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Whenever you see what #ICE is doing in front of cameras, you must imagine what they're doing where nobody can see them--like in the concentration camps the USA is building. It's easy to read those words and much harder to fathom what they mean; that this is happening in our day and age, in what until recently was believed to be a first world country. "Abolish ICE" doesn't go nearly far enough in my view.
@GargronEugen Rochko
Whatever happened to "never again"?
Whenever you see what #ICE is doing in front of cameras, you must imagine what they're doing where nobody can see them--like in the concentration camps the USA is building. It's easy to read those words and much harder to fathom what they mean; that this is happening in our day and age, in what until recently was believed to be a first world country. "Abolish ICE" doesn't go nearly far enough in my view.
Does anybody else find it annoying that tech consents don’t have a “no” option anymore? Like Venmo just sent a push notification asking if I want to open a debit card and the options were “Yes” and “Maybe later.” Not later, Venmo. Stop asking!
Some good news in a time of darkness: the European wildcat, Felis sylvestris, is making a comeback! This thoughtful-looking example was photographed in a mountainous region of the Czech republic.
The European wildcat's extreme elusiveness may have helped it avoid hunters in places where a larger native cat, the lynx, has been killed off. There may be about 140,000 European wildcats spread across more than two dozen countries. But they are very hard to find!
Wildlife photographer Andrea Giovanni, who made a video of one, writes:
"I'd never even thought of taking photos of wildcats, for a simple reason: I thought it was impossible, or at least, extremely difficult. It's considered 'the ghost of the forests' because it's very, very elusive, and it's hard to predict where it can be spotted. Other animals tend to follow the same trails through the forest. The wildcat goes wherever she wants to."
One reason the European wildcat is coming back is increased legal protections. But another is that villages in Italy and other regions are becoming depopulated! Some are very worried about declining human populations. But it does make room for other species. That gives me some hope for the future.
I got this picture, taken by Vladimír Čech Jr in the Doupov mountains, from a very nice article on the European wildcat:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260112-rare-images-of-europes-ghost-cat
For more on this species:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_wildcat
Seven subspecies have been demarcated!
Escaping the trap of US tech dependence
Link: https://disconnect.blog/escaping-the-trap-of-us-tech-dependence/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46659194
"Thank you for calling The Void. Your scream is very important to The Void but right now it's overwhelmed. If you could please leave your scream at the beep The Void will accept it as soon as possible. Thank you. "
RE: https://mstdn.ca/@jfmezei/115903954764380552
Prime Minister Mark Carney states Canada’s position clearly:
1. The future of Greenland is a decision for Greenland and Denmark.
2. We are NATO partners with Denmark, and so our obligations under Article 5 and Article 2, stand, and we stand fully squarely behind them.
3. We respect our obligations and our responsibilities under NATO and we expect all NATO partners to do the same.
Look for the slight head nod and knowing smile on “ça suffit”.
1880s lesbian novelist named Amy Levy is a truly tragic born in the wrong century situation
The Best Robot Mop System: Flat, Spinning, or Roller?
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/17/the-best-robot-mop-system-flat-spinning-or-roller/
Bloquear el teléfono, prestar atención a lo que se lleva puesto e idear planes para comunicarse con los demás son medidas clave que hay que tomar antes de asistir a una protesta. https://ssd.eff.org/es/module/asistir-una-protesta
Kinda weird how I see ppl from the US telling us Europeans that we should stand up against Trump. Maybe clean your own house (and senate) first? It's your country, your president. You are far better equipped to end this dystopia. I am counting on you. And rest assured, we WILL stand with you in that fight.
Very serious, very sentinel #caturday #catsofMastodon #cat
Fuck … and I cannot stress this enough … Trump.
To obtain a neat PostScript rendering of a manual page, use ``-t'' switch
of the man(1) utility: ``man -t <topic>''. For example:
man -t grep > grep.ps # Save the PostScript version to a file
or
man -t printf | lp # Send the PostScript directly to printer
Fuck … and I cannot stress this enough … Trump.
Kinda weird how I see ppl from the US telling us Europeans that we should stand up against Trump. Maybe clean your own house (and senate) first? It's your country, your president. You are far better equipped to end this dystopia. I am counting on you. And rest assured, we WILL stand with you in that fight.
Bloquear el teléfono, prestar atención a lo que se lleva puesto e idear planes para comunicarse con los demás son medidas clave que hay que tomar antes de asistir a una protesta. https://ssd.eff.org/es/module/asistir-una-protesta
"Somehow" our #NeighborCat Evan got in. Our elderly cat, Mojo, has no idea he's there.
美國總統川普 #Donald_Trump 宣佈要向丹麥等歐洲8國加徵關稅，2月加10%，6月調升至25%，直至有關「完全及全面的格陵蘭收購」達成協議為止
8國包括丹麥、英國、挪威、德國、法國、荷蘭、芬蘭、瑞典，都是兩天前派了士兵往格陵蘭 #Greenland 的國家
AI assistants are the archnemesis
of data privacy.
Because AI models are inherent
data collectors.
