Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books
It’s a trippy time to have a library card.| 404 Media
The word of the day is: “workslop.” There’s a new article in Harvard Business Review: “AI-Generated ‘Workslop’ Is Destroying Productivity.” [HBR] Workslop is when a coworker sends you some obvious AI-generated trash and you have to spend your time redoing the whole thing. They save time by wasting your time: Employees are using AI tools […]| Pivot to AI
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appears polished but lacks real substance, offloading cognitive labor onto coworkers. Research from BetterUp Labs and Stanford found that 41% of workers have encountered such AI-generated output, costing nearly two hours of rework per instance and creating downstream productivity, trust, and col...| Harvard Business Review
It’s a trippy time to have a library card.| 404 Media
Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.| NOEMA
NX is build software. You write your code on your laptop, you press “build”, it runs NX, and you get a built version you can put onto your web server. If you could hack NX, you could hit a lot of p…| Pivot to AI
78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit.| mikelovesrobots.substack.com
cyclonebill CC-BY-SA In The Selling Of AI I compared the market strategy behind the AI bubble to the drug-dealer's algorithm, "the first ...| blog.dshr.org
Post GPT-5, the narrative has flipped — and that could hurt them| Marcus on AI
On July 18, after declaring “Crypto Week,” President Trump signed into law the GENIUS Act, in a major legislative win for the burgeoning cryptocurrency lobby.| Compact
Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, a backlash over AI models in Vogue, and more.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
This time let's think about a financial crisis before it happens.| www.noahpinion.blog
the goal with this is to generalize what happened with claude code & windsurf to the fatal flaw in the idea that “models getting cheaper” will bail out consumer ai margins| ethanding.substack.com
The collapse of Terra in May 2022 marked the first major run in crypto and contributed to the collapse of several other key players in the eco-system. We ...| The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance
Forty-two months ago I wrote The $65B Prize citing Divesh Aggarwal et al 's 2019 paper Quantum attacks on Bitcoin, and how to protect again...| blog.dshr.org
Because Nvidia became one of the most valuable companies in the world, there are now two books explaining its rise and extolling the geniu...| blog.dshr.org
Lamborghini Urus| DSHR's Blog
BTC "price"| DSHR's Blog
Joel Wallenberg interviewed me on 14th February for his article in the 28th February edition of Grant's Interest Rate Observer entitled Memo to the bitcoiners. Alas, it is paywalled, but among the many quotes from me Wallenberg used was that blockchain-based systems "are very vulnerable to supply-chain attacks".| DSHR's Blog
This post explores Bitcoin Mining Centralization in 2025 by looking at the hashrate share of the current five biggest mining pools. It presents a Mining Centralization Index and updates it with the assumed proxy pooling by AntPool & friends. It shows that Bitcoin mining is highly centralized today, with only six pools mining more than 95% of the blocks.| 0xB10C's Blog
I've written several times, for example in Fixed Supply, Variable Demand , about the mechanism that causes the cost of transacting on a bloc...| blog.dshr.org
On September 15, 2020, a small group of people worked through the night to rescue over 9.6MM USD from a vulnerable smart contract. This is our story.| samczsun
