Archives for May, 2025
Student, dar nu absolvent? Să înțelegem CV-ul lui Nicușor
Am aflat dintr-o dată că există o isterie cu privire la studiile lui Nicușor Dan, și în contextul în care oligofrenii din presa românească îi tot dau cu Sorbona în…
Claude’s dirty secrets and… Grok would kill for money!
A couple of days ago, in Ars Technica: Hidden AI instructions reveal how Anthropic controls Claude 4. This is about the independent AI researcher Simon Willison having published a detailed…
Curtea Constituțională a legalizat corupția în România
Nu poate omul să se bucure de o zi din viața sa fără să vină o adunătură de căcați cu ochi care să încerce încă o dată să arunce în…
🤩 Claude can now search the Web for everybody!
This is an unannounced feature. I just discovered by accident that “Web search” can now be enabled in both the browser and the app, and it works! When Claude 4…
The Tate brothers equivalent for the intellectual type: Grim
A blog was originally meant to work as an online journal; social networks didn’t exist when the “weblogs” were invented. Well, let’s make this post exactly this: a report about…
The questionable industry of online AI training gig jobs
Let me start by abruptly inserting the text that I fed some chatbots with. It goes as follows: Years ago, various online jobs that didn't require much expertise bar a…
It’s not the liberal order that we’re losing, and the decline didn’t start with Trump
By pure chance, I ran over some older contributions to Foreign Affairs by Graham Allison, Professor of Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. I'll just paste here some excerpts, without…
Vibe coding just got cheaper
I hate vibe coding, but how I feel is irrelevant. The world is a broken hamster wheel, and it spins faster and faster. After OpenAI's Codex, there’s a new “bug…
The Three Shitheads (and us)
We, Europeans, are cocksuckers. We sucked Putin’s dick (and we still do, as the EU still imports some gas from Russia). We suck Netanyahu’s dick, because criticizing Israel is seen…
Claude 4 is here!
All of a sudden, Claude 4 has been released to everyone. Read the official announcement: Introducing Claude 4. As expected, it's all bells and whistles. More accurate and better than…
I quickly tested Manus AI: I guess it has potential
When I mentioned Manus AI almost four weeks ago (at number 8), I wasn't thrilled by the business model because it lacked a free tier. Now it sort of almost…
There’s more than one Windows: More “secret” editions
In an unexpected post on Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 and Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024, I described two special, yet official editions of Windows that have some…
Codex, OpenAI’s new bug factory
There was a lot of talk about this shit, and now it went live: Introducing Codex: “A cloud-based software engineering agent that can work on many tasks in parallel, powered…
AI is already vibe enslaving us
Time and again, we're told that AI hallucinates, that it's unreliable, that it can't write reliable code, nor could it replace meaningful jobs. And yet… Satya Nadella, on April 29,…
You don’t impress me much. Neither of you!
❶ Putin: “We offer Kyiv to resume direct talks without any preconditions starting from May 15 in Istanbul.” ❷ Zelenskyy, take 1: “It is a positive sign that the Russians…
Un mal nécessaire? Varoufakis about China, back in 2018
I’m an easy prey for YouTube’s algorithms, and I was just presented with an excerpt from an address by Yanis Varoufakis to the Cambridge Forum in Massachusetts on May 9,…
Pe 18 mai, românii vor lămuri dacă democrația își poate supraviețui
Majoritatea românilor nu sunt conștienți de gravitatea situației și de miza alegerilor din 18 mai. Mai mult de jumătate din populație a votat extremist în primul tur (Simion plus Ponta),…
The one big mistake Xi is making right now
There might be more important things to worry about right now, but I thought of wasting some time with one that bothers me. And yes, it's about comrade Xi. I…
Mai am 24 de ore de gândire. Plus un tur 2!
Aceste două tururi de scrutin vor fi ultimele din viața mea în care voi vota, DACĂ voi vota, și asta nu pentru că mă va călca trenul. Dar m-am săturat…
China repeats all the mistakes made by the West—and yet…
There are only a few thoughts that I wanted to express since some time already. Nothing too fancy, just some basic ideas. My recent “love for China” started before the…