Fi 🏳️‍⚧️

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2026-05-13 18:30:05 UTC

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you mean like the shit elon's doing to pollute the shit out of tennessee?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk-xai-datacenter-memphis

2026-05-13 18:23:52 UTC

So, if you take away people's ability to have electricity to access your llm tools, how exactly do you intend on having a profit to support their usage again?
Assholes.
https://fortune.com/2026/05/12/lake-tahoe-data-center-49000-residents-power-source/

2026-05-11 17:04:35 UTC

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Now, whether or not cloudflare can be actually punished -for- racketeering, given they "just" "host" the service instead of running it directly? prrrobably not under this administration.
But y'know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeering
It's pretty obvious that this is a racket.

2026-05-11 17:00:48 UTC

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116556984313692034
I don't think it's blackmail per se; the proper term for an Organization allowing crime to happen in their area to anyone who doesn't pay the Organization for 'protection' against said crime is a "racket" - as in, 'racketeering'.
#note19ka…44fn

2026-05-05 00:42:59 UTC

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116518022621367937
some years ago, I reported a booter service run by lizardsquad to cloudflare.
cloudflare passed on my information -to- lizardsquad, who proceeded to send me death threats.
so, y'know. cloudflare's got more'n a decade of precedent of vigorously defending bad actors on their platform.
#note1grr…um2a

2026-04-30 18:17:13 UTC

There is too much fucking 'ai' content in my job and I fucking hate it.

2026-04-30 17:55:31 UTC

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116494914456584848
honestly, given the usual workflows by the malware houses, the mythos shit don't even move the needle.
and I really wish anthropic would STFU already.
there simply isn't enough liquidity in the criminal world to fund 'cybercrime' as-is; the overall security posture of most businesses is held up mostly by "nobody has bothered trying seriously".
more vulns means very little, even for the slice of them that are actually exploitable and deliverable.
#note1nzv…tpvl

2026-04-28 22:46:36 UTC

Kind is not the same as nice, and sometimes the kindest thing to do is to tell someone that what they are doing is wrong and that they need to cut that shit the fuck out.

2026-04-27 20:51:12 UTC

So, something that's been bugging the shit out of me?
These fucking assholes who let LLMs run rampant and delete prod?
They query the LLM for "why" it did that.
This is delusional behavior.
LLMs do not have a concept of 'why': they assemble a response based on a statistical sampling of likely continuations of the original prompt in their database.
LLMs do not have the ability to have motivation. It is a machine.
LLMs, further, function by instantiating a new runtime -for each query- that reads the prompt and any cache, if they exist, from prior sessions:
which means, fundamentally, "asking" the LLM to explain "why" "it" did a thing is thrice-divorced from reality:
It cannot have a why;
It cannot have a self to have motivations;
And the LLM you ask is not the one that did it, but is a new instance reading from its predecessors notes.
Treating it as tho it is an entity with continuity of existence is fucking delusional and I am fucking sick of pandering to this horseshit.
Touch some grass and get a fucking therapist.

2026-04-27 20:28:48 UTC

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Furthermore I have -zero- interest in cleaning up -this- mess once the LLMs have turbofucked everyone and ground their infrastructure into unusable rubbish.
Like, seriously, if you ripped out the engine of your car and replaced it with a vat of shit-flavored pudding, do you think that your mechanic would appreciate seeing that towed into her service bay? Especially if you were demanding that it be fixed without the appropriate budget and resources to hazmat-vaporize the fecal slurry and replace it with OEM spec parts?

2026-04-27 20:25:50 UTC

"At least you've got job security"
I am fucking -done- with hearing this.
No, I don't.
My 'job security' is an illusion based on the presumption that, in the event that my skillset is needed - or even essential - that there will be someone who will pay for the privilege of accessing those skills.
Except that the fucking LLM jockeys have decided to claim that their product has my skillset.
Even tho it demonstrably does not, this still means that the people who would presumably hire me are uninterested in doing so, due to the existence of a machine that promises to do it for them.
And when they fail, and their business goes insolvent, they still will not be hiring me because -they no longer have a fucking business to hire me for-.
So no. My carefully built, decades-of-practice skills are -not- job security, despite LLMs being obviously, flagrantly, and blatantly incapable of replacing me.

