe you’re better skilled in configuring your devices and can offer to protect her from addictive design patterns she is barely aware of.

Fine sneer by data journalist and senior engineer Jacob Harris: Why I Don’t Vibe Code

(slightly dated (Mar 2026) but first time I heard of this guy)

Is anyone familiar with the website I Can Eat Glass? It was apparently created in the 90s by a Harvard student, who was concerned that people learning foreign languages only learn common phrases (e.g. “Where’s the loo?”) which makes them stand out as tourists when they speak. If one were to say a truly uncommon phrase, it stands to reason one would be instantly respected as a native. So he set up a website to collect as many translations of the phrase “I can eat glass, it does not hurt me” as he could.

Surely you are riveted to your screens right now, desperate to learn what this very special brain genius has been up to since then. Ethan Mollick is a professor at a Pennsylvania business school and published “Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI” in 2024. Some say he is substacking about the exponential growth of AI capabilities to this day, but critically this book was apparently read by some german teaching influencer.

He in turn published a self-help book for parents of school kids this year, that got put on display in my local library. And of course it has a chapter on AI, so I had to lend it and hate-read a little. And of course he references Mollick and his Co-Intelligence screed, which he apparently absorbed as a base expectation what the future of AI will look like, and this is how I got to learn about one very special brain genius from Harvard.