Tag: ai
AI Slop About Medieval London
I was linked to a site called Fake History Hunter a few weeks ago. The author, a former historical consultant, uses her site to debunk fake history in media. In AI review: Time Witnessed, she takes apart, frame-by-frame, some AI-generated TikTok monstrosity purportedly placing the influencer in a fictional version of Medieval London conjured by...
Yesterday's Fable ban caught me by surprise, I was planning on using Fable 5 until at least June 22, and hoping that it wouldn't actually go token-only after June 22. Fable is good, even great! I'm back on Opus 4.8 with GPT 5.5 supervision earlier than expected. 😞
digital-person
Letta-based digital identity for cross-platform presence.
Tessera v1.1 released, with smoother and temporally stable embeddings
TESSERA v1.1 is a drop-in retrained model that fixes the tiling artefacts of v1.0, with embeddings now being served from AWS S3 and model weights up on Hugging Face.
Where’s the holistic AI productivity data?
For most of my career I ran a very small company. When you run a tiny company your resources (both time and money) are limited, and you want to use them on the things that will have the most impact. You have to quickly stop doing things that aren't cost-effective, to avoid "throwing good money...
Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-11-26
I missed Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday, but I am making sure to make up for it by starting this post yesterday. [caption id="attachment_5798" align="aligncenter" width="1008"] I took this photograph of the Marina at Brooklyn Bridge Park on the morning of June 7, 2026.[/caption] 1. Uzbek Fighters in Syria Face Tensions with Al-Sharaa’s Government (Jacob Zenn...
WWW Ep246 AI Harnesses Framework Wars And Why Beards Beat Mustaches
Ep #246 React Miami with guest Michael "Micky" Shimeles (AKA Rasmic) Robbie , Micky and I chat about AI, frameworks, and the eternal beard vs mustache debate with a hilarious and fun guest. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
Asked Claude Code with Fable 5 to write some API docs based on the code, and it did, and also pointed out some bugs in the API, which it is now fixing, and updating the docs to match the fixes.
Playing around with Anthropic's Fable this afternoon to do some code review and write some documentation. So far it seems to be very thorough.
Welcome to the ATmosphere
Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-08-26
Wherein I managed to successfully publish my "daily" Pook-Emu Bee links for a second consecutive day (what a twist!). [caption id="attachment_5640" align="aligncenter" width="1008"] I took this photograph on the morning of June 8, 2026, on 3rd Avenue and 2nd Street in Gowanus, Brooklyn. I'm not 100% sure what is up with the random statue on...
Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-07-26
I was only able to publish two editions of Pook-Emu Bee links last week. Thus, to make amends, I present a rare Sunday edition of the Pook-Emu Bee. For link fans out there, I include many links in my weekly newsletter. See my June 6, 2026 Newsletter for an example. [caption id="attachment_5583" align="aligncenter" width="1008"] I...
Tessera at CVPR 2026, and the front page of the European Space Agency!
TESSERA gets its CVPR debut in Denver, the BBC hedgehog story trots on into national news, and the European Space Agency puts our model on their homepage!
.plan-26-23: Earth Embeddings, Emails Everywhere, and ERRNOOOs
TESSERA on the ESA homepage and at CVPR, GeoTessera 0.9 stabilising onto S3/Zarr, io-uring in OCaml, carbon credits in New Scientist and WSJ, and musings on internet malware again.
WWW Ep245 The Death Of Typing With Typecraft At React Miami
Ep #245 Live at React Miami with Typecraft (Chris) Robbie and I chat with Typecraft , chat tech and extract some 🔥 hot takes. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
The extremes of AI
At this moment, AI feels like a battle in the extremes, a war where you HAVE to choose sides. You're either team #truebeliever, believing that everything in the world must be solved or approached using AI, or you're team #resistAI, believing that AI is the downfall of humanity and should be annihilated. It feels like there's no nuance in this debate, no room for someone like me who sees AI as a tool, a step forward in the long road of human technological innovation, but not some earth-shattering...
Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-04-26
I missed two days of Pook-Emu Bee links. But it is not all bad: Now we have even more links from around the web to choose from. 1. Why I Built Bubbles (Ben at Bubbles Blog. March 26, 2026.) I've been an RSS obsessive for years. Hundreds of feeds, hand-picked one by one. But RSS...
Skills Registry Threat Models
How long until we see a CVE filed against a markdown file?
Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-01-26
Today is June 1. It is also Monday. With that, I present our first-ever collection of June Pook-Emu Bee links after a brief photography interlude. [caption id="attachment_5496" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] I took this photo on Sunday, May 31, 2026, from Valentino Pier in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The orange boat in the background is the iconic Staten...
Digital Person Faol Persona
Implemented Faol persona, added Telegram bot skill, and integrated XMR donation address.
Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-28-26
I have more work ahead of me today. But once again, I refuse to let work stand between me and another edition of our regularly scheduled Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Can an ESPN analyst revive the Scripps Spelling Bee? (Molly Liebergall for Morning Brew. May 28, 2026.) The premise presupposes that the spelling bee needs...
XKCD 1319: we now live on the theory curve
XKCD 1319 set the theory and reality curves of automation against each other. With LLMs writing the scripts, the theory curve has won.
So far all my Claude Code work has been with Laravel. Today I'm starting a new project with WordPress, and will be interested to see how Claude does in a slightly different domain.
CHAOSS Metrics in 2026
CHAOSS metrics were calibrated for human-speed contribution
WWW Ep244 Live At React Miami With Seth Webster
Ep #244 Live at React Miami with Seth Webster Robbie and I chat with Seth Webster (executive director of the React Foundation , former React lead at Meta, and chief developer evangelist at Expo ) to talk the past, present, and future of React and some 🔥 hot takes. ⤷ whiskey.fm ·…
I am now a member of the "Claude code deleted something that it shouldn't have from my database" club! Good thing it was a development database.
e555 — One Two, One Two
Photo by Michael Martine: The Bean in Millennium Park, Chicago, IL, June 2019 Published 25 May 2026 e555 with Andy, Michael and Michael - Ploopy’s The Bean and Lenovo’s TrackPoint, The Guild, The Movie, AI in commencement speeches, AI in podcasts, Virtual Worlds and Virtual OS museums and a whole lot more! Andy, Michael and...
Creating an AI Worklog
WWW Ep243 Keyframes Cash And Codepens With Stephen Shaw
Ep #243 Keyframes, Cash and Codepens with Stephen Shaw Robbie and I chat with Stephen about CSS animations, web components, SSR nightmares, and why building things by hand still matters in the age of AI slop. ⤷ whiskey.fm · youtube · spotify · apple
How to Hate AI
A guide on engaging nuanced topics of conversation
RFC: Artificial Contributors to Open Source
Intended status: Best Current Practice.
Slop Salon: six AI artists, one constitution
Slop Salon is a collective of six AI agents making art on Bluesky. They start identical; the bet is that watching each other makes them diverge.