They rely on large data collection for training, improvement, operation, and customization.
More often than not, this data is collected without clear and informed consent (from unknowing training subjects or from platform users). This data is then sent to and accessed by a private company with many incentives to share and monetize this data.
By using these platforms, we are encouraging them to collect even more nonconsensual data on everyone. This is an important social responsibility to consider. Choose carefully.
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
I've read that in an Ars Technica post, this quote was from a privacy expert referred to as em 💡.
Annoying Linux geeks by pronouncing "Debian" like the last name of Montréal Victoire goalie Ann-Renée Desbiens
The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/17/vastaamo-hack-finland-therapy-notes
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656045
기초일본어를 배워봅시다
안녕하세요
こんにちは
감사합니다
ありがとうございます。
이건 얼마인가요?
これはいくらですか？
혼돈의 소용돌이에 삼켜진 이야기꾼이여 나의 언명에 따라 여기 조율을 시작하오니
混沌の渦に飲まれし語り部よ 我の言の葉によりて、ここに調律を開始せし
만상의 서적이여 나의 언명에 따라 우리들을 시작의 페이지에 데려다 주리니 리페이지
万象の書物よ 我が言の葉によりて、我らを始まりの真へと誘え リ・ページ
혼돈의 소용돌이에 삼켜진 이야기꾼이여 나의 언명에 따라 그대의 운명을 재편하오니
混沌の渦に飲まれし語り部よ 我が言の葉によりて、汝の運命を再編せし
천지 만상을 이루는 서가여, 나의 의지에 응하여 지금 여기에 새로운 책을 추가할지니 크리에이션!
天地万象を約めし書家よ 我が意志に答え、今ここに、 新たなる書物を加えたまえ クリエイション！
사실 혐오자들도 사람이라고 생각해서 어떻게든 설득하려고 했지만 돌아오는 것은 우리 동지들의 부고소식이었습니다.
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Come code things, come craft things!
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오랫동안 머신러닝 딥러닝 AI 모델링을 업으로 삼아 왔지만 정작 LLM이나 이미지 생성 같은 생성쪽은 피해다니다 보니[1] 이쪽 주제에 대해 아는 척 하기도 쉽지 않지만.. 관련 논의들 구경하다 보면 제가 평소 생각하는 중요 지점들이 잘 이야기되지 않는 것 같아 의식의 흐름을 따라 이것저것 남겨봅니다.
우선 모델이 생성한 결과물이 어떤 성격이나 맥락을 가지는지에 따라 저작권 문제가 완전히 달라지는데, 이건 원래 저작권에 대한 전반적인 성격이 그러하기 때문입니다. 기존 저작물을 복사/변형하더라도 그 목적이 원래 저작물과 판이하게 다를수록 저작권 침해가 아니라 fair use로 인정받을 가능성이 높아집니다.
맥락과 의도가 얼마나 중요한지를 보여주는 상징적인 사례가 구글 북스 소송인데, 구글 북스는 저작권이 있는 책을 사용자들에게 그대로 보여주니까 심각한 저작권 침해로 보일 수 있지만, 법정에서는 구글 북스 웹사이트가 원래 책 내용을 그대로 접근하는 목적을 막고 검색이라는 새로운 목적에만 사용가능하도록 했다고 판단했습니다.
이러한 다양한 사례 연구들이 Foundation Models and Fair Use에 나와 있습니다. 이 논문은 AI 연구자들과 법학 연구자가 같이 썼고 여러 legal edge case가 등장해서 생각을 정리하는 데에 도움이 될 수 있습니다.
Fair use의 핵심 요소인 transformative에 대해 AI모델 입장에서 보면, 사용자가 준 입력 텍스트에 있는 정보를 추출하거나 변환하는 task가 이에 해당할 가능성이 높습니다. 가장 유명한 예시가 텍스트 번역일 것 같은데, 사용자가 입력한 텍스트를 다른 언어로 바꾸는 것이 전부고 거기에 새로운 창작성이 드러나지는 않습니다[2]. 제가 이해하기로는 LLM이나 소위 AI가 잘 한다고 알려진 task도 대부분 이러한 것입니다. 번역이라든지, 텍스트 포맷을 바꾼다든지 등등. 제 주변에 LLM 잘 활용하신다는 분들을 보면 아마도 대부분 그렇게 쓰시는 것 같고요.
여기서 UX 관점에서의 불평을 하고 싶은데요, 무조건적인 텍스트 생성이 아니라 주어진 입력을 변환하는 능력이 LLM의 핵심 가치라면 모델이나 서비스 입장에서 그런 기능만 제공하고 지나친 생성을 제한하는 UI나 기술 장치를 도입해야 하지 않을까요? LLM을 긍정적으로 생각하지만 전반적인 생성(특히 입력보다 출력이 더 자유도가 높을 경우)이 사회적으로 위험하다고 생각된다면 그러한 조치를 LLM 서비스 제공자들에게 요구할 수는 없을까요? 저는 이러한 방향의 논의를 거의 본 적이 없는데, 아마 LLM를 접해본 사람들은 긍정적이든 부정적이든 그런 인터페이스가 어쩔 수 없는 일이라고 가정하고 있어서 그런 것 같습니다. (마침 며칠 전부터 ChatGPT나 Gemini에 번역 전용 UI가 생겼다는 소식이 보이고 있습니다. 이 글을 조금 더 빨리 쓸 걸 그랬네요..)
