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I should stop staring at world news, which I have nearly no impact over, and eat lunch, which I do have impact over
"It's an ebook. I'm trying to quit reading."
I present you Cookie, the cat of my brother and the mother of my cat 
Oh and FUCK WAR.
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War / UAE
Anxiety through the roof as I’ve been texting all day with a friend who lives in Dubai.
The Emirates have been under retaliatory missile attack for hours… the first strikes targeted military bases but they have since moved to other targets. The Fairmont Hotel at Palm Jumeirah was hit by debris… my friend reports seeing jets overhead and hearing frequent loud booms.
You may not see this in the news but Reddit’s UAE community has tons of first-hand accounts: https://www.reddit.com/r/UAE/
TLに動きがない……風呂パスして歯だけ磨いて寝るか
세라복.모에 업데이트 작업중입니다...
Having a writers coffee sesh and our coffee artist is knocking it out of the ball park (this was a request for Cthulhu):
I see some posts on here (both on web and in Tusky, my mobile client) using indented blockquote styling, how do I get that in my own posts? When I try the markdown version, eg
> Here's a quote
it doesn't show up as expected.
Perfection
今のmacOSでメモリケチってもつらいことしかないので、M4にしてでも32か、M4 Proなら48にしたほうがよいと思います
Happy Caturday! Lockwood says I need to go outside and touch some grass, but he'll be happy to keep my chair warm for me. #caturday #catsOfMastodon
All cats are balls
は１日中続くけどがんばって
ます
In 2025, #FreeSoftware supporters like you organized twenty-nine #LibreLocal meetups across five continents. Let's organize even more meetups this year! https://u.fsf.org/4af #FSF
uspol
Sorry I don't believe "Trump is toast" with his MAGA base since he campaigned against forever wars and needless warmongering
He also campaigned against Epstein and it was a big deal to the MAGA base
AND YET
Happy Caturday! Lockwood says I need to go outside and touch some grass, but he'll be happy to keep my chair warm for me. #caturday #catsOfMastodon
The Pentagon wants AI that can fight wars without limits. Anthropic says there are lines it won't cross. And this week, that standoff turned into an all-out confrontation. To unpack the news, I spoke to Kat Duffy from the Council on Foreign Relations and Amos Toh from the Brennan Center:https://www.techpolicy.press/how-to-think-about-the-anthropic-pentagon-dispute/
RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@mloxton/116144163070437689
Dear people - please check your sources. This is very much not what is happening: see Bavaria extending its contract with Microsoft: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Cloud-Row-in-Bavaria-over-billion-euro-Microsoft-contract-without-tender-11114488.html See the Netherlands outsourcing the VAT handling to a US company: https://mastodon.nl/@bert_hubert/116137241938000063
Catodon second beta released! 26.03-beta.2
I'm getting closer to a stable release, I think I will not add much more stuff for the first release - I'm already super happy with the changes so far.
Release notes:
- Further adjustments to the redesigned posting form, visibility is now next to account selector, better alignment
- Posting form in timeline takes up half the space as it is normally collapsed
- Significant improvements in notifications, highlighted divider marks the change from new to old notifications
- Notification dot should now work without needing adjustments from admins
- Following/Mutual Followers/Followers renamed to Split timeline, bumped next to Home
- Home now has a selection between Following and Mutual followers
- Many bug fixes and minor visual improvements
enjoy 
https://codeberg.org/catodon/catodon/releases/tag/26.03-beta.2
メール返信せねば
"He's behind me isn't he"
Dear BBC. One, region-locking content is silly. Two, requiring accounts that can be created with throwaway addresses is silly. Three, why do you limit passwords to 50 characters.
Bur most importantly: Why "Passwords cant include quote marks". What. Are. You. Doing. With. Those. Inputs.
