This 404 report justly been getting considerable coverage. Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process. A 404 Media investigation was able to reveal Amazon’s book buying operation, which … Read more
I’m still to this day just blown away by continental drift and things like that, stuff that most people think sounds pretty boring. — Will Wright Gamers are both extremely dedicated to and really good at preserving the history of … Read more
Why GUIs are built at least 2.5 times Or Why I Think Lean Software Development is Wrong Patricia Aas, 30 May 2025 Over the past few days I’ve been writing on LinkedIn (here and here) and Mastodon (here), and this … Read more
The Times Tech Guild represents more than 600 software developers and others who run the back-end systems behind The Times’s digital operation. The Times Tech Guild, which represents workers like software developers and data analysts at The New York Times, … Read more
from the that’s-not-how-it-works dept The NY Times has real difficulty not misrepresenting Section 230. Over and over and over and over and over again it has misrepresented how Section 230 works, even having to once run this astounding correction (to … Read more
In the years following the Great Recession, from 2010 to 2013, many web services went offline. In retrospect that was the end of the Berners-Lee web. During that time, starting in 12/29/2011, I started using Maciej Cegłowski’s Pinboard bookmarking site as a … Read more
This blog post was inspired by Bryan Johnson’s tweet from last March: This tweet caught my eye: “solve death” and “EBMs” in one sentence. I chuckled, remembering my last encounter with Energy-Based Models (EBMs). Many hours of training, diverging loss … Read more
By Francesco Bertolaccini You’ve reached computer programming nirvana. Your journey has led you down many paths, including believing that God wrote the universe in LISP, but now the truth is clear in your mind: every problem can be solved by … Read more
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It seems that The New York Times Company (“The Times”) got fed up with the pace of its negotiations with Microsoft and OpenAI over their use of The Times’ content for training and running their LLMs. So much so that … Read more