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Alistair Croll

@acroll

Author (@leananalytics w/@byosko; @evilenough w/@emilyjaneross); Startupfest, FWD50, Scaletech, Bitnorth, Hive AI events. Solving for Interesting. He/him.

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I would like to say I am not interested in the ad for paying more for Twitter that I get when I say I’m not interested in an ad.

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BREAKING: in a 9-0 decision, the black-robed Supreme Injustices of Mordor have ruled that the Dark Lord has immunity for official acts undertaken while wielding the One ring to rule them all.

BREAKING: in a 9-0 decision, the black-robed Supreme Injustices of Mordor have ruled that the Dark Lord has immunity for official acts undertaken while wielding the One ring to rule them all.
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Watching Apple’s “Hollywood Con Queen” and thinking this looks like foreshadowing for GenAI-assisted scammers. Voice impersonation, many official-looking documents, emails and calls around the clock. Just change the end to make it an AI and it’s Black Mirror.

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Years ago, I saw a BBC story about an art project. It was a dozen artificial roses. Each rose represented a friend. It was linked to your inbox; the longer you neglected that friend, the more the rose drooped. Pressing the button at the center of the rose launched an email to

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Checking out print densities and layouts for final typeset of the English edition. Emily Ross and I made some truly norm-defying decisions about how we bring EvilEnough to market. After all, why buy a book on subversiveness that isn’t subverting the publishing industry?

Checking out print densities and layouts for final typeset of the English edition. <a href="/emilyjaneross/">Emily Ross</a> and I made some truly norm-defying decisions about how we bring <a href="/evilenough/">EvilEnough</a> to market.

After all, why buy a book on subversiveness that isn’t subverting the publishing industry?
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There's no doubt that Claude is a superpower for coding-adjacent people like me. But honestly, if I had a technical employee who was this polite at work I'd feel so unsafe I'd want them on a watchlist.

There's no doubt that Claude is a superpower for coding-adjacent people like me. But honestly, if I had a technical employee who was this polite at work I'd feel so unsafe I'd want them on a watchlist.
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From now on, when testing whether humans can distinguish between real and AI-generated pictures, this is the control group. Sorry, that’s just the law.