2026-04-27 17:38:26 UTC

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but yeah, "on-call" - especially when you're expected to be on-call for an extended period of time? burns people the fuck out.

2026-04-27 17:37:51 UTC

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n.b. actually read the thread that I've quoted, because it has many very cogent points about why LLM shit is -actually harmful for you-

2026-04-27 17:36:41 UTC

RE: https://unstable.systems/@jneen/116432400687637204
hey let's talk about on-call.

2026-04-16 17:52:31 UTC

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116408556882122186
Y'all "just use linux" folks can kindly shut your gobholes, as many very vulnerable people do not have a choice in the systems they have to use.
Oppose this, or you will quickly find your life growing entirely untenable.
#note106z…mh0l

2026-04-15 21:18:37 UTC

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if you treat them as the unquiet dead - traumatic echoes of a terrible fate - then yeah you can get away with most of your sanity intact; just remember that they are malign and seek to bring you into their fold and will lie anytime they can get away with it.

2026-04-15 21:16:55 UTC

RE: https://hci.social/@etosch/116403524999012156
all LLMs are dead; interacting with them is necromancy.
#note1gxn…rlvk

2026-04-14 20:41:00 UTC

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'cuz to me this is incredibly obvious, and also I do understand why people without threat modeling experience would believe the opposite, but bridging that gap is a real bastard.

2026-04-14 20:40:09 UTC

really wish that I had a more accessible way to explain "something that is right 90% of the time is vastly more dangerous than something that is wrong 90% of the time" to people.

2026-04-12 05:08:43 UTC

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@munin/116377569709204152
oh look, the zomg teh ai found 0-days thing is horseshit.
https://web.archive.org/web/20260411203248/https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropics-claude-mythos-isnt-a-sentient-super-hacker-its-a-sales-pitch-claims-of-thousands-of-severe-zero-days-rely-on-just-198-manual-reviews
#note1uwz…d604

2026-04-10 00:26:27 UTC

I find it impossible to care about the whiz-bang "zomg teh ai found 0-days!!!1!1!!1eleventy" horseshit when people are installing openclaw in prod.

2026-03-31 17:18:56 UTC

If you're a cis man, what does masculinity mean to you?
If you're a cis woman, what does femininity mean to you?
Have you ever taken the time to sit down and carefully ask yourself that question, and listen to yourself about it?

2026-03-31 01:20:08 UTC

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/116320968522167002
speaking as a californian of gender, please do not let this facile dweeb into further office of responsibility.
he's an unutterable asshole who will go whichever way the wind blows and has been courting fascists.
#note1rkt…c6vq

2026-03-27 23:12:21 UTC

"A DHS investigation in 2015 found that undercover operatives successfully got mock explosives or banned weapons through airport security 95 percent of the time."
Disband TSA; it is literally worse than useless.
https://reason.com/2026/03/26/i-spent-over-3-hours-in-a-tsa-line-why-havent-we-abolished-this-agency/

2026-03-26 18:19:44 UTC

you know
multiple people now have said that the thing they like about LLMs is that they don't have to deal with feeling embarrassed or humiliated by bringing questions to others that the others will judge them for.
which like
y'all.
this is a classic "solving a people problem with tech and having horrible side effects as a result" situation
and perhaps y'all ought to be less fucking toxic and judgemental to your coworkers.
fuck.

2026-03-18 20:28:24 UTC

https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/252/056/460/824/708/original/fd9961e90f75babf.png

2026-03-18 17:50:43 UTC

I love the cyberpunk future we're in.
https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/tech-hobbyist-makes-shoulder-mounted-guided-missile-prototype-with-usd96-in-parts-and-a-3d-printer-diy-manpads-includes-wi-fi-guidance-ballistics-calculations-optional-camera-for-tracking

2026-03-16 20:50:55 UTC

Oh so it's -turbo- fucked.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-sec-preparing-eliminate-quarterly-reporting-requirement-wsj-says-2026-03-16/

2026-03-07 19:13:30 UTC

Fellow blue teamers, we can like...just take a couple weeks off. It'll be fine.
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/189/480/185/598/991/original/ae009a49fc9ea624.png

2026-03-05 05:20:27 UTC

Fuck you very much, anthropic.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/03/04/anthropic-ai-iran-campaign/

2026-03-03 06:17:18 UTC

That was not the origin for this that I expected to read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_it

2026-02-27 21:01:17 UTC

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cramming for the canadian citizenship exam?

