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AI has no fucking business in the work place. These greedy fn’ execs who have replaced their human workforce with AI are the scum of society. The parasitic leeches who are draining all our institutions for what little value they have left. I am trying to process a claim for a patient of ours. I have to call UHC to push the claim thru. I get a fucking BOT on the line that is asking me to input some information. I do so, the BOT then says it is transferring me to an advocate. When it “does”…. THE LINE GOES DEAD! How is this more efficient? How is this better? How is this an improvement over just having me talk to a human to start with? IT ISN’T. AI fuckin’ sucks, it has NO value and needs to be unplugged. I’m sick of this. I’m sick of all the cutesy names these evil corps give em #NoAi
A smol policy update for crates.io malware notifications: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/02/13/crates.io-malicious-crate-update/
(tl;dr: for the common case where a malicious crate has no actual usage; we're no longer going to publish blog posts, but you can always get advisories via RustSec)
Hi my Name is ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86
People pontificating about whether codebases containing LLM-generated code are subject to IP protection all seem to be forgetting the key point that the law always sides with capital
When big media decided that pirating an mp3 file should be a criminal (not civil) offence, the law sided with them
When big tech decided that pirating every piece of media on the internet for AI training was fair use, the law sided with them
@hpod16Hannah Grace I prefer URL embiggeners (especially the sketchy looking ones)
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진짜 갤럭시 워치 기본으로 주는 충전 케이블 충격적으로 짧아서 책상위에 올려놓지를 못하고 있음
Happy Friday 13th!
If you are at the AI Impact Summit, catch CC's CEO, Anna Tumadóttir, during these upcoming sessions:
어제 눈깔 수술후 post-op 으로 방문했는데 다행히 잘됬다고 함 시력교정도 잘되서 괜찮게 나오는듯 다만 여전히 난시가 있는것 같긴한데 완전히 시력이 나오려면 한달정도 회복기간이 필요하다고... 웨이트 같은거 하지 말라던데 너무 힘주는거 하지 말라고 ㅎㅎㅎ 사람 눈깔 참 연약하다 싶긴함 여러모로 느끼지만 사람 몸 자체가 정말 유리 그 자체인듯...
コウガのネームタグの絵と名刺の絵、それぞれ描いちょります 時期空いたのもありちょっとタッチ変わってておもろいかも
The Only Olympians Having a Less Romantic Week Than That Norwegian Biathlete
https://www.wsj.com/sports/olympics/winter-olympics-couples-hockey-skeleton-norway-biathlete-bc00b899?st=JyC7Wa&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
어제 교육받으면서 외부 인사면접관? 뭐 그런거 하시는 분이 말씀하시길... AI 잘쓰면 좋은데 자소서를 AI한테 써달라고 하면 글이 다 똑같이 나와버린다. 그러면 인사담당자 입장에서는 글에 흥미가 안가서 안 보게 된다. 자소서는 결국 글이다. 모든 글은 가독성과 흥미로움이 중요하다. 라고 하셨는데(요약한거임) 그 이야기를 들으면서 또 확신해버렸다... 갓반인들한테도 AI는 성의가 없어보이는구나...하고. 딸깍충들도 그걸 아니까 진짜 노력하는 사람들한테 인정받겠다고 생떼를 쓰는거겠지.
ME: I will intentionally read Iain M. Banks' non-Culture novels because I want to see him when he is at his more experimental and risk-taking.
IAIN M BANKS: (📎)
ME: Ian you're killing me!!
Is there a grep-ish/search tool that'll automatically treat "This is a sentence" as "This\w+is\w+a\w+sentence", where \w is a unicode category for "all white and blank space including all forms of new lines"?
I feel like there's an option on grep or ripgrep or something I'm just... not catching on. I'm having a hard time searching documents in their raw form where there are arbitrary linebreaks in text for 80 column history reasons.
읍내글 원본: x.com/swiftieiros/... 김정은은 이유는 잘 모르겠지만 아들이 없는데 하여간 딸을 다음 후계자로 생각하는것 같긴함 온갖 군데 같이 다니고 외국 정상들 만날때도 같이 나오게 하는거보니까... (탈북한) 북한 출신 분들은 근데 딸이 제대로 이어받고 유지하는것에 대해서는 회의적으로 보는듯.
x.com/swiftieiros/st...
Some of you deserve to be tarred and feathered.
haha #OopsSec
For running Linux apps on macOS there's now this Wayland compositor that's native to Mac. The demo video features Fuzzel by 
@dnkl and Niri by 
@YaLTeRIvan Molodetskikh
https://youtu.be/VS3vQp5i8YQ?si=u52YycbIYc5458GK
Looks like the expected way to use it is to run Linux apps on a remote machine and use "waypipe" to display them natively on macOS.
It's novel in that's there's no VM involved.
