Reposted by David PritchardMichiel van de Panne @mvandepanne.bsky.social · 02/08/2026So many thoughtful insights here. Strongly recommended! 031
Reposted by David Pritchardapenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 05/06/2026This is also why we paused development of tcp/ip for 30 years siliconangle.com/2026/06/04/a...siliconangle.comAnthropic calls for global pause in AI development before humans lose control - SiliconANGLEAnthropic calls for global pause in AI development before humans lose control - SiliconANGLE 2714
Reposted by David PritchardJonathan Stray @jonathanstray.com · 09/06/2026Humanity's ability to know, reason, judge, and act well is the foundation of science, democracy, crisis response, & management of AI itself. AI poses serious risks to that foundation. New paper on epistemic risks by 30 experts calls for attention and proposes solutions. Link in thread. 33219
David Pritchard @drpritch.bsky.social · 17/04/2026TIL - Boards of Canada didn't just borrow their name from the NFB. Their sound and vibe were clearly inspired by NFB and Alain Clavier - www.youtube.com/watch?v=c99I...youtube.comPrince Albert | Alain Clavier 1980s Interludes | Parks CanadaYouTube video by Parks Canada 010
Reposted by David PritchardSocial Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 24/02/2026"Hegseth told Amodei in a tense meeting on Tuesday that the Pentagon will either cut ties and declare Anthropic a "supply chain risk," or invoke the Defense Production Act to force the company to tailor its model to the military's needs." www.axios.com/2026/02/24/a...axios.comHegseth gives Anthropic CEO until Friday to back down in AI safeguards fight"The only reason we're still talking to these people is we need them and we need them now." 73519
David Pritchard @drpritch.bsky.social · 06/02/2026‘ “Investing” in crypto is really just a bet on criming going up.‘ 010
Reposted by David Pritchardqntm @qntm.org · 23/01/2026Code is liability. AI allows us to create tremendous amounts of liability very quickly 10885178
Reposted by David PritchardJens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 12/01/2026A bit more background on the genesis of this project in this accompanying blog post. It was built while jet-lagged in the early morning and during a couple of long-ish train rides over the break, heavily leveraging Claude Code.doodles.mountainmath.caIntroducing CanViz – Mountain DoodlesIntroducing CanViz, a web app to dynamically explore and plot StatCan data. 3131
Reposted by David PritchardGedalia @gedalia.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Talking to my kid about space and I mentioned that Voyager was the furthest object from the earth, and looked it up Voyager I is currently 23 light hours and 30 light minutes away, turns out exactly 1 year from now it will be 1 light day away, going 1/2 a light hour a year. 161
Reposted by David PritchardMike Pritchard @mikepritchard.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Pleased to share my views in a new TEDx talk on how AI offers compelling new ways to simulate the Earth with unprecedented resolution and interactivity: youtu.be/I0nxFLh-iBg?...youtu.beAI is making whole earth simulation possible--why that matters | Mike Pritchard | TEDxBostonYouTube video by TEDx Talks 172
Reposted by David PritchardJoshferatu Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Print edition @theonion.com ads don’t miss 4179431383
David Pritchard @drpritch.bsky.social · 19/09/2025More cyberpunk, but “The Dervish House” was good. 000
Reposted by David PritchardTyson Brochu @tysonbrochu.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Always nice to see people still referencing El Topo, even if they’re dunking on how slow it is 😆 #siggraph2025 061
Reposted by David PritchardKeith Phipps @kphipps3000.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Today at The Reveal: The Laser Age, a new podcast about science fiction films from the second half of the 20th century. I was thrilled to have the great @hodgman.bsky.social join me to discuss SILENT RUNNING, a 1972 film about ecology, robots, cantaloupes, and... murder.thereveal.filmIntroducing ‘The Laser Age,’ a New Podcast from The RevealNew Feature: The Reveal's first podcast takes a close look at science fiction films from the second half of the 20th century. Where did they come from? And what did they say about what was coming next... 1511937
Reposted by David PritchardIan Flynn @ianflynnbkc.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Don't doom scroll. Put down your phone and sleep as best you can. Get up when you're supposed to and don't skimp on breakfast. What you have control of right now is you. Start there. Maintain that. Be good to yourselves. Be good to each other. 4326131109
Reposted by David PritchardKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right. 28584961382
Reposted by David Pritchardapenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 12/06/2025Customers: We want a faster horse Henry Ford: Ah. In fact— Kubernetes: Let me stop you right there. What you really need is 1000 horses that die randomly 314125
Reposted by David PritchardReid Southen @rahll.bsky.social · 11/06/2025In the Disney lawsuit, 10 pages are dedicated to citing the work we did. In pursuit of this evidence, Midjourney banned me 3 times and updated their ToS. The first ban encouraged me to dig a lot deeper, so I'd like to congratulate CEO David Holz on his massive unforced error. 4744321107
David Pritchard @drpritch.bsky.social · 11/06/2025It's true. Parasocial relationships with our favourite podcasters... is on the nose. 000
Reposted by David PritchardNick Heer @nickheer.com · 11/06/2025I think this may actually be news. I haven’t seen any other coverage yet. pxlnv.com/blog/apple-m...pxlnv.comCycling Directions Have Expanded Across Canada in Apple MapsApple has made no announcement that can find about a significant expansion in the availability of cycling directions across Canada, but I thought it was worth noting here because it impacts me persona... 001
David Pritchard @drpritch.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Out of masochism - and a desire to stay in touch with “the regular folks” - I still often surf the web without an ad blocker. I’m talking about the Taboola type junk ads. 100
David Pritchard @drpritch.bsky.social · 10/06/2025The first week on my job, browsing the web through a US VPN, I was shocked at the mix of ads I got. I don’t know if it defaults me to the “average English speaker” or to “Silicon Valley male” but either way… wow. The gun ads, the bodybuilding, the drug ads. That said - it has clearly toned down. 100
