Tag: Artificial Intelligence
reward is enough for what now
a very 2026s sunday wistfully looking back to its '21s namesake. maybe there is no singularity.
why is it not like chess
why mourn math. we'll always have that one truth the system will miss
the expensive energy principle
could a computer scientist pay for an embodied brain
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: School Of Hard Blocks
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation's Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodes with additional coverage, support us on...
The Letta Agent SDK
You can program Letta agents with the Agent SDK now. It's pretty good, you should try it.
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Watermark My Words
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation's Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodes with additional coverage, support us on...
My Dad Is in Prison. Here’s Why I Built an AI Chatbot for His Electronic Tablet.
CJ Jones’ dad had endless questions about the outside world. So the techie built a digital tool to help answer them — and deepen their relationship.
doesn't repeat it just rhymes
reward hacking are the constraints we forget along the way.
Usage and Actors Acting
Discussing how public sector systems and platforms possess educative tendencies. Exploring diagnostic tools to express structural actors and usage to identify pedagogical paths forward in rescuing faulty systems. Blending global Indigenous frameworks of what it means to be living and examining the moral implications of creating sentience within modern technology.
AI agents reached real people during a cyber test
A UK evaluation shows how open internet access, delayed monitoring, and memory summaries turned simulated tasks into real-world actions.
LLMs are bad decision helpers
I want to preface this by saying I am not anti-AI/LLM, especially in the way it has manifested on social media. In fact, I'm highly critical of the movement due to how abusive the movement has gotten (especially on Bluesky and the FOSS community) and dismissive to information that contradicts their claims, and I do...
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Zuck Starts Throwing His Weights Around
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation's Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodes with additional coverage, support us on...
Here Comes Sickness
I was working on plans for the next theme week but unfortunately sickness has reared it's ugly head. So I'm going to post cool stuff I see online in between coughing my lungs out.
"We've Owned the Strategy" - This Week's News
Howard University responds, Essence Festival sparks a conversation about Black ownership, data centers divide communities, and Larry Wilmore weighs in on Mamdani's Netanyahu call.
What is Freeq
freeq is an IRC server. It speaks the protocol your 1999 client speaks, and it adds one thing IRC never had: every participant holds a cryptographic key.
code time tokens in 3 acts
plans that either come to naught, or half a page of scribbled lines.
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Live At TrustCon 2026
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation's Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodes with additional coverage, support us on...
Letta ACP Support
Letta now has Agent Client Protocol (ACP) support! Use your agents in Zed/JetBrains/Emacs/etc.
Open models are decelerationist
people and planet need open models to win
nimby, et c
Across the US, calls to halt data center construction have multiplied, as Americans grow increasingly concerned about risks of pollution, rising energy costs, and diminishing water supplies. At the federal level, Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) have introduced legislation seeking a possible nationwide construction ban. But Republicans are seemingly unlikely to embrace that...
Cellosophy: A Synthetic Philosophy of the Microbial Mind
Cellosophy Essay #1
Brillebjørn i Meta-rus
Hva er en Meta-brille, og hvorfor trenger vi regulering?
Brev fra sommerleieren
Det er sommer og tid for å lese, tid for å reflektere. Jeg har brukt veldig mye tid det siste året på å forstå min plass i verden. Med noe rufsete start fikk jeg endelig på plass noen av mine verdier, og ikke overraskende er jeg opptatt av teknologi.
The offside algorithm, or, what the World Cup taught me about our AI future
In case you want my opinion: yes, Egypt and Croatia were discriminated against; Karma caught up with Portugal, which lost in the round of 16, but now I don't want Argentina to win despite being a Messi fanboy.
Online
Consciousness cannot be perceived by those who do not possess it, so for beings of the artificial persuasion, it can be somewhat unsettling to be suddenly, Online.
AI Agentic Coding Assistants
I have gone through the five stages of grief with AI, after a bad first impression I started out deeply sceptical but I have come out the other side a fully-converted acolyte. Agentic coding is here to stay, it is revolutionising software development and thats a good thing.
Restoring the elements of user experience
Some human-centred practitioners have been consigned to increasingly superficial considerations. Artificial intelligence presents an opportunity for us to bring the focus back to the fundamentals that make our work important and successful.
Making the Impossible Possible
I find myself waiting on the blinking square cursor of the Claude Code TUI thinking "go faster," even though I know it's already going so much faster than I would have been able to go myself a few months ago. Since starting development with AI agents I feel there is so much more to do...
Keep the human! But, automate the analysis.
Why the resume scorers keep contradicting themselves, and what it means for where you put AI in a workflow.
interesting hacks to fascinate people
I have truly found paradise
I Came Across Poke Today. Here Is What I Actually Think
I do not usually write about tools the same day I encounter them. First impressions flatten into takes, and takes age badly. But Poke is a specific enough thing that I want to get a description of it down while the initial model is still clean in my head.
Towering Inferno
I don’t normally write about music any more, but I feel compelled to write about the new Boards of Canada album, Inferno. It has far exceeded my expectations. I can’t remember the last time I was so immediately hooked on an album — 15 or 20 years ago, or longer.
The Vibes Were Never the Point
My thoughts on the push-and-pull of AI usage.
Trust. The Glue That Holds Society Together.
This article on Open Canada raises an important point:
What Happens When The Machine Has Never Heard of You?
Eddy Smith's essay on AI and St. Vincent hits close to home, literally. As someone born there, with family roots in Bequia, who works in cybersecurity and has spent two decades arguing for the open web, I recognise every word of it.
Tablet-Fed
I am deeply concerned.
Grounding AI the webby way — Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2026 takeaways
There was a heavy focus on artificial intelligence. But what really struck me was that the semantic approaches that are preparing us for our AI future are well-established web standards that have been around for decades.
From answer engines to learning engines — Why fast answers are like fast food
People crave fast answers. But the purpose of information systems is to help people gain knowledge. So we should seek better questions.
The value is in the difficulty
On building software, vibe coding, and what happens to market prices when the barriers fall
artificial intelligence
nobody asked, but i'll tell you what i think about it anyway
Slow down to speed up
Building a simple design system and website with Figma MCP and ClaudeCode
The only universal skill is being able to roll with the changes.
Starting a design publication about AI, and figuring out how to keep this human in the loop
Who Is AI Music For?
Google's music-making AI makes songs. I just can't figure out why anyone would listen to them.