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Einar W. Høst @einarwh.bsky.social · 4h

I’m not sure that’s possible. Sounds like something that’s practically impossible to do on your own.

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Einar W. Høst @einarwh.bsky.social · 11h

Always will be.

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Einar W. Høst @einarwh.bsky.social · 11h

At least masturbation is a market.

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Einar W. Høst @einarwh.bsky.social · 16h

Neat! Btw I just realized I should have quoted my mom's favorite saying, "it's no good to hunt with a dog that must be dragged out into the woods" (vernacular Norwegian: "du kan'ke jakte med ei bikkje du må leie til skøgs").

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Einar W. Høst @einarwh.bsky.social · 16h

And the intermittent resuscitation attempts are awful and weird in their own way. Demeaning, pathetic, sad.

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Einar W. Høst @einarwh.bsky.social · 16h

But I agree that the whole Kindle debacle is awful and weird. I can’t believe we thought it would be a good idea to make content contingent upon a device and a company like that.

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Einar W. Høst @einarwh.bsky.social · 17h

I thought awful and weird was the name of your pizza restaurant?

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Einar W. Høst @einarwh.bsky.social · 1d

Oh the sad book club sounds lovely.

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Einar W. Høst @einarwh.bsky.social · 1d

Hello
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone home?

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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Einar W. Høst @einarwh.bsky.social · 1d

“Tomb-knocking”?

Einar W. Høst @einarwh.bsky.social · 2d

What's the word for when you charge a Kindle that have been out of battery for months because you think you might read something on there and then nothing happens and the battery charge just seeps out again?

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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · Dec 29

Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!

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Einar W. Høst @einarwh.bsky.social · 1d

This may be right, in which case the book club solves a solved problem.

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1d

What if an advertisement was your girlfriend?

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Einar W. Høst @einarwh.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote a sad blog post about book clubs. einarwh.no/blog/2025/10...

The problem of the pages

einarwh.no

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Einar W. Høst @einarwh.bsky.social · 2d

What's the word for when you charge a Kindle that have been out of battery for months because you think you might read something on there and then nothing happens and the battery charge just seeps out again?

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Einar W. Høst @einarwh.bsky.social · 7d

Code can be fixed.

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Einar W. Høst @einarwh.bsky.social · 7d

How wonderfully human.

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Einar W. Høst @einarwh.bsky.social · 7d

Waiting for A. I. Coyote to look down.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 9d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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🎃SCARE-sha🎃 @spacethey.gay · 11d

if you think chatbots are alive or self aware then i think you would be easily fooled by a tunnel painted on a brick wall

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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 11d

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 14d

Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential.

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Einar W. Høst @einarwh.bsky.social · 13d

Browsing lego sets for grown-ups and it's Star Wars, Harry Potter and Batman.

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Agile meets Architecture @amaconf.bsky.social · 14d

✏️ Sharpen your pencils, stretch your fingers – and share your ideas!

The CfP for AmA 2026 closes this Sunday, October 5.

Bring your stories, lessons learned, and bold perspectives on the intersection of agility and software architecture.

👉 Submit now: sessionize.com/agile-meets-...

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