Mike Masnick

Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform

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Evil, fascist, arguably insane, but lets not leave out: really fucking dumb www.cnn.com/2026/07/02/u...

Peter Thiel: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by criticizing AI | CNN cnn.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • At the Aspen Ideas Festival, Peter Thiel said Pope Leo XIV is 'working for the Chinese Communists' by calling for international AI regulation.
  • Leo's May encyclical 'Magnifica Humanitas' declared that artificial intelligence 'must be disarmed' and pressed for stronger international oversight.
  • Thiel spoke on a nonrecorded panel with political scientist Francis Fukuyama; the audience reportedly received the characterization with laughter.
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How do you put this sentence in an article about the Trump administration literally banning a frontier model for unknown/unclear reasons? www.cnn.com/2026/06/21/t...

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Another agentic coding success. There's a little utility that I've relied on for work for years, but which has gotten flakey over the last year or so. It also had code/feature bloat I didn't need. Used claude code (fable 5) to see if I could recreate it in a way that worked for me and... bam. Works.

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*sigh* Another day where I finish writing an article, begin the edit, and spot a "it's not x, it's y" rhetorical point and cringe, because it sounds like an LLM, even though it's straight from my brain. *sigh*

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Meanwhile, have spent my Friday night & Saturday getting my agentic setup to mostly use local models (Gemma 4 31B and Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B) to see if I can manage much more of my inference locally... Just testing so far... but... um, local models are really good these days.

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Okay, on the latest #taskmaster @alexhorne.bsky.social holds up this puzzle, telling people to solve it before continuing the show. I gave up after about 10 minutes, but for fun... I gave it to Claude, Gemini, & ChatGPT... Only one of them figured it out.

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Random fun use of agentic coding: there's a stupid silly card game that I sometimes play on my phone as a time waster. There are a bunch of versions available but all have incredibly intrusive and annoying ads and or tracking. I even looked to see if there was a version I could pay a couple bucks...

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