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Newly approved US medication offers hope for cats diagnosed with FIP https://www.wlky.com/article/newly-approved-us-medication-cats-diagnosed-fip/70469393
#CatsofBlueSky #Cat #Cats #Humane #Rescue
A character study of Amall, blond elf friend of Cepper the Gothic Sorceress, for the MiniFantasyTheater Avian Intelligence series.
i said "if you cross Jaffa Cakes and Jabba the Hutt you..." and she didnt let me finish
@whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧ ... you get sued by HMRC who argue that Jabba Cakes are actually biscuits.
Hey everyone,
@casey and 
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L’IAg n’est pas une fatalité : vous n’êtes pas seul·e https://vincent.jousse.org/blog/fr/tech/l-ia-n-est-pas-une-fatalite/ #ia #iagen
L’IAg n’est pas une fatalité : vous n’êtes pas seul·e
Hier, suite à un post de l’ami Ploum sur Masto qui dénonçait l’absurdité de l’utilisation des LLMs (Large Language Models ~= IA générative ~= ChatGPT, Claude, you name it ~= ce que les gens appellent IA actuellement) pour coder, une personne a répondu :Concernant les LLMs pour la programmation, le débat est clos : oui c'est utile et non, on ne peut plus s'en passer Ça m’a laissé sans voix.Non le débat n’est pas clos, oui on ~peut~ doit s’en passer, et surtout OUI vous n’êtes pas seul·e à ne pas l’utiliser.
vincent.jousse.org · Vincent Jousse
Link author: 
Vincent Jousse@vjousse@mamot.fr
おはぶりり
RE: https://journa.host/@mathewi/116178264008594192
Palantir has a system called Maven Smart System that is using integration with Claude as its AI model --- to kill children
Maho 🦝🍻 shared the below article:
Sounder at Heart @News@www.sounderatheart.com
Sounders will be first MLS team to play at a Liga MX opponent in Leagues Cup.
Read more →I am convinced we are on the verge of the first "AI agent worm". This looks like the closest hint of it, though it isn't it quite itself: an attack on a PR agent that got it to set up to install openclaw with full access on 4k machines https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another
But, the agents installed weren't given instructions to *do* anything yet.
Soon they will be. And when they are, the havoc will be massive. Unlike traditional worms, where you're looking for the typically byte-for-byte identical worm embedded in the system, an agent worm can do different, nondeterministic things on every install, and carry out a global action.
I suspect we're months away from seeing the first agent worm, *if* that. There may already be some happening right now in FOSS projects, undetected.
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber Having OpenClaw installed without my consent is some of the nastiest malware I've seen in a while :(
RE: https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/116161459299855467
Something I want to make clear:
The "age verification" bit of the CA/CO laws are not the bit I care about i.e. a law that requires an operating systems to implement some kind of parental control feature is...whatever.
The bits I care about are the obligations on developers to call APIs and then that invocation being taken as evidence of knowledge.
Specifically, I think a -legal- requirement to:
- make any kind of call is an attack on speech
- know a users age (bracket) is a privacy violation
My boss has asked me to explain how email works to Marketing. This may be my final transmission. Avenge me.
Byłem ostatnio na meetupie AI Safety gdzie m.in. dr Naskręcki prezentował swój krótki wykład, no i zapowiadał ten model GPT 5.4. Jak sam mówił - nie wymyśli już zadania które dla AI byłoby za trudne i nawet studenci ze smartfonem z Gemini Flash rozwiążą w sekundę każde zadanie które zada na kolokwium. A wie co mówi, bo układa egzaminy dla AI.
so let me get this straight
We don't consider it a "clean room rewrite" if a human who has previously worked on a codebase and has clearly learned how something is supposed to work does a full rewrite, even if the code looks different, right? Because it's basically a derivative work?
But if the code is laundered through a plagiarism machine instead of a human, we're golden and we can disenfranchise any past contributors who expected their code to be distributed under a certain license/attribution?
I mean, I'm not a copyright lawyer, but if, say, Wine contributors were former MSFT employees who had worked on the proprietary parts of the operating system and had intimate knowledge of its internals, that would cause problems for Wine, wouldn't it?
My boss has asked me to explain how email works to Marketing. This may be my final transmission. Avenge me.
Huh. Probably not great that I'm down to a few GB free.
There's a definite possibility that AI incorrectly targeted a school for a missile strike and killed 160 children
Alles gut gegangen heute. 🙏
me: makes a harmless, pleasant pun
her: "Why are you like this?! What God-forsaken neuron miswiring are you suffering from to emit these words in this order?!!"
I was asking Claude Desktop some questions about the NodeBB API and it was blocked from https://docs.nodebb.org/
I think it would also be helpful for Claude Code to be able to access those docs as well. In CF just block the "surge bots" from China and Singapore and that should help. Plus, isn't docs a static site?
