me: ok, let me unblock r*setera to read thread on Folding Ideas Beast Games video. surely it's not as bad as I remember it being, with people making arguments already addressed in the video (shown), & slews of ppl making same wrong observation, unaware it's been made repeatedly already (not shown).

O DAWGG, so close! @foldablehuman.bsky.social

Somehow I missed this incredible video until now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=huEt...

Most striking to me about these memos is the radically different assessment of the harm imposed by the president not being able to pursue his initiatives. Over the last 15 mos., that harm has in numerous cases been treated as almost per se serious and irreparable. Here, it gets no analysis at all.

There’s Trump-style corruption, which is all bullshit, bluster, bags of cash, and him daring you to stop him. And then there’s corruption of the John Roberts kind. It’s just as deliberate and destructive, but quieter, more genteel, like a cancer that grows in your bones rather than on your face.

I love the 'safe again', implying that presumably America wasn't safe under previous administration/director. I'm sure that makes career FBI agents (is there any other kind?) feel great.

"Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data."

Gonna need github to let us report users for violating repo policies so we can share blocks amongst like minded repos instead of having to individually block every single AI shit.

It’s fucking bizarre how people are acting like something from 2022 is something they can’t live without. Like dudes, the emotional dependence on a sycophantic machine regurgitating nonsense to encourage you to stop engaging in critical thought and trust the slop is truly depressing to witness.

Setting aside that I hate AI, it's wild to me the way some companies/teams full-throttle embrace AI/vibe-coding. Like, set aside THAT it's AI. "Here's a new, totally unproven method for creating code. Should we use it?" "Let's maybe wait a year or three and see what the long-term results are."

1. people reflexively blame AI for problems because it's obviously harmful in many domains 2. Bluesky (now "entirely AI-coded" acc. to staff) keeps breaking 3. AI is blamed. Devs say no, it's web service issues, scold AI-blamers for their ignorance 4. devs admit it was actually AI code at fault lol

YO SPACE NERDS: The Nova documentary Return to the Moon, which follows the recent NASA #Artemis mission, is live now on the PBS site (and should be on the app/channel/etc). Spread the word! Turns out we *can* have nice things, as long as they are in spaaaace www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vi...

Someone submitted a bug report on stb_truetype which included the following presumably false sentence. "I reproduced a heap-buffer-overflow with malformed TTF input by setting loca entries or the glyf table offset so that the computed glyph offset points past the end of the file." Note the 'or'.

This packing insert from a robot vacuum looks like it should be guarding a temple somewhere.

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

From 2005-2008, JMS released a series of books, "The Babylon 5 Scripts of J Michael Straczynsky". 14 books were available for purchase; the 15th was ONLY available as a bonus if you bought the entire series. I didn't care much about the scripts, but volume 15 included the season 1 writer's bible.

I'm pretty sure I've seen this 'argument' before, but I really like this What If video's contention that the real answer to "Why is the sky blue?" is [rot13 spoiler] orpnhfr nve vf pbyberq oyhr. The comments are full of people claiming this answer doesn't work because of sunsets, but they're wrong.

Antisemitism is structurally necessary for Elon Musk's politics, because he wants to brand himself as the insurgent populist fighting the elite, but as the world's wealthiest person, he needs a definition of "elite" that is not strictly rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.

Anthropic are many things but a source for prudent software engineering advice they are not, their uptime meter looks like somebody puked up a box of Chiclets. They’re not even putting up two nines.

WaPo website replaced search with AI and it's going great

I don't even think it's 'wrong'? If you got to the point where you had 100 AI agents doing work being 'managed' by one human, the shape of that from a software licensing viewpoint surely more closely matches 100 seats than 1 seat. (I am neither fan of AI nor of software licensing; I'm just saying.)

Great example of how JRR baked his worldbuilding into LOTR in ways nobody could understand, but we felt. Seemingly in Galadriel's gift to Gimli she was consciously evoking the Silmarils... which nobody reading the Lord of the Rings could have known about at the time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU2y...

Billy Mitchell's quest to break the Donkey Kong world record began with a simple dream to rob the most bullied kid at his school of the one thing he had going for him. Source: 1-Up MegaZine, Issue 3 (2002).

