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Christopher Mims

@technicallymims
76 posts
2025-01-05
really, really don't get the whole “let's deliberately pollute our social network with AI bots” thing
2025-01-05 View on X
404 Media

After a backlash, Meta says newly viral AI-generated profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting them

and what you can do with it Mia Sato / The Verge : Meta's AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well Josh Kerwick / Star Observer : Meta Wipes Scrutinised AI Accounts, I...

2025-01-04
really, really don't get the whole “let's deliberately pollute our social network with AI bots” thing
2025-01-04 View on X
404 Media

After backlash, Meta says newly viral AI profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting the profiles

Earlier this week, Meta executive Connor Hayes told the Financial Times that the company is going to roll out AI character profiles …

2024-10-13
As someone researching precisely this topic — impact of AI on bio + medicine — I gotta say, yes, it has been and will continue to be huge.  But this timeline strikes me as pretty silly.  The systematic error all the AI CEOs of this sort make is that they try to fit the timeline …
2024-10-13 View on X
Dario Amodei

An essay on what a “powerful AI” may look like and how it could positively transform the world in biology, neuroscience, economic development, work, and more

How AI Could Transform the World for the Better  —  I think and talk a lot about the risks of powerful AI.

2024-10-12
imagine being impressed by a completely staged demo in a completely controlled environment when you could hop into an actual waymo on a real city street tomorrow  —  RE: https://www.threads.net/...
2024-10-12 View on X
Business Insider

Analysts question the feasibility of Tesla's robotaxi plan, citing a lack of rideshare partnerships and Musk's history of missing FSD targets; TSLA drops 8.8%

- Tesla's driverless taxi plan has been met with skepticism over its feasibility and competition with rivals.

2024-10-02
Feels like Meta has the chance to be the default pathway onto the Fediverse for millions.  Like what AOL was to the early web?  —  RE: https://www.threads.net/...
2024-10-02 View on X
TechCrunch

Threads now gives users 15 minutes to edit posts and lets users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse see who follows them and likes their posts

RE: https://www.threads.net/... Anuj Ahooja / @quillmatiq : I think it's cool that this many people follow me on the Fediverse with no extra effort on my part, but what's cooler is...

2024-09-21
Even by the standards of Elon Musk news today's a big day: * SEC seeking sanctions (ranges from fines to being barred from working in an industry) * Massive negative shift in consumer sentiment towards Tesla; buyers jumping ship * SpaceX allegedly trespassed on land owned by beloved game maker, who is suing
2024-09-21 View on X
Reuters

Filing: the US SEC says it intends to seek sanctions against Elon Musk for failing to appear for scheduled testimony for a probe into his $44B Twitter takeover

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Friday it intends to seek sanctions against Elon Musk after he failed to appear …

2024-09-10
fascinating portrait of an entrepreneur willing to do pretty much anything to get close to Elon Musk — if this is what his inner circle is like, no wonder there are seemingly no checks on his behavior  —  RE: https://www.threads.net/...
2024-09-10 View on X
Wall Street Journal

How VC John Hering bet his career, time, and money on Elon Musk's businesses, including investing $4B+, more than half of his firm Vy Capital's reported assets

Venture capitalist John Hering bet his career, time and money on Musk enterprises, seeking a favored seat beside the world's richest man

2024-09-03
that last line is more or less “only landholding men should be allowed to vote” 😬
2024-09-03 View on X
Boing Boing

Elon Musk boosts a post that disparages the abilities of “women and low T men”, advocates a “Republic of high status males”, and mentions a “Reich effect”

With about two months until Election Day, the guardrails established … Ariana Baio / The Independent : Elon Musk suggests support for replacing democracy with government of ‘high-s...

2024-09-02
Bluesky seems to be struggling with the massive influx of Brazilians after X was banned there.  “Discover” tab is taking awhile to load; “Popular with friends” now seems either broken or switched off
2024-09-02 View on X
New York Times

Bluesky reports a record spike in usage as many X users in Brazil move to Bluesky and Threads; Brazil is X's fifth-largest international market, with 20M+ users

uau... bem-vindos ao UM MILHÃO de novos usuários nos últimos três dias!!!  🎉 Mike Masnick / @mmasnick.bsky.social : very time some Elon fan tweets a similar thing (often misleading...

