Why Biometric Verification on Social Media Is a Terrible Idea
We built a surveillance machine and called it convenience. Now social media wants your face scan to 'protect kids.' I think that's a terrible idea, and here's why.
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We built a surveillance machine and called it convenience. Now social media wants your face scan to 'protect kids.' I think that's a terrible idea, and here's why.
My thoughts on GPT-5.3-Codex and Opus 4.6 by OpenAI and Anthropic
“What if the reason we deny consciousness to AI reveals we don’t understand our own?” A philosophical inquiry.
Duck is a programming language where every line of code needs to say "quack" or the interpreter refuses to run it. What started as a joke accidentally forced real decisions about parser design, error UX, and module systems, and now it can build Discord bots.
A $20 billion dollar handshake that leaves competitors with nothing but ashes
Humanity burned soot, juiced squids, and accidentally corroded the Magna Carta. All so you could stand at a bank counter in 2025, scribbling angry circles in the margin because your free pen skipped on the "J." The ball in that pen is machined to tolerances smaller than a blood cell. You're still mad at it. Both of you are valid.
Anthropic's Opus 4.5 leads on benchmarks and enterprise revenue. But closed source tools, invisible engineers, and slow inference are leaving developer goodwill on the table. A call to open up.