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blitzar··on Too AI; Didn't Read
Normalising complaining about a thing is the first step to normalising that thing.
blitzar··on What happens when you analyze your favorite college football team like the CIA?
He can't hit a curve ball... And an ugly girlfriend.

Ugly girlfriend means no confidence.

blitzar··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
Showers of gold
blitzar··on Meta bans another Toronto performer from Instagram and Facebook over Bikini
PSA: remember folks, if you want to get unbanned or customer service of any type from facebook/meta/instagram - offer to have sex with an employee.
blitzar··on Theranos founder reportedly to be transferred to halfway home next year
She went down for ripping off investors (not guilty of defrauding the paying customers of course).

Their net worth beats her net worth.

blitzar··on Goodbye Google
> At which point do we believe the message?

Yet the same 1,000 people are all raising funds to do more on the frontier.

blitzar··on 28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days
HR was much better at "employee retention" historically.
blitzar··on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
Not my fault, I was certain that they would move out of the way of the bullet.
blitzar··on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
Not to mention the roughly million (civilian) family members that live on US military bases.
blitzar··on 28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days
Historically the ad was in a newspaper and you would sit and circle them with your breakfast while listening to the wireless.

Companies didnt pay to put the ad in the paper every day once the vacancy was filled.

blitzar··on Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station
It's from a frightfully poor year as well
blitzar··on Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station
as soulless, dead-eyed and wealth-obsessed as the people that work at apple
blitzar··on Elevated errors for multiple models – Resolved
10x dev ... so sick 70 days a year is the target
blitzar··on [dead]
bitcoin ... now thats a name ive not heard in a long time
blitzar··on MCP was always a bad idea?
> For a while it also felt like MCP was a convenient answer for companies that were under pressure to have “an AI strategy” but didn’t really know how to do that.

MCP was a convenient answer for companies that had spent the last few years shutting down APIs because allowing API access bad.

blitzar··on MCP was always a bad idea?
Perhaps a little out of date now, but I found claude was better (trained?) with the gh command line than with the github mcp. For a $corp internal tool ... I don't really see how and LLM would be able to be trained on it.
blitzar··on What happened to the Snowden archive
didn't commit a crime - or - committed a crime and served his time

one is true and one is false

blitzar··on What happened to the Snowden archive
> Assange didn't commit a crime

Smearing your own faeces on the wall isnt a crime - but breach of bail is

blitzar··on US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
Its worse than that ... they didn't use Ai to chose the targets, they chose to bomb schools.
blitzar··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
The UK wanted to maintain its veto over all EU matters (cake and eat it too).
blitzar··on I worked at Google DeepMind. You should listen to the warnings about AI
Weird flex but ok
blitzar··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
> pulled their shoes from a ton of retailers. It went… not how they hoped.

but it went how most mere mortals would expect ...

blitzar··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
Everyone I know wears shoes.
blitzar··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
Thats "Billionaire Use" -- its like a "Fair Use" exemption but for billionaires.
blitzar··on EuroBirdPortal – Live bird movements across Europe
The admin interface lets you control the birds.
blitzar··on Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs
By the end of the year (tm)
blitzar··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
>30%+ of the price of a Nike product

it sure wasnt to pay the children who make them

blitzar··on Nvidia dismisses "circular financing", says every $1 it invests brings back $100
I don't know about $100 back ... but their profit margin is $0.90 on the gpu that is bought with the $1 they lend / swap for equity + they get ongoing interest / equity stake.

Its a mighty fine deal for Nvidia

blitzar··on OpenAI's Sam Altman says it would be 'ill-advised' to go public in 2026
Their company is so volatile and unsustainable in the long-term that it makes sense to go public (for the current owners)
blitzar··on IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]
They needed to do a few nerfs and buffs to the other storage solutions to balance the game for the introduction of KALLAX
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