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A sovereign nation decides the size of its own armed forces, the treaties it makes and the international organisations it joins. That’s what Putin seeks to deny Ukraine - its sovereignty.

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

by OpenAI’s own estimates, hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users are showing signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week

An "AI" tech support line told me that it'd raise a ticket and get back to me in a couple of days Yeah, I guess that's probably what a human AI tech support guy might have said. Good job impersonating tech support, one slight problem.

Wishing the EU good luck on their intricate mission to figure out WHO is launching the mysterious drones over their defense facilities and airports. Really challenging issue, we’re all in anticipation

Ultimately it doesn’t matter whether Britain thinks we are at war with Russia if Moscow already considers itself at war with us, which it does. We either acknowledge the reality of it or bury our heads in the sand, in either scenario, the war for Europe has already begun.

Right now, one institution after another is calculating that if they cross Trump MAGA will hurt them, but the Dems won't. You need them to recalculate and you get them to recalculate by putting large, angry crowds in the street over and over and over again. Then Dems are "me, or the pitchforks."

🤓 Anthropic recently release a threat report that shows how threat actors are using their model Claude. Here are some of the highlights: ・ Vibe hacking: Criminals are using Claude Code to perform real intrusions, doing reconnaissance, extortion, at a scale […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

This fucking sentence

A man understandably refused to hand over his ID or get out of the car for a bunch of masked thugs who refused to identify themselves. And when he drove away, they opened fire on him. This isn’t how you do any sort of enforcement when your goal is to uphold the law. This is gangsterism.

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OTD in 1975 USSR signed Helsinki Accords promising to respect borders & let countries join what orgs like they want. As we, the self declared successor state, have *always* followed this, you can trust over a peace deal with Ukraine now.

💥 CERT-UA published a report on a malware powered by an LLM. The malware uses Qwen 2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct via the HuggingFace API to generate and execute commands on infected systems. It is a Python script that embeds prompts to dynamically craft Windows […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

This was where I worked. This was where research showed that BPA harmed babies, Pesticides created 6 legged frogs and PCBs cause cancer among other things. The EPA is a superhero from protecting human health and the health of our water and air. Ask WHY they would shut this down?

What caused Grok's Racist Meltdown

This has been one of the most controversial videos I have ever made. It has elicited hundreds of abusive and sometimes threatening messages. It is 7 seconds long. I don't ask people to do anything, and I am not rude. I simply, unapologetically, state that I exist. This is why we still need pride.

Comic by Hartley Lin #NoKings

Genuine Question because I Do not understand… so if these men roll up in plain clothes and masks, grab a human being… even a child, and throw them in an unmarked vehicle I am just supposed to look the other way and say nothing ?? Ask Nothing ?

Europe’s frontier countries ready their hospitals for war

I celebrate the destruction of Russian long range bombers today just as I did when NATO took out the Serb Artillery around Sarajevo thirty years ago. Disarming those who attack civilians is always in the cause of peace

Russian state media editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan gleefully celebrating her compatriots' threats during peace negotiations is the best example of why the Russian people's minds are sick and need to be cured of imperialism by a complete defeat.

The state of Georgia is using the body of a brain-dead woman as an incubator. Because she was 9 weeks pregnant when she died, and their abortion ban is from about 6 weeks, they are sustaining her on life support, without input from her family, until 32 weeks of gestation. A true dystopian nightmare.

It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...

We've become completely desensitized to it but it's genuinely unreal how corrupt this admin is. Tinpot dictatorship stuff. Yes, that is the US Attorney General getting paid $1.38M to lobby on behalf of Qatar, and yes she did approve a $400M private jet as a gift.

good vibes only

I think about this comic at least once a week

Animating too much absolutely sensible outrage at Trumpism is an appeal to parental figures who aren’t there. “He should not be allowed”; “He should be arrested”; “This can’t be permitted.” Passive voice, all of which begs, “by whom?” It’s an appeal to an order that has already broken.

I read it…

A pencil #drawing of an orange that looks so realistic, you might think it’s about to roll off the page!

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

One man just wiped out $10 trillion in wealth, is destroying centuries-old legal protections, and seems determined to unravel humanity’s greatest public health achievement. In 3 months. I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.

So, reading the article, I am also struck - in addition to the OPSEC catastrophe - by how shallow the strategic thinking here is. Maybe that's just always the way it is, but all the concerns are domestic politics and messaging. No one asks, "will these strikes accomplish anything and if so, what?"

I’m thinking of this quote for no particular reason

"Venezuela's Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said on Friday that none of the hundreds of Venezuelans deported by the U.S. to a Salvadoran prison is a member of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua criminal gang, the reason Washington gave for expelling them." www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Welcome to the Trump tax. I purchased $144,000 worth of goods and have to pay a $76,000 tariff. 25% Aluminum 20% China 7.5% Telecom That’s 52 1/2%. China didn’t pay the tariff I did. My customer will have to absorb some of this. The rest is just an expense on my books.

If I had to guess, I think the Money-Folks have realized that they thought there were two options (tariffs, no tariffs) but there is actually a third option (perpetual uncertainty and graft) and that third option is worse - and now every 'reprieve' isn't 'good news' but 'more uncertainty.'

To expand on this just a bit, my advice to students is this: as soon as you think you *might* want to pursue graduate study in a field, you should try to have a sit down meeting with someone in that field to talk over your career plans and how to reach them. Even if you aren't sure yet.

It’s pretty hard to see the silver lining in this shitstorm, but we do have one important opportunity. US America is in dire need of a remedial civics lesson. 🏛️ Let’s get back to basics and shine a light on what’s worth preserving in American systems, norms, and values. 🇺🇸 Before it’s too late. ⏰

Ukrainian forces have punched deep holes into Russian defenses in Toretsk and re-entered into large part of the city. They have already entered the ruins of the city center.

My last post tonight. Almost midnight here, and I’m exhausted. Stay safe, friends. See you tomorrow 💙💛

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

I think every company was terrified that if someone else figured out AGI, they'd get left behind. So everyone lit money on fire trying to build AGI. Nobody figure it out. Now they're all left with a bunch of mostly useless GenAIs models that they have to convince investors were worth the money.