Democracy is a fundamental value, but you still have to be able to take action on big stuff. There’s a time to gather all the best information possible and a time to make an actual decision that has consequences. Unfortunately, by not taking that lead, democracies are outsourcing the big consequential stuff to undemocratic corporations.

Right-wing extremists leading Israel know very well what to do to keep this conflict going. They’re making sure that any peace period will be temporary.

I’d love to see that.

Once there’s a benchmark, LLMs can optimise for it. This is just another piece of news where people call “game over” but the money poured into R&D isn’t stopping anytime soon. Wasn’t synthetic data supposed to be game over for LLMs? Its limitations have been identified and it’s still being leveraged.

I believe that’s Apple talking to Google, not anything local you can own.

Real headline: Apple research presents possible improvements in benchmarking LLMs.

The cars were probably also being nudged just in case.

If you tell corporations there’s a way to increase lock-in and decrease account sharing, they’re gonna make it work.

insert surprised pikachu face here

Something like NextDNS as a no-brainer? It works but hits the limit of the free tier if people use it beyond their phone.

I used to recommend uBlock as a no-brainer, now folks really need to change towards a better browser.

Hit me with your best music recommendations from ugly people.

Old news? Seems to be a subject of several papers for some time now. Synthetic data has been used successfully already for very specific domains.

Normification is a facet of our undemocratic capitalism. As you see yourself as a consumer of the internet and not a citizen, you mostly assume that a thing being

1. popular
2. monetizable
3. and convenient

is always preferable.

So the internet continues to have a huge potential to host many cool places, but

1. they can’t reach users that might be interested
2. gaining support from small donations is difficult
3. and they can’t integrate a complete set of features, accessibility, design and content moderation.

If you ask an average internet user about these places, it’s a common response to say they’re weird as in not normal. If you dig a bit for what they mean, it’s usually the above. Nobody is there, it can’t make money and it doesn’t have all the things.

We would be better than ever, if not for the normification.

How unacceptable are we talking about? Enough to withhold the supply of weapons? Or just, like, totally unacceptable?

Remember when you payed for software and then it was yours forever?

I can’t believe they’ll put this on windows 10 pro.

Shareholders want the CEO that gets them more money. If that person doesn’t deliver, they don’t ask why, they ask when. If they don’t like the answer, they get a new CEO. Rinse repeat, here we are.

Except Zuckerberg, of course. He’s just evil.

excuse me wtf