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From Nate’s summary — — Stripe is preparing for a version of the internet in which the seller no longer controls the place where buying begins. — For the first time in two decades, power in the internet economy is moving from sellers to buyers. — The old internet asked: how do we bring customers … Read more
Disabling Wi-Fi on ISP-provided hardware can be notoriously difficult because the physical radios are often tied to multiple background services, not just your primary network. If you need to guarantee absolute RF silence from a Verizon Fios router (like the G3100 or CR1000 series), simply toggling “Wi-Fi Off” in the basic settings is rarely enough. … Read more
Using AI agents “hurts the ego,” he admits. There’s something inherently diminishing about going from creator to director, from craftsman to critic. Yet he finds the trade-off worth it because coding with AI is “more fun” — the drudgery removed, leaving only the creative architecture and problem-solving. This reframing is crucial. The future of software engineering may not be … Read more
When a model trains, it is not “learning facts” the way a human does. It is adjusting billions of numbers so that: Given this sequence of tokens, what token is most likely next? That’s it. No concepts. No understanding. Just probability shaping. But here’s the magic: When trained on enough text — books, code, discussions, … Read more
“AB 1043 passed the California Assembly 76–0 and the Senate 38–0. Not a single legislator voted against it. The bill had the explicit support of Apple, Google, and the major platform companies. Ask yourself why.” Here is a clean, structured extraction from your transcript — focused specifically on: States + Laws Identified 1. Louisiana 2. Utah … Read more
“Funny how nobody has pointed out that all those interfaces (Discord, Slack, etc) are owned by Big Bro and are in-stream to ‘get all your data’ just the same but without having to store it all for you (which is the Google Gmail trick). The Claw has grabbed even more for even less for Big … Read more
Parallel Proof: AI Hallucinations and the Political “Grift of Gab”. Hidden Rule: Systems That Reward Confidence Produce Endless Nonsense. Introduction Recent research into large language models has revealed a structural reason why artificial intelligence systems sometimes produce confident but incorrect statements. In simple terms, many AI systems are trained in environments that reward producing an … Read more
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Wildly frightening. Where does private / copyrighted data actually live in an AI system? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7BI4jfEFwA
“…an agent in the machine which represents you.” – Larry Tesler, Xerox PARC / Apple 22:47 in