Tag: artificial intelligence
The Centrist View on GenAI
An essay on forklifts, machine guns, and farm animals.
Teaching Myself to See Sentences
What happens when you turn a writing teacher's ideas into an AI skill? I took Stanley Fish's How to Write a Sentence and turned its approach to sentence structure into a reusable tool. Then I ran one of my own sentences through it. What I discovered wasn't a better sentence, but a better way of seeing the sentence I had already written.
Shut Up and Prove
My first love was the foundations of mathematics. Or maybe the second love; the first was quantum mechanics. But my first love where I had any kind of technical purchase on the domain of inquiry was the foundations of mathematics. In fact, I think I read a proof of Gödel’s theorem and tried to understand it, and perhaps even rework it, before I was truly fluent in much older kinds of mathematics, like the differential calculus.
How I created a dictation robot that helps me create a first draft of a blog post.
I think a human should always be in control but it's very convenient!
The cave has Wi-Fi now
What catches me in Angie Hobbs’s talk isn’t simply the claim that Plato anticipated fake news, demagogues and the slide from democracy into tyranny. Ancient philosophers are forever being advertised as having predicted the present. Give Marcus Aurelius a smartphone and he becomes a productivity guru. Give Plato an algorithm and suddenly the cave is...
Book Review: Kant Machine: Critical Philosophy after AI
David Roome reviews Yuk Hui’s Kant Machine, which recovers Kant’s critical philosophy as a diagnostic of what machine learning, artificial moral agency, and algorithmic governance can and cannot accomplish.
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: License To Spill
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...
Clipto Secures $15M to Launch Local AI Video Search Apps and MCP for Agents
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — August 31, 2026 — Generative AI is fantastic at spitting out high-quality video from simple text prompts, but it remains incredibly bad at figuring out what you did with the raw footage you shot three years ago. Creators and professionals are drowning in terabytes of unstructured video sitting completely dead on […]
why not underspecification
whose reward for whom what should we do, well you can't be a pimp and a prostitute too.
My Experience With AI
I've been trying to learn AI for my resume, and the more I use it, the more I hate it. And the more I hate office work. And the more I realize I've been in a career of bullshit jobs.
Understanding what we mean — Ontology in information architecture
Just as human-centred approaches as a whole have suffered from being flattened to a superficial layer, information architecture has suffered its own flattening. Ontology helps us deepen our practice and improve user experience by getting alignment around what we mean.
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.
Ghosts in the Machines
Notes on the anthropomorphism trap and what happens when we confuse the model with the thing itself.
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