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So, how would the large companies get any return on all that money if anyone can run open models in their own machines (as soon as the market corrects for the scarcity caused by AI companies buying all memory/chips).

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But the capabilities of open models is getting close to the expensive models from such companies (for tasks that matter, and that can be automated). They are already "good enough" for the tasks of helping people do their jobs (but not fully replacing them, which is a pipe dream anyway).

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My take on what will burst the AI bubble is not its lack of capacity (for the stuff the LLMs actually do well), but rather, who can provide that, and how. The bubble now (and the cash burning from large LLM-labs) is predicated on an oligopoly being held by those labs.

Felipe Meneguzzi @felipe.meneguzzi.eu · 22/09/2026

Reality is that, there are jobs that can be automated by AI, but these are jobs that are already quite underpaid, and I don't think there will be that much savings cash-wise if one tries to fully delegate that stuff to AI.

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I read the novels for both Dragon Lance and Dark Sun. They should still be in my parent's place.

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Felipe Meneguzzi @felipe.meneguzzi.eu · 11/09/2026

And today, thousands of people had a few seconds of joy, only to realise that this was not an acceptance.

Neurips email about presentation. Body of the email says " this is not an acceptance"

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There wasn't at Saville's time, but they did write hundreds of articles on Andrew Mountbatten, didn't they? Would you say he was hounded? And before you start telling me that the magnitude of what Andrew did is of course much worse, but you are the one who brought Saville into the discussion.

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There is a lot of causal leaps in your argument, which the article articulates better than 300 characters can. But critically, nobody in the media did anything that caused his demise. If anything, his enablers over the years, and his willingness to double down on obvious lies got him to this point.

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For all the talk that this dude did not harm anyone, I can almost guarantee you that, for every Arday, there are dozens of other POC academics who did deserve the recognition that he got, but got passed over because they did not market themselves as effectively as him, and did not fit expectations.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

That was an extremely embarrassing read, to say the least.

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Baker is right. I don't think I've ever seen The Economist publish such an embarrassing piece as this. It takes aim at Acemoglu. But it really tarnishes The Economist, not him.

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This geode that resembles the Cookie Monster was discovered by gemologist *Lucas Fassari* in November 2020 in the Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. #AGoodPlace

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Jørgen Heszlein @heszlein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

*What is the legal equivalent of this? Something like legally-binding contracts with ultra-detailed boilerplate that is 75 billion pages long

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Felipe Meneguzzi @felipe.meneguzzi.eu · 10/08/2026

It's still a shame that a guy that talks sense like that (El-Sayed) is seen (rightly or wrongly), as a liability for the Democrat's chances of flipping the Senate in the midterms.

Felipe Meneguzzi @felipe.meneguzzi.eu · 05/08/2026

You missed another joke there on the HMS Ocean mate. Much like that ship, he is trying to rehash old ideas from other countries because he does not have the capacity to make his own to the same standards.

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Felipe Meneguzzi @felipe.meneguzzi.eu · 23/07/2026

What could possibly go wrong in selling massive amounts of military hardware and nuclear technology to a religiously conservative autocracy in the middle east? This is certainly a first..

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Felipe Meneguzzi @felipe.meneguzzi.eu · 20/07/2026

You are sub estimating the power of stochasticity. Every single machine learning algorithm of note runs on stochastic algorithms. The issue is, do you have a neat correctness checking (or error function) that you can trust? What was the prompt that led to that?

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Felipe Meneguzzi @felipe.meneguzzi.eu · 19/07/2026

Brilliant, the gaming industry already damaged generations of men with unrealistic physical and emotional expectations from the opposite sex, it's only fair for the industry to now damage women too. Gender equality at its best.

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Felipe Meneguzzi @felipe.meneguzzi.eu · 17/07/2026

Besides, a good solid turd is easier to pin down than the comparison. Oh, the jokes just write themselves...

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Felipe Meneguzzi @felipe.meneguzzi.eu · 17/07/2026

If I was a turd, I'd be offended to be compared with Farage.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 14/07/2026

i don’t think there’s a much beef between argentina and england as the media are making out; none of these players were even alive when the drug-addict maradona cheated in a quarter final, let alone when argentina’s fascist junta failed with their illegal invasion of british sovereign territory

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Felipe Meneguzzi @felipe.meneguzzi.eu · 10/07/2026

Late to upgrade to Tahoe, and Spotlight just plain sucks. The usual functionality for it was to switch to the a desired app by invoking it and typing the App's name, in Sequoia, it was quick. Now it searches for everything under the sun but Apps (even disabling search for everything else).

