Mastodawn

A man used LLMs to generate hundreds of thousands of "songs", then used bots to stream them billions of times, to collect $8m in royalties. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north-carolina-man-pleads-guilty-music-streaming-fraud-aided-artificial-intelligence-0 Is there a better metaphor for late-stage capitalism than burning resources to make songs that are never listened to, then steaming them to robots that will never hear them, ad infinitum?

Patrick Simpson Mar 1

mhoye Feb 28

What if I could convince you that taking the same time to explain detailed requirements and carefully validate results with a junior colleague instead of a chatbot would not only give you two people who understood the code instead of zero, but if you do it a few times in a row you eventually get a senior colleague out of the deal for free.

Patrick Simpson Feb 13

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Matilda Love Feb 11

"i'm watching my favorite leslie nielsen movie for his birthday"

"what's that?"

"it's the anniversary of a person's birth, but that's not important right now"

Patrick Simpson Feb 4

Felienne Hermans Feb 4

Moltbook, iedereen heeft het erover, want o, wat gaan die chatbots toch hard, het is allemaal niet bij te houden.

Het enige zinnige dat ik erover te zeggen heb, zit al in dit filmpje uit 1944.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FIEZXMUM2I

The Heider-Simmel Illusion

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Patrick Simpson Feb 3

MostlyHarmless Feb 3

Patrick Simpson Jan 29

Dare Obasanjo Jan 29

Biggest fall off in tech has to go to this boy genius.

Patrick Simpson Jan 24

Snow dog. #dogsofmastodon

Patrick Simpson Jan 21

JA Westenberg Jan 20

they called it trickle-down economics because 'financial waterboarding' didn't poll well with focus groups

Patrick Simpson Jan 14

Corbin Davenport Jan 13

I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, sponsored content, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers.

This project includes configuration files (group policies), a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Everything is open-source on GitHub.

https://justthebrowser.com

Mozilla Firefox configuration - Just the Browser

Remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from web browsers.

Just the Browser

Patrick Simpson Jan 7

Robert McNees Jan 6

This is incredible. An MTV simulator with almost 30,000 videos, organized by decade along with special sections for Headbanger's Ball and Yo! MTV Raps.

https://wantmymtv.vercel.app/

MTV REWIND - I Want My MTV

Celebrating 44 years of continuous music videos. Stream classic music videos 24/7.