It's a famous trope that tech oligarchs think they could totally have done a physics degree, but then they confirm it by showing e.g. how they don't understand that producing electrical energy isn't "making new electrons", which is something I learned around 7th or 8th grade physics class. Does Sam Altman also think a water faucet creates new water? Or that wind is the creation of new air? Full transcript:

Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence - Live at the Progress Conference (Ep. 259)

How hard is it to change someone

Still waiting for apologies from the “AI makes art more accessible, so if you’re against it, then you’re ableist and a terrible person” crowd that was so very vocal in the early days of all this before they could no longer deny what a disaster it would be for artists. Any day now, right? Right?!

Advertising is equivalent to code injection for your brain. Therefore ad-blocking is a necessary security measure.

I had heard of John Forester’s “vehicular cycling” obsession and his lycra-guy advocates but I didn’t know just how ridiculous and sadly influential he was.

Fuuuuuuck! Maintainers of KeepassXC (popular open source password manager) have started to use LLM code, which is a horrible idea for any software but especially security stuff.

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Ember :catplant:​ (@Ember@blobfox.coffee)

Content warning: password manager PSA (keepassxc)

Bicycles are just so fucking cool. Easily the second favorite technology that humans have made. (the top spot is vaccines because come on, it’s vaccines)