David Olsen
Craft beer, Pinball, NRL, Startups, Hard Techno - Sydney, Australia.
- It looks like the Winter Olympics Space Army came prepared to throw punches.
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- Hey @gork.it is this true.
- Reposted by David OlsenThe console wars, as told by 90s Nintendo and Sega advertisements aftermath.site/console-wars-n...
- Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
- Reuters really buried the lede in this one. www.reuters.com/business/ope...
- Reposted by David OlsenAdobe announced it's killing off Animate (formerly Flash), abandoning millions of artists who depend on the software while continuing its push into AI-heavy toolsets. www.cartoonbrew.com/tools/adobe-...
- Reposted by David OlsenI wrote this 14 years ago. I still get infuriated every time Turing gets so misunderstood. Which is every time. “But Turing never claimed that computers can be intelligent. He simply suggested that it would be appealing to consider how computers…might pretend to seem human in interesting ways.”
- Reposted by David OlsenThis looks cool; great to give people more expressive spaces to publish and foster communities… HOWEVER: Substack is not and never will be "your corner of the internet" — it's a walled garden: no API, opaque algo, a platform you don't own In the Atmosphere we build on open data + open networks ✨
- Unplug Skynet.
- Reposted by David OlsenA human writer uses a dash to set off a relatively abrupt jump in thought. But the machines are constantly calculating the most predictable next thing to say, plodding around the same area. So the machine dash looks like it's gesturing toward something new, only to always land on something obvious.
- Reposted by David OlsenI keep reposting this article because it needs to be seen. This is what responsible journalism on a discriminatory act against trans people looks like. Jo put in the work. It's no longer just my and others' personal accounts vs. random men with opinions. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
- Reposted by David OlsenI need you to know that you can buy individual crabs from LEGO and they are 21¢ each www.lego.com/en-us/pick-a...
- Reposted by David OlsenHAPPY BOSTON MOONINITE PANIC DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
- Reposted by David OlsenShocker: Moltbook is insecure and left users’ API keys exposed, allowing anyone to take over any account www.404media.co/exposed-molt...
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- Who do these people think will be making games with AI?!?
- Video game stocks are suddenly crashing today with the launch of Google's Project Genie as investors think games will start magically getting made with AI ➡️ ca.investing.com/news/stock-m... #GoogleGemini #TakeTwo #CDProjektRED #Roblox #videogames
- It would be totally legal to make these investments if this guy was a Senator though.
- We are currently clean on opsec.
- Reposted by David Olsen1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded. Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.
- McDonalds has re-submitted their (failed) Development Application to open a new Maccas location on King St Newtown. 👀 eplanning.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/Pages/XC.Tra...
- The AI Slop is winning.
- Everything is gambling now.
- This is the crossover elder millennials didn't know they needed.
- TIL: EU 'Trade Bazooka' is a thing 👀🔥
- I'm actually kind of shocked by how great the Star Trek: Starfleet Academy premiere was.
- That's code for "I want to use AI slop"
- James Cameron says he must find a cheaper way to produce the Avatar movies in order to continue making them. bit.ly/4qnlOpl
- $CASHMEOUTSIDE
- Great post on the history of beer in Queensland. I also finally learned why it's called a 'try' in Rugby League thanks to this post.
- Reposted by David OlsenFor over a decade I have tied my shoes one specific way: Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot. I learned it from Ian (aka Professor Shoelace) whose site is over two decades old. The knot has never failed me. I spoke with Ian about knots and the dangers of the modern internet. aftermath.site/ians-shoelac...
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- Reposted by David OlsenWarhammer maker Games Workshop has banned the use of AI in its content production and its design process, insisting that none of its senior managers are currently excited about the technology. bit.ly/49xT9Xl
- Reposted by David OlsenThe FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...
- Reposted by David OlsenNew paper out with @snurb.info and Simon Copland, where we analyse Sky News Australia through the lens of network propaganda. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- With Simon Copland and Timothy Graham, I analysed the dissemination of Sky News Australia videos on Facebook, and found three distinct but overlapping audiences, in Australia and overseas (original presentation here: snurb.info/node/2626).
- Reposted by David OlsenNo, autistics do not “lack empathy”: “Where researchers had assumed impairment, they found autistic people applying moral principles more consistently—even to strangers, even when costly.” By Ludmila Pradlova. **This includes non-speakers &/or peeps w/ID** www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/posi...
- Dude has his mind blown hearing John Farnham for the first time.
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- Trying to get a run out is not in the spirit of the game. C'mon boys.
- It's a flying goldfish!
