Academia as we know it will be dead soon.
Almost every researcher in our department is basically just managing Codex and Claude:
“Here’s the problem. Fix it. Run the simulations. Get the results. Now write the paper.”
The irony? 👇
Terrific forensics here around how consumer devices collect astounding amounts of data in ways completely different from what a bland privacy policy suggests.
The before and after clips also worth a look.
I absolutely love this. Back in 2008 @zittrain wrote about the future of the internet and how to stop it, arguing that the appliancification of hardware fundamentally limited individual freedom and exposed us to all kinds of extractive corporate practices. This was
Removed all of the samsung spyware from my TV with Codex (Claude refused to root the tv lol)
It's insane how much bloat samsung packs into their TVs to track you and sell your data. Here's just some of what I turned off that made my tv 3x faster:
- screenshot your screen a few
70% of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up. He rules.
PSA: in light of recent cyberattacks and vulnerabilities, I recommend everyone:
* use a good password manager (1Password) and do not duplicate passwords
* use two factor auth for everything important (not via sms!! Google Authenticator or better yet YubiKey)
* Auto-updates on,