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Richard Lawler

@rjcc
95 posts
2025-11-16
There are several pretty easy tells for ai writing, em dash overuse isn't really one of them.  —  One of the reasons they're easy tells is because people who are using chatbots to write, also aren't good at editing.  [embedded post]
2025-11-16 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI says ChatGPT will now avoid em dashes if users tell it to; em dashes have become telltale signs that supposedly signals text written by AI

Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules The Economic Times : OpenAI fixes ChatGPT's em dash problem; ‘small-but-happy-win’ says Sam Altman Kahekash...

2025-11-15
There are several pretty easy tells for ai writing, em dash overuse isn't really one of them.  —  One of the reasons they're easy tells is because people who are using chatbots to write, also aren't good at editing.  [embedded post]
2025-11-15 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI says ChatGPT will now ditch em dashes if users tell it to; em dashes have become telltale signs that supposedly signals text written by AI

OpenAI says ChatGPT will now ditch the em dashes if you tell it to.  The telltale sign that supposedly signals text written by AI has popped …

2025-06-28
It'd be easier to believe that ai bots are easy to use and more efficient if the people who use them the most didn't keep making up new kinds of experts in how to make them work.  [embedded post]
2025-06-28 View on X
Simon Willison's Weblog

The term “context engineering” is gaining traction over “prompt engineering” as it better describes the skill of providing LLMs with the necessary information

I've spoken favorably of prompt engineering in the past - I hoped that term could capture the inherent complexity of constructing reliable prompts.

2025-03-23
It's interesting that this doesn't seem to discuss the process at work in deeper detail than “we ran a search query” and “using ai”
2025-03-23 View on X
New York Times

Scientists are using AI to speed up drug repurposing, expanding the treatment possibilities for people with rare diseases and few options

Joseph Coates, left, owes his life to an A.I. model developed by Dr. David Fajgenbaum and the rest of his team.Hannah Yoon for The New York Times Bluesky: @rjcc , @karissabe , @noc...

2025-02-09
People use chatbot tools not because they're better, more effective, or faster (they are not)  —  They use them because when you do it and it gives you an obviously bad answer, you don't feel like the stupid one [embedded post]
2025-02-09 View on X
Washington Post

How DeepSeek's R1 accelerated the rollout of chatbots showing their “thinking” process; an expert says seeing a chatbot's inner monologue can trigger empathy

How Chinese start-up DeepSeek triggered a rush to launch chatbots that “reason.”  —  Chinese start-up DeepSeek …

2024-12-06
It's probably possible to think that most of the ai tools that we've been shown do suck, and that even something that only kind of works in limited ways can also be real and dangerous.  —  I'm not sure how many people actually disagree with that, if they were asked.  [embedded post]
2024-12-06 View on X
Platformer

The “AI is fake and sucks” people who take phony comfort in their AI skepticism need to accept that AI is more real and dangerous than they currently admit

It's fun to say that artificial intelligence is fake and sucks — but evidence is mounting that it's real and dangerous  —  I. Bluesky: @matrig.net , @rickywlmsbong , @rjcc , @avell...

2024-03-25
I don't think that trying to pursue our maintain a following on a platform that is now based on a pay-for-reach model makes sense if you think about it for even one second
2024-03-25 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Despite X's push to attract creators, its strategy remains unclear, as some creators cite concerns about the state of X's ad business and inconsistent payments

& to some extent, remain! — journalists: https://www.wsj.com/... That's one reason Musk's animus towards “legacy media” & the press has been uniquely damaging to @X's present — & f...

2023-12-22
You gotta hear both sides, and sometimes one of those sides is “Nazis pay for email newsletters too” as Michael Jordan could've said but didn't
2023-12-22 View on X
The Verge

Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie doubles down on not moderating Nazi content, after 200+ authors criticize the company for “platforming and monetizing Nazis”

More than 200 Substack authors asked the platform to explain why it's “platforming and monetizing Nazis,” …

2023-12-10
Slow, laggy Internet is almost never about bandwidth — the problem is latency, which hasn't improved much in years. But there's a fix, and it's coming soon. Three letters, L4S, are going to change web browsing, gaming, video chatting... everything. https://www.theverge.com/...
2023-12-10 View on X
The Verge

A look at L4S, an internet standard finalized in January 2023, aiming to reduce latency, with interest from Apple, Google, Comcast, Nvidia, and other companies

A few months ago, I downgraded my internet, going from a 900Mbps plan to a 200Mbps one.  Now, I find that websites can sometimes … Threads: @ezra and @richardlawler . Mastodon: @ja...