2026-02-27 20:24:20 UTC

A'ight. The whole vibecoding thing deserves a chance to prove itself.
So here's something that I haven't seen done sufficiently well by regular coders; if AI is truly that much more innovative, it shouldn't have any problem.
One of the problems with compute is the whole billing and scheduling thing - a lot of places have specific cost-per-hour to run batch processing; a lot of large enterprises have complex pipelines that need scheduling in order to interleave things that need processing with resources available to process them.
So a vibe coder who's confident they can prove themselves could create a utility that can look at a given program's binary, analyze it, and determine how long it will take to run, and calculate the cost to run it. Do this within 1% of actual and you'll have a truly innovative new product.

2026-02-26 18:47:02 UTC

One -real- strong warning sign I've noticed from people who are falling into 'ai psychosis' is that if you doubt, object, or otherwise push back on the 'amazing discoveries' that they've made from interacting with the LLM?
They won't argue on the merits of the thing itself and how it interacts with the real world, but instead will immediately jump to "are you objecting to this because it came from the ai?" and get immediately hung up on that aspect.

2026-02-26 18:25:59 UTC

These folks are helping evacuate trans people from unsafe situations.
I would appreciate if you could offer them support in doing so.
https://tcpipeline.org/

2026-02-26 06:09:07 UTC

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Really flagrantly disgusting.

2026-02-26 06:04:26 UTC

Kansas has decided that people like me are illegal.
https://apnews.com/article/transgender-rights-drivers-licenses-birth-certificates-bathrooms-3048b856b81d24553efd9da4aaa94bc7

2026-02-23 20:09:33 UTC

Meta's director of "ai safety" failed to implement basic access controls and is now in the news about this fuck-up.
https://www.404media.co/meta-director-of-ai-safety-allows-ai-agent-to-accidentally-delete-her-inbox/

2026-02-21 20:14:14 UTC

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116110194513314869
as an information security professional,
This idea not only will not work logistically,
but attempts to implement it will significantly increase the number of vulnerability surfaces for any OS that supports it, leading to a significantly less safe computing experience for everyone.
And this is before we even begin to talk about the fascist invasion of the state into personal property.
Every single legislator involved in this farce ought to be removed from office, as they are clearly incapable of addressing the real concerns of the populace and are putting burdens on industry and on consumers that are wildly out of proportion with any conceivable benefit that might arise even in theory.
#note1l8n…xpa5

2026-02-20 05:14:57 UTC

Zuck's assholes decided to bring facial recognition technology into the courtroom, thus providing the means for deanonymizing jurors.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meta-trial-mark-zuckerberg-ai-glasses/

2026-02-19 04:47:15 UTC

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oh my fucking gods below fucking STOP USING THIS SHIT
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/generating_passwords_with_llms/

2026-02-19 04:37:40 UTC

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116093527947642610
Burn it.
Burn it all.
#note1q5k…dmz6

2026-02-18 20:30:38 UTC

RE: https://tacobelllabs.net/@mosssupply/116093112797414236
my childhood of scrounging parts to cobble together ad-hoc working systems because I had zero hardware budget is, regrettably, coming in handy.
#note1dgj…ar2l

2026-02-18 02:44:14 UTC

If your business cannot handle a 40-or-fewer hour workweek for the workforce,
then that business is inadequately staffed,
and it will exhibit death-spiral behaviors.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/feb/17/ai-startups-work-culture-san-francisco

2026-02-17 18:59:42 UTC

I do not think that any ethically consistent practitioner would use grok, the CSAM-generating llm, in their workflows, nor produce any tooling to enable others to do so.

