Michiel Toneman

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BlueSky wants you to trust them, but they raised $100 million from a crypto fund almost a YEAR AGO and didn't tell anyone.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/bluesky-announces-100m-series-b-after-ceo-transition/

Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition | TechCrunch

The additional funds have been used to scale Bluesky's team, while the company continues to develop Bluesky's app and the underlying ATProto that powers it.

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A rare moment where you root for regime change in all three countries involved

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A murderbot stamping on a human face forever.

scott f: This dystopic scene of identical robocars clogging an entire block to carry maaaybe 1/4 of a busload of people, was posted by a waymo employee who thought it made his company look good. Mike Sims:...
https://jwz.org/b/ykbK

A murderbot stamping on a human face forever

scott f: This dystopic scene of identical robocars clogging an entire block to carry maaaybe 1/4 of a busload of people, was posted by a waymo employee who thought it made his company look good. Mike Sims: Yep. The future desired by robocar people is that in a concert hall of 40,000 people, 40,000 private cars just slow-drive around the concert hall from the 7:30pm dropoff until the 11pm ...

Apple did the research; LLMs cannot do formal reasoning. Results change by as much as 10% if something as basic as the names change.

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-dont-do-formal-reasoning-and

LLMs don’t do formal reasoning - and that is a HUGE problem

Important new study from Apple

Marcus on AI

I’m excited to launch @theindex on Mastodon!

- social native news (full story in one toot)
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I think about this every time someone tries to get me into online arguments πŸ˜‚ https://x.com/anammostarac/status/1709029600297414699
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As a guiding principle, the notion that 'bees don't waste their time explaining to flies that honey is better than shit' has helped me filter out a lot of opinions.

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Me to my IDE πŸ˜‚πŸ‘‡πŸ»

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