David Pritchard @drpritch.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Ditto Ottawa! Very helpful for my cellular-watch-maps-only child. 000
David Pritchard @drpritch.bsky.social · 10/06/2025What, you don’t get 20 weapons ads in your feed per day to ensure you know the industry approved naming? 100
Reposted by David PritchardKevin Gibson @kevin-gibson.com · 09/06/2025Oh hey, the renderer I've been working on for Persona got shown off at WWDC this morning www.apple.com/newsroom/202... 1101
David Pritchard @drpritch.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Hm, and I guess latitude would be another candidate theory - provided that you accept “north is up” then “distance north of equator” would give y = up for a Eurocentric point of view. Ptolemy, 150AD. Dammit, now I want to know. 000
David Pritchard @drpritch.bsky.social · 06/06/2025For sure. Maybe someone can chime in with an actual historian. All I have on my shelf is this Playfair one from 1783, taken from Tufte’s discussions on the origins of graphs: 100
David Pritchard @drpritch.bsky.social · 06/06/2025My guess: from bar graphs, where “higher stack” = more, and that probably comes from stacking coins on a table. So y=up might come from gravity, not language? 120
Reposted by David PritchardMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/05/2025"It really does disappoint me that so many brilliant colleagues—whose genuine breakthroughs I’ve profited from for years—would be so quick to condemn this newer, stupider way that I and others like me can make money off your life’s work, through stealing."buff.lyA Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism MachineHey team. It’s your CEO. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s come to my attention that some of you have been bad-mou... 226298
Reposted by David PritchardCharity Majors @charity.wtf · 27/05/2025I have not paid a ton of attention to the uproar over RTO policies, bc we are all in on distributed teams and not going back. My impression (via social media) has been that these were shadow layoffs. Last month I asked an investor why they are doing RTO. He said: "Retention, mostly. And morale." 2233950
Reposted by David PritchardSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 26/04/2025Watching o3 guess a photo’s location is surreal, dystopian and wildly entertaining simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/...simonwillison.netWatching o3 guess a photo’s location is surreal, dystopian and wildly entertainingWatching OpenAI’s new o3 model guess where a photo was taken is one of those moments where decades of science fiction suddenly come to life. It’s a cross between the … 1313723
Reposted by David Pritchardapenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 16/04/2025A good rant. Interestingly my first impression of mastodon was “Ah, I’ve read this book before, it was called XMPP, I didn’t enjoy it”. I got the opposite vibe from early bsky. Not sure what the giveaway was in the first few seconds of each. 4171
David Pritchard @drpritch.bsky.social · 31/03/2025We got an electric cooler for this purpose, after food poisoning during our last 8 day power outage. In a city where only 20% blacks out at a time, my car IS my powerwall, and I can drive it a few kms to refill. Curious about this, though it voids the warranty: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...arstechnica.comOld Bolt, new tricks: Making an EV into a backup power station with an inverterUsing a custom kit to make a budget EV offer some emergency power. 110
David Pritchard @drpritch.bsky.social · 25/03/2025After the Bezos phone hacking / blackmail incident leading to his $38B divorce - you’d think they’d learn a bit of op sec. And yet. www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-s...businessinsider.comHow Saudi Arabia and the National Enquirer are linked to the alleged hacking and blackmail attempt against Jeff BezosThe National Enquirer threatened to publish intimate photos of Bezos' extramarital affair in early 2019. The tabloid has close Saudi links. 010
Reposted by David PritchardRyan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 23/03/2025real interesting slide set from Tim S at HPG 2009: web.archive.org/web/20090823... . You can see some of the seeds that led to his Verse language in here. Interesting to see some of the predictions that panned out and/or didn't ... (1/n)web.archive.org 1186
Reposted by David PritchardMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025I reposted this raw, but the interesting thing here is the subtext that living in America now makes you suspect to anyone outside America. In two months this has become a global fact that maybe a lot of Americans aren’t yet aware of. Or don’t care probs. But they should. 24482122
David Pritchard @drpritch.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Ambitious! I’m not nearly as AI optimistic as this, but I like the thought experiment. 010
David Pritchard @drpritch.bsky.social · 06/03/2025So sorry this a thing, Rook. A living nightmare. 010
Reposted by David PritchardDavid Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 02/03/2025They're libertarians who want a US Treasury bailout for their fake money 20956111
David Pritchard @drpritch.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Why might Russia circulate fakes like these? Probably they want a repeat of how they spun the Steele dossier - they can call out a fake and then call absolutely everything a “Trump-Russia hoax”. 110
David Pritchard @drpritch.bsky.social · 28/02/2025This is also what happens when no one does any analysis of “who will be impacted by tariffs / cuts.” These two loud issues are all about keeping billionaires’ taxes down. 010
David Pritchard @drpritch.bsky.social · 28/02/2025From DOGE article bsky.app/profile/kate... This is how you decide to tariff your biggest trading partners, and get fixated with exactly 25%: maximize income raised. 100
David Pritchard @drpritch.bsky.social · 28/02/2025This still feels like the motive for much of Trump 1st month activity (tariffs, doge): change budget by $2trillion, make the 2018 tax cuts permanent - otherwise, they expire this year. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cut... 120
David Pritchard @drpritch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Fascinating. Marcy Wheeler @emptywheel.bsky.social has long argued this was the trap Smith set. I guess we can expect some industrial grade distraction in the coming week to keep this off the front page… sigh 010