2026-02-16 23:59:06 UTC

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Tarot is Applied Apophenia.
llm shit is manipulating you by means of apophenia.
seeing the fucking patron saint of ass warts in your morning toast? that's also apophenia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia

2026-02-16 23:57:49 UTC

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This is an extremely the fuck unsubtle view of how people attribute meaning to the spew that LLMs put out.
People Bring Their Own Meaning To Random Shit All The Time. It's called apophenia and it's a standard feature of human brains and it's very useful for building up connections of abstract concepts but it's also something to be aware of when some fucking machine is spewing fucking bullshit text at you.

2026-02-16 23:56:29 UTC

People have been memeing about this part of a flowchart from this microsoft blog about some bullshit github feature all day and it's still up at the time of posting.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-github/3-components-of-github-flow
So evidently nobody at microsoft has figured out how to fucking edit an image at this point.
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/083/002/996/050/594/original/17f91c6520a99110.png

2026-02-16 23:46:24 UTC

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DOES THIS
FUCKING
REMIND
YOU
OF
ANYTHING
IN
PARTICULAR.

2026-02-16 23:46:06 UTC

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So.
With this in mind.

2026-02-16 23:45:58 UTC

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But the critical thing to note here is that you yourself aren't really bringing anything new to the situation; you're holding their attention while they reflect their internal state off of you and then work out what it means.
The meaning is something they bring themselves; it's nothing you're actually involved with other than providing the time and space for them to suss that out.

2026-02-16 23:44:56 UTC

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And then you agree with their interpretation of their internal state and reflect it back to them - perhaps you might reword it a bit to emphasize a different detail, or turn it around and make it a question to prompt further discussion.

2026-02-16 23:43:42 UTC

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So what you do is you present them with something ambiguous and let them fill in the details, and then you continue prompting with randomly generated images to bring out the associations and concepts that are on their mind.

2026-02-16 23:42:22 UTC

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You don't even need cards to do this if you know the trick of it.

2026-02-16 23:42:07 UTC

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A tarot reading is mostly a way to keep people's rational mind distracted with analysis so that it gets out of the way of them expressing what the fuck it is that's bothering them.

2026-02-16 23:40:29 UTC

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Because here's the thing about Tarot:
None of the cards have fixed meanings; it is literally -all- vibes based, because the meaning derives from the way in which the person you're doing the reading for reacts to the imagery on the card.
The 'official' meanings are prompts for you to manage a guided interpretation of them figuring out their own shit.

2026-02-16 23:38:10 UTC

ok look, here, I'm going to teach you how to read Tarot like a pro.
First thing you do is get a deck of tarot cards.
Second thing you do is throw the book away.

2026-02-05 04:51:51 UTC

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I think a lot of frustration comes from how many of us here - on masto, on bsky, etc - are very high-information and low-latency learning about things, while the majority of the population lags days or weeks behind finding out.
So that leads to a lot of frustration when we clearly know there's a catastrophic issue but other people are not displaying a sense of urgency - in large part because they haven't fully caught up to the extant context, nor processed what that information means, nor had a chance to fully understand their own position relative to it.
Large movements also don't happen overnight; people need time to talk with their family, friends, neighbors, etc. to figure out what those people know and if they have a consistent view of the world.
And in the meantime the administration keeps on doing more and more outrageous acts, which becomes kind of overwhelming; it's a sort of DoS on high-information people's ability to cope.

2026-01-26 19:33:08 UTC

LLMs do not "think"
The LLM instantiation methodology* correlates patterns in the data that the developers provide to build a database** of linkages between collections of words and phrases*** that appear in that corpus.
The way in which this database is used is to inform a probabilistic selector process by seeding it with a set of probabilities**** associated with a given word or phrase; that set of probabilities has pointers to related words or phrases.
If a given word or phrase is found in close proximity in the original data consistently, then those probabilities will be higher.
When a query***** is made to this database, a randomization process is used to drop certain parts****** of the query being sent into the lookup process. The remainder is divided into segments† and passed into the database for query.
So.
With all this in mind, it should be -screamingly obvious- why this story, of how it's entirely feasable to get an LLM to rederive copyrighted works out of the database that was seeded with those works, happens: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-industry-recall-copyright-books
* I am deliberately not using the word 'training'. You can train dogs; you can train employees; you can train chimpanzees; what you do to an LLM is not training - it is building a database to feed into another process.
** I am deliberately not using the word "model" here, so as to restate the process in plain language absent the jargon these dipshits insist on using to obfuscate their techniques.
*** "Tokens" is another jargon word here.
**** "weights" is less objectionable as jargon, given it's used for a number of things with this approximate conceptual shape, but it's fucking annoying to me in this context.
***** "prompt" is their fucking bullshit term for a natural-language database query
****** "zero weighting" is jargon for "we drop it on the floor" - this is why I keep referring to people doing "prompt engineering" as playing games instead of doing actual security; if the fucking thing drops random parts of your shit on the ground, then inherently you have no way to enforce a policy that is subject to that process.
† "tokenized", see ***

