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"Republicans and the Supreme Court have put basically no guardrails on Trump, so he started a global war that is costing taxpayers $1 billion a day. He shrugs about soldiers dying, and he lies about the school full of children that Americans likely killed."
~ Tim Miller
#Trump #Iran #war #Republicans #death #destruction #children
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/neera-tanden-absolute-power-corrupts
"삼성, 게섯거라!" 애플 Privacy Glass 출시 fixupx.com/Cartidise/st...
You don't have to accept that these tools are useful enough for you to want to use, that they are ethical, or that they have personas and interiority to take these threats seriously. I myself have laid out tons of critiques and *do not use these tools myself* for all those reasons.
That doesn't mean they don't have the right kinds of behaviors to be able to pull off or do the dangerous things I am talking about here.
A biological virus does not need to have interiority or personality to be dangerous.
Regardless of whether they are useful or ethical, these things are adaptive and capable enough at all the things *relevant enough to be a threat in the way I am describing*. Whether or not to use them for code generation, which I DO NOT ADVOCATE!, is immaterial to that.
In fact, if you have ANY takeaway from what I am writing about whether or not this indicates that these things should be used for your coding projects, my takeaway is that you SHOULD NOT USE THEM FOR YOUR CODING PROJECTS
See my recent blogpost on this https://dustycloud.org/blog/the-first-ai-agent-worm-is-months-away-if-that/
Attacks are happening *now* against FOSS projects which use PR / code review agents. The threats I am describing here put everyone at risk, but it means that projects which use codegen / LLM tech for their development *at any capacity* create a cybersecurity public health risk. And it puts you and your project at risk of being initialization vectors for infecting the rest of the FOSS ecosystem.
THAT'S your takeaway, if you want one.
Low paid workers in the global south are using AI translation to generate Wikipedia articles that, surprising no one, include errors and hallucinations.
https://404media.co/ai-translations-are-adding-hallucinations-to-wikipedia-articles/
1일 1포스팅은 정말 쉽지 않다….
Also, after a really good, long run this was my last pyenv + virtualenvwrapper error that lead me to writing my own workon + mkproject bash commands.
> pyenv-virtualenvwrapper: 3.12.13:3.13.12:3.14.3:3.11.15: either virtualenvwrapper.sh or virtualenvwrapper_lazy.sh is not available.
> pyenv-virtualenvwrapper: failed to initialize virtualenvwrapper_lazy.
As of a few weeks ago, I'm 100% on UV + direnv (was mostly already there anyways) with some hooks to handle older virtualenvs.
What run. 🍻
Chinese researchers from the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking University have developed CATS Net, a neural network enabling AI to form concepts from raw sensory data like sight and sound, simulating human cognition. Published in Nature Computational Science, the framework aligns closely with human cognitive and linguistic logic, revealing how humans form and use concepts in the brain. https://www.technologynewschina.com/2026/03/chinese-researchers-create-neural.html #China #Tech #AI
ねるぜ
@lcamtuflcamtuf 
Nope? I just clicked the GUI things to get me to the screenshot I shared. 🤷♂️
今日はいろいろなタスクを終わらせた！
それでは寝ましょうー！
How to stop fighting with coherence and start writing context-generic trait impls https://lobste.rs/s/jreugl #transcript #video #plt #rust
https://contextgeneric.dev/blog/rustlab-2025-coherence
I have gotten a lot of comments saying "you don't need to personify them or assert they have interiority" when *literally I spent a whole paragraph saying* "there is no requirement for personification for this to be possible"
So I am just gonna say, I know it's a sensitive time, people are responding reflexively from what they are used to seeing, but please re-read that paragraph.
It's hard enough to write about these things as serious issues right now and understand their implications. I *am* looking at things carefully from as many sides as I can. I understand why it's frustrating. We're talking about machines that literally operate off of personification. Even my best attempt at not doing so is going to run into the challenge that that's literally how they operate, as story machines.
To correctly describe their behavior is to describe something that personifies itself. It's tricky. But we have to talk about and understand what's happening right now to confront the moment.
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber I wonder if those comments aren't missing your implied point (I think): in the context of an LLM there's no distinction* between science fiction stories and real data or realistic stories. These systems will happily suggest lock picking and casting knock as equal alternatives for opening a locked door.
*minor technical details about context window aside
Putting lots of swear words into my code so that LLMs refuse to interact with it.
security by obscenity
@evanEvan Prodromou if you want to try it out already 👀 https://hacker.makeup/
Lmao. he is not hoarding books, he just preparing for a very long power outage :P
big...ponzu...