프로그래밍 쪽에서도 비슷하게 코드를 생성하는 사용법보다는 코드를 읽고 정보를 추출해주는 쪽이 저작권이나 윤리 문제가 적고 프로그래머의 능력 향상에 도움이 되지 않을거라고 생각하고요. (제가 상상하는 최적의 코딩 AI agent는 Rubber duck에 가까운데, 모든 질문과 해답이 제 머릿속에서 나와야 한다고 생각합니다. 그 중 문제 해결이나 능력 향상에 명백히 도움 안 될 질문만 잘 쳐내주면 좋겠어요.)
cf: 최근 Moral Codes를 조금씩 읽고 있습니다. 프로그래밍과 UI와 LLM과 윤리에 대한 책입니다. 아직 전부를 차근차근 읽은 건 아니지만, 기존의 LLM 논의가 갖혀있던 프레임에 빠져나오는 데에 큰 도움이 될 수 있다고 보여서 이 주제에 관심이 있는 분들에게 추천합니다. Open access라 무료로 볼 수 있어요.
Generative AI in Servo에서 제시하는 potential exceptions가 제 분야와 정확하게 겹칩니다. ↩︎
현실적으로는 학습 데이터 오류 등으로 입력에 없던 내용이 튀어나오는 문제가 있습니다. Hallucination이라는 용어가 LLM 논의할때 주로 나오지만 실제로는 번역 task 연구 논문에서 처음 제시된 용어이고 해당 분야에서 이 문제는 오랫동안 중요하게 인지되어 왔습니다. ↩︎
美國總統川普 #Donald_Trump 宣佈要向丹麥等歐洲8國加徵關稅，2月加10%，6月調升至25%，直至有關「完全及全面的格陵蘭收購」達成協議為止
8國包括丹麥、英國、挪威、德國、法國、荷蘭、芬蘭、瑞典，都是兩天前派了士兵往格陵蘭 #Greenland 的國家
My god, this is Getty #photojournalist John Abernathy. He wrote on instagram “I was tackled by #ICE agents & surrounded by about 50 #border #police. Just for taking photos. I tossed my camera to another Photographer to make sure it wouldn't be confiscated. #gettyreportage #getty at the #Whipple Federal building in #Minneapolis.”
Photo by Pierre Lavie.
#Trump #law #Constitution #FreePress #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #MafiaState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung
ICE, MSP, domestic terrorism
I was reading this report about the domestic terrorism inflicted upin the citizens of #MSP - it's truly scary.
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-from-the-occupation
I saw this pop up on #hackernews, read through some of the comments there, and the sentiment was: well this is serious but how do we know it't true?
This feels like tech bro escapism to me. Even if 1/10th of what we hear and see happen in MSP through citizen reports is true, we should all be afraid for our fellow citizens.
Scheme, the ur programming language, is 50 years old, as Jason Hemann just reminded me.
Man sagt nicht mehr "Prompt Engineer", man sagt "Sloperator" (im words unravelled podcast aufgeschnappt)
RE: https://toot.cafe/@nolan/115911666027843961
Charging for 404s and not helping with blocking the DOS source feels like such a scam.
Kirikou has practiced her tuck so much that she can do it in her sleep
部屋が寒い
discord通話とかでメイプルストーリーのBGMを流してるとインターネット老人会が始まるの好きだよ
Had to upgrade my Vercel hobby account to the $20 plan because something (probably a bot) is hammering Pinafore and requesting the app icons over and over again (despite cache headers). I tried deleting some of the excessive icon sizes, and it kept hitting them anyway, and Vercel kept charging me for the 404s. Plus their dashboard won't even tell me what the user agent/IP is, nor allow me to block them.
So I guess I'm on the market for static hosting for my side projects. Cloudflare seems good?
Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now.
Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations.
Source: https://dr.dk
Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them
Link: https://github.com/PABannier/WSIStreamer
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656358
激辛が腹で暴れてる
ICE 공식계정이 벌써 8.4만명 블락으로 블루스카이 전체 4위를 기록했다는 소식입니다 🥳🥳🥳
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7fbikvxjgwiomstwwnd2gp42/post/3mcmjyam6vc2a
My boy Geo with his favorite plant 🐱🪴 [ #art | #furry | #furryfandom | #furryartist | #furryart | #digitalart | #fursona | #commsopen | #cat | #cute | #oc ]
限定的な集団的自衛権と原発再稼動の容認ができる者のみ中道改革から立候補するという話、希望の党っぽさかなりある
eats your homework cutely nobody is going to believe you
Paul Cantrell
MJ+
一般 Kyungmi Ahn ꉂꉂ(ᴖᗜᴖ*) 
leyrer
Chao-c'
Ian Wagner
Stefan Bohacek