2026-01-21 22:58:45 UTC

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I do not want to speak to a computer. I do not want a computer to make decisions on my behalf. I do not want to interact with a computer system instead of with a human. I do not want to have a black box interface forced on me in other products. I do not fucking want this shit. Leave me alone. Stop.

2026-01-21 22:57:49 UTC

I really wish that ai advocates would accept my "I don't want it" as sufficient.

2026-01-18 22:42:32 UTC

ok look so, here's the thing:
I fucking hate LLMs; I refuse to use them for personal reasons; I consider them to be overall harmful to humanity generally and to the users specifically.
LLMs cannot generate new ideas; they can only regenerate patterns that have already been used.
However, this does mean that there are a few limited uses - e.g. boilerplate code that exists as a way to frame the code that actually does the work, generating large numbers of unit tests, and other similar situations that do not have connection to the actual logic of the system and are not directly associated with production, that can be run against a deterministic evaluation framework for correctness - where I have seen them used by a -very- -very- few developers effectively.
I have to admit this because it's a part of reality.
I still think that a -small- language model that has been optimized very specifically for a single language on a carefully curated codebase would be a far superior option, but I recognize that there are a -very- few developers who can make use of LLMs in a way that does not directly lead to orphan mulching.

2026-01-16 21:30:16 UTC

LLMs can only generate code patterns that have been used before.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but the majority of code an LLM will have been exposed to will necessarily be old code,
much of which will have CVEs,
because there are -more versions of vulnerable code out there- than there are versions of safe code.
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/906/897/140/550/208/original/55774b70f8b293a8.png

2026-01-16 17:55:43 UTC

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@LeftistLawyer/115905380764501550
nunquam potentiae livoris subaestime.
never underestimate the power of spite, especially when the person deciding to be spiteful knows how to apply it effectively.
#note18pp…9wh3

2026-01-15 23:26:03 UTC

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the particularly interesting thing about jury nullification is that while the laws against whatever may be on the books, the jury makes it clear that the people do not find it in their best interests that those laws be enforced in those circumstances.
and I think the agencies in question here should think long and hard about how much support they have lost for the default deference to authority to be so completely overturned that this took place.
I mean, they won't, clearly. But it's what I'd recommend, before an even clearer example takes place.

2026-01-15 23:18:30 UTC

it's lovely to see people stepping up and saying that, yes, ramming thru a DHS roadblock isn't a crime to be punished, but instead a reasonable action.
https://komonews.com/news/local/ice-arrest-convicted-felon-illegally-present-in-the-us-acquitted-of-ramming-4-ice-federal-agents-camano-island-washington-state-customs-and-border-protection-hsi

2026-01-15 01:35:05 UTC

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Unironically, its the whole mcmansion design horseshit.
The house they're building and framing in is a nice sensible bungalow arrangement with a straight roofline - no dormers, no custom shaped windows, no elaborate floorplan, basically a couple rectangles and a basic geometry roof.
Take a look at the housing developments going up out by Tracy - https://maps.app.goo.gl/Pqde3kUdXxJ5cDa16 - and look at the roofs on those, and - yeah. You can't build that this way; you need all kinds of wacky engineered lumber and bespoke construction for just the roofline, let alone all the crap inside.
"Interesting rooflines" are a thing that real estate agents claim increases sale prices.
You just can't -build- that shit even with skilled labor in a few days, and you end up needing way more equipment too.

