Things that I think are worth your time.
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AI, Search, and the Internet
I wish I could say this is not a sustainable model for the internet, but honestly there’s no indication in Pew’s research that people understand how faulty the technology that powers Google’s AI Overview is, or how it is quietly…
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Liberal Dissents
But look closer at the dissents, and it is evident that, whatever their differences, the three liberals agree on an overarching theme: They no longer see the Court playing by the old game of constitutional law. Their dissents suggest anything…
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Chatting into Dark Corners
This is the sort of thing that should come as no surprise. Of course an LLM that ingests as much of the internet as possible is going to incorporate works of fiction, and these programs don’t have any way of…
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HTML Quine
I saw this page shared on Mastodon, and it is an impressive showcase of some things that HTML and CSS can accomplish. Its title also meant that I had to look up what quine means: quine: A program that produces…
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WTF Just Happened Today
WTF Just Happened Today is a newsletter from Matt Kiser that gives an overview of political news. It is sent out four times a week. Each one starts with “Today in one sentence”, which only works thanks to a generous…
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Another ICE Story
He had planned to return to Ireland in December, but was briefly unable to fly due to a health issue, his medical records show. He was only three days overdue to leave the US when an encounter with police landed…
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