The Eradication Of Grief — The company Orpheus brings loved ones back from the dead. But there is a dark side to their promises.
I post links I come across that I find interesting. Mostly AI stuff. How it works, where it's going, what it means.
Apr. 8, 2026
Readings
Anthropic: Our new Mythos model is so powerful we can't release it — Reading through the system card, you can't shake the feeling that Anthropic's researchers are treating the model as if it were a real, sentient person.
Videos
I'm Sick Of AI! — NSFW
Mar. 29, 2026
Readings
Grammarly shows how prototyping turned into an excuse for not thinking — When we reduce programming to lines of code deployed to prod, we obliterate this process of theory-building.
Mar. 28, 2026
Readings
Endgame for the Open Web — "The good of the web only exists because of the openness of the web."
Videos
8 billion people vs 5 AI CEOs with Tristan Harris — he's featured in a new film, The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, which explores both the transformative potential of artificial intelligence and the existential risks it poses.
The Marketing Tricks of "Artificial Intelligence" — deflates AI hype and draws attention to the real harms of the automation technologies we call 'artificial intelligence'.
Mar. 23, 2026
Readings
If using ChatGPT is cheating, what about ghostwriting? The old debate behind a new panic — Editors have long made a career out of helping authors shape their writing. Visual artists have long employed studio assistants. Television shows only get written collaboratively in writers' rooms.
Geist in the machine — ... beneath these debates, the question still lurks: what makes us so special? And can it be computed?
I Love the Em Dash. Too Bad if AI Does Too — There seemed to be mutual consensus in the online world, somehow from everyone and no one in particular, that frequent em dashes are no longer the result of human behaviour.
Videos
The Dangerous Illusion of AI Coding? - Jeremy Howard — Jeremy Howard is a renowned data scientist, researcher, entrepreneur, and educator. As the co-founder of fast.ai, former President of Kaggle, and the creator of ULMFiT, Jeremy has spent decades democratizing deep learning. His pioneering work laid the foundation for modern transfer learning and the pre-training and fine-tuning paradigm that powers today's language models.
Mar. 20, 2026
Readings
Jeff Bezos aims to raise $100 billion to buy, revamp manufacturing firms with AI, WSJ reports — Described in investor documents as a "manufacturing transformation vehicle," the fund aims to target companies in major industries such as chipmaking, defense, and aerospace, the Journal said.
Neal K. Shah: Google just patented the right to replace your website with its own — Google’s system would evaluate your website’s landing page using metrics like bounce rate, conversion rate, and something it calls “page design quality.” If your site falls below a threshold that Google sets
Mar. 12, 2026
Readings
Amazon puts humans further back in the loop as its retail website crashes from ‘inaccurate advice’ that an AI agent took from an old wiki — the message to engineers was that AI-assisted changes now get more scrutiny.
Mar. 8, 2026
Readings
How Much Water Do the Data Centres Use? It’s a Secret — Google is taking absolutely the limit of all the water they can.