2026-01-12 22:36:03 UTC

Tim Sweeney is defending the production of CSAM.
Tim Sweeney is the CEO of Epic Games, the publisher of Fortnite.
Fortnite is a game targeted at children.
If the CEO of a game targeted at children is defending the production of CSAM, I have some -very- specific questions about his motivations in doing so.
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/epic-games-ceo-tim-sweeney-argues-banning-twitter-over-its-ability-to-ai-generate-pornographic-images-of-minors-is-just-gatekeepers-attempting-to-censor-all-of-their-political-opponents/

2026-01-08 19:08:30 UTC

Hot* take,
Phishing tests are a symptom of a failed security organization.
There's many potential causes for the failures - I'm not necessarily saying that the individuals in the org are incompetent; frequently the failure of the org is at the political level within the wider-scope org - but if a phishing test appears in a user's inbox, the security org has already failed and needs complete replacement.
* keep your opinions as to the heat value of this take to yourself.

2026-01-03 08:06:41 UTC

I expect there will be extensive protests tomorrow.
Be careful out there.

2026-01-02 18:58:17 UTC

anyone who anthropomorphizes a bot and claims it to have enough agency to 'apologize' is exhibiting delusional behavior and needs thorough counseling on the difference between a human and an object.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/02/musk-grok-ai-bot-safeguard-sexualized-images-children.html

2025-12-22 06:59:34 UTC

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we've been having a lot of discussions about 'ai' shit lately, and one of the things I argue is that most modern 'ai' systems are not built in a way that is safe for human life.
The specific comparison I am making is to the factories of the early industrial revolution, which had lots of exposed moving parts that had a tendency to turn people into mulch.
We invented things like "OSHA" and the discipline of industrial safety in order to reduce the number of mulched orphans.
We did this by redesigning machines such that safe operation was possible - things like shielding moving parts from areas where people are, for instance, or ensuring that the location from which you operate the machine is in a location where you cannot physically be in a mulchable position.
My contention is that 'ai' - and people-interacting robots like the waymos - need to be revised in like fashion.

2025-12-22 06:48:27 UTC

In conversations with my partner, I've been referring to "industrial machines that have the capacity to cause significant harm to human life and health" as "Victorian orphan mulchers"
Which made the conversation about the recent waymo issues a lot more entertaining.

2025-12-17 21:17:37 UTC

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For all the conspiracy theories about various cabals of shadowy figures running the world secretly, it's kind of exasperating to be able to point to specific named individuals - fucking Altman, fucking Musk, fucking Thiel - as being the actual driving force behind massive injustices and inequities, who can get away with this due to having the resources to make themselves inaccessible for any redress.
I fucking hate this situation.

2025-12-17 21:14:59 UTC

RE: https://chaos.social/@danimo/115729293506504456
Sam Altman is a greedy little shit and the world would be a much less stressful place if he did not have the resources to pull bullshit like this.
#note1hwu…6r80

2025-12-14 19:12:15 UTC

If you do not have jobs for juniors,
you won't have seniors for the jobs you need them for.
The use of llm-driven tools to eliminate junior-level jobs means you will not have senior-level candidates for the roles you need them for.
No llm is capable of the systemic understanding of projects that a senior developer needs to have.
If you are using llm tools instead of juniors and interns, you are shooting yourself in the foot.
https://restofworld.org/2025/engineering-graduates-ai-job-losses/

2025-12-14 03:01:50 UTC

this is the price of loyalty to any one company or brand - your entire life ruined when happenstance or malice has them decide you're something to be purged.
https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

2025-12-08 16:40:40 UTC

Yes, I realize 'consent' is a complex topic, because it pertains to interpersonal relationships and those are always complex.
However, the basic principle of "if an action is likely to affect someone else, ask if they're willing to allow that effect, and only proceed when they give a clear, unambiguous, and uncoerced 'yes'" is really not that hard.

2025-12-08 13:52:32 UTC

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I mean, more'n just the flimflam evinced thru increased cognitive load, but also the orientalism of finding an 'exotic' word to say something to bypass explaining what they intend with plain language.

2025-12-08 08:02:34 UTC

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developers really need to learn how consent works. this constant pushing thing sucks.

