Adrian Sanabria

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"I rant with data!"

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When Your Best Friend Is a Bot Who Never Says No

In 1966, an MIT computer scientist named Joseph Weizenbaum built a chatbot called ELIZA. It was extremely simple by today's standards which simply rephrased whatever you typed as a question. Tell it "my boyfriend made me come here" and it would respond "your boyfriend made you come here?" It was nothing more than a party trick.  What Weizenbaum didn't anticipate was how much people would fall for it.

http://javvadmalik.com/2026/03/27/when-your-best-friend-is-a-bot-who-never-says-no/

When Your Best Friend Is a Bot Who Never Says No

In 1966, an MIT computer scientist named Joseph Weizenbaum built a chatbot called ELIZA. It was extremely simple by today’s standards which simply rephrased whatever you typed as a question.&…

Javvad Malik

@wendynather omg so cute

The movie is so good, got to see it early a few weeks ago

@augebbs @campuscodi No idea, I'm just pointing out the crazy logistics that come with handling 10 petabytes of data

Pretty sure I've written this blog post in other places in the past, but if your inbox is a hot mess, I have some suggestions you can go through in about 15 minutes - the time it takes to drink a cup of tea or coffee.

https://open.substack.com/pub/defendersinitiative/p/fix-your-inbox-no-ai-needed?r=74yjk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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The Defender's Initiative

@pluralistic keep being awesome, this made my day

and it made the "Squirrel" story for my latest podcast episode (we always have a fun non-sequitur to wrap the show)

@campuscodi What are even the logistics of stealing/storing/selling/managing 10 Petabytes of data?

Some quick math shows this would take 2.5 years to transfer over a 1 gig link. It would take over 700 very large NAS/SAN-scale hard drives that would weigh 1500 pounds and cost over $300,000, just to store all the data.

@Javvad I love jumping into new technologies just because I'm forever curious about everything, but I hate this "MAXING" culture.

  • You've got to make the MOST gains
  • Build the MOST muscle
  • Bro, do you even lift?
  • You've got to have AI agents read all the blog posts, consume all the podcasts
  • You've got to stop drinking, and turn your sleep into a science experiment because your brain needs to be at 100%, not 93%, you LOSER
  • You've got to take all the supplements and get into all the nutrition fads to squeak out an extra 5 weeks of lifespan when you're 93 years old
  • You've got to use all the AI so you're as efficient as possible, you should be ashamed if even a minute of your day is wasted
  • LOL, you wrote that blog BY HAND? What a loser, one prompt to OpenClaw and all my writing is done
  • You have to get status on airlines, be the first to board, loser
  • You haven't written a book yet? You poor thing, let me share my AI process I used to slop out my last self-published release, I'm sure you want to do the same and the only reason anyone wants to publish a book is just to say they've published a book

The thing that cracks me up is that all this maxxing results in a lot of STRESS, which last time I checked, isn't good for productivity OR your health.

Besides, the very things I get pleasure out of are the things these maxxers are trying to avoid. Why would I have an agent create content for me? I love creating content, that's WHY I DO IT in the first place.

It's not the means to a paycheck for me, my brain rewards me for writing things down and creating conversation with them.

@mattblaze I'd really like to wake up now from this insane timeline

When I was a kid, I had this view of adults as mature, rational, logical people that had everything figured out. Sure, there were crazy people, but they were easily sorted from the normal adults, and everyone could tell the difference, right?

These days, I'm relieved when 1 in 10 adults meet my childhood idea of an adult.

Every now and then, a new song becomes an obsession and just latches onto my brain.

That song right now is Nate Smith's cover of the Pointer Sisters' Automatic

https://open.spotify.com/track/7FeLKSPYTLi93vxqBO0Yku?si=023f84837089406d

AUTOMATIC

Nate Smith, Lalah Hathaway · LIVE-ACTION (Deluxe) · Song · 2026

Spotify

@brianhonan @Javvad I'm going to find some excuses to get over on that side of the Atlantic this year.

US is a bit of a mess ATM, especially for anyone visiting. I can't blame anyone for not wanting to deal with all this noise on top of travel, which can be challenging even when everything runs smoothly.