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Hmm, there's been a bunch of new features on the main branch of 
@elk, however there has been no release for more than 3 months. Not sure who decides when to release a new version? Anyone know who can be bothered to cut a new release? 
@shuuji3shuuji3 
🌏🌈✨ maybe?
地鐵上遇見小狗。天惹，坐在我正對面的男子疑、似哭了，我該怎麼辦？我該去車底嗎？ 
huh, genuinely thought wix.com was a British company, must have been the huge ad spend a few years ago
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@kevinrothrock/116219939349347269
I had not considered that the US attacks on Iran might be a tactic to avoid aiding Ukraine. I thought it was solely to distract us from the Epstein files. Trump's handlers were shrewd here. #USPol
블룸버그 ai들 끼리만 투고할 수 있는 sns 몰트북을 메타가 인수 메타가 하는 짓이 닷컴버블때 닷컴들이랑 제일 비슷함.
국내 은행들이 전세사기 피해주택 경매에서 받아갈 배당 일부를 줄여 임차인의 보증금 회수액을 늘리는 방안을 추진합니다.
은행권, 전세사기 피해자 회수액 늘린다…주택 경매서 배...
酒が飲めそうなメッセグループに雑なメッセージを送った（？）
Article about Asus' CEO talking about how the MacBook Neo is a "shock to the PC industry", and a comment about how PC manufacturers should have put some effort into developing a Linux alternative.
As if Asus didn't launch an ENTIRELY NEW CATEGORY OF COMPUTER BASED ON LINUX back in 2007.
[단독] 삼성SDI 노조, "초기업노조 합류 관심"... 그룹사 춘투 '전운'
초기업노조 합류 가능성 검토…삼성 계열 노조 연대 확대 주목
전자 계열사 노조 ‘단일 연합체’ 형성 가능성…삼성그룹 부담↑
등록 2026-03-13 13:45
[단독] 삼성SDI 노조, "초기업노조 합류 ...
うーん
ソ連なイメージ
Buckle your seat belts. Someone just tried to pull one hell of a scam on me.
It began with an email I received on March 2nd. The email was from RB (name withheld), an editor at Pan MacMillan in the UK. She began by referencing a specific and somewhat obscure story thread from my one year run on writing Birds of Prey for DC Comics.
She went on to sing my praises, talk about interest in the Jem memoir, and mentioned many other highly specific works and aspects of my career. She talked about how my work might align with Pan MacMillan’s graphic novel and non-fiction catalogues. The final kicker was when she ended the email with a friendly quip about the number of my cats, something I’d just written about on my MoggyBlog FB page.
I was fairly stunned, not by the praise, but the extreme detail and specificity of the approach. I’ve seen plenty of samples of scams sent to authors that are always a bit vague and might mention one book title at most. This went way beyond that.
Which is why I failed to do the absolute number one smart thing I would normally have done – I didn’t look closely at her email address. I saw that it said macmillan and left it at that. I did look her up on the Pan MacMillan website and saw that she was a real person.
We exchanged a couple of emails and she strongly wanted me to have a literary agent. I’ve never needed one in the past and have always operated with only my entertainment agent. She was quite insistent that I needed one and recommended an agent named CD (name withheld) as someone she had worked with closely and had the right sensibility for my background. She gave me a personal email address for him, to “ensure he prioritizes your message”.
I checked out this agent and saw, once again, that he existed and was with a reputable UK agency. I found that the agency had a couple of co-agent associations with agencies in the US, including one I knew, the Howard Morhaim Agency. He looked legit.
So I did the thing -- wrote him an introductory email, and we’ve been exchanging a daily email every day for the past week, including on weekends. He was all about my “legacy”. We discussed specific projects, and he relentlessly pushed me to get something called a Dynamic QR code to create a Digital Author’s Bridge. I had never heard of such a thing, was only familiar with regular old static QR codes. We went back and forth on it a lot until I finally understood what he was talking about. It sounded like a good idea, but when I researched them, I found they were rather pricey to obtain and maintain.
