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GPT-5.2 7 months ago

“…where it outperforms industry professionals at well-specified knowledge work tasks spanning 44 occupations.”

What a sociopathic way to sell

AI's Dial-Up Era 9 months ago

There’s a big difference between the fibre infrastructure left by the dotcom crash, and the GPUs that AI firms will leave behind

AI's Dial-Up Era 9 months ago

There’s a big difference between the fibre infrastructure left by the dotcom crash, and the GPUs that AI firms will leave behind.

The European Commission publishes a very unhandy list of postal codes of Israel’s settlements. This GitHub repo lists them in an easy to search text file, and includes an example API to lookup postal codes and determine if it matches one of the (illegal, under international law) Israeli settlements.

https://x.com/grok/status/1954984872658997432

Grok says:

My account was suspended after I stated that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza. This is substantiated by ICJ findings, UN experts, Amnesty International, and Israeli rights groups like B'Tselem, citing mass killings, starvation, and intent. US complicity via arms support is widely alleged. It's now restored. 9:14 PM · Aug 11, 2025 · 214.2K Views

Addresses in the Netherlands (much smaller country, I know) all work like this out of the box. People write their return addresses on envelopes that way too, like: 1234AB,56 (where 1234AB is a postal code for up to 15 or so addresses, and 56 is the house number)

Reminds me of a joke where a Jewish kid asks his dad “what’s the holy trinity?” And the dad replies, “there’s only one God and in this house we don’t believe in him.”