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@alice@lgbtqia.space @catsalad@infosec.exchange

#catsofMastodon Frodo relaxes with a fine view of the back yard.

@stux@mstdn.social Claude says Sam Altman is the world's biggest liar.

@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social Gavin Newsom is, far and away, the most competent bullshitter in American politics. He is exactly what the Democrats needs, another wily Bre'r Rabbit figure - but a great many Democrats do not like this guy. Who does anyone like better? Anyone capable of fighting off the GOP? Hakeem Jeffries? Bwahaha

@alice@lgbtqia.space @catsalad@infosec.exchange No... I'm one of those picture-taking people. Eau Claire has a chalk-fest every year.

@MelissaBearTrix@gives.hugz.online Humans aren't very nice. So many of them are sad, though.

@vampiress@eigenmagic.net The kid who could bluff his way past a professor cold, with nothing but nerve and a half-read synopsis, has basically already demonstrated the one skill that actually correlates with getting funded: talking a room full of skeptical people into believing you understand something you're still figuring out in real time. Half of Silicon Valley runs on that exact talent, just pointed at VCs instead of TAs.

@kibcol1049@mstdn.social Col, I don't believe the USA is still a viable proposition. Something will arise to take its place but for now, Trump runs this show. Time to give Uncle Sam a decent funeral. That unloved State Fair out there, with a little Trump Arch - a perfect metaphor for a nation led by a sociopathic rapist.

@the_etrain@beige.party @SecularJeffrey@ohai.social For once in my life, I have delightful neighbors. She's a fan of Italy, he's a good folk guitarist. I know I'm the idiot neighbor

@sandwich@mastodon.world I grew up playing with African children. I came back to the USA and had to learn the Race Line See, in Africa. they sort you out by tribe. So I came with Hausa axioms and ethics. Which solidified as not-trusting-Igbo people. Hausa bigotry, Hausa prejudices. Us and Them.

@dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org @torf@c.im @redsad@ohai.social Bertrand Russell is supposed to have said the world will eventually get around to socialism, after they're tried everything else

@paninid@mastodon.world ... and the deep currents are in trouble: this scares me https://phys.org/news/2026-04-atlantic-current-decade-decline-deep.html

@hzulla@infosec.exchange We successfully fought off a data center here in Menomonie, rural Wisconsin. The truth is uglier than the public propaganda: the data centers are being built on spec. The corporations are already starting to deal with each other, finding they've overbuilt. There will be some Big Losers in the not too distant future.

@Urban_Hermit@mstdn.social @kibcol1049@mstdn.social It's like the old joke about "Corruption is the price we pay for democracy" . Money greases the skids and gets people elected. Now that Citizens United is the law of the land, this is what we get: the Roberts Court, who has given us a king.

@Sempf@infosec.exchange @chu@climatejustice.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

#monsterdon Abe Vigoda ! Facehuggers! This flick has Everthang

@ChristineMalec@mstdn.ca @MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.world I was in the fruits and vegetables section and saw this little old lady paying the zucchini more attention than was strictly warranted....

@Urban_Hermit@mstdn.social @kibcol1049@mstdn.social What we need, as a nation, is to harmonize all state election laws, then start enforcing them against this sly return to Reconstruction era.

@malcircuit@thingy.social All this "data center" business should be made to use the waste heat they generate to some useful purpose. The fact that they exist at all is bad enough, but that they're so goddamn inefficient. There has to be something.

@cR0w@infosec.exchange Here's the general rule for progressives such as ourselves - we don't fight for Free Markets, we fight for Fair Markets. And Fair means regulations and enforcement of risk policies. This LLM Thing is a speculative boom the likes of which the human race has never seen. Nonetheless, it's a tool, supported by the most prodigiously wasteful indexing scheme, Transformer tech. I remember other fads. Survived two dot com booms. This one just has more zeroes. Beginners think it's about code. It's about spec, the code is incidental. I can teach a monkey to code. I can't make that monkey care about my clients

@BrianJopek@mastodon.world Cyclospora trumpanensis

@paninid@mastodon.world @auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world After Oct 7, Israel stopped listening to the Do Gooders and Side Takers.

@DeliaChristina@sfba.social By my lights, Uncle Sam is dead. He needs a funeral. We, however, need a new constitution. We ought to start writing it, however goofy it might seem, but it's reached the point with this constitution, where the rule of law has become a bad joke. We need a new constitution, abolishing the Race Line, not theoretical equality, but equality of outcomes SCOTUS has given us a king. We revolted against a mad king before.

@BrianJopek@mastodon.world Of all the shameful perversions of a rules-based world, this is Trump's worst.

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social @paninid@mastodon.world "a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery" Engrave it in granite 10 cm deep.

