Randactyl

Randactyl

@randactyl.com

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. .NET developer DevOps administrator Amateur chess and music theory enjoyer Constantly learning and growing

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This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

The Washington Sun@washingtonsun.com

New: White House attorneys are evaluating whether to issue mass pardons to junior staffers. https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/white-house-weighing-mass-pardons-for-junior-staff

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This should be the cause of soul-searching for every California state politician.

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social

In fact, Texas' solar generation has grown so much that it's surpassed California to become America's largest solar-producing state Texas already had a heavy lead in utility-scale solar, but has now passed California even when you include rooftop

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since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

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The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.

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“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”

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Anthropic may not have intended to write an excellent ad for GLM 5.3, but that's what they did. www.anthropic.com/research/glm... Unlike Mythos, I might actually have a chance at using GLM for defensive research. Anthropic didn't reply to any of my requests for Mythos access for use on OpenSSH.

anthropic.comGLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilitiesGLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, but unlike other frontier models, it was released without meaningful safeguards to limit misuse.

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Hello everyone please don't use this model that's almost as good as ours at 1/10th the cost and without all the guardrails that won't even let you fix an auth bug

@governor.ca.gov Thanks for giving us your utter contempt, on this and the Paramount BS. In return I give you mine in the form of supporting my union’s strike authorization and a promise to campaign against you forever more.

Randactyl@randactyl.com

@governor.ca.gov AB 1729 passed with a vote of 31-6. Can you please sign it and stop screwing with my livelihood? Also, start bargaining in good faith. Thanks.

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Data science teams at DraftKings built models to identify likely losers and target them with promotions, while efforts to build predictive models for problem gambling were shelved. The counterpoint on self regulation is companies can be more incentivized to avoid identifying harm than addressing it

nytimes.comAt DraftKings, AI Targets the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose (Gift Article)Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.

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Precisely this—the power attributed to technology makes it incredibly useful for laundering responsibility

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com

The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.

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Billionaires: IF YOU MAKE US PAY TAXES, WE'LL LEAVE CALIFORNIA. WE MEAN IT. Me: No you don't. None of you ever does. Billionaires: YUH HUH. IF YOU RAISE OUR TAXES, WE'RE GONNA LEAVE Me: You're not contributing tax revenue to the state. Why do I care where you live?

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Replying to @micahflee.com

This Flock camera is running obsolete, end-of-life software. - It's on Android 8.1, released in 2017, support ended in 2021 - It's on Android patch level 2018-06-5 - It's running Linux 3.18, released in 2017 This shit is like 8 or 9 years old, and full of vulnerabilities.

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I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

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Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."

Ooo I happened to wear my Aspire Side of the Moon shirt today!

Aspire 💫@aspire.dev

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For anyone looking for recommendations for moving off of 1password, I’ve happily been using Bitwarden for six years. They’ve got a great free tier or you can self-host if you’re so inclined!

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1Password is the first company not owned by DHH himself to give money to Omarchy. All other Omarchy Foundation donors are either individuals or 37signals (which DHH owns). Absolutely unacceptable.

Andrew Lilley Brinker@alilleybrinker.com

Hey @1password.bsky.social, longtime customer here: stop giving your money to fascists.

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Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express

Sam Reich@samreich.bsky.social

really gives a whole new meaning to (seagull noise)

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The Iron Man movies did a weirdly good job describing Jarvis as a language model which then only reached AGI when it became Vision. It also portrayed Tony working with Jarvis in a way that closely resembles agentic coding. Which leads me to this question: Was the Iron Man suit vibecoded