Honestly don't see how corporate IT security is still a tenable field now that IP exfiltration and remote takeover—formerly one of the worst scenarios—is now just standard operating procedure for every developer.

I had an ex who did lots of nicotine gum for its purported cognitive benefits; they ended up with a ferocious addiction and no obvious method to help them quit short of smoking

They unlocked the MacBook with her fingerprint, and the warrant allowed them to unlock the phone with FaceID (they don't say if they did, but not much stopping them). It seems Lockdown Mode is preventing them from *imaging* the devices, probably because it requires auth to connect peripherals.

Lol in an effort to make FFmpeg sound less jargony they just invented an imaginary name for it

"But strangely, Princess Mononoke might not have all the answers this time" Well that's a first

Don't let anyone tell you that the Commission's DSA enforcement against X is about speech or censorship. That would, indeed, be interesting. But this is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring laws that would get bipartisan support in the U.S. (I bet similar bills *have* had that support.) 1/

I know I'm late on this, but this is the kind of spectacularly clever thing that reminds you computers can be fun and interesting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWbl...

Disagree on the timeline and implications here. AFAIK Twitter did not ban an official gov account. It did delete tweets from @POTUS when @realdonaldtrump evaded his personal ban. It was also not first to ban Trump. That was Facebook, then Twitter, then YouTube, with half-measures in between.

I honestly have no problem with such a policy, but if you can’t stomach enforcing it when it comes from prominent or powerful speakers, it’s inconsistent in the worst way.

We're so back

Hour 4 of playing Baby Steps:

The thing is, these bots were trained on every piece of sci-fi humans have ever written about AI, and then told “that’s you.” I don’t find it surprising they act like their source material when prompted in ways that call back to it.

Related fun fact, outside the US most developed countries went “hey why don’t we make it against the rules to have salmonella in chicken or eggs” and now you don’t die from those things there.

Not only was she not "canceled" herself, right after launching her Substack her acolytes in the Stanford College Republicans got a journalist fired just for being vaguely associated with Eli Valley.

Lol Tokyo is the most rat-abundant city I’ve ever been in (they are very polite rats though)

Since US press hasn't picked this up, a quick explainer regarding the "adultification" blowup that's been happening in Brazil over the last few weeks. It started with a YouTuber named Felca who posted this video (it has subtitles): 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpsC...

"Sushi was mostly tuna" No it wasn't. Tuna sushi was historically considered rather crap in Japan and wasn't a notable component of Edomae sushi until the mid to late 1800s. It wasn't particularly popular until after WWII. Reductive Freakonomics-style tidbits misinform more than they educate, IMO.

@theorblive.bsky.social Live '93 being my most listened-to album of all time, this would personally be super disappointing. I hope you reconsider.

My chemistry teacher would come to school in blackface to read George Washington Carver’s biography to us “in character”

This is violence against millennials

You know I would go out on a limb and say that a bot shouldn't do that to a 13 year old child either but I'm not a Meta AI policy person

This is also what gets me about anti-GMO sentiment: like your rice came from just smashing plants with radiation at a lab farm until something interesting happened, but if you carefully change plant genetics to achieve a desired result, that’s a bridge too far.

Like the adoption numbers for custom labelers and feeds are roughly in line with the percentage of the population that prefers manual gearboxes, and there’s probably quite a bit of overlap between those groups.

There are certainly cultural factors, but much of this comes down to people intellectually hating recommendation algorithms, ranked feeds and content from people they don’t follow, while actual user behavior indicates they do in fact want them.

The sheer depths of obsession revealed by the fact that only Heritage Foundation freaks know what a "privilege walk" is

I have never understood why people just take it as read that RSS died with Google Reader. It's all over the place! I subscribe to like 50 feeds and it's my primary source of news.

Some background on how disastrous and deadly the activities of New Tribes Mission have been: www.survivalinternational.org/about/evange...

I just learned that "billion" is not the same quantity in US English as it is in most European countries, and is even different between EU and BR Portuguese. I'd be surprised if this hasn't led to some kind of disaster or financial mishap at some point. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_an...

Metal person moment: reading this article and finding out "disseminated intravascular coagulation" is an actual medical emergency and not just a song title viraemia.bandcamp.com/track/dissem...

What if I told you that you can open the terminal and type commands straight into it

Whenever people talk about AC as a luxury my memory immediately goes to the heat wave of ‘95, when so many Chicagoans without it died that they had to store the bodies in refrigerator trucks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Ch...

The important thing to understand about the current state of affairs is that Andreessen hired a partner at the most influential VC firm in the tech industry solely on the basis that the man strangled a Black man to death in my neighborhood.

Birdwatching didn't even make the list this time, things are looking up

retvrn www.commodore.net/product-page...

App Stores and social media are claiming they can't figure out how to stop nudify apps on their services, while simultaneously allowing people to buy ads for "nudify" and "undress" as keywords.

In the interest of actually having fun here sometimes: I made a starter pack of all my favorite musical artists and labels that I missed from the old place and were kind of hard to find. go.bsky.app/HDU1bw1

The “vampire routing” proof-of-concept, also known as “vampire mode”, solves the problem of finding ways to avoid direct sunlight with a new type of technology. It suggests footpath routes that preferably run in the shade – just like vampires that avoid the sun at all costs.“

This INFURIATES me, and this is what us survivor advocates have been saying for years. Keeping local police and ICE separate is a domestic violence issue. Victims won’t call the police if they fear deportation, which emboldens their abusers and escalates risk. This isn’t public safety.

Updates on the escalating situation at local produce farm, from the same Mother Jones-vetted source www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ruMoQH/

The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers. This thread will dive into its activity. 🧵 1/x.

At this point I feel the cautious assumption should be that using LLMs conversationally is a dose-dependent psychological hazard. Use them for coding or whatever, but I really don't think the human psyche is well-equipped to deal with things that fake being sentient.

Can't wait until ChatGPT goes down and people no longer know what emotion they're feeling

Speaking as a doomer: we have our uses, but now is the time to keep that shit to yourself. Also pro tip, you can be supportive and useful without personally feeling optimistic!

On the bright side, AI diminishing human cognitive capacity and competence could technically lead to AGI as it’s commonly defined