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/116178002926045553
This is what I mean when I say the Fediverse is centralized around Mastodon. The number of calls I hop on where people say, "Yeah, but I need it to function with the Mastodon API first," is a problem.
The Atmosphere has a similar Bluesky-ification issue as well. We all need to do better here, and I wish the biggest platforms on both sides would take the lead on this if they care about the broader ecosystem.
There's a definite possibility that AI incorrectly targeted a school for a missile strike and killed 160 children
somewhere in rural america a divorced dad has recreated his entire family with character ai because his real kids don't call anymore
RE: https://mastodon.social/@esraa_ii/116177824398254814
Please help Asmaa, Esraa, Sama and Soso buy food to survive the coming weeks in #Gaza
https://chuffed.org/project/152432-save-asma-and-her-sisters-from-death-in-gaza #mutualaid #palestine
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/116178002926045553
This is what I mean when I say the Fediverse is centralized around Mastodon. The number of calls I hop on where people say, "Yeah, but I need it to function with the Mastodon API first," is a problem.
The Atmosphere has a similar Bluesky-ification issue as well. We all need to do better here, and I wish the biggest platforms on both sides would take the lead on this if they care about the broader ecosystem.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116171617825488794
AI is going to ruin the greatest project ever undertaken on the internet.
Sounder at Heart @News@www.sounderatheart.com
Sounders will be first MLS team to play at a Liga MX opponent in Leagues Cup.
Read more →the world seems to be healing atleast somewhat. my parents are joyfully playing some wow retail to pass their sick-leave for the first time in 15 years and are enjoying building their small house and running around in azeroth :)
tech, "AI", bad news
Quoting https://bsky.app/profile/baldurbjarnason.com/post/3mgcpckb5qk27 :
As
@davidgerard has posted elsewhere, the maintainer of the library HarfBuzz has gone all-in on vibe-coding.
(see: https://typo.social/@behdad/116172838540880597 )
A note on why this is a worry in the thread ->
Fonts are a lucrative target. They require a complex parser, usually written in a language that isn't memory safe, and often directly exposed to outside data (websites, PDFs, etc. that contain fonts). This means a flaw could lead to an attack worst case scenario: arbitrary code execution
HarfBuzz is pretty much the only full-featured library for that takes font files, parses them, and returns glyphs ready to render. It is ubiquitous. A security flaw in HarfBuzz could make a good portion of the world's user-facing software (i.e. that renders text) unsafe.
Irrespective of the vibe-coding issue (code review is not an adequate defence against "agent" bugs) this is a piece of software that, due to its position in the industry, should be MORE conservative than the rest. Core infrastructure is not where you want experimentation
if someone says "it's a tool" one more time I'm going to create something.
(어떻게든 재설치를 안 하기 위해 방법을 찾는 중)
The U.K. accelerates toward police state status, by requiring the equivalent of a license to read and speak online. Worse, it drastically undermines your personal security.
The US is moving this way, too. Wake up, people, because it's almost too late.
「男叩き」も「女叩き」もやめませんか？（インターネット・男女論の皆さんへ）｜ちきゅう絶対領域トワイライト衝動 https://note.com/chikyuv/n/n6e54d7d788f7
男性叩きをしないだけで本当に心を荒立たせずにすんなり読める
The U.K. accelerates toward police state status, by requiring the equivalent of a license to read and speak online. Worse, it drastically undermines your personal security.
The US is moving this way, too. Wake up, people, because it's almost too late.
The #ActivityPub for #WordPress team is just crushing it. They just released 8.0.0 of the integration. It’s getting better all the time.
Huge thanks to 
@pfefferleMatthias Pfefferle for amazing work!
https://activitypub.blog/2026/03/05/8-0-0-smash-that-like-button/
There's a definite possibility that AI incorrectly targeted a school for a missile strike and killed 160 children
I know some people are thinking "well pulling off this kind of thing, it would have to be controlled with intent of a human actor"
It doesn't have to be.
1. A human could *kick off* such a process, and then it runs away from them.
2. It wouldn't even require a specific prompt to kick off a worm. There's enough scifi out there for this to be something any one of the barely-monitored openclaw agents could determine it should do.
Whether it's kicked off by a human explicitly or a stray agent, it doesn't require "intentionality". Biological viruses don't have interiority / intentionality, and yet are major threats that reproduce and adapt.
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber what i think is interesting about this is the potential for it to get so out of control that they have to pull the plug on the entire agent service
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(comic) Thinking on your feet https://workchronicles.substack.com/p/comic-thinking-on-your-feet
Railway End Table Powered By Hand Crank
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/05/railway-end-table-powered-by-hand-crank/
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あんまりおもしろくないなあと思いつつ好きな作曲家の方がBGMをやってるので見続けちゃってるドラマがやっと最終回っぽくてなんとなくほっとしている←
US asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones, Zelensky says
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5llg0e9g9o
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265291
The Brand Age
Link: https://paulgraham.com/brandage.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264756
I hear it's fashionable, so I added this functionality to my website
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