#설날_블친소 자, 여러분. 이 글이 기회입니다. 이제 다들 조심스럽게 오라고, 따로 열심히 꾸민 블친소를 올리지 않겠습니다. 그냥 이사람 평소에 많이 보여서 블친인줄 알았는데 아니었네? 하는 분들은 지금이 기회입니다.
읍내에서 본 글인데 나도 북한 소식을 들을때 비슷한 생각을 하긴했음 탄허스님은 1983년에 돌아가셨지만 이미 구체적으로 어떻게 전개될지 자세히 설명해놨는데 사람들이 이상하게 끼워맞추려고 했는데 예를 들면 박근혜를 여자임금이라고 해석한다던가... 남한에서 임금이 나올리가 없잖아... 하지만 북한에서는 가능합죠 (먼산)
주어는 ‘누가 했는지’를 밝히는 자리이자 책임자가 앉는 자리다. “인공지능이 일자리를 빼앗는다”는 말이 반복될수록, 인공지능은 도구가 아니라 행위자가 된다. 비용 절감과 해고를 결정한 사람은 문장 밖으로 밀려난다. 기술은 판단을 돕지만 선택을 대신하지 않는다. 일자리를 줄이는 것은 기계가 아니라, 사람이다.
진짜 주어 [말글살이]
읍내에서 본 글인데 나도 북한 소식을 들을때 비슷한 생각을 하긴했음 탄허스님은 1983년에 돌아가셨지만 이미 구체적으로 어떻게 전개될지 자세히 설명해놨는데 사람들이 이상하게 끼워맞추려다가 실패하거나 못알아봄 박근혜를 여자임금이라고 해석한다던가... 아니 남한에서 임금이 나올리가 없잖아... 근데 북한에서는 가능합죠 (먼산) x.com/swiftieiros/...
The Only Olympians Having a Less Romantic Week Than That Norwegian Biathlete
https://www.wsj.com/sports/olympics/winter-olympics-couples-hockey-skeleton-norway-biathlete-bc00b899?st=JyC7Wa&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
@JoBlakelyJo-stands on guard, elbows up. Love the idea!
William Azaroff chosen as OneCity Vancouver's mayoral candidate
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/william-azaroff-onecity-vancouver-9.7087604?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into British Columbia 
@british-columbia-cbcnewsBritish Columbia
📷 #Nikon F2
🎞 #KENTMERE PAN100, Caffenol-C-M
#misskey写真部 #fediverse写真部
📷 #Nikon F2
🎞 #KENTMERE PAN100, Caffenol-C-M
#misskey写真部 #fediverse写真部
My painting, "Chonk," is number 8 in the Close Encounters Collection! Had a lot of fun exaggerating this orange cat for maximum fluffiness and chonkitude.
대가리 노른자 터진다
China is really close to reusing first stages of its space rockets.
@ellesaurusElle 💗
Can php not do the C way?
$foo = !!$bar
@leeloo PHP can do a lot of things
📷 #Nikon F2
🎞 #YASHICA Sapphire 70s
#misskey写真部 #fediverse写真部
Is there a way to polish or replace smartphone camera lenses?
맨땅에 헤딩 그만
アン(パピヨン)、エラ(スピッツ)、パティ(アメリカン・コッカー・スパニエル)。小さな田舎町に暮らす、10歳の女の子3匹 #ケモノ
Henrietta Lacks, Immortal, 2026
Oil on Wood, 4.5” square
Her cells were biopsied without consent & distributed for #research as they refused to die. Her life was short, only 31 years, but her undying cells saved the lives of millions all over the world ever since.
The researchers profited in billions of $ while her family couldn’t afford #healthcare.
They sued successfully after the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks came out, telling her story.
When I said that your discord clone doesn’t need e2ee, I got a lot of comments along the lines of “ then how would I use it to organize the revolution!” The answer is: you don’t. If you have more users than can comfortably share a Signal chat and hence want to use discord or something like it, you cannot POSSIBLY be vetting all of them to a high standard of trust. Your logs ARE leaking. End-to-end encryption between more people than can fit around a dinner table is pointless.
This article confirms what I already assumed, that “open source [information sense, not code sense] intelligence gathering on social media” includes, for the US government, asking for links to join groups that may *feel* private. My own discord has literally like a thousand idlers. It would be very *lucky* if none of them were logging for potentially nefarious purposes! And I remind the active users of this occasionally.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-ice-masks-up-in-more-ways
I'm going to the ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86, you guys need anything?
Lyin' in my bed, I hear the clock tick and think of what
I have to do today, ugh I don't know where to start
Flashback, something important I'm sure
Where's working memory?
Set a time-
Sometimes I picture days, I'm living too far ahead
I'm stressed already, why must I live so in dread?
Then I just forget, I fall behind
The second hand unwinds
Use your phone, make it beep, it will remind you
Set a timer
If you're late, set a date, it will be beeping
Set a timer
Wouter Tebbens ⁂
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