Denis Pitcher @DenisPitcher

@shaneparrish Story of new tool use for every generation

These bills, along with C-22 and C-9 constitute a total erosion in Canada’s basic liberties. They interlock into making Canada essentially unviable for those with choices on where to build.

Build Canada @build_canada

2 days ago

You've likely seen the headlines from bills C-34, C-36, and C-22 in the media. Each may sound reasonable on their own: protect kids online, modernize privacy, help police catch criminals. But buried within is an emerging Digital Regulatory Superpower unlike anything Canadians

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"I thought that if we just redistributed resources, then we could solve every problem. I now know that’s not true. There’s a funny moment when you realize that as an activist: The off-ramp out of extreme poverty is, ugh, commerce, it’s entrepreneurial capitalism." - Bono nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Jennifer D'aww @GMShivers

2 days ago

An important thing missed in all of this is Bono, arguably the richest rock star or one of, has spent more money, and convinced more people in human history to spend money on the problem than anyone else. His conclusion after like...30(?) years of spending money is that the

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ONE LOGIN: "This will be worse than Horizon scandal" @DavidDavisMP "The entire population's data will be open to malevolent actors, foreign nations, ransomware criminals, hackers, their enemies... (One Login is) scandalously insecure" One Login is steadily bringing more personal information into one place and has expanded across 200+ government services already - while grave security concerns persist @NAOorguk

The growing concerns re age verification of social media being coopted to introduce authoritarian Digital ID was predictable. It is exactly why I tried to push Bermuda down the path of incubating privacy preserving 3rd party attestations as an alternative

I’m actually a child online safety expert and was one of the pioneers in this space with Club Penguin and so I feel uniquely positioned to critique this. The groomer problem is real but it’s also vastly overstated. The far larger issue we saw at Penguin was suicidality or reports of sexual abuse in the home. There is no solution for lazy/bad parenting. You can implement all the ID laws you want but if parents are going to just hand kids their phones unlocked, those kids will have access to all the same things the parents have unfettered. What I found is that these draconian safety laws actually make it harder to be an honest operator of kids apps because on one hand it’s so much legal risk and so much user friction that it simply becomes uninvestible as a business. Parents will just lie to let their kids use the unfettered internet. For example, I have a friend who works in mobile gaming who has two kids, one above and one below the age limit but separated by just 2 yrs, and the two wanted to play and chat together on Roblox - which is reasonable. To do this, he just verified that his younger kid is old enough for the chat feature when he’s not. This happens all the time and will happen with these laws to. How far do we want to go with this? Scan the face of the user in real-time to make sure it’s not a kid using the device? We could do that but it feels like a massive unwanted intrusion of privacy. That’s how you know this law isn’t about kids. COPPA and GDPR-K and so forth already make it illegal to allow chat and other grooming vectors to kids. What’s really being done here is trying to eliminate online anonymity. And this is a far bigger issue that goes to core speech rights because if you cannot criticize the govt anonymously and if wrong speech is a crime then it becomes easy to identify all the detractors of the govt in power, and ban, fine or jail them for speech crimes. Starmer has already been doing this and he wants to do it at a much bigger scale. Starmer won’t even acknowledge the problem of actual grooming gangs in Britain’s neighborhoods but he’s worried about online grooming? No he’s not, and this hypocrisy gives away the game. What he wants is to kill online anonymity so he can enforce censorship of his unpopular policies. No politician should have this power.

Seán Ako 🇮🇪 @TheAkoFiles

3 days ago

My first instinct was to support the UK’s social media ban for under 16s. Protecting children from grooming, exploitation and harmful content seems like common sense. But I’m seeing a lot of opposition to it, so I’m genuinely curious as to why? One thing making me second guess

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Upon reflection, regulation should be on the social media companies not on teens. Social media companies should face more scrutiny and responsibility for their relentless algorithmic pursuit of time on screen. I can see that citizens are being held responsible for their relentless algorithmic actions of big tech. And this law will be a Trojan horse to police everyone. Like wealth taxes will eventually take away property rights for everyone, these social media laws will be expanded to ring fence everyone. I temporarily forgot you can’t trust them for a minute to actually be doing the right thing. Silly me.

Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley

3 days ago

I don’t agree with @Keir_Starmer on much. I also HATE the idea of the nanny state. But… Social media is highly addictive and messes with our brains. Especially during development. We know it’s linked to depression, suicidal thoughts, bullying, grooming, scamming etc.

