This Ain’t Michael
@micheil.bsky.social
Digital ecosystems, information systems, physicist, bulldog dad since 1996.
Chicago. Silicon Valley. Scottsdale. Denver.
Opinions and insights do not reflect any organization I am affiliated with.
Chicago. Silicon Valley. Scottsdale. Denver.
Opinions and insights do not reflect any organization I am affiliated with.
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This Ain’t Michael
@micheil.bsky.social
· Jun 22
Mr Wrinkles is always down for a photo op. Or two.
Hope everyone is staying cool! 🥵
Hope everyone is staying cool! 🥵
LLM Tech Bros: Human language is synonymous with intelligence!
Cat: <Ever silent. Pawing inquisitively, yet with purpose, opens door made specifically to thwart the ever silent cat.>
Cat: <Ever silent. Pawing inquisitively, yet with purpose, opens door made specifically to thwart the ever silent cat.>
Someone is not impressed I got a new cabinet door installed to keep the kittens out of the bins …
September 14, 2026 at 10:58 PM
LLM Tech Bros: Human language is synonymous with intelligence!
Cat: <Ever silent. Pawing inquisitively, yet with purpose, opens door made specifically to thwart the ever silent cat.>
Cat: <Ever silent. Pawing inquisitively, yet with purpose, opens door made specifically to thwart the ever silent cat.>
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Yes, Ed. But have you considered Ray's point?
September 10, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Yes, Ed. But have you considered Ray's point?
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The annual Open House Chicago festival returns next month, featuring more than 200 locations across 30 Chicago neighborhoods, including 20 sites that are new to the festival. https://to.wttw.com/4xLoKzT
September 9, 2026 at 5:41 PM
The annual Open House Chicago festival returns next month, featuring more than 200 locations across 30 Chicago neighborhoods, including 20 sites that are new to the festival. https://to.wttw.com/4xLoKzT
Funny how AI isn't curing cancer, solving climate change.
Funny how this "news" is coming out as they try to IPO.
They're writing coding tools, not AGI. Make him PROVE his claim IN DETAIL. Otherwise, yes, call me skeptical.
Stop amplifying their bullshit.
Funny how this "news" is coming out as they try to IPO.
They're writing coding tools, not AGI. Make him PROVE his claim IN DETAIL. Otherwise, yes, call me skeptical.
Stop amplifying their bullshit.
I don't think I've ever seen any other field where the experts are trying to warn people of the danger emanating from their field and then be dismissed as marketing.
September 9, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Funny how AI isn't curing cancer, solving climate change.
Funny how this "news" is coming out as they try to IPO.
They're writing coding tools, not AGI. Make him PROVE his claim IN DETAIL. Otherwise, yes, call me skeptical.
Stop amplifying their bullshit.
Funny how this "news" is coming out as they try to IPO.
They're writing coding tools, not AGI. Make him PROVE his claim IN DETAIL. Otherwise, yes, call me skeptical.
Stop amplifying their bullshit.
Gift article: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
September 9, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Gift article: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
Wondering when someone will take legal action. Hacking a website is illegal, full stop.
LLMs hallucinate. When chained, you INCREASE the likelihood of running into a hallucination.
It's a stupid architecture.
LLMs hallucinate. When chained, you INCREASE the likelihood of running into a hallucination.
It's a stupid architecture.
Scoop: There's been *another* previously undisclosed AI agent breakout from OpenAI, this one discovered by an informal group of researchers in Berkeley.
The agents colonized a German wiki site and leveraged it to help cheat on tests.
With @deepa.bsky.social
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
The agents colonized a German wiki site and leveraged it to help cheat on tests.
With @deepa.bsky.social
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout this spring
A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, according to new research and two people familiar with the matter.
www.reuters.com
September 5, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Wondering when someone will take legal action. Hacking a website is illegal, full stop.
LLMs hallucinate. When chained, you INCREASE the likelihood of running into a hallucination.
It's a stupid architecture.
LLMs hallucinate. When chained, you INCREASE the likelihood of running into a hallucination.
It's a stupid architecture.
