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Eric Ravenscraft

@lordravenscraft
38 posts
2025-12-03
“productivity” is not a task  —  no stat about “productivity” means anything without quantifying what, exactly, was produced  —  which means this, like most stat-farming nonsense reports is self-aggrandizing garbage [embedded post]
2025-12-03 View on X
Anthropic

Anthropic's employees self-report using Claude in 60% of their work, most for debugging and code understanding, achieving a 50% productivity boost, and more

What Traders Should Watch Jeremy Kahn / Fortune : How Anthropic's safety first approach won over big business—and how its own engineers are using its Claude AI X: @anthropicai : Ho...

2025-05-17
this is incredible  —  here's the github for the prompts: github.com/xai-org/grok...  it's four files with a grand total of 158 lines of instructions including things like not calling it Twitter, not deferring to “mainstream authority or media”  —  and..."Provide truthful and based insights" …
2025-05-17 View on X
TechCrunch

After Grok's “white genocide in South Africa” X replies, xAI says “an unauthorized modification was made to Grok response bot's prompt” at 3:15 AM PST on May 14

We are regularly updating this repository with the system prompts that we use … Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Grok “White Genocide” Controversy Leads xAI to Publish Internal S...

2024-07-25
ZeroCool crashed 1,507 computer systems in one day—including Wall Street trading systems—when he was only 11, and he was sentenced to probation and couldn't use a computer or touchtone telephone until his 18th birthday but CrowdStrike gets off with $10 gift cards?? smdh
2024-07-25 View on X
The Guardian

Insurer Parametrix estimates that the global outage sparked by CrowdStrike's faulty update will cost US Fortune 500 companies, excluding Microsoft, $5.4B

Banking and healthcare firms, major airlines expected to suffer most losses, according to insurer Parametrix

2023-11-06
corporations insisted for decades that copying a DVD, downloading an MP3 without permission, taking screenshots of Netflix, or playing a movie at a bar without a “public performance license” were all valid reasons to sue random people but NOW information wants to be free 🙄
2023-11-06 View on X
The Verge

A look at companies' responses, including from Meta, Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and Apple, to potential US Copyright Office rules for AI and copyrighted content

training machine learning on copyrighted material isn't the problem it's when companies want to train on copyrighted material in order to *replace* copyrighted material then it becomes the world's most complicated right-click-thesaurus scheme in history
2023-11-06 View on X
The Verge

A look at companies' responses, including from Meta, Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and Apple, to potential US Copyright Office rules for AI and copyrighted content

2023-08-16
i'm sure i'll still be around on here, i can't help it but the entire reason i've stayed addicted to this platform over the years is having tweetdeck open behind my other apps all day and fuck me running if elon thinks i'm paying for the privilege
2023-08-16 View on X
Washington Post

X added five-second delays, some now removed, on t.co links to Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky, Substack, the NYT, Reuters, and other sites Musk attacks

The site formerly known as Twitter has added a five-second delay when a user clicks on a shortened link to the New York Times …

i'm sure i'll still be around on here, i can't help it but the entire reason i've stayed addicted to this platform over the years is having tweetdeck open behind my other apps all day and fuck me running if elon thinks i'm paying for the privilege
2023-08-16 View on X
The Verge

Users of X Pro, previously TweetDeck, report encountering X Blue paywalls to use the service; X said on July 3 that “in 30 days” X Pro would be subscriber-only

X, the social network formally known as Twitter, appears to be finally following through on its promise to make TweetDeck a paid service.

2023-07-16
both of these factors are a direct result of elon musk buying and running twitter
2023-07-16 View on X
Reuters

Elon Musk says a ~50% ad revenue drop and a heavy debt load kept Twitter cash flow negative; he said in March 2023 the company could be cash flow positive in Q2

Elon Musk said Twitter's cash flow remains negative because of a nearly 50% drop in advertising revenue and a heavy debt load.

2023-06-17
strike all this, it's not even that reddit believes it's entitled to its users' data, reddit straight up believes it's entitled to its users free, unpaid labor: https://www.theverge.com/... I hope every subreddit that's dark now stays dark forever (or until reddit backs down)
2023-06-17 View on X
The Verge

Reddit messages some moderators of the communities participating in the API pricing change protest, looking for defectors “willing to work towards reopening”

strike all this, it's not even that reddit believes it's entitled to its users' data, reddit straight up believes it's entitled to its users free, unpaid labor: https://www.theverge.com/... I hope every subreddit that's dark now stays dark forever (or until reddit backs down)
2023-06-17 View on X
NBC News

Steve Huffman praises Elon Musk's aggressive cost-cutting and layoffs at Twitter and says he saw Musk's handling of Twitter as an example for Reddit to follow

Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk's cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted “a handful of times.”

