This was the funniest bit :

The global shortage “isn’t done by the ​Middle East, ⁠this is done by what’s happening with Russia and Ukraine,” Trump added.

Things like this radicalize people against all AI.

A bit unrelated, but I wonder if I’m the only one left that is:

• Using small, open-weight models
• Asking it to only write small snippets that I can easily go through, check and understand.
• Copying pasting from good old web frontends instead of integrating it into my editor or whatever else people do with agents nowadays.

I feel like when we’re talking about AI this sort of usage gets lumped into the same pile as agentic vibe coding and it’s not helpful for discussion. Surely most people wouldn’t find this problematic?

but it might be fairly compared to the Cotton Gin in terms of making the field workers more productive in the delivery of market ready code/cotton.

Last i heard was that developers FELT like it made them more productive but actually not so much.

I don’t really understand after reading the article what changed? All they did was quote discords blog post from February and this random twitter account … that also had no sources.

Not to mention the article is AI slop.

Is this like some sort of reminder or something? huh?

Cinny is ok.

I’d feel safer with Chinese electronics in all honesty.

Don’t let recency bias cloud over your judgement.

Yep and that’s not a good thing. Makes idiots such as Doug look good and people are more likely to overlook his past actions because we have a new idiot in town.

What /s ?

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I even have an account and have access to the article.

If you sign up they let you read it for free. But yes archive link is good to provide as most will not bother to sign up

Actually forgot to link it 🤦

It’s a site where you ask questions and people (hopefully experts) answer. That was the main idea behind it. But it was filled with garbage, unhelpful answers and it just went downhill.

Also yeah the fact that Reddit is more popular than Youtube is really weird to me and I don’t quite believe it.

How the hell is Quora more popular than youtube … huh ? Who in their right mind still uses Pinterest and Quora???

If you hear ai generated convos they sound pretty brain dead (unresponsive, no idiosyncrasies) so far.

Idk… I think they’re getting pretty good. A year or so back I tried notebooklm’s podcast feature with 2 people I was shocked how realistic the generated sample was. But maybe you’re right this does seem a level up.

at least it won’t require passport for signing up anymore lol

https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/8/china-s-popular-youtube-alternative-bilibili-relaunches-app-with-english-support-globally/

The popular Chinese alternative to YouTube, Bilibili, with around 376 million monthly active users, has confirmed plans to expand more aggressively outside China. The company has relaunched its international app for Android and iOS, and removed the previous requirement for overseas users to provide identity documents such as a passport.

https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/8/china-s-popular-youtube-alternative-bilibili-relaunches-app-with-english-support-globally/

Bilibili is also expanding its international presence with hiring in markets including Japan, the United States, and Europe. A new X account aimed at global creators has said that Bilibili is “going global” and that the US and Chinese versions will offer the same content

Wait … EndeavourOS? That’s arch linux, a PC operating system. Did you confuse something?

Samsung hardware

Fairphone sustainability / repairability

Pixel / GrapheneOS privacy

Chinese prices

Dream phone of mine.

I get the appeal of this, but I feel this is part of a broader problem of relying on AI for problems that already have elegant, simple solutions. Like relying on LLM’s to tell you what was the last google doc that you viewed is just not sustainable and creates bad habits. Soon people will ask what was the last tab I was just in, instead of using a keyboard shortcut and or having proper tab management.

Imagine using it for your code editor, instead of using the built-in functionality of jump-lists, marks, fuzzy finders and so on… Or switching to an editor that has these things. What file was I just in? Where did I just write this function?

“When asked, the AI even double checks if the document was shared in a group chat with his coworkers.”

How about learning to just use search?

Not to mention what they do to wildlife that more and more these days get isolated by these roads. Why aren’t they forced to build bridges for wildlife when building a road? Simply not a priority.