iandanforth 🦋 @iandanforth.bsky.social

Fuck Elon Musk, find me on bsky.

[iandanforth 🦋 @iandanforth.bsky.social @iandanforth]

Phrases that have inspired me, "You can simply ask for a fully mocked out API for a third party service"

"Just set a /goal and come back tomorrow"

"I don't wait for companies to add features anymore, I just ask for a clone that has that feature."

[iandanforth 🦋 @iandanforth.bsky.social @iandanforth]

Agent work is now about learning how to *wish harder*.

[iandanforth 🦋 @iandanforth.bsky.social @iandanforth]

@andrew_n_carr Yes.

[iandanforth 🦋 @iandanforth.bsky.social @iandanforth]

@blennon_ Dinner plans from a single shot of the inside of a fridge is just straight up bullshit.

[Parmita Mishra @parmita]

RAS finally getting drugged is one of the great stories in modern biology, and almost nobody outside oncology understands why it's such a big deal.

YOU'LL LEARN SOMETHING AWESOME TODAY.

i am going to keep this as understandable (and simple) as i can.

OPEN THE THREAD.

🧵

[Edward Grefenstette @egrefen]

SpaceX being rammed into indices with no profit requirements, seasoning, and generally looser constraints is economic terrorism. Index trackers will eat the loss when reality catches up and retail investors will suffer.

[iandanforth 🦋 @iandanforth.bsky.social @iandanforth]

@zachlieberman Planets!

[Grishin Robotics @GrishinRobotics]

China is testing tethered firefighting drones for high-rise emergencies. These drones turn fire trucks into ground-based power and water stations.

Instead of relying on onboard batteries or small payloads, the drone stays connected by a reinforced tether that supplies power and firefighting media from the ground.

This is practical because it gets a nozzle closer to upper-floor fires where ladders, street access, and deployment time are problems.

It is early, but this shows how robotics can extend the reach of firefighters rather than replace them.

[iandanforth 🦋 @iandanforth.bsky.social @iandanforth]

@tallinzen Is this rhetorical?

[iandanforth 🦋 @iandanforth.bsky.social @iandanforth]

Today's AI writing smell: "... [it's/that's] not just [X]. It's [Y]."

[iandanforth 🦋 @iandanforth.bsky.social @iandanforth]

@qinzytech Last last graph reads exactly like it was written by AI. So either, stop doing that, or use AI less, it's polluting your brain.

[iandanforth 🦋 @iandanforth.bsky.social @iandanforth]

Is this evil? Pretty sure this is evil.

[shift @joinshiftX]

Today, we're launching shift. We're starting by cleaning your apartment in New York City, for free.

Here's how it works. Book a shift cleaning. A vetted shift operator comes to your home wearing one of our devices. They clean. They leave. You pay nothing.

In exchange, we record the cleaning. Robotics is being built on data about how people do daily tasks, and the value of that recording is what funds the service. Anything personal in it is anonymized before the recording is processed.

By now, you have heard about the shift to AI more times than you can count. About the shift toward you, the part where you actually feel it, you have heard almost nothing. Shift is what starts to make it concrete, in specific cities, with specific services.

Today, cleaning in New York. Soon, handymen, repairs, and errands across the globe. And this is just one side of shift, with more on the way.

Comment “shift” and we’ll send you an early access link.

[iandanforth 🦋 @iandanforth.bsky.social @iandanforth]

@joshwoodward Does that include refusals?

[iandanforth 🦋 @iandanforth.bsky.social @iandanforth]

A completely open world game with unlimited consistency, duration and the visual fidelity of Seedance or Omni is possible *today*. Cost is prohibitive and there's some engineering to be done, but good lord we're about to enter a stunning age of entertainment and gaming.

[iandanforth 🦋 @iandanforth.bsky.social @iandanforth]

Every single time I have tried Omni. It doesn't work, I try again and then I run out of generations. 🤷

[iandanforth 🦋 @iandanforth.bsky.social @iandanforth]

@jerryjliu0 It's also nice getting fairly detailed metadata out of the box rather than just text.

[iandanforth 🦋 @iandanforth.bsky.social @iandanforth]

@jerryjliu0 How does this compare with grobid? The included models there are small and fast enough to run in production at scale on CPU.

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

There's a video on the timeline today of a Palestinian man weeping over the body of his dead 6-year-old daughter. She was killed in an Israeli attack on a tent. There is no ceasefire. There was never a ceasefire. And they have never stopped slaughtering the children of Gaza.

[iandanforth 🦋 @iandanforth.bsky.social @iandanforth]

@skathire So Repatha levels of effectiveness but without repeat dosing?

[iandanforth 🦋 @iandanforth.bsky.social @iandanforth]

Fair use protects creativity and commentary. @GeminiApp and others don't even try to protect fair use. They stifle creativity out of fear while claiming to serve it. It's incredibly frustrating.