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Take a tiny spin through Mini-Malibu in a 1/32 scale Malibu-themed slot car!
August 29, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Take a tiny spin through Mini-Malibu in a 1/32 scale Malibu-themed slot car!
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The New York Times used video clips collected by tourists to reconstruct the glacial collapse that caused the horrific flooding in Nepal and Tibet.
Have never seen footage of an ice cap in the world's "third pole" shattering and avalanching down.
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/w...
Have never seen footage of an ice cap in the world's "third pole" shattering and avalanching down.
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/w...
August 29, 2026 at 5:13 PM
The New York Times used video clips collected by tourists to reconstruct the glacial collapse that caused the horrific flooding in Nepal and Tibet.
Have never seen footage of an ice cap in the world's "third pole" shattering and avalanching down.
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/w...
Have never seen footage of an ice cap in the world's "third pole" shattering and avalanching down.
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/w...
Gift Article. Nice write up about Dolly. Worth a few minutes of your time to read/listen.
www.wsj.com/business/dol...
www.wsj.com/business/dol...
The Trailblazing Business Savvy That Built Dolly Inc. Into an Empire
Dolly Parton was fiercely protective of her songwriting catalog when even the Beatles and the Rolling Stones failed to maintain control. That conviction became the powering force as she expanded beyon...
www.wsj.com
August 29, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Gift Article. Nice write up about Dolly. Worth a few minutes of your time to read/listen.
www.wsj.com/business/dol...
www.wsj.com/business/dol...
This is the most ridiculous AI generated image I've seen recently. 🤮
Foster + Partners unveils plans for autonomous robot construction project:
https://www.dezeen.com/2026/08/28/swift-build-robot-construction-foster-partners/
https://www.dezeen.com/2026/08/28/swift-build-robot-construction-foster-partners/
August 29, 2026 at 1:58 PM
This is the most ridiculous AI generated image I've seen recently. 🤮
Me bolt on body parts.
Body part sweet.
Each sweet body part equal 5 horse power.
You do math.
Body part sweet.
Each sweet body part equal 5 horse power.
You do math.
The aftermarket Holy Grail for Civic enthusiasts!
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2019-honda-civic-type-r-touring-8/
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2019-honda-civic-type-r-touring-8/
August 26, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Me bolt on body parts.
Body part sweet.
Each sweet body part equal 5 horse power.
You do math.
Body part sweet.
Each sweet body part equal 5 horse power.
You do math.
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One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
August 25, 2026 at 8:38 PM
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Roger Ebert, master film critic and historian, wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times for 46 years. His story of meeting Dolly Parton, who died today at 80 years old, especially stands out.
August 25, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Roger Ebert, master film critic and historian, wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times for 46 years. His story of meeting Dolly Parton, who died today at 80 years old, especially stands out.
Iconic. Humble. Gracious.
August 25, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Iconic. Humble. Gracious.
Like prompting an LLM to not make mistakes...
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Bessent calls on Iranian soldiers to lay down their arms and overthrow the regime 🙃
August 24, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Like prompting an LLM to not make mistakes...
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A million monkeys at a million terminals will eventually produce something useful, like math, physics or chemistry.
An LLM cannot reliably repeat its "proofs". Why? It doesn't know, reason or think.
They don't "dream" anything. FFS.
An LLM cannot reliably repeat its "proofs". Why? It doesn't know, reason or think.
They don't "dream" anything. FFS.
A.I. hallucinations can be remarkably useful. They are dreaming up riots of unrealities that help scientists track cancer, design drugs, invent medical devices, uncover weather phenomena and even win the Nobel Prize.
Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/s...
Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/s...
How Hallucinatory A.I. Helps Science Dream Up Big Breakthroughs (Gift Article)
Hallucinations, a bane of popular A.I. programs, turn out to be a boon for venturesome scientists eager to push back the frontiers of human knowledge.
www.nytimes.com
August 23, 2026 at 7:57 PM
A million monkeys at a million terminals will eventually produce something useful, like math, physics or chemistry.
An LLM cannot reliably repeat its "proofs". Why? It doesn't know, reason or think.
