iamacyborg

You may find this article interesting, as I did.

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-beauty-of-concrete/

> Judge the work on its merit.

We are, it reads like shit. Calling it slop is being polite.

From the first tool page. Clearly LLM slop.

> Löffelholz does not open his book with a showpiece. He opens it with a practical tool you can adjust: choose a size, clamp it, work.

Claude loves announcing counts as well.

“X things follow”, or from your example, “It waits for Y things to line up”.

I've read too much Claude slop. It's very easy to spot the sentence construction.

Hah, you can literally tell from the subheader.

> Rules downloaded from their server decide your pieces, your score and your ads. One waits for an expensive ad, then asks for a hand you can’t place.

At least replace it with dbt charts rather than a whole new vibe coded mess.

Read Article 4. "PII" is not a thing in the GDPR.

PII is not a thing under the GDPR. Like, at all. Personal data is. Personal data and PII are not the same thing.

You’re conflating PII with personal data.

> A non-zero amount of it is probably going directly to the AI companies through tokens...

Much the same way that VC money has been funnelled to Google and Meta through advertising budgets.

No, it really isn’t.

Putting a static, printed poster on a wall is in no way analogous to surveillance.

The fact one of the spyware cos was named after the fish that swims up your dick hole is too funny

Showing an advert is fine. A poster on a billboard is not deploying mass surveillance.

> Wait what, so there is no content disarm between companies making ads, and the publishers? They can literally push whatever they want? Wild.

RTB (real-time bidding) does not incentivise publishers to care about what ads are actually being shown to individual users, so long as CPM is maximised.

> For example, if you want to track your maintenance calories (TDEE, total daily expenditure), Garmin isn't going to be much useful.

Why not?

This wouldn't sync over any of the data points that are calculated by the device, VO2 max, various sleeps cores, etc. Probably a good thing as those things are rarely all that useful.

If there was a sane payment system for spotify it would be literally impossible for that to be the case.

As far as I know, the Braze/Snowflake integration is just to pull contact data and event feeds into Braze and to sync out performance data.

If they’ve gained access to Braze presumably they’ll have access to the contact db stored in there along with whatever other information is pushed in to support segmentation and personalisation but it’s definitely limited in scope vs just gaining access to their snowflake db.

This assumes they implemented things sanely with the db user for Braze having limited access rights…

I am genuinely impressed at the lack of tech literacy in the live feed about this from the beeb.

That doesn’t track with reality as far as I can tell.

Post-Cambridge Analytica, yeah, a smidge surprised.

The story from Hunterbrook is also pretty crazy with Muse having much more access to Meta’s social graphs than I suspect most users would hope.

https://hntrbrk.com/breaking-news/muse-doxxing

The only mention of red light jumping is the victim’s opinion that it’s a factor.

I don’t think that’s true given how many people do it with their own bikes.

Let’s not be too harsh, 3 years should be sufficient.

We also need a points-based system on the tube, if you’re walking slowly in tunnels blocking traffic at rush hour because you’re staring at your phone you get a point. 5 points and you get a 6 month ban from the tube.

How many unique faces though

Set up some automated scanners for cyclists jumping red lights in the City as well.