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This headline is extremely funny given what happened (OpenAI hacked HF by accident) openai.com/index/huggin...
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Carlos Scheidegger
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Engineer at Posit (fka RStudio), technical lead at quarto.org
Learning Brazilian Choro, the 7-string guitar, and to deal with the Minneapolis winter after 10 years in Tucson
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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va
programmablemutter.com
AI as Social Technology knightcolumbia.org
microsoft/VibeVoice simonwillison.net
Lena @ Things Of Interest qntm.org
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It is 2026, and I, a relapsed catholic, gruff atheist find my attention wholly gripped by the encyclical letter. I'm genuinely shocked, but really, truly everyone should be reading it! www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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- Pope Leo XIV's 42,300-word Magnifica Humanitas, signed May 15 and published May 25, addresses AI as the central challenge to human dignity.
- The encyclical states AI systems are 'cultivated' not 'built' and explicitly denies they possess experience, a body, or the capacity to feel pain.
- Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah spoke at the Vatican's May 25 presentation alongside theologians and three cardinals.
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Carlos Scheidegger reposted
"At last we have created the Corporation That Eliminates Middle Managers from classic management text Don't Eliminate the Middle Managers!" www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-ma...
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- Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince laid off more than 20% of his workforce while citing Peter Drucker's 1954 management framework to explain the cuts.
- Prince labeled laid-off workers 'measurers' — a Drucker category he applied to middle management, finance, legal, and internal auditing.
- Henry Farrell argues Prince inverted Drucker's intent: Drucker used measurement to develop managers, not to identify who to eliminate.
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(Sorry, that's "AI as Social Technology": knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...)
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- Farrell and Shalizi argue AI models are social technologies comparable to markets and bureaucracies, not autonomous intelligent agents.
- All such systems generate lossy, incomplete, and uninvertible representations of reality, creating power effects that benefit some groups over others.
- The social-technology framing shifts focus from AGI speculation to questions about power, lossiness, and who bears the cost of AI's simplifications.
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I literally just used this: simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/27/... You don't actually need 60GB of RAM if you run shorter videos (and you can splice longer videos into shorter videos v easily too). Genuine game-changer to be able to run full-text search over video transcripts.
I keep seeing those "hey Claude, make a movie that describes your inner life" and thinking that qntm deserves a mention entirely because of qntm.org/mmacevedo
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Another observation for the "the problem it's not that they don't work; the problem is that they do" column In the last 2-3 months, LLM-generated PRs have moved from "incoherent garbage" to "does the thing the title says" But good software doesn't solve the X in an instance of the X-Y problem.
Friends, this thing with the cleats being all the same. Is that… because everyone asked an LLM? Like, you see it at least a little, right?
So what does the hive mind here think about the Karpathy -> Anthropic news?
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