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@MrHodl This is a good writeup on understanding harnesses walkinglabs.github.io/learn-harness-…

@MrHodl You're confusing models for harnesses. Online models remember nothing as well. It wholly depends on what and how you save and submit each time you make a call to the model A 128gb unified ram machine can provide lots of context window to make it remember just as well as hosted

Train your own LLM from scratch! A step-by-step repo that walks you through building and training a transformer model from scratch using PyTorch. From downloading training data all the way to generating text. The architecture is built from the ground up following the original "Attention is All You Need" paper. MLP, single head attention, multi-head attention, transformer blocks, and the full transformer model - all coded and explained with detailed diagrams at each step. Training data comes from The Pile - a diverse 825GB open-source dataset covering books, articles, code, websites, and more. The repo includes scripts to download it, preprocess and tokenize it using tiktoken, store it in HDF5 format, and feed it into training batches. You can train a 13M parameter model on a single Colab T4 GPU. At 13M parameters the model starts generating proper grammar and coherent short sentences. For billion-parameter training you need at least an A100 or RTX 4090. The repo includes a full GPU compatibility table so you know exactly what's possible on your hardware. Includes a complete SFT and RLHF guide as a separate notebook for taking your trained model further. Key capabilities: • End-to-end pipeline: data download → preprocessing → training → text generation • Full transformer implementation from scratch with PyTorch • Trains models from 13M to 2B+ parameters on a single GPU • Training data from The Pile (825GB, 22 diverse datasets) • Tokenization via tiktoken (r50k_base) • SFT and RLHF guide included 100% open source. I've shared the link in the replies!

Recently, we purchased one of each Anthropic/OpenAI subscription plan and randomly ran long horizon coding tasks until we exhausted the weekly limit. It's widely believed that a $200/month plan maxes out at ~$2000/month worth of tokens (assuming API pricing). However, we found that the subscriptions are actually far more generous. (2/4)

Regular reminder that online scheduling systems aren't as easy to get right as people think. royalgazette.com/general/news/a…

I considered modifying the app to support multiple gateways but didn't feel it adds enough value to be worth it. The cross talk made profiles unusable and I prefer the isolation. I run a control room and script/skill all agent config as per @shannholmberg 's approach and thus dont need all the config provided by the desktop app.

Shann³ @shannholmberg

a month ago

I've spent the past few weeks rebuilding my entire marketing operation in Hermes Agents I poured everything I learned along the way into this article. > how to set it up > the four-level path from one agent to a whole marketing company on one VPS > the agent control room

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The end of the AI subsidy will bring interesting market changes and dynamics as frontier models get appropriately priced.

Alex Finn @AlexFinn

a week ago

AI subscriptions are dead Claude Fable 5 will only be on the Anthropic subscription until June 22nd. After that, you will need to pay for usage per token This will be the start of a much larger trend Frontier models will no longer be included in subs You’ll pay a fee and it

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Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026…

@bradmillscan @tonbistudio @grok Ask your hermes

Highly recommend. I run a coding agent on the control room to build management and maintenance skills such as I recently learned . Eg, today I was asking my coding agent to review the session logs and based on the conversation provide recommendations on why it seemed to lose track of the convo. Turns out I didn't have session search configured so I had it fix it and then build a skill that would allow me to roll out the config across existing agents as well as any I load in the future. x.com/shannholmberg/…

Shann³ @shannholmberg

a month ago

I've spent the past few weeks rebuilding my entire marketing operation in Hermes Agents I poured everything I learned along the way into this article. > how to set it up > the four-level path from one agent to a whole marketing company on one VPS > the agent control room

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@bradmillscan @shannholmberg Re 3, have you seen his post on his control room setup? I've found that very beneficial for maintaining multiple agents, particularly changing my mindset to scripting everything so its repeatable across agents as needed.

Andrej Karpathy: paying $20/month for a subscription isn't "using AI" - most people never even started the gap was never access. everyone has the same model, in the same tab, one click away. the dead list: copy-pasting prompts all day, arguing with the model in circles, rewriting the same code 5 times, asking it questions like it's google, "the AI just doesn't get it" what actually separates the top 1%: → they configure the tool instead of just opening it → they give it context, rules and memory, not one-off prompts → they build systems the model runs inside, not single chats → they think in workflows, not in questions → they make AI do the work while everyone else watches it type that's the real skill. not prompting harder. building around it. most people sit next to the tool. almost nobody makes it work for them. one group types questions. the other group ships systems. you're not behind on access. you're behind on leverage.

0xMorty @0xMortyx

2 weeks ago

Boris Cherny (Claude Code's creator): I deleted my IDE in November and hasn't opened it since. I writes more code than ever. his actual words on stage: I don't prompt Claude anymore. I have loops that are running. They're the ones prompting Claude. My job is to write loops.

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