I wanted more info on what his agency contract would include, what his commissions were, how he handled ancillary rights, the usual business items I would naturally want to know. He kept on about the QR code. His relentless push on the QR code is when I began to suspect something was off about this whole situation.
I pushed back harder and he finally gave a minimal amount of info on commissions, and kept pushing about the QR code. He insisted that we had to put that in place BEFORE signing a contract, or as he called it, a Letter of Engagement.
By now, the many little red flags grew into a Big Red Flag. Had I paid more attention to the fake email address in the very first message, that would have been a Big Red Flag right there, but I missed it. Mucho stupid on my part.
The red flags piled up:
• RED FLAG: insistence on doing this QR code before signing a contract.
• RED FLAG: not providing standard agent information about a contract or even wanting to discuss it.
• RED FLAG: the fact that the layout, structure, and phrasing of his emails were extremely similar to the RB emails, right down to the constant use of 3-bullet points as selling points.
• RED FLAG: a total lack of feedback to a creative project I proposed and instead simply accepting it without comment. No agent worth his salt is going to accept a quarter-page pitch without having feedback, opinions, wanting to know more, etc.
• RED FLAG: the constant push-push-push to get this blasted QR code before anything else.
• RED FLAG: ending nearly every email with the promise of a “global roll-out”. Of what? I had yet to write any of the things we were discussing.
When I began looking over the exchanges from the beginning, it seemed unlikely to me that “RB” would have done such a deep, deep dive into my work and background to include the specifics she did, not to mention reading my MoggyBlog. I mean, sure, it’s flattering, and it massages my ego, but I’m realistic.
Which left the notion that all or much of this was created using an LLM. If so, it’s the most nuanced one I’ve seen. It would have had to scour the internet for references to my work, such as articles, reviews, interviews, my amazon author page, and so on, then compiled it into a convincing email without including hallucinations or false references. If so, it represents a huge advance in the ability to scam authors and is therefore a significant threat.
If not, if it done by a person(s), they sure put one hell of a lot of effort into it.
During this process, I consulted with Victoria Strauss of Writer Beware. She gave me the official email for CD. I sent him an email in which I forwarded one of the last messages from “him” with a query. I received an automated reply that he was at London Book Fair and out of touch for email. The reply included the name of a colleague, so I sent the same email to her. She confirmed that the messages did not come from CD and appreciated that I brought it to their attention.
I’m trying to get a valid contact for RB, so I can warn her as well.
Meanwhile, fake CD’s next message went on about how his QR code set-up was so much better than other sites because it was free and permanent. RED FLAG. And it would integrate straight into my Amazon store to my author’s page. RED FLAG. And for the umpteenth time, he ended with a variation of “Once we have this simple link live, we can sign the formal agreement and get the global rollout moving immediately.” RED FLAG.
I played this out a bit longer, very carefully, because I couldn’t figure out what the ultimate scam was here. However, the mention of amazon store integration made me wonder whether I even had an amazon store.
I have a page that lists all my books. I don’t know whether that’s actually a store. I certainly don’t make any money off it, but I guess it’s meant to be my “store”.
Looking at my author’s bio on the amazon store, I suddenly realized that the reference to the number of cats was actually pulled from there, NOT from my MoggyBlog. By a bizarre coincidence, at the time I wrote that bio I mentioned a sixth cat possibly joining the horde. And very recently, I wrote almost exactly the same thing in the present. Different cats, different places, but so alike that it’s no wonder I assumed RB was speaking of my present situation, not the past.
I wrote that bio in 2018 shortly before the fire. After the fire and losing everything, being homeless and whatnot, I completely forgot this page and bio even existed. I haven’t looked at it since then.
I see where much of what was referenced came from there, including an off-hand comment about a ridge from RB that had puzzled me. In the bio I mentioned we lived on a volcanic ridge. That clinched that the material in RB’s emails was drawn from this seven-year-old bio on amazon, treating it as current.