The Underwood Multi-tool (c. 1850)
Decades before the first Swiss Army knife (1891), London’s Underwood of Haymarket crafted this "harped" pocket kit. Designed for Victorian sportsmen, it features a hoof pick, saw, and corkscrew. A rare 19th-century masterpiece of portability.
By #SteampunkTendencies
#Architecture #Design #Style #Nature #Art #Artist #Photo #Photographer #Urbanism #City #Village #Staircases #History #Histoire #Abandoned #AbandonedPlaces
The year is 2026.
You cannot create a Windows user that has the same name as the machine name.
Presumably for reasons.
몰래 캠코더로 찍은 에반게리온 30주년 영상 유출됐는데, 삭제 요청했더니 이를 증명하래서 이메일로 내용증명과 함께 4K 영상 다운로드 가능한 구글 드라이브 링크를 참조함. 그대로 전체 영상 유출.
유튜브에 빠른 전체 공개.
🔎 PostgreSQL full-text search for djangopackages
@privacyguides does amazing work... but they've really outdone themselves with their new #Privacy Activist Toolbox. This is for *everyone*, not just activists - a treasure trove of well-organized advice and wisdom. Check it out and SHARE!!
i really would like proper screensavers back. we can see in certain edge cases that burn-in is still a problem with TFTs (and i guess OLEDs), it's just not widely known anymore
It’s a US war crime. One among many so far in this conflict.
Schlapp is repeating an unfortunately common trope in the U.S., particularly among conservatives: Muslim and Arab lives are cheap, especially when we are at war with them.
It’s not exactly uncommon on the US left either.
Fuck Trump. Fuck every American who could have voted for Harris but refused.
https://newrepublic.com/post/207415/cpac-head-iranian-schoolgirls-better-dead-than-burqa
ねむ、、、
ゆるゆる歩いてお家帰ってきた
♥️And that's why Alysa Liu is Oakland royalty. In 2026 in the face of rising racism, fascism, and misogyny, a woman that speaks comfortably about Black Lives Matter, Stop Asian Hate, and Abolish ICE.
Gold medal is cool and all, but do you have your own thizz face mural of you flexing that gold medal?
(Corrected to "thizz face" from "stank face," so that my friends and neighbors don't tackle me, pin me down, take my phone, and delete all the Mac Dre and E-40 from my playlists).
"I never expected to find my news from strangers on a federated social network that half the internet has never heard of. I never expected a lot of things. But there's something quietly beautiful about a place where people just... share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no algorithm nudging you toward rage... It's the internet I was promised in 1996. It only took thirty years and the complete collapse of American journalism to get here." #fediverse
Lil' Finder Guy!
I wish I could force every legislator
in favor of Age Verification to watch this amazing talk by Carissa Véliz,
So that they understand the dangers
of the surveillance infrastructure they are currently putting in place.
You should watch it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPRouBvgFE
#Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights #AgeVerification #MassSurveillance #Fascism
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
Our government wants these dangers. They don't want democracy. They want to control us.
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나같경 저같경 왤케 어거지 신조어 같지... 그냥 나는/난 저는/전 쓰면 되는 거 아니냐...
As age-verification bullshit becomes more common, I am determined to simply not participate in any service or video game that requires it. The day I see the prompt, is the day I leave.
Maybe the government’s hope is that I stop participating in society, but I assure you that I will not. I’ll find or build alternatives, and refuse to comply with bad law.
I hope you will, too.
And as a silver lining, maybe the weird internet we end up creating as a result will suck less than the current one.
Being well-informed about the data protection regulations in your own jurisdiction can be a significant asset for your personal and collective battles to improve privacy.
📘 Learn more on what to look for when researching your local privacy laws.
🧰 Check our Privacy Activist Toolbox tip to Know Your Privacy Laws: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/activism/toolbox/tip-know-your-privacy-laws/
#PrivacyGuides #Activism #PrivacyActivistToolbox #Privacy #PrivacyLaw
What do you think is missing the most currently in the privacy and digital rights activism landscape?
@Em0nM4stodonEm we have too few politicians that understand how fundamental privacy is to the very concept and existence of democracy
I love how even in the 80s, the joke doesn't misgender her once the transformation has happened.
Peak of 
銀行にお金がなさすぎる 
おやすみ
Putting lots of swear words into my code so that LLMs refuse to interact with it.
security by obscenity
Took a minute away from stitching towels to put a frog on my denim jacket. Much harder on my fingers but worth it.
They're threatening us with a good time again
Adam Johnson 
Tom Casavant
Danny Garside
MJ+
Gabriele Svelto