shane

views are my own

[Sridhar Ramesh @RadishHarmers]

I don't need to buy a Rolex. I just look at their ads and figure out what time it is for free.

[AC 🇲🇦 @AC2802M]

Thank God it’s not snowing imagine shovelling snow in this heat

[ᴅᴏᴏᴍᴇɴɪᴄ @dinosaur_info]

however chill or not chill I seem now, I was way way more strict as a kid. I was in kindergarten avoiding kids who said “libary” because I thought they were incurably stupid

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

For AI to respect human dignity and truly serve the common good, responsibility must be clearly defined at every stage: from those who design and develop these systems to those who use them and rely on them for concrete decisions. It must be possibile to identify who must “account” for decisions, justify them, monitor them, and, when necessary, challenge them and remedy any harm caused.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Name can't be blank (In London) @Algon_33]

Having your attention hijacked feels like the world is pared away till only one texture remains. You can't conceive of doing anything but tracing its contours with your hand. When there's nothing left to explore of it, you flit from point to point, not thinking to go elsewhere.

[shane @shan3king]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Sridhar Ramesh @RadishHarmers]

I reject AI and the sad future it portends. The point of life, our gloriously 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 raison d'etre, is to use one's own brain to write code to make corporations money.

[◉ @syzygetics]

being a zoomer born before 9/11 makes me feel an intuitive kinship with low background steel

[Sean Butler @Sean_Butler1]

These guys totally reassembled my belongings in a way that stripped the items of their connection to my lived reality. What gives?

[sympathetic opposition @sympatheticopp]

so sad about the hindenburg. you can't have zeppelins anymore. because of volk

[shane @shan3king]

> claim to have taste
> decide to become the billion-and-1th company called “___ labs” with the tagline “the ___ layer for AI”

lol

[Thais Castello Branco @thaiscbranco_]

We’re excited to introduce Taste Labs.

Our mission is to end AI slop. We’re building the data and infrastructure layer to give AI models and agents taste.

And today we’re coming out of stealth, announcing our $18.5M seed funding, co-led by @CRV and @AmplifyPartners

AI has nailed objective domains and made it easy to generate anything. But it still feels off. Now, the challenge is judgement. What fits, what feels like you, what’s GREAT. This requires turning a fuzzy, subjective domain into something we can measure and codify. We’re starting with design.

There are two sides to cracking this, the foundation model layer and the agent layer:

- We’ve already been working with the top frontier labs to evaluate and improve their models, crafting the right post-training data and RL environments.
- We’ve also been working with app-layer companies to build the context and verification tools for their agents to produce better, more on-brand, more creative outputs.

We want a future where AI feels right.

If you’re passionate about this mission, join us!

[Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devil]

Jalen Brunson, espousing Gramsci’s “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will”, brings a championship to socialist New York City

[Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminal_warmth]

Remember back when the Matrix came out and we all laughed at the idea that “coding” looked like watching a bunch of glyphs pour across your screen

[shane @shan3king]

@PuckPreps oscar hemming, rudolfs berzkalns

[Meg @megannn_lynne]

Absolutely love Disney Food TikTokers. They’re like “These nuggets are served with Goof sauce…but it just tastes like honey mustard.” Well yes. Goofy’s not actually back there inventing new culinary creations. There is no Chef Goofy transsubstantiation

[Forrest Cardamenis @FCardamenis]

Baby has gotten good at identifying “dada” but still struggling with surrealism, cubism, even baroque.

[corsaren @corsaren]

Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed about AI. He fears the permanent underclass.

Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Read Gary Marcus. LLMs are stochastic parrots—they can't reason out of distribution."

Man bursts into tears. "But doctor..." he says, "I am in distribution!"