Bluesky seems to be struggling with the massive influx of Brazilians after X was banned there.  “Discover” tab is taking awhile to load; “Popular with friends” now seems either broken or switched off
2024-09-02 View on X
Bloomberg

A majority of Brazilian judges on a Supreme Court panel vote to confirm an order to ban X in Brazil and fine those who don't comply with it by using a VPN

- Majority on panel backs order by Moraes against social network  — Justices also uphold fine for those who use VPN for access

2024-09-01
Bluesky seems to be struggling with the massive influx of Brazilians after X was banned there.  “Discover” tab is taking awhile to load; “Popular with friends” now seems either broken or switched off
2024-09-01 View on X
Associated Press

Brazil blocks X, following an order from Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country

The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians …

2024-08-31
between this and Apple allowing access to ChatGPT (and possibly making a strategic investment in OpenAI) sure does seem like the future of AI chatbots is whatever the companies with the $$ to build frontier models want to offer  —  RE: https://www.threads.net/...
2024-08-31 View on X
Reuters

Sources: Amazon's revamped “Remarkable” Alexa, due for release in October 2024, will be powered primarily by Anthropic's Claude, and cost $5 to $10 per month

the path to scale will still be tough Brad Linder / Liliputing : Lilbits: Amazon's AI-powered subscription voice assistant could launch in October Omar Gallaga / CNET : Amazon's Al...

2024-08-14
ok contrary to everything I just said about not getting excited about new phones, now I want a new phone lol  —  RE: https://www.threads.net/...
2024-08-14 View on X
Wired

Hands-on with the Google Pixel 9's AI camera features: Add Me, Reimagine, Autoframe, and Zoom Enhance reshape reality, plus Video Boost and panorama get better

Add Me, Reimagine, Autoframe, and Zoom Enhance—these camera features allow you to alter your photos with zero technical know-how.

ok contrary to everything I just said about not getting excited about new phones, now I want a new phone lol  —  RE: https://www.threads.net/...
2024-08-14 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Hands-on with Gemini Live: conversationally, a big step forward, but functionally, a step back in some ways, largely due to working entirely in the cloud

Subscribe to our Channel: https://www.youtube.com/googleFind us on X … Eshu Marneedi : Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro Fold Impressions: What's a Photo? Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central : ...

2024-08-13
Kind of wild to hear how well Musk and Trump are getting along.  They sound like a mutual admiration society.
2024-08-13 View on X
The Verge

A source at X says the Donald Trump interview crash was not the result of a DDoS attack; another X employee said there was a “99 percent” chance Musk was lying

Elon Musk's “conversation” with former President Donald Trump got off to a rocky start.

Musk just said we “don't need to rush” on the energy transition and averting the worst of climate change.  Things get bad at 1000ppm of CO2 because you get headaches and nausea, he allows.  “My view is if you look at the ppm increments every year... it's problematic if it accelerates... we don't want to get too close to 1000ppm” Sounds like he's trying to convince Trump? …
2024-08-13 View on X
The Verge

A source at X says the Donald Trump interview crash was not the result of a DDoS attack; another X employee said there was a “99 percent” chance Musk was lying

Elon Musk's “conversation” with former President Donald Trump got off to a rocky start.

2024-08-03
just more and more evidence every day that it's almost impossible to be a startup in this space and build your own models  —  also not that great being a startup that's just a wrapper on other models  —  RE: https://www.threads.net/...
2024-08-03 View on X
TechCrunch

Character.AI co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and some employees, are joining Google; Google has signed a non-exclusive agreement to use its tech

In a big move, Character.AI co-founder and CEO CEO Noam Shazeer is returning to Google after leaving the company in October 2021 to found the a16z-backed startup.

2024-07-22
Interesting Hacker News thread on why today's outage could have happened to any OS running these critical systems (but I am not an expert and am ready to hear from anyone who insists this is also or even primarily a Windows issue) https://news.ycombinator.com/ ...
2024-07-22 View on X
Reuters

Reeling from CrowdStrike-related outages, Delta has canceled 5,000+ flights, including 1,384 on Sunday and 700+ for Monday so far, according to FlightAware

Delta Air Lines (DAL.N) struggled to restore normal operations on Sunday after last week's crippling global cyber outage …

Interesting Hacker News thread on why today's outage could have happened to any OS running these critical systems (but I am not an expert and am ready to hear from anyone who insists this is also or even primarily a Windows issue) https://news.ycombinator.com/ ...
2024-07-22 View on X
CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike says a Falcon sensor configuration update on Windows triggered a logic error that resulted in a system crash and BSOD, remediated after 78 minutes

Thankfully, Macs weren't affected by last week's catastrophic … Anthony Ha / TechCrunch : TechCrunch Minute: What caused last week's major tech outage? CrowdStrike : Likely eCrime ...

2024-07-21
Interesting Hacker News thread on why today's outage could have happened to any OS running these critical systems (but I am not an expert and am ready to hear from anyone who insists this is also or even primarily a Windows issue) https://news.ycombinator.com/ ...
2024-07-21 View on X
CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike says a sensor configuration update to Windows systems triggered a logic error that resulted in a system crash and BSOD on impacted systems

What Happened?  —  On July 19, 2024 at 04:09 UTC, as part of ongoing operations, CrowdStrike released a sensor configuration update to Windows systems.