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 03/07/2026

Most AI ed-tech tools have floundered because they haven’t solved one central question that challenges all educators, Jenny Anderson and Mike Goldstein report: “How do you motivate students to experience the discomfort of learning something new?”

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The AI-Tutor Revolution That Wasn’t

It turns out bots aren’t great teachers.

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Felipe Meneguzzi @felipe.meneguzzi.eu · 29/06/2026

I was also shocked to discover that somebody slightly older than me had no idea what move Blazing Saddles was (after seeing a Western-themed bar in Cyprus, without laughing at the name). Alas, the bar did not look as enjoyable as the movie.

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Felipe Meneguzzi @felipe.meneguzzi.eu · 29/06/2026

My impression is that what people call Jewish humour is a fundamentally American Jewish phenomenon, and completely independent of Israel (not that it excuses anti-semitism). Like many immigrant communities, it becomes something unique when people move to another country.

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Felipe Meneguzzi @felipe.meneguzzi.eu · 25/06/2026

Also, would love your take on the flags that look like modern German flags completely out of place.

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Felipe Meneguzzi @felipe.meneguzzi.eu · 25/06/2026

@theresthistory.bsky.social you should totally do the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragamuf... . Not only does it have a funny name (at least in wikipedia's translation), it is a bit of a flip on the American Civil War, and it has some favourite characters like Dom Pedro II and Garibaldi.

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Ragamuffin War - Wikipedia

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 24/06/2026

While you struggle with the cost of living, soaring energy bills and rising weekly food costs, one man has made a fortune from the Brexit deal. 10 years on, do you feel better off?

Nigel Farage smiling under the headline "Farage: I was given £5m as a reward for brexit"

and the quote:
"I can do what I want with it. I can put it on the horses.
I can spend it on Ferraris if I want. That’d be entirely up to me."

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 16/06/2026

Here is a public service announcement filmed by the Dallas Cowboys in the 1980s, and I promise that you would not correctly guess who pops up at the end if I gave you 10,000 tries

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Felipe Meneguzzi @felipe.meneguzzi.eu · 17/06/2026

And by that I mean that the new atheists are completely irrelevant in today's discourse, the concrete damage to centrist (or even leftist) causes is coming from the far right, not from those who question some of the positions of the left.

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Felipe Meneguzzi @felipe.meneguzzi.eu · 17/06/2026

While there are very good points there (and as an AI researcher, Dawkins' Kooky turn to AI consciousness also baffles me), I get the feeling that, given the bigger thread from the likes of MAHA, they focus on the lesser of today's threats (and use the same tooling the ones they attack).

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Felipe Meneguzzi @felipe.meneguzzi.eu · 07/06/2026

Even more so these days. Because the proxy for wikipedia now is to ask a chatbot for things. Not only you will not get the deeper story, you might even risk getting the shallow one wrong.

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Too bad Windows kind of sucks on the APIs for AI models.

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There is a point where this kind of magical thinking breaks.

Every level above us (the staff), has been expecting us to do more with less continually. They also want universities to cross subsidise home students with international fees and TNE, while at the same time making Britain a more hostile place for immigrants (especially students).

While I applaud the position taken by the MSP about Fair Work, and I am in no way endorsing the approach at Aberdeen, let us also remember that, in real terms, government funding for universities (both for teaching and research) has been declining for years.

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"Europeans may imagine that the EU is a mere bureaucratic inconvenience. But the Russians have never believed that. On the contrary, the Russian president has long understood that when unified, Europe can resist Russian influence and Russian corruption." @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on Europe Day

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A Speech to Europe 2026 »The European Moment« - ERSTE Foundation

In her speech »The European Moment«, Anne Applebaum warns of global threats to democracy and the EU and calls for greater European sovereignty and cohesion.

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Felipe Meneguzzi @felipe.meneguzzi.eu · 19/05/2026

O que me preocupa hoje, é que, com acesso praticamente universal à ferramentas que podem fazer qualquer um parecer impressionante no papel, vai tornar o acesso à oportunidades cada vez mais desigual. Tipicamente, quem tem chance de contato pessoal vai levar vantagem em quem só tem contato remoto.

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Felipe Meneguzzi @felipe.meneguzzi.eu · 19/05/2026

A reflexão é antiga para quem teve experiência em comparar candidatos no passado. Especialmente em academia, notas em cursos estruturados de graduação não é um preditor perfeito de "resiliência" (grit). E uma carta introdutória mega florida tampouco seria.