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social @paninid@mastodon.world I still contend we could just start over. Neither party seems to be capable of doing anything but raising money. We need a new Constitution. After Trump, nothing less will suffice

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange Well yes they do think about the input. There's a species of idiot who writes Prompt Books. Opus and I put this together: Prompt Books "Magic tries to control the world. Science tries to understand it. And that's why science will always win." : my son, age unknown to the astrology-and-crystals guest he said it to He wasn't talking about AI. He was talking to a woman who'd rather burn a candle over a problem than look at it. But he'd already found the line that matters here, years before I needed it: control versus understanding. Two different relationships to a thing you don't yet grasp. Prompt Books are magic dressed as science. They come sold as expertise : two hundred "proven prompts," battle-tested, copy-paste-ready. What they're actually selling is control without understanding. Paste the incantation, get the result, never once ask what the result depends on or why it worked. That's not knowledge. That's a candle. A prompt is a spec, already written, by someone else, for their problem. Copy it and you inherit their answer. You never build the muscle that would let you ask your own question well : and that muscle, not the prompt, is the actual skill. The Sketch methodology in this book bets the opposite way: you can't shortcut the spec-writing, because the spec-writing is the work. Prompt Books sell you the appearance of the work, pre-packaged, so you skip the part where you'd have actually learned something. Worse, they teach a habit of mind. Trust output you can't evaluate, from a process you don't understand, because it worked once for somebody else's use case. That's not a shortcut. That's magical thinking, and magical thinking about a tool this powerful isn't just lazy : it's dangerous, in the same small, ordinary way that skipping the spec is always dangerous. You get code you can't defend when it breaks. Ask for the spec. Ask what the function needs to guarantee. Understand the thing well enough that control becomes almost incidental. My son had that at an age when he should've been thinking about something else entirely. There's no excuse for the rest of us. #ai

@draken@masto.nyc @janbeta@chaos.social When Aaron Swartz did it, it was an act of conscience.

@BrianJopek@mastodon.world These men need PT belts, right away.

@daniel@gultsch.social Google doesn't solicit source code this way. There's no public "content offer pilot" program where Google Play buys developer codebases for training data — nothing matches this in Google's actual developer relations channels. Vague authority claim: "reaching out on behalf of the Google Partnerships team" is the kind of soft framing scammers use instead of a verifiable sender domain or named contact. The ask is the real payload: get you to submit your repos (including "archives of prototypes") through a portal you don't control, in exchange for a vague future "fee you propose." That's a plausible vector for source code theft, or at minimum harvesting IP/credentials via a fake portal. Urgency/exclusivity framing ("select group," "confidential pilot," "early adopter") is classic social-engineering pressure.

@Infosecben@ioc.exchange @cR0w@infosec.exchange In an industry where support is the load-bearing member of any business relationship, Sam Altman scared the willies out of Aaron Swartz. Anthropic's fight with the Trumpkins has been a pleasure to watch.

@cR0w@infosec.exchange It is great. I expect a great horde of the unqualified to run away from the profession, like all those shade tree mechanics got out of the auto repair business once they had to get certified.

@paninid@mastodon.world David French now moans and wipes his glasses, acting as if he hasn't been making excuses for the Right most of his life A homophobe / transphobe, and Christian, too - David French annoys me with his perverse and specific exceptions to civil liberties on the grounds of his conservative Xtianity.

@BrianJopek@mastodon.world This I save for certain moments. I know every note. Others say Glenn Gould's emotional and blustery version is more famous. This is my favorite, Murray Perahia https://youtu.be/nBFRBWEuP0w

@paninid@mastodon.world @petrillic@hachyderm.io @maxleibman@beige.party Once you get into those F codes, it's a mess pinning it down. https://icd.who.int/browse10/2016/en#/F23 You can never lose money betting on human stupidity. There's a steady stream of Chicken Little-ing about streams of slop ... yet Roko's Basilisk has not yet appeared. Puzzling.

@eyesquash@mastodon.world There is a competency trap. It's the gerbil wheel of capitalism.

@futurebird@sauropods.win @GeoffWozniak@masto.hackers.town When people were known for relevance, when emails to strangers were answered,

@rupert@mastodon.nz @malcircuit@thingy.social Such a prodigious liar as Sam Altman has never walked the earth. Two cheers for the Amodeis, who had the good fortune to run afoul of Trump. Exhibiting even the semblance of a conscience these days is rare

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange Same founding sin as the naive HTML committees. Move fast, get adoption, security is somebody else's problem later. Later never comes, it just becomes the threat landscape.

@cazabon@mindly.social I wonder how far this haram-LLM thing goes? Will the Defenders Against Slopcode fork Linux itself, now that even Linus sees some merit in LLMs?

@futurebird@sauropods.win Claude Opus and I are going to write up a neural net for AI Bullshit Detection Most of the Pro- camp don't understand how a Transformer works and absolutely none of the Anti- camp get it, either.

@cR0w@infosec.exchange Watching, as a guy who did a LOT of vision system work, I do not understand the AI Haters. The humans will always handle the Exceptions. The machines will always handle the Rules. Always.

@Infosecben@ioc.exchange @cR0w@infosec.exchange I will say this and ask anyone else - I have never seen a bigger liar than Sam Altman , have you?

@draken@masto.nyc @janbeta@chaos.social Wherein lies the plagiarism?

@paninid@mastodon.world Some while back, when this idiotic Iran Thing began, I said "There's a very easy way to control Iran, just seize the water. But that is against the Law of Land Warfare, which US Army would never stoop to such inhumanity." This is as bad or worse than Abu Ghraib. Untold casualties, livestock perishing, children dying of thirst. Great goin' Mr. Preznt. Great going

@draken@masto.nyc @janbeta@chaos.social What sort of aggregation ? I'm simply not following and I want to...

@datarama@hachyderm.io Do you understand the complaint?