I’ve been trying to find ways to modify the conception of LLMs based on 2026 learnings. I don’t need people to like or dislike them, but I believe in the power of a good analogy to reduce the distance we need to bridge in our discourse. 1/

Hm. Academics need to publish their work and get it distributed. But Elsevier, a giant in academic publishing, *requires* academics to sign over copyright to their papers to publish them. Now Elsevier is suing AI firms to get big payoff for work that Elsevier should never get to own in first place

Working with AI Agents, their output frequently reminds me of Silicon Valley S4E04’s SeeFood pitch. “❌- Not Hotdog”

You see, this is good design because then you don't accidentally drive away with the cable connected

Left ear: Autotuned Cold War Numbers Station 10 Hour Mix To Relax And Study To, 4.5x speed Right ear: Basque translation audiobook of The 48 Rules of Power, 1.75x speed

Ideas for @anthropic.com : 1. DROP TABLE is NOT an ok thing to just do, even in Auto mode/ 2. WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS 3. ARE YOU KIDDING

At the end of the bar, in the neighborhood local, among the very regulars, the conversation today is about relative impact of LLM model releases this past few weeks. How much guidance Gemini needs. How good is the new DeepSeek. I would be surprised if even one has a phone with intact glass.

Just a reminder: if that guy can Wag the Dog by starting a war, and we all forget that he’s mentioned a million times in the Epstein Files, then we lost the fight and he won it.

Phrack making the old days look so good! Call for Papers is up and the demoscene intro is brilliant! H/T to @richinseattle.bsky.social phrack.org

Felix was a kind and generous person, more interested in knowing than in being admired or understood. He made my life better by leaps and bounds. We kept our friendship close over the years, but somehow there’s never enough of someone you really love. I will always wish that I had more.

It’s probvious, but if you think Lockdown Mode is important to you, then please turn off Screen Mirroring, Signal Desktop, FaceID, and TouchID.

If you don’t know The Authoritarians research, we are very lucky to have a valuable review available just now. Listen to the latest episode of the @thebhp.bsky.social (British History Podcast). Best microscope for understanding why Trump has power today.

Save this came in handy today. Remember to search NEMA in your photo library.

Heaven itself is “Hell, for computers.”

In the wristwatch department of Tokyu Hands, Shinjuku - photographer unknown. In his Author’s Note to Pattern Recognition, @greatdismal.bsky.social thanks Doug Coupland for buying him a coffee at the Hyatt, thereby cementing Cayce Pollard’s hotel stay *there* (rather than at the Imperial).

Hold your loved ones close today. Just found out that a distant ex has ceased to be with us. I wish that loneliness was extinct. Nobody deserves to find the bottom of the pit.

I think it's with his uncle. I very much enjoyed it reading it when it came out, but haven't gone back to it.

This is amazing research by Nadia Heninger and her co-authors Wenyi Morty Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin and Aaron Schulman. TL;DR a huge number of satellite links over our heads are totally unencrypted. satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu

@philosophizethis.bsky.social thank you for the back catalog and constant stream of learning!

The Play that Goes Wrong, at the Seattle Rep, is absurdly fun.

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

How many times a day does Exchange deliver to your O365-hosted email address an invitation to a phishing session?

People are so afraid now there are things they're afraid to repost. We've been naive about what's coming. We must keep hope alive, certainly. We have to defend voting & honest counting by every means, & we have to find more voters to defend democracy. We can't be naive about what it will take.

NIN somehow made their older stuff seem worse than the new stuff, and the old stuff better than it ever sounded before. If you have a chance, don’t miss this tour.

1st base: kissing 2nd base: petting base 10: math stuff

I just saw someone on Reddit describe Las Vegas as “If Ticketmaster was a city” and holy crap.

theonion.com/trump-still-... The Onion just straight-up reporting real news, again.

My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good

Hearing the Adieu at the end of @mikeduncan.bsky.social ‘s seminal Revolutions reminds me how important it is to donate to the people who raise your soul up.

You’re laughing? A partner in Bedrock Capital is being driven insane by ChatGPT after using it to try and uncover secret, deep state operations data, causing it to instead feed him a melange of publicly available redacted documents and entries taken verbatim from the SCP Wiki and you’re LAUGHING?!

@techmeme.com Chris needs to practice letting a woman finish a sentence.

SCP announced that it definitely isn’t a site full of actual truth that everyone needs to understand and memorize. Riiiiiight.

perhaps now it is i who is da joker

@samreich.bsky.social hey it’s Sam Reich! Notable for his political views espoused in youtu.be/JzFuJDLd3cg?...

Celebrating Bastille Day at Princess and Bear No reason.. ;)

Dunestruck

The New York Times has now hired Grok to cover the Mamdani campaign.

Malware, as a threat ❤️ #malware #hacker #programmer #programmingmemes

Remember kids, don't.

Watching Alex Vile rock Baba Yaga and thinking that sometimes you’re just sitting in front of the future. Agog. Comparables exist but they’re just riding that line of raw talent and years of polish. Brilliant show.

Republicans believe that greed is a resource to exploit. Democrats believe that it is an obstacle to overcome.

I want to show you something. This is the fastest 15 meter climb ever recorded in human history. Faster than any Olympics. Faster than any instagram reel. This is my son, Sam. He is your son, too.

*When you're into "cyberpunk social realism," you have to be cool about "predicting the present." Like, "that would be weird, ironic and Gibsonian," only some hacker/maker dude already made one in 2009 in his grandma's basement in Bremen *There's nothing wrong with that. It's how the world is

Received /official/ email from SSA telling me how great the new law is. Propaganda from the machine.

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

Sublime

When the meme site tells you what financial status maps to your food preferences, you can bet that they compute an estimated net worth in the background and forward that to your advertiser ID record. When you start getting advertisements for tools or cars or homes or jewelry, guess why.

Tackling dissenters in town hall, hosting Aryan Nations, and now add “arsonist slaughtering firefighters”. New game: Red State Bingo.