Chris Hanson

“The Hill” asks “Why are so many Americans starting to sympathize with villains?” What they don’t understand is that we’re finally starting to see Americans *not* sympathize with villains, when those villains are economically exploitative!

Why are so many Americans supporting Luigi Mangione? Because the man he’s accused of killing was CEO of a company that murders 60,000 or more people **per year** in the name of increased profit.

Claim denial that leads to death is murder. Period.

We need to start building a list of Open Source infrastructure projects (and project forks) that categorically reject contributions from LLM slopmongers, so we know what’ll be safe to keep using and contributing to in the long term.

That’s a good task for the Butlerian Jihad.

#ai #llm #slop #OpenSource #ButlerianJihad

There seem to be two distinct kinds of “chatbot psychosis” happening right now:

1. Becoming delusional about themselves and the world as a result of being glazed nonstop by the friend in their computer, thinking they’re inventing new physics, discovering mystical secrets, etc. and becoming manic.

2. Becoming delusional about what LLMs are capable of and how effective they are, as a result of developing a reliance upon them, and becoming fanatical in their promotion and defense.

#ai #llm #slop

Pro Tip: You don’t need to convert to the Catholic Church to identify as an Orange Catholic.

#ai #slop #butlerianjihad

Bitsavers has been an invaluable resource for everyone in the retrocomputing community for a long time now, and @bitsavers@oldbytes.space now has a Patreon for it! If you find it useful, you should join! https://www.patreon.com/bitsavers

#retrocomputing #Bitsavers

Does anyone have a pointer to the final OSF/1 Mach microkernel Open Source release? Right now searching for “osfmk” just gets me Apple xnu and MkLinux sources, and I’d like to find something without either Apple or Linux bits… Maybe Utah Lites has it?

#opensource #retrocomputing #Mach

LOL, “Hacker” “News” moderation is unhappy that I called a sociopathic piece of shit a sociopathic piece of shit and told them to remove themselves from society. Oh, dang, you’re such a good mod. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47345025

If Iran finally manages to force the world off of petroleum, how do you think historians 1000 years from now will regard the events?

Doesn’t David Letterman own the core IP for The Late Show? If he could arrange the funding to do so—which shouldn’t be difficult—Colbert could just relocate and then continue recording and posting new episode if Letterman allowed it, couldn’t he?

@kanongil@hachyderm.io @paul@tapbots.social @codinghorror@infosec.exchange The Mac standard has been, since 1986-1987:

• Arrow keys move the insertion point;
• Home/End/Page Up/Page Down move the vertical scroll bar;
• Option “scales up,” so left/right moves by word, up/down by page;
• Command “scales up” more, so left/right move to beginning/end of line, up/down move to beginning/end of document; and,
• Shift adjusts selection.

CodeWarrior added subword InterCap traversal via control-arrows.

@lydialurch@mastodon.social My understanding of the way the HomeKit and Siri infrastructure is implemented at Apple is that there is not, in fact, a third party that knows whether my lights are on or off.