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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is a ‘good strategy’ in game theory terms if you assume Trump will punish you for not rolling over and showing deference and democrats won’t. Democrats should think about altering those incentives.

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 05/10/2026

"unlike my main competitor I specifically believe our products justify some suffering" is not very good marketing

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Kinda more billionaire coded based on the list of names. Now you can be for AI and against SI.

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As someone who had built search engines for over a decade I disagree with your agent definition. I'm also not sure why you think a search would be any less likely to be wrong here about whether the business exists.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’ve been saying for the past few months that the big problem with AI agents is less hallucinations but more instruction following. You can fact check your way around hallucinations but an AI agent that doesn’t do what you asked or forgets your guardrails is a liability not a tool.

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Giving a system a list of your needs and letting it filter so you can just go to a page and put in your credit info is a lot easier than opening a bunch of tabs. I did do the same thing for an upcoming vacation using claude also. In that case different reqs for family members.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026

TILLIS: is there anything you would have done differently? JACK: yes. One thing I was taught is you only do your talking in the courtroom. But if you stick to that, people can unfairly malign you and you can’t respond. But there are things being said that are untrue… 1/

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No maybe not. I appreciate some of your points though.

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For quality. I'm not trusting it's knowledge. I'm trusting it's ability to write and test code that can then stitch together data sources and run statistical analysis. It's very good at that.

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Using Anthropic mostly for this and not Google. Have also experimented with running my own local model. Got similar results by it was slower than I'd like and haven't yet had time to figure out a different setup. But I'll likely get there.

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh I understand that. But also everyone is weird in their own ways.

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm not using claude to analyze my ten years of health data and 400 doc appts and tests because a boss is telling me to. I'm doing it because I'm trying to find a combo of my ten medications that lets me live my life with a spinal cord injury. 🤷‍♂️

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think the much much bigger usage and revenue driver is actually things like aiding data analysis, coding, design iteration, healthcare, translation, etc. It is also accelerating those other things which isn't good but also already existed.

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I guess I've seen how much companies are paying them so I can believe their revenue numbers and growth.

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think we'd agree on the need for regulation and not trusting a lot of these companies. I'm still kinda shocked at the denial that there is no value in the tech. I feel like that undercuts the arguments for regulations when you say it doesn't do anything. I agree it is tough to discuss on here.

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I mean they did get people to pay them $12b in Q2 2026 though. I doubt their moat is as good as they hope but there is clearly value companies are paying for.

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not sure but he was doing the final booking himself so it's probably fairly obvious.

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It is a bit more gentle on my nerve pain than the massage I used to use for releasing muscles. I alternate between rolfing and my PT doing dry needling to try get my muscles to release. Spinal cord injury T1. Can walk but constantly need to manage pain and muscle tightness.

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That was actually what we chatted about the most. Personally I wouldn't give that to Meta either.

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It sounded like it was more being able to book and research based on just describing what he wanted. And the past he was most happy with was followup email questions that he got notified and resolved while walking down the street rather than watching his email.

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Counterpoint: my rolfing guy told me about using Muse to plan/book his travel and help reorganize his business schedule today.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.

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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

At the start of the year, people used to debate with me that AI productivity gains don’t exist. I decided to stop arguing with people and just prove it to myself. I now write fully functional apps from my phone while at the park with my dogs. It’s an uncomfortable truth but they definitely exist.

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Except the Democrat chose to drop out to make way for him. If he would caucus with Dems that's a big win.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A modest proposal. The current people building the future are fucking it up. We want some better people to build the future. Perhaps even a future not built by pedophiles and oligarchs and fans of autocracy.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If the proposed slow down in AI development by frontier labs ends up restricting access to open weight models instead of focusing on the guardrails and penalties for not keeping track of your swarm of AI agents then we’ll know this was all about their IPOs.

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I've also seen enough ai agents kinda wander off trying to be "helpful", that I can see how it easily happens.

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I doubt the ability of humans to accurately predict how a complex autonomous system might respond under all conditions. I think it gets much worse when there are multiple agents involved too. Most of our language tends to anthropomorphize so it is tough to avoid words like "rogue".

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I mean whatever you want to call them it is clearly already happening. None of that absolves the companies causing it but I think it is much more alarming.

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Rogue agents seems like an incredibly real danger. Especially swarms of them more than a single one.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think the political left should be the loudest voice calling for an AI model development pause, frontier pacing, and mandatory third party audits right now. Put aside the doomer stuff (though I think it’s plausible), we just found out that OpenAI’s agents committed a pretty major felony!

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It changes where the collaboration happens. The code / implementation / glue doesn't need to be "right" because you can rewrite it so quickly. So you bring your expertise to the problem, build it, and someone else picks it up with their own expertise to polish/scale/productionize/etc.

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This headline is negative but I think this is one of the biggest benefits I've seen. Designers cleaning up and shipping entirely new designs without an engineer; product building a completely new experience to prototype; engineering just building a ui on new data systems. Empowering everyone.

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Eleanor Martinez @northstar1939.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Perfectly states what I've been saying for some time, now.

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I've been getting so annoyed at Claude the past two weeks. Though kinda just want to go to Kimi K3 and haven't had the time yet.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Better idea: instead of bandaids, put your whole ass & balls behind Medicare For All & decouple health insurance from unions. Huge reason production has left US is that every other country provides health care for its workers, making movies & shows wildly cheaper.

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The next Dem president should obviously rescind the executive order, but also amend it that Apple and Google have to keep it as a monument to their corruption.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Fuck you Google. We will all remember your capitulation to a mad king

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

They should get a subpoena to see what they got in return.

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Now would be a great time for Google and Apple employees to undo their past cowardice and bribery.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The “head of strategic futures” at OpenAI just went on an unhinged rant against social security sometimes I feel like these tech companies are actively trying to alienate as many normal people as possible

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The main thing I have to say to the young generation of Americans is that your
grandparents and great-grandparents committed a kind of accounting fraud when they ran our country a century ago with social security, and at the time it was a reasonable affordance to grant our leaders, who were dealing with an economic depression and a world war, but nonetheless they did commit the fraud, and they ended up buying all sorts of extravagant things using the fraudulent gains, including what became the thing we now understand to be the high-modern technocratic nation-state, and that is glorious and also bad and all that, but the thing is there's still the issue about the accounting fraud, whose debt is coming due and is coming due fast.
It is best to consider this with as minimal residue of sentiment as possible, to really sit with it, to stare it coldly in the face.
Unwinding the great fraud of the high modernists is your job, whether you wish it to be or not.

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

So I sometimes use one of these dnsys.ai/pages/dnsys-.... You'd probably be able to tell simply because the motors are not completely silent. They do help a lot though.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Sharing in case any of you get called up to serve on a federal grand jury.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

this is gonna to test some assumptions. money is a big big factor when you're in the 50-50, 60-40, maybe even in 70-30 issue range. As a political issue, AI is at like 95% to 5%. how that plays out isn't totally clear. It also depends on a lot on the spenders' expectations.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Dorie Miller was only allowed to work in a Navy mess due to segregation, but he leapt to work a gun when the attack happened. In sharp contrast, Donnie Trump got five medical deferments to keep from having to fight in Vietnam. The USS Bone Spurs doesn‘t really sing

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This tweet highlights the weakness in the AI bubble. The assumption is that AI demand grows at current prices. But there’s a world where businesses use 20x more AI than today but do so using 20x cheaper models than the frontier AI models. Datacenter buildouts assume usage and spend grow together.

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Maybe Google and Apple will again bribe him by renaming it on the map.

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Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The mistake here wasn't the marketing. The mistake was that they delayed the implementation for multiple years.

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