2023-08-05
Verified Twitter / X posters were supposed to get their next round of revenue-sharing payments this week. The company announced late Friday night: “We need a bit more time to review everything for the next payout and aim to get all eligible accounts paid as soon as possible”
2023-08-05 View on X
The Verge

X delays its ads revenue sharing program payouts that were set for the week of July 31, saying the volume of people signing up “has exceeded our expectations”

In news that isn't very surprising given the recent history of Twitter, which Elon Musk is currently rebranding to X …

2023-06-27
The AI survey says.... https://twitter.com/... [image]
2023-06-27 View on X
The Verge

A survey of 2,000+ US adults finds 57% know of ChatGPT, 46% for Bing Chat, 45% for My AI, and 38% for Bard; only ~33% have used the tools, with Gen Z dominating

2023-06-17
I feel like the sign that someone doesn't respect you is when they try to sell you NFTs https://twitter.com/...
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.”

I feel like the sign that someone doesn't respect you is when they try to sell you NFTs https://twitter.com/...
2023-06-17 View on X
The Verge

Q&A with Steve Huffman: Reddit's API “was never designed to support third-party apps”, he didn't know how much they “were profiting off of our API”, and more

2023-06-16
I feel like the sign that someone doesn't respect you is when they try to sell you NFTs https://twitter.com/...
2023-06-16 View on X
The Verge

Q&A: Steve Huffman says Reddit's API was “never designed to support third-party apps” and he didn't know how much the apps were “profiting off of our API”

Reddit is fighting for its soul. … Huffman has argued the changes are a business decision …

2023-05-31
Using ChatGPT and other AI bots without understanding what they are and are not capable of will get your fired (or maybe disbarred, idk https://www.theverge.com/... ) https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-31 View on X
The Verge

While OpenAI has become more upfront about ChatGPT's limitations, the company should do more to make clear the bot can't reliably distinguish fact from fiction

“May occasionally generate incorrect information.”  —  This is the warning OpenAI pins to the homepage of its AI chatbot ChatGPT …

2023-05-29
@Techmeme “The significance of this number is that it raises concerns about the legitimacy of the trading volume on the Blur platform and also on the entire NFT industry,” wait, whaaaaaaat? The NFT industry might not be entirely legitimate? noooooooo
2023-05-29 View on X
CoinDesk

DappRadar: Blur's NFT lending marketplace Blend accumulated 169.9K ETH, or ~$308M, in trading volume since its May 1 launch, taking 82% in lending market share

Cam Thompson / CoinDesk :

2023-05-28
@Techmeme “The significance of this number is that it raises concerns about the legitimacy of the trading volume on the Blur platform and also on the entire NFT industry,” wait, whaaaaaaat? The NFT industry might not be entirely legitimate? noooooooo
2023-05-28 View on X
CoinDesk

DappRadar: Blur's NFT lending marketplace Blend amassed 169,900 ETH, or about $308M, in volume since its May 1 launch, taking 82% of total lending volume market

Since NFT lending marketplace Blend launched May 1, it has amassed 169,900 ETH, or about $308 Million in volume.

2023-04-26
I think David makes a strong case that every argument claiming pre-Lightning Bitcoin or any other existing cryptocurrency is somehow consumer usable or useful for processing payments was flawed and not realistic at all https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-26 View on X
The Verge

Q&A with Lightspark CEO David Marcus on the current crypto winter, Lightning as a Layer 2 protocol, raising ~$175M, Libra, Nostr, Bitcoin, regulations, and more

Crypto has a lot of haters these days.  The former Facebook exec is trying to prove them wrong with his Bitcoin startup. Tweets: @rjcc , @rjcc , and @davidmarcus Tweets: Richard La...

2023-03-28
I think folks may have missed (because it's hard to parse and I could be wrong) that his tweet said recommended. The for you page doesn't mark “recommended” tweets anymore, but those are the ones you see from people you don't follow, not every tweet on the for you page https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-28 View on X
The Verge

Elon Musk says only verified accounts will be recommended in Twitter's For You tab and be able to vote in polls to address “AI bot swarms”, starting April 15

Twitter users will need a “verified account” to get recommended on the platform's For You page starting on April 15th …

2023-03-14
Next up: Starbucks and Nike. I don't know if Reddit will ever quit NFTs, or if it will just change the name again and get a bunch of its user's accounts hacked again. The NBA seems to like being associated with an unpopular system created to (allegedly) commit securities fraud https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-14 View on X
The Block

Meta plans to wind down its work on NFTs “for now” to focus on other ways of supporting creators and will continue working on Meta Pay

- Meta is ditching its NFT efforts, for now, according to executive Stephane Kasriel.  —  Meta is ditching its pursuit of NFTs as the company looks …