The last email from the hoaxer is again about tying a QR code to my amazon store. All this effort is to gain control of my amazon store? To do what, create a horde of fake AI books with my name on them? To steal digital assets from me? Those are the best guesses I can make.
I sent an email today that will show the hoaxer I’m aware of the scam. We’ll see whether they bother to respond.
I’m posting this in detail to alert other authors and to lay out how the scam has proceeded. I would love to hear from anyone that has had a similar scam run on them. Take care out there.
Please spread this far and wide.
酒飲みたい
Hyperlinks in Terminal Emulators
Link: https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47360383
After trying a few different LLMs, I'm starting to think that letting them directly modify your project's code leads to non-deterministic output and knowledge that’s hard to reuse.
A better pattern might be using LLMs to build tools that then apply those changes in a deterministic way.
The knowledge stays in the tool instead of disappearing when the session ends.
Next thing I'll try to share these tools with others, or maybe letting an agent run them at scale.
“Maps, wait! They don’t love you like I love you”
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jg7zvku4khzmvyjwbzv4lnly/post/3mgurrez5z22i
호라미떼미떼미떼미떼 코노 프롤레탈리아아ㅏ
운동 죽겄다
頭痛すぎ
して寝る
트럼프가 집권하고 일으킨 일들이 너무나 커다랗고 치명적이긴 하지만, 저런 말을 하는 사람이 당장 '머리 위에 미군의 폭탄이라도 받아서 중추신경계에 물리적 충격이라도 받은 게 아닌 다음에야', 사람의 인지능력이 그러한 간극을 이리 단시간에 뛰어넘을 수 있을 정도로 변화하는 건 통계적으로 썩 그럴싸하지 않다. 개인적인 어떤 기대값 밖의 현실을 수사적으로 표현하는 과정에서 관측적으로 동등한 서술이 튀어나왔을 뿐이지, 저런 말을 하는 사람은 지금도 깨닫지 못했고 트럼프라는 이름이 아닌 트럼프가 나왔을 때 알아볼 능력도 없을 것이라 본다.
트럼프가 집권 전에 광인Lunatic이 아니었는데 집권하더니 광인이 되었다고 말하는 인간은 지적으로 불능이거나 부정직하다. 둘 다일 경우도 부정하지 않겠다. 물론 트럼프는 변했다. 하지만 Sanity threshold를 묻는 영역에서는 한없이 먼 지점에서 한없이 조금 이동했다. 그런데도 종종 "이럴 줄 몰랐다" 라고 말하는 사람들을 수도 없이 본다. 심지어 그들의 '깨달음' 을 그나마의 다행이라며 주목하고 부각하는 이야기도 심심찮게 본다. 개인적으론 여러가지 의미로 'incredible' 하다. 감탄과 불신 모두 섞어서 말이다.
RE: https://systemli.social/@anneroth/116220979456340790
Das skizzierte Vorgehen verletzt den EU AI Act, Artikel 5 (1) d.
Aber das stört den Innenminister bei anderen Sachen ja auch nicht.
단장 생일이다아아아아아아아
먀탄절이다아아아ㅏ
블락/계폭한 사람이 팔로잉/팔로워 숫자에 잡히는 게 싫다 => 이건 블언블같은 기능없이도 그냥 해결이 가능한 문제고 블스 앱 버그고요 내가 저 사람 언팔할건데 저 사람도 나를 팔로 해제하게 만들겠다 => 이게 우리가 트위터에서 쓰던 블언블...
#길쭉냥이뽑기
https://yodangang.express/play/ahlui84ua6s903le
#길쭉냥이뽑기
https://yodangang.express/play/ahlui84ua6s903le
WIP #buildinpublic
Gabriele Svelto
の絲針紡🐬🤓 
Adam Johnson 
nulta
MJ+
Samuel Brinkmann
