I’ve seen a suggestion that it was a deliberately provocative marketing stunt to pump sales a little and keep the ellison estate healthy, and I kinda hope so but too many people are getting the brain worms for this to be a safe assumption 🫤

New book: superlawyers! how claude makes you the best lawyer in the room.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHYS5FC2

The author even shares his prompts for free!

https://github.com/danlorry/superlawyers-prompts

Every prompt here is designed for that pattern: Claude multiplies your judgment, never replaces it. The prompts are ready to paste into Claude. The book explains why they are structured the way they are.

The prompts mostly seem to be structured as “imagine you are an attorney. Now do this homework exercise”. There’s a passingly interesting idea around having the chatbot attempt to form a counter argument to your own claims, which you can then use to make your own position stronger, which seems like it might actually be a genuinely okay idea especially if you expect your opponents to be llm sock puppets, but everything else looks pretty much like garden variety “do my thinking for me”.

I’ll admit I didn’t read the prompts closely, so may be I’m being uncharitable, but I doubt there are many nuggets of gold hidden in there.

h/t to rahaeli

I went to taiwan quite a while ago now. Everyone always says how friendly the locals are in the places they visit (except paris, obviously) but on several different occasions in different parts of the island the response to us trying and failing to ask questions or buy stuff was one of the staff or customers leaning out of a window and shouting a bit, and then someone else coming in off the street to translate for us.

The food was great, which shouldn’t come as a surprise, but one thing I particularly liked were these fast food stands where you grabbed a small basket and picked some ingredients, which tended to be fairly common to all the stands, but then you’d hand the basket over and some process would be applied to the things you picked and each time the effect was different. Sometimes it was a soup, sometimes a stir fry, sometimes it would be astonishingly spicy. I’m guessing now with readily available translation software on everyone’s smartphones some of the surprise would be taken away.

We saw far less than I’d have liked, and I should go back again before tensions with china ratchet up too high.

Grokipedia hasn’t been updated for months: is it because

• it has been vibe coded into unmaintainability
• the people responsible for it no longer care
• the people responsible for it are utterly incompetent
• all of the above?

I’m assuming that it isn’t “the llm bills were too high” just yet, but maybe it could be that, too.

https://futurism.com/future-society/grokipedia-broken-nobody-noticed

Posting scurrilous and unverifiable gossip.

Sam Altman matched with a man on Grindr, who posted the conversation. Open AI offered him money to take it down.

He made a song instead.

https://bsky.app/profile/valarmordollars.bsky.social/post/3msgqy34gvc2d

Personal highlight for me was the chat screenshot:

Altman: “I’m lonely and horny” Frostedjake: “as u should be”

💀

May working in the ai sector do for your lovelife what being openly republican does.

Nah, that’s just the global-warming-induced warm water they like, the presence of a reactor was incidental… swarms around any sort of suction system are going to be a problem.

I can offer you a upgrade in the form of an array of radioactive spinning blades if you’d like.

(in theory you could deploy your data centres in places where nutrient levels are low, so there’s less plankton and so a much reduced risk of jellyfish swarms, but I have absolutely no faith that these cowboys would even stop to think about that for one moment)

Not sure who Wes Streeting is

I’d say he is a shitty transphobic blairite labour politician and current cabinet member, but I don’t know how much that narrows things down. He holds a non-trivial amount of political power in the uk. There was a brief moment where it looked like he’d replace keir starmer.

I’ve been thinking about open source contributor policies recently, and been unhappy with what I came up with. This is so much better.

PRs welcome. No, not from you, and definitely not from them.

Ahh, but you can sterilise the incoming seawater by irradiating it, and by a happy coincidence I’ve come up with a way to reduce the cost and weight of the reactor shielding.

Well, you know how everyone went from “do not trust anything you read on wikipedia” to “wikipedia is the last hope for humanity’s knowledge and history”?

So this one seems to be somewhat up in the air right now, and could do with a bit more verification, but it appears that google might be training gemini on your private google docs and a gemini user could ask questions that expose the contents of those documents.

Which is interesting. We use google docs at work, but it isn’t clear how much valuable ip or confidential information is in there.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/comments/1vfwuf5/a_player_found_out_the_actual_name_of_my_games/

Amazing installation instructions at https://github.com/0xeb/ghidrasql

Install with an AI agent (recommended)

The fastest way to get ghidrasql running end-to-end is to point an AI coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Aider, etc.) at the bundled installer prompt:

install-prompt.md

It is a self-contained runbook with explicit verification gates at every step — preflight checks, building libghidra, installing the LibGhidraHost Ghidra extension, building ghidrasql, and a first live query. Hand it to your agent and let it drive the install; intervene only if a gate reports a failure.

JFC.

h/t to rairii: https://labyrinth.zone/objects/96478395-64d9-452c-a906-9e6159cd10a3