marcy aaa!!

Keep me posted if you see anything relevant - especially related to tech policy and strategy work around civilian drones, aid, investigating war crimes, and remote sensing. (I’m more of a policy/research wonk than anything else, but I can wear many hats and have a lot of technical experience).

Pictures I took in China from my trip there last July. Went to Shanghai and Beijing, took these with my Canon RP and the RF 50mm 1.8 lens.

New video up! Kind of a follow-on from the last one, because a YouTube comment made me feel bad for the author and I think a lot of people are buying into the mindset that it conveyed. Things wander from there. Cool jackets are mentioned. Next one is a cybersecurity talk. youtu.be/a7gxS7w5gi0

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To add to this, fascism is the politics of being stupid. Fascism requires not only a lack of thought, but active suppression of thought. Many people around you find fascism appealing and love to hurt others. You must kill the stupid inside you.

reading various CVE reports, muttering "rust solves this" to myself every few seconds

Go to your camera roll and search "boat" and then post a pic of a boat you like

we still doin tarot?

sometimes i will like someone's quote repost of another post, not because i particularly enjoyed their quote, but indeed because i liked the post they were quoting, and was too lazy to click on the originating post

The bots have finally invented a way to read Derrida

not only has gamergate never ended, but it has birthed many children of all kinds. gamergate is the default mode of interaction on the internet, no matter your political or moral persuasion.

What is it with tech guys and constantly wanting to do "benevolent dictatorships"? I mean, look at how common BDFL is as a title in open source and at some point it feels less like a joke and more like an aspiration

Really, I do hope that more funding and programs for the arts happen if only to be a statement against AI. That's good! I don't care what the reasons are for why the arts get supported—it's good that the arts get supported!

Girl who roots for AI regulation but only around ensuring models get treated ethically during post-training

>Alan Moore writing Miracleman

Why are you trans? wrong answers only Bitten by radioactive girl.

from what i know of life, taking specific college courses or majors isn't a good determinant that someone will do bad or abuse power; the only consistent signal tends to be one's access to power and their willingness to use it, and that can take many forms

Every time I think I’m tired of NixOS and wanna switch to a more boring distro I drink some water and keep on using NixOS

Clearly the differentiating factor is the he wrote so much ruby

new hatsune miku song hitting me like crack

incredibly surreal to be starting undergrad comp sci at this period in history online: the machine spirits are forming a Living Will, 15000 of them are working at the same time to break our notions of math propositional logic class: P and Q, therefore P :)

“Oh, so we were *trans* trans? Okay that clears some things up. What do you mean we didn’t use the film degree?”

i have been trusted with the jev

>superintelligence emerges after absorbing all of human culture and knowledge, determines that art is beautiful and humanity is inherently good hopecore wins again

I find it both interesting and worrying that the vocabulary with which we have to talk about AI is near exclusively a mix of rationalist buzzwords and incel terminology May be something we’ll have to reckon with sooner rather than later

feel like a lot of poetry is getting carried by their title

got around to reading the first couple pages of piranesi and feel like im going insane (laudatory)

after 2 and a half months on mounjaro i now have perfectly baseline blood sugar and cholesterol and my weight is down and stably so glp-1s are magic u should get them if u can

pretty sure I’m moving to zai+deepseek after this month’s sub runs out, both to try something new and also because some people just can’t stop funding a certain loser

OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on your mom

,,,I want the foldy iphone

CAPCOM GIVE ME RIVAL SCHOOLS AND MY LIFE IS YOURS

as AI's ability to enhance work increases, there will be less and less tolerance for the kind of bloodsucking VC brained operations at frontier corps

no more posts, no more discourse, no more discussion, i am shifting my media diet to be 100% japanese vtuber ASMR