Mastodawn

New web game that takes 2 min to play (and perhaps a lifetime to master?): Outsmart. “Five rounds, first to 3 wins. In each round, the higher bet wins. You have 100 total points, so bet wisely. Can you outsmart the machine?” https://labs.davidbauer.ch/outsmart/

Outsmart – a game of strategy and deception

A strategic betting game where you try to outsmart the computer, maybe for the last time ever.

Eugene Kim Feb 20

RE: https://mstdn.social/@stux/116103350268090516

This is academia in a nutshell.

Eugene Kim Feb 2

Matt Gemmell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Feb 1

This piece has been coming for a while, in one form or another. Makes me deeply unhappy to write it. https://mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-apple/

The Fallen Apple — Matt Gemmell

I barely recognise the company I used to have such admiration for.

Matt Gemmell

Eugene Kim Jan 30

Luke Kanies Jan 28

I found this to be a very rational and calming take on the whole Gas Town meth binge.

Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale https://maggieappleton.com/gastown

Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale

On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code

Eugene Kim Jan 29

Anil Dash Jan 29

It’s worth walking people through the logic, because it doesn’t get repeated enough from the top:
1. There is no “immigrant crisis”. This is a panic instigated by racist slurs from a President’s that, even very recently, decent white people would have admitted were shocking and unacceptable.
2. A Customs & Border Protection agency responding to this manufactured “crisis” can have no possible legitimate authority for an armed invasion more than 300 miles from the border with our friendliest ally.

Eugene Kim Jan 10

The Verge Jan 9

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards https://www.theverge.com/policy/859902/apple-google-run-by-cowards

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

Apple and Google have left X in their app stores, despite its AI-generated images that violate their own rules. There are no principles left in Silicon Valley.

The Verge

Eugene Kim Jan 9

Casey Newton Jan 8

I'm glad to see this pressure on Google and Apple. If any other company was running an active CSAM generator in public you better believe it would have been removed from their app stores by now https://www.wired.com/story/x-grok-app-store-nudify-csam-apple-google-content-moderation/?utm_source=threads&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_brand=wired&utm_social-type=owned

Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?

Elon Musk’s chatbot has been used to generate thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors. Apple and Google have removed other “nudify” apps—but continue to host X and Grok.

WIRED

Eugene Kim Jan 8

kottke.org Jan 8

Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. “ICE acts more like the Gestapo than it does any kind of legitimate law enforcement agency.” https://kottke.org/26/01/abolish-ice

Abolish ICE

Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE

kottke.org

Eugene Kim Dec 18

ProPublica Dec 18

Today, ProPublica launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and what the factories that made them are like.

Here’s how to use it: https://www.propublica.org/article/rx-inspector-prescription-drug-lookup?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Data #Research #App #Health #Medicine #Medication #Drugs

Rx Inspector: ProPublica’s New Tool Provides Drug Info the FDA Won’t

We’ve launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and see the track records of the factories that made them.

ProPublica

Eugene Kim Nov 6

Dare Obasanjo Nov 6

OpenAI is asking the U.S. government for loan guarantees to fund its staggering $1 .4 trillion+ AI infrastructure build-out.

Basically if OpenAI can’t come up with the money after taking out loans then taxpayers will bail them out.

They finally played the “Too Big To Fail” card.

https://investinglive.com/stock-market-update/icymi-openai-asks-us-for-loan-guarantees-to-fund-1-trillion-ai-expansion-20251105/amp/

ICYMI - OpenAI asks U.S. for loan guarantees to fund $1 trillion AI expansion

OpenAI is seeking U.S. government support to help finance what could become one of the largest infrastructure buildouts in corporate history — exceeding $1 trillion.

investingLive