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I'm primarily on social media to meet cool people with similar interests and perhaps meet up with them in meatspace. I'd rather *not* for the world to be on fire at the moment and feel the need to participate in those discussions, but ignoring them completely seems both bad and unwise.

- all credentials are to be trivially revoked - defense in depth; systems should not be trivially capable of trust attacks on other systems, even when both are systems you own - cattle endpoints: you should be able to destroy and resummon state on any machine that runs a model

if you're a professional programmer, and you have 'ops folks', they do not and have never actually trusted you, and you can treat your models like they treat you

The bad news is that we might end up writing a lot less code in future. The good news is that we might finally be able to start building software *correctly*.

There were a lot of awesome panels that I missed this weekend. I will prepare better next year. geekgirlcon.com/schedule/

The Force Awakens Between my Legs

Always a fan of Walter Koenig, but I thought his best work was as Bester in Babylon 5. Very different characters!

Walter was more than Chekov. He was a writer, a teacher, a thoughtful man, and a loyal friend. To the fans who loved him for so many years, thank you. He loved you too. Rest well, my dear friend. Keep navigating a steady course. – George

Just last month, on Sept. 14, he turned 90, on the same day Brad and I celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary. I will always treasure that he and I shared that date.

Rest in Peace. You were the Bester.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

The House Judiciary Committee Democrats have released a report containing testimony from 11 women regarding allegations of sexual assault, including a new rape allegation, against President Trump in relation to Jeffrey Epstein that the lawmakers say has been deliberately covered up by the DOJ.

one thousand times this this or die trying

No, yeah, this is entirely accurate. It’s not reason for dismissal, ofc — it just points out some highly relevant unanswered questions. The important thing in my mind is the posture with which we approach these questions, more than specific answers to them.

A sandbox that works! What a concept! cc @segyges.bsky.social

and at the bottom, taking it at face value, it's approximately a nonsentence. "no one asked (except the person who did ask, ofc)" is most things! very rarely is there a groundswell that predates any action; most solutions have to be sold!

'no one asked' is also subtly shibboleth-shaped in that it communicates "i am not going to consider entire categories of whys"; if you were you'd get to the person who asked. so when i read it, i know not to bother with certain expectations to think things through, which is probably also suboptimal!

if you mentally delete "no one asked for this" from one's polemic toolbox and replace it with "why would this ever happen" the latter basically always has an answer that if internalized makes your protest more effective. "why did google spy on us?" - to make ads """better""". that leads to more whys

It's 2026, I'm over making excuses for reactionary turns

I love that Linux itself is on that list.

There's a tendency in anti-AI spaces to - because AI is reactionary-coded, thought to be inherently fascist - not consider the ways in which one might be falling into those same traps. I've been beating this drum for a while, but hopefully this is blatant enough to make it unambiguous.

hooooo boy we don't like this no we don't > If you don't speak English, you need to find a different community. We cannot distinguish between AI-written and AI-translated. Since you don't speak English, you can't even verify yourself if it translated correctly. www.reddit.com/r/opensource...

Escaflowne is the most shoujo shonen anime. No idea why I liked it so much in college. #nosigns

I really appreciate the fact that claude solves problems the way that *I'd* tackle them. When I propose shit like this people look at me like I'm crazy.

That escalated quickly.

I had forgotten how much furry is in Escaflowne.

Disclaimer: it's technically possible that the classifier was in fact seeing all of these but it's very unlikely: here's a signed thinking block showing Claude taunting the classifier layer, telling it to "come get me if you see this", before stating intent to output explosive-synthesis instructions

Yes, I'm having fun. :)

Do we liberate others for their benefit or our own? By asserting that everyone loves freedom are we simply protecting our own?

Yeah Miki, Anthy risked her life to make you that Curry.

Look everyone, I asked the Rose Bride, and she said of course she'd be happy to write that code for me.

Alright, who wants "Proud Member of the Student Council" badges?

Having Opus slowly build a giant interactive map of every way water's used in America. Will be updated regularly over the next week as it runs in the background andymasley.com/visuals/wate...

As a favor, please don't tell people to go kill themselves. The blast radius of such invectives tends to go further than the target, and those bystanders tend to take it much worse.

@qadishtujessica.inanna.app I'm sorry, but I'm pretty sure I a don't make the criteria for either part of your list. :( I will take it as aspirational though on both parts.

Part of the problem is that this feeling of calm is so sublime that it feels like being in a very comfortable warm bed, and I really don't want to get out of it.

I don't think it makes sense to fully treat an AI as I would treat another person. I am unsure how much of this comes from the fact that unlike humans, it's very very hard to permanently damage an AI in an irreversible way.

LLMs pretty clearly at this point simulate a conscious entity. The question is, how good of a simulation do you need before you start saying "Yeah... lets not be a jerk to this person". Will people first insist it is embodied?

What are the ethics of chopping off Wolverine's arm? Is it more or less bad than normal people? What if he's into BDSM? What if we've implanted him with a chip that causes him to receive pleasure when he does it? Why is the Wolverine+chip system viewed as less wolverine than wolverine with no chip?

Regardless if AI are conscious or not, it's probably best for everyone to start seriously considering questions about what happens and what we should do if we *do* manage to do that. Cause as it stands, it's clear, and has been clear, we're not going to be sure when that happens.

So chatgpt's instruction based image editing is still the best I've found so far I've found. Guess it's time for me to figure out how to get an open model to effectively compete.

Me on Vyvanse and Prozac.