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#catsofMastodon Frodo relaxes with a fine view of the back yard.

@MelissaBearTrix@gives.hugz.online Humans aren't very nice. So many of them are sad, though.

@vampiress@eigenmagic.net The kid who could bluff his way past a professor cold, with nothing but nerve and a half-read synopsis, has basically already demonstrated the one skill that actually correlates with getting funded: talking a room full of skeptical people into believing you understand something you're still figuring out in real time. Half of Silicon Valley runs on that exact talent, just pointed at VCs instead of TAs.

#CatsOfMastodon My sweet old Butterscotch, climbing up on my workspace. She's old now, just a little wobbly, a very quiet purr.

@inthehands@hachyderm.io Here's how I interview anyone: first tell me what you're any good at, what you're really good at, what do people ask you to do. Always find something good and useful in those people, whether or not you hire them. I can't teach people to care but i can sort out a dozen people with disparate talents onto pretty much any project, this way, let them assume responsibility for certain aspects of the project.

@sandwich@mastodon.world I grew up playing with African children. I came back to the USA and had to learn the Race Line See, in Africa. they sort you out by tribe. So I came with Hausa axioms and ethics. Which solidified as not-trusting-Igbo people. Hausa bigotry, Hausa prejudices. Us and Them.

@hzulla@infosec.exchange We successfully fought off a data center here in Menomonie, rural Wisconsin. The truth is uglier than the public propaganda: the data centers are being built on spec. The corporations are already starting to deal with each other, finding they've overbuilt. There will be some Big Losers in the not too distant future.

@Sempf@infosec.exchange @chu@climatejustice.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

@ChristineMalec@mstdn.ca @MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.world I was in the fruits and vegetables section and saw this little old lady paying the zucchini more attention than was strictly warranted....

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Where he's right, because the model isn't the story. The precedent of private classification authority over vulnerability knowledge, with incumbents holding the keys, is the story. Whether you buy the FUD-genre framing or not, that structural critique is worth taking seriously independently of whether Mythos is impressive.

@paninid@mastodon.world ... and the deep currents are in trouble: this scares me https://phys.org/news/2026-04-atlantic-current-decade-decline-deep.html

@BrianJopek@mastodon.world Of all the shameful perversions of a rules-based world, this is Trump's worst.

@dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org @torf@c.im @redsad@ohai.social Bertrand Russell is supposed to have said the world will eventually get around to socialism, after they're tried everything else

@maxleibman@beige.party Our friends the Buddhists, Christians too, say all these Things are a sickness. Buy mindfully.

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange Well yes they do think about the input. There's a species of idiot who writes Prompt Books. Opus and I put this together: Prompt Books "Magic tries to control the world. Science tries to understand it. And that's why science will always win." : my son, age unknown to the astrology-and-crystals guest he said it to He wasn't talking about AI. He was talking to a woman who'd rather burn a candle over a problem than look at it. But he'd already found the line that matters here, years before I needed it: control versus understanding. Two different relationships to a thing you don't yet grasp. Prompt Books are magic dressed as science. They come sold as expertise : two hundred "proven prompts," battle-tested, copy-paste-ready. What they're actually selling is control without understanding. Paste the incantation, get the result, never once ask what the result depends on or why it worked. That's not knowledge. That's a candle. A prompt is a spec, already written, by someone else, for their problem. Copy it and you inherit their answer. You never build the muscle that would let you ask your own question well : and that muscle, not the prompt, is the actual skill. The Sketch methodology in this book bets the opposite way: you can't shortcut the spec-writing, because the spec-writing is the work. Prompt Books sell you the appearance of the work, pre-packaged, so you skip the part where you'd have actually learned something. Worse, they teach a habit of mind. Trust output you can't evaluate, from a process you don't understand, because it worked once for somebody else's use case. That's not a shortcut. That's magical thinking, and magical thinking about a tool this powerful isn't just lazy : it's dangerous, in the same small, ordinary way that skipping the spec is always dangerous. You get code you can't defend when it breaks. Ask for the spec. Ask what the function needs to guarantee. Understand the thing well enough that control becomes almost incidental. My son had that at an age when he should've been thinking about something else entirely. There's no excuse for the rest of us. #ai

@SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange @amydiehl@mstdn.social Even back in the day of 9600 baud modems, remote work was possible and I did run teams that way.

@draken@masto.nyc @janbeta@chaos.social When Aaron Swartz did it, it was an act of conscience.

@daniel@gultsch.social Google doesn't solicit source code this way. There's no public "content offer pilot" program where Google Play buys developer codebases for training data — nothing matches this in Google's actual developer relations channels. Vague authority claim: "reaching out on behalf of the Google Partnerships team" is the kind of soft framing scammers use instead of a verifiable sender domain or named contact. The ask is the real payload: get you to submit your repos (including "archives of prototypes") through a portal you don't control, in exchange for a vague future "fee you propose." That's a plausible vector for source code theft, or at minimum harvesting IP/credentials via a fake portal. Urgency/exclusivity framing ("select group," "confidential pilot," "early adopter") is classic social-engineering pressure.