밥좀 먹어달라고 사정하는데 찰떡같이 무시하고 무릎 차지한 고양이 보여줄게... 하...... 미치고팔짝뛰어
The Pentagon wants AI that can fight wars without limits. Anthropic says there are lines it won't cross. And this week, that standoff turned into an all-out confrontation. To unpack the news, I spoke to Kat Duffy from the Council on Foreign Relations and Amos Toh from the Brennan Center:https://www.techpolicy.press/how-to-think-about-the-anthropic-pentagon-dispute/
today's "nobody is capable of making software that works": Monzo broke transaction search. like, completely. to file an expense report I now have to comb through transactions one by one, despite using a "hashtag" function they offer for exactly this reason
"He's behind me isn't he"
prek: a better `pre-commit` https://lobste.rs/s/v5nyjz #rust
https://github.com/j178/prek
Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust
Link: https://github.com/ad-si/Woxi
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47155526
OpenAI Fires an Employee for Prediction Market Insider Trading
Link: https://www.wired.com/story/openai-fires-employee-insider-trading-polymarket-kalshi/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47195317
Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages
Link: https://nowigetit.us
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47195123
Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension
Link: https://www.rockoder.com/beyondthecode/cognitive-debt-when-velocity-exceeds-comprehension/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47196582
AIをめぐる議論、AIには当然感情など存在しないので、設計しだいで自律型兵器のようなものは可能になる。ChatGPTに確認したところ、ChatGPTのモデルは以下の条件において設計されているらしい(これはChatGPTだけではなくたぶんOpenAIの基本設計方針)。
これはたぶん自律型兵器をつくるときの障害として設計されている。リアルタイム判断ができないから、現場の兵器としては役にたたないし、なによりトリガーができない。情報を収集してOSINT的な用法が現状のメインの用法で、claude がベネズエラのマズロを逮捕するのに利用されたというのはたぶんこの用法。この用法は今後かなり拡張されるのは疑いない。 これは重要なガードレールだけど、これらを取り払ったときにAIが倫理的行動をとる理由はない。人間の意思が関与しない殺傷兵器をつくるというのは、典型的に「非人間化」であって、それは戦争じたいもそうだけど、それゆえに非人道的兵器の使用は禁止されているはずではある。トラウマをもたない冷酷な兵士を作るのはどんな軍にとっても理想の兵士だとおもう。
自分はイスラエルが自律型殺傷兵器の開発・運用をしているとおもう。アメリカでこれをしようとしたら、反発を食らっているということではないかと思う。ガザの人民は、すでにAIを通じた非人間化・大規模な監視の下に置かれていると考えるほうが妥当だと思う。
AIをめぐる議論、AIには当然感情など存在しないので、設計しだいで自律型兵器のようなものは可能になる。ChatGPTに確認したところ、ChatGPTのモデルは以下の条件において設計されているらしい(これはChatGPTだけではなくたぶんOpenAIの基本設計方針)。
これはたぶん自律型兵器をつくるときの障害として設計されている。リアルタイム判断ができないから、現場の兵器としては役にたたないし、なによりトリガーができない。情報を収集してOSINT的な用法が現状のメインの用法で、claude がベネズエラのマズロを逮捕するのに利用されたというのはたぶんこの用法。この用法は今後かなり拡張されるのは疑いない。 これは重要なガードレールだけど、これらを取り払ったときにAIが倫理的行動をとる理由はない。人間の意思が関与しない殺傷兵器をつくるというのは、典型的に「非人間化」であって、それは戦争じたいもそうだけど、それゆえに非人道的兵器の使用は禁止されているはずではある。トラウマをもたない冷酷な兵士を作るのはどんな軍にとっても理想の兵士だとおもう。
uspol
Surely this means they're revoke the FIFA Peace Prize, right?
@danirabbitDanielle Foré And whether or not it's too late (and in many cases, it very well might be :/), we are seeing more and more Dems fight back. We have the literal definition of a centrist (Seth Moulton) calling to abolish ICE and condition aid to Israel, something that would have been unthinkable a year ago.
We need to keep pressing Dems to do better (or replacing bad ones with better ones), but also shouldn't conflate them with literal fascists.
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Chao-c'
Eugen Rochko
Wouter Tebbens ⁂
てんせき a.k.a.みんないいこ。