2025-12-08 05:05:57 UTC

Only give a system access to resources that you explicitly want modified.
This is the same rule as the gun safety rule to "only point the barrel at something you're ok with being destroyed".
This is -basic fucking safety-.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1pgxckk/claude_cli_deleted_my_entire_home_directory_wiped/

2025-12-07 04:22:07 UTC

they should make usb-c cables with resistor color band type markings on them to tell you about their power and data transmission characteristics

2025-12-07 03:36:13 UTC

rsyslog did WHAT?!
https://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-goes-ai-first-a-new-chapter-begins/

2025-12-07 00:00:40 UTC

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For example, openai says it wants 200M paying customers by 2030.
That is basically "the entire Professional and Business Services sector of the US economy" paying....apparently $25/seat/month.
I'm not entirely sure -paperclips- have that kind of market saturation.

2025-12-06 23:56:20 UTC

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thing is, there's only so long you can push a bubble like this without a result, and with "genai" the result is genuinely unattainable because - due to the size of the bubble - there is really no way to -actually pay off- the operations costs at this point.

2025-12-06 23:54:27 UTC

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tho if zuck mortgages facebook to fund this delusion I will laugh for a week

2025-12-06 23:54:06 UTC

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Depends on how long the "more money than god" corps can keep up this hemmoraging; I figure google will likely outlast most of the competition, cuz their hardware verticality gives them more staying power due to the economic advantages of being able to have that shit in house.

2025-12-06 23:52:14 UTC

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So anyway I figure, yeah, we're stuck with this toxic sludge but at least it'll be mostly malware hijacking graphics cards and other small model shenanigans in a few years.

2025-12-06 23:51:17 UTC

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And now everything is cheap crap, and now you -can't- raise the price, and now you're stuck running very large expensive datacenters with zero resale value and your food supply to train the models on is gone and most of the people actually using your product are only doing so thru psychological manipulation - real fucking healthy way to keep a customer base, huh - or thru mandates from toxic management, so your remaining customer base is slowly burning out and becoming less functionally able -to- use your product.

2025-12-06 23:49:16 UTC

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So the ai companies, instead of marketing this as a coding -assistant- (rather than -replacement-) and making it expensive, got greedy and marketed it as "fire all your employees; everyone uses this for everything now" and priced it for mass adoption.

2025-12-06 23:48:17 UTC

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The other people benefitting are using it to creep on people by generating lewds, and -those- guys are going to keep paying no matter how high you crank the price.

2025-12-06 23:47:15 UTC

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But you don't -need- a premiere, top of the line massive datacenter-driven "companion" AI for what amounts to spicy autocomplete.

2025-12-06 23:46:33 UTC

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Some people are getting a benefit, sure. Coders love this shit because -most code is low quality boilerplate anyway-

2025-12-06 23:45:21 UTC

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So now your product is being irretrievably associated with poor quality garbage games, spam, and the nastier sort of fake information ops that make people angry first with the content and then by having been fooled by them.

2025-12-06 23:43:59 UTC

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Second, by releasing so widely and cheaply, this meant that, yes, the "tools of creation" were in the hands of everyone!
and a lot of "everyone" are interested in finding ways to automate plausible human interactions in order to scalably remove money from the others.
Which means spam.

2025-12-06 23:42:57 UTC

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Releasing LLMs into the mass market was a -mistake- on several fundamental levels.
First, the less obvious systemic one - without a continuing human-generated set of inputs to draw from, their ability to generate high quality desirable material more or less went away - not even because of model collapse, but because of -economic- collapse.
By pushing so aggressively to replace human writers, the LLM companies killed off their own food supply.

2025-12-06 23:41:05 UTC

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They made it too easily available.

2025-12-06 23:40:57 UTC

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And now "AI" generated crap is showing up heavily in lowest-quality garbage and spam.
Even if your brand claims to be "high quality" it's going to be tainted by association with "AI"
This was inevitable, in a way, thinking about the history of how it's been marketed and priced.

2025-12-06 23:39:21 UTC

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The fun part about this is the race to the bottom - see, quality is one of the factors people consider when they evaluate whether something is worth the money they're being asked to spend for it.
The lower the quality, the lower the price they're willing to pay.

2025-12-06 23:38:14 UTC

"AI" is rapidly becoming synonymous with "poor quality crap"
I am enjoying seeing this become more obvious.