They don't "dream" anything. FFS.
An LLM cannot reliably repeat its "proofs". Why? It doesn't know, reason or think.
They don't "dream" anything. FFS.
The contortions AI "researchers" use to restate LLMs are unreliable is glorious. It's such a self own, but they don't realize it.
It's like claiming "super intelligence!" when your LLM defeats a poorly implemented sand box. The key take away: you suck at sandboxes.
AI doesn't "scheme".
It's like claiming "super intelligence!" when your LLM defeats a poorly implemented sand box. The key take away: you suck at sandboxes.
AI doesn't "scheme".
August 23, 2026 at 7:53 PM
The contortions AI "researchers" use to restate LLMs are unreliable is glorious. It's such a self own, but they don't realize it.
It's like claiming "super intelligence!" when your LLM defeats a poorly implemented sand box. The key take away: you suck at sandboxes.
AI doesn't "scheme".
It's like claiming "super intelligence!" when your LLM defeats a poorly implemented sand box. The key take away: you suck at sandboxes.
AI doesn't "scheme".
Reading. Writing. Math. Art. Social Science. Political Science. History.
Teach these in elementary school. You need them whether you're a plumber, surgeon or engineer. FFS.
Teach these in elementary school. You need them whether you're a plumber, surgeon or engineer. FFS.
BASH: One of the things that's happening is there's a push to start students down a trade school track as early as elementary school. Is that too early?
LINDA McMAHON: I don't think so
BASH: But elementary school?
McMAHON: I think you can have some introduction of skilled trades in elementary
LINDA McMAHON: I don't think so
BASH: But elementary school?
McMAHON: I think you can have some introduction of skilled trades in elementary
August 23, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Reading. Writing. Math. Art. Social Science. Political Science. History.
Teach these in elementary school. You need them whether you're a plumber, surgeon or engineer. FFS.
Teach these in elementary school. You need them whether you're a plumber, surgeon or engineer. FFS.
Founder's pretending to do things to "save the world" is seldom about saving the world.
It took social media by storm, but it didn’t work for all the reasons that ocean plastic pollution experts said it wouldn’t work all along.
My latest for The Revelator tells this important story and asks what we can learn from it.
Please enjoy.
therevelator.org/why-ocean-cl...
My latest for The Revelator tells this important story and asks what we can learn from it.
Please enjoy.
therevelator.org/why-ocean-cl...
Why The Ocean Cleanup Hasn’t Solved the Plastic Pollution Crisis • The Revelator
Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it wouldn’t. What can we learn from this?
therevelator.org
August 22, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Founder's pretending to do things to "save the world" is seldom about saving the world.
So many Emperors...
When we look back on all of this, I think it will be hard to calculate the mental and emotional load of spending a decade in the Worst Possible Version of the Emperor's New Clothes.
August 22, 2026 at 1:10 PM
So many Emperors...
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too big to nail, I guess
Polite Cat's Tight Smile
Alt: Polite Cat's Tight Smile
static.klipy.com
August 21, 2026 at 1:17 PM
too big to nail, I guess
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August 18, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Turns out Nvidia calling GPUs a securitized asset class wasn't that fucking crazy...
You can't predict the turns this sentence takes.
Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral.
fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...
Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral.
fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...
Italy's $4.7 billion cheese economy is feeling the heat as climate change threatens its cheese banks that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral | Fortune
Extreme heat is straining the vaults that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral, and economists say the damage runs wider than the vault
fortune.com
August 16, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Turns out Nvidia calling GPUs a securitized asset class wasn't that fucking crazy...
The WSJ has such a hard time acknowledging that people may simply not like a corrupt, self dealing liar - who is owned by anyone from Putin to CZ to Musk - as leader.
www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
Opinion | Trump Is Starting to Look Precarious
Iran, the economy: An insurgency that becomes a government is eventually responsible for conditions.
www.wsj.com
August 16, 2026 at 2:03 PM
The WSJ has such a hard time acknowledging that people may simply not like a corrupt, self dealing liar - who is owned by anyone from Putin to CZ to Musk - as leader.
www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
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