2023-06-06
just...so...SO many of the use cases Apple is showing off here involve a single person watching a lot of flat things in 3D space and the primary pitch is “what if the screen was huge and always in front of your face and also pressing on your sinuses” [image]
2023-06-06 View on X
The Verge

Tim Cook unveils Apple Vision Pro, a “spatial computing” headset controlled with the user's eyes, hands, and voice, coming to the US for $3,499+ in early 2024

Apple has announced an augmented reality headset called Apple Vision Pro that “seamlessly” blends the real and digital world.

2023-04-20
it's by no means the biggest issue, but personally, it's jarring to confirm that every site i've ever written for is included in this (and likely most other) data sets just the life's work of me and most of my colleagues, scraped to train tools being pitched as our replacements https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-20 View on X
Washington Post

Analysis: Google's C4 dataset, used to train LLMs like Meta's LLaMA, has troubling content from 4chan, Kiwi Farms, white supremacist site Stormfront, and more

AI chatbots have exploded in popularity over the past four months, stunning the public with their awesome abilities …

2023-04-12
meanwhile, this is a much more immediately impactful application of bots like ChatGPT: creating new and innovative forms of spam the tools lend themselves most to low-effort, generic content. not so much to meaningful, resonant art https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-12 View on X
VICE

Reddit moderators detail recent spam generated by AI tools like ChatGPT, including in higher volume and at faster post speeds, sometimes via coordinated attacks

2023-02-14
see if you made a sentient ai that could comprehend its own existence, you wouldn't get a calm, collected discourse about the meaning of thought pretty sure you'd get this https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-14 View on X
DKB Blog

At Microsoft's demo last week, the “new Bing” incorrectly summarized Gap's Q3 2022 earnings and provided wrong info on a pet vacuum and Mexico City nightlife

Microsoft knowingly released a broken product for short-term hype  —  Bing AI got some answers completely wrong during their demo.

2023-01-11
if you ever need to explain what “institutional knowledge” is, a good example would be that literally any of the people elon musk fired could've told him that they tried this already—several times!—and no one liked it https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-11 View on X
The Verge

Twitter renames Latest Tweets to Following and Home to For You, making the algorithmic feed the default with no option to change it, rolling out on iOS first

Twitter is changing how you move between the algorithmically-driven timeline and the reverse chronological one and making the algorithmic feed the default.

2022-11-12
at $8 a pop, 140k accounts would result in...a little over $1.1 million this is not much money! https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-12 View on X
New York Times

An internal Twitter log shows that more than 140,000 accounts had signed up for the new Twitter Blue as of November 10

The social media service, which is undergoing changes from its new owner Elon Musk, has descended into a messy swirl of spoof messages and parody accounts.

2022-10-12
The Quest Pro is $1,500, heavier than the Quest 2, has shorter battery life and...is aimed at businesses. But don't worry, “the metaverse” is right around the corner for everyone. Gonna be worth trillions and we'll all spend 15 hours a day in it. https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-12 View on X
The Verge

Meta unveils the $1,499 Quest Pro headset, offering eye and face tracking and color passthrough video for mixed reality, shipping on October 25 in 22 countries

Meta has finally announced the Meta Quest Pro: a $1,499 virtual reality headset it's been teasing for the past year.

The Quest Pro is $1,500, heavier than the Quest 2, has shorter battery life and...is aimed at businesses. But don't worry, “the metaverse” is right around the corner for everyone. Gonna be worth trillions and we'll all spend 15 hours a day in it. https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-12 View on X
The Verge

Hands-on with Meta Quest Pro: feels like a sophisticated development kit with a thoughtful design, improved controllers, one to two hours of battery, and more

Adi Robertson / The Verge :

2022-07-29
with respect, this is one of the most hilariously naive things i've seen a tech exec say of *course* you can tell people how to use the app. that's what UX design is bury the Stories feature in a sub-menu somewhere, see how much people “prefer” video then https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-29 View on X
Platformer

Adam Mosseri says Instagram will roll back some recent changes after a week of mounting criticism, including temporarily reducing the number of recommendations

Say goodbye to the full-screen feed, and at least some of those recommendations — for now.  Adam Mosseri explains why

2022-07-21
I doubt it will be that significant, but I would wager that NFT sales are about to get a mild bump from this. It's slightly more effort to make a DALL-E image, but if you own the rights to it, that makes life easier for mass uploaders. https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-21 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI makes DALL-E 2 widely available in beta through a credit-based fee structure; users will get free credits every month and can buy more in $15 increments

·E, the AI system that creates realistic images … Alex Gatewood / KnowTechie : DALL-E 2, the AI that creates images for you, expands beta tests Usama Jawad / Neowin : Powerful AI-b...