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lwansbrough··on Study: Schoolwide phone bans show no significant impact on mental health
When I was in high school in the age of the LG Chocolate, we’d come home and hop on Facebook. So this pretty much tracks. Stopping phone use in schools is probably good for grades but it can’t help whatever goes on after school.
lwansbrough··on PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says
Awesome dude let the scabs work for free lol
lwansbrough··on PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says
Just hold a public yes/no vote on changing licensing to something paid, and charge $10 to vote no.
lwansbrough··on Mistral Large 4
Well when your greatest ally acts like an adversary, who can blame them for the increased sovereign focus?
lwansbrough··on Super Intelligence
I’m thinking of an alternative word for idiotic.
lwansbrough··on Inside Polymarket's paid quote-retweet esports program
Lesser known is that Polymarket’s Twitter accounts themselves are actually rebranded personal accounts from (often cancelled) esports personalities. People who have given up their brand or their career sold their accounts to Polymarket, who rebranded them.

You can check by looking up tweets from their account IDs. I think it’s possible they may have even left up the old tweets if you scroll back far enough.

lwansbrough··on Why are we even doing all this?
GP was talking about how humans would spend their time after the "real work" is done, as if the only purpose of humanity is productivity or consumption.
lwansbrough··on Why are we even doing all this?
Nice, fair enough.
lwansbrough··on Why are we even doing all this?
There are no shortage of artistic pursuits, subcultures, pick-up leagues, and more that you're free to engage with. Get off the beaten path and you'll find humans enjoying life in a wide variety of ways that are uncorrupted by AI.
lwansbrough··on I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with GPT-6 Astra
I don’t think it’s symmetrical. As a company, in a lot of cases, you get one shot to secure the thing. And then all owners collectively then get infinite time to jailbreak it.
lwansbrough··on YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to track police vehicles, gets police visit
So you’re going with: equating breaking the law by impersonating a police officer and reckless endangerment, to passive data collection with a camera? And not because it breaks the law, but because the police don’t like it?

Very brave man, good for you.

lwansbrough··on Extra Big Ass Intelligence
He may have promoted Super Intelligence as part of a domain squatting scheme for his buddies.

[0] https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/10/01/trump-super-intellige...

lwansbrough··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Some would argue those are all connected.

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-every...

lwansbrough··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
About Here did a good video on what they think the "problem" is with Gen Z (hint: they're a product of the environment they have inherited)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmLO69c_fyw

I'm using night life as a stand in for drinking, but I think it's closely related.

lwansbrough··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
What's this got to do with Israel razing a neighbouring city?
lwansbrough··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
In what sense is the forced, systematic removal of people from this area based on religious grounds "factually groundless"?

They don't live there anymore, they're displaced.

lwansbrough··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
Ethnic cleansing, then. But this is exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about - very typical of Israel supporters: they debate you on the letter instead of acknowledging that what we see here is horrendous.

Then they suggest that this is justified because Israel is a jewish ethnostate.

lwansbrough··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Just what I was hoping for, very nice. Luna seems like a real replacement for DeepSeek on pricing. Haven't seen a comparison benchmark yet.
lwansbrough··on MiMo v2.6
I agree but I like to take the time to remind the Americans how far they’ve fallen.
lwansbrough··on MiMo v2.6
Because at present the pedophile US president is making it his mission to molest my country. China, for all its faults (including espionage, which the US is also guilty of) is mostly focused on conducting trade.
lwansbrough··on MiMo v2.6
I'm Canadian so this sentiment has little value in 2026 unfortunately.
lwansbrough··on MiMo v2.6
Anyone else more excited about Chinese models than American models these days? Big thing for me is affordability.
lwansbrough··on I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot
Try returning a short list of word options by lookup based on the current word completion. Would save some turns.
lwansbrough··on English: A vs. An
I was going to start by stating the difference is “a” is unspecific, “the” implies the subject is already known.

However as I thought more about it I realized it gets a little more complicated. I’m not academically studied in English, though I am a native speaker.

For example if you say, “Our town has a castle” - that’s a specific castle but you wouldn’t say “our town has the castle.”

Why? It has to do with what the listener knows. “Definite” means the subject is known to the listener. If I’m introducing a castle into the conversation that you don’t know, I’m talking about _a_ castle. Now that it’s introduced, I can tell you about _the_ castle.

lwansbrough··on Introducing System One Models and Jev
For what it’s worth, I didn’t get that impression, and even noticed a couple typos ;)
lwansbrough··on Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down
Death cult.
lwansbrough··on Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down
That's not the type of alignment I'm talking about. I'm talking about: I spin up 1 million agents, will they start doing felonies knowingly?
lwansbrough··on Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down
This is good. Frontier labs should collaborate on alignment until we get it right.
lwansbrough··on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
Was looking at OpenRouter, I guess it’s wrong.
lwansbrough··on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
Significant jump in pricing. V4 Flash was $0.16/M out, 4.1 is $1.20/M.
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