"Shaun! Shaun! Shaun! Shaun! Shaun! Shaun!" "Look at you, hacker: a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?" "Congratulations! You have died."

streaming programming in 15 minutes. twitch.tv/nothings2

Donating to online scammers posing as legitimate people in need is not morally neutral: You potentially are giving money to brutal slavery and human trafficking networks: www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2...

Someone approvingly linked the Oxide RFD laying out their policy for acceptable uses of LLMs (e.g. no vibe coding). Unsurprisingly, it just simply doesn't wrestle with the ethics at all. At least, search for 'ethics' and 'training data' are empty. Just assumed not worth considering? Fuck this.

Place names around Bethesda, Maryland are a hotbed of potential character names. - Ken Wood: a businessman - Glen Echo: a time traveler - Huntingon Terra[n]ce: a rich snob - Ash Burton: a snarky survivalist - Brad Moor[e]: an everyman - Barnaby Woods: a rural sheriff - Chevy Chase: an asshole

listen here elite dark mode hackers, im 41 and im simply too old to learn a new way to look at screens

also www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_2Y... I have in fact gotten 3-5 spam emails in the last few weeks that didn't get caught by my existing spam filtering service, where normally I get like 3 a year.

Since I had someone asking about this on a programming stream, for anyone wondering about being crazy and using Windows 7, chase.com no longer supports any browser versions that support Windows 7. So yeah, it's gonna be hard to stay on win7 for much longer.

Honestly, the part where they post Mythos' comments on these patterns, I think reason is maybe it's basically "hey Mythos, summarize pattern in these related responses", and they're using it as a summary machine because laziness. Kinda comes across as 'Mythos can summarize better than us', though.

The premise of today's Oglaf is great, but I have no idea what's happening in the second row of panels. (a) Is the first panel metaphorical or real world? (b) I have no clue what the final punchline is supposed to mean, what the JOKE is.

this is a fantastic rant about Claude Mythos and Anthropic doing a great swan dive into the ELIZA effect www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcN1...

Claude Mythos probably IS finding security vulnerabilities and probably is a big deal, but the Anthropic people who wrote the paper on it (a supposed 'model card') are absolutely high on their own supply. Because they aren't releasing it publically, they knew they needed to post more sample

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A picture is worth 99.9 words. How's that @github.com migration from bare metal to Azure going? via Alex on Mastodon techhub.social/@ironicbadge...

I had to look this up. It's TRUE. 😮 Before 1974, banks typically required a father's or husband's signature in order for a woman to open a credit card account. HOLEEEE SHIT. In my lifetime?!! The patriarchy really sucks. #ArtemisII

20 year anniversary of Patton Oswalt's "stand immobile for the entire scene" prank. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2QE...

Loving that they keep switching between out-of-sync cameras to maximize the time when nothing is happening and minimize the time when we see the astronauts hoisted up.

Gen X collectively reliving Challenger, Columbia and Cold War nuclear holocaust anxiety all in the same week is a fucking lot, y'all.

Apollo 16 was (I think) the fastest Apollo recovery time, at 37 minutes. www.nasa.gov/history/50-y...

they've hyped up the front porch beyond all possibility of success now. it can only disappoint

There are now four living people on Earth aged 47-50 who have gone beyond low Earth orbit, along with the five aged 90+ and the nineteen no longer with us. (All of them went to or by the Moon.)

My plan to reform the presidential pardon power as part of a series of constitutional amendment provisions: Prohibitions on pardons for family members, donors affiliated with the president, persons who carried out illegal Executive Branch orders

This is funny, but also I tried watching movie reactions on YouTube and most of them were so full of this it was unbearable.

What I have frequently heard programmers say over the years: (1996) "Lines of Code" is a terrible metric (2006) "Lines of Code" is a terrible metric (2016) "Lines of Code added" is a terrible metric (2026) I have to use AI because it's the only way to meet my company's "Lines of Code added" quota

As I’ve said: We elected the one person in the whole world who is NOT interested in reading the President’s Daily Brief.

you wont believe what they used to check the accuracy