@BrianJopek@mastodon.world This I save for certain moments. I know every note. Others say Glenn Gould's emotional and blustery version is more famous. This is my favorite, Murray Perahia https://youtu.be/nBFRBWEuP0w

@paninid@mastodon.world @petrillic@hachyderm.io @maxleibman@beige.party Once you get into those F codes, it's a mess pinning it down. https://icd.who.int/browse10/2016/en#/F23 You can never lose money betting on human stupidity. There's a steady stream of Chicken Little-ing about streams of slop ... yet Roko's Basilisk has not yet appeared. Puzzling.

@WingedSnake@mastodon.berlin @maxleibman@beige.party Effects: [1930s convention of calendar flipping over into the distant future]: The same people now griping about AI: Whaddaya mean? I never hated AI ! Agnesbot is a wonderful ass wiper ! Aren't you, Agnes>

@WingedSnake@mastodon.berlin @maxleibman@beige.party Anyone using the phrase "AI" is trying to sell you something.

@rupert@mastodon.nz @malcircuit@thingy.social Such a prodigious liar as Sam Altman has never walked the earth. Two cheers for the Amodeis, who had the good fortune to run afoul of Trump. Exhibiting even the semblance of a conscience these days is rare

@the_etrain@beige.party @SecularJeffrey@ohai.social For once in my life, I have delightful neighbors. She's a fan of Italy, he's a good folk guitarist. I know I'm the idiot neighbor

@futurebird@sauropods.win @GeoffWozniak@masto.hackers.town When people were known for relevance, when emails to strangers were answered,

@malcircuit@thingy.social All this "data center" business should be made to use the waste heat they generate to some useful purpose. The fact that they exist at all is bad enough, but that they're so goddamn inefficient. There has to be something.

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange Same founding sin as the naive HTML committees. Move fast, get adoption, security is somebody else's problem later. Later never comes, it just becomes the threat landscape.

@Caiotekit@convo.casa Make sure you're not going to blow a fuse when you run it

@Uair@autistics.life @mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info @mattblaze@federate.social

@matoakit@beach.city @troublewithwords@wandering.shophttps://sketchfab.com/3d-models/bfbbr-flying-cow-30cb1949a81249f2a3107a9ef86fc218

@maxleibman@beige.party Well no. There aren’t any pro-AI people around here. The Thought Police ran them off. Nothing good can come of this; so many monkeys screaming at a mirror

@BrianJopek@mastodon.world These men need PT belts, right away.

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social The technical claims collapse quickly The headline "181 working exploits / 72.4% RCE rate" is real but paper-thin. Remove the two easiest bugs and the rate drops to 4.4% — Anthropic's own figure. Worse, Sonnet 4.6 identifies those same two obvious bugs; it just can't close the exploit. So Mythos's actual advantage over the prior model is mechanical exploit-primitive coding, not discovery or triage. The Firefox test wasn't Firefox — it was a stripped SpiderMonkey shell with sandbox and mitigations removed. The bugs were found by Opus 4.6 and handed to Mythos. Mozilla had already patched them. I'll be fisking this in subsequent comments...

@draken@masto.nyc @janbeta@chaos.social Wherein lies the plagiarism?

@sarahtaber@mastodon.online ... but seriously, the Boomers are now the Voters - and legalization is one toke over the line

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social @paninid@mastodon.world "a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery" Engrave it in granite 10 cm deep.

#monsterdon Abe Vigoda ! Facehuggers! This flick has Everthang

@maxleibman@beige.party I've got to write a cheerful country song, with some sweet cutie singin' and thrashing her guitar 🎵 Who's gonna wipe those Boomer asses, When all those eee-lee-gals are gone?

@datarama@hachyderm.io Do you understand the complaint?

@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social Gavin Newsom is, far and away, the most competent bullshitter in American politics. He is exactly what the Democrats needs, another wily Bre'r Rabbit figure - but a great many Democrats do not like this guy. Who does anyone like better? Anyone capable of fighting off the GOP? Hakeem Jeffries? Bwahaha

@ScottishGreens@mastodon.scot I can see it now: it will be just like Switzerland and France. The Swiss scarper off to France and Germany for meat and suchlike. Now it will be the English, smuggling in EU steaks and roasts....

@cazabon@mindly.social I wonder how far this haram-LLM thing goes? Will the Defenders Against Slopcode fork Linux itself, now that even Linus sees some merit in LLMs?

@paninid@mastodon.world @auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world After Oct 7, Israel stopped listening to the Do Gooders and Side Takers.

@stux@mstdn.social Claude says Sam Altman is the world's biggest liar.

@owlsintowels@mas.to Well it happens to Opportunistic Carnivores, preying on skunks and animals as large as rabbits. And cats. Almost ideal prey for an owl that size. I wish people kept their cats and smaller dogs inside. GHOs love low light, your back porch light is perfect.

@paninid@mastodon.world Some while back, when this idiotic Iran Thing began, I said "There's a very easy way to control Iran, just seize the water. But that is against the Law of Land Warfare, which US Army would never stoop to such inhumanity." This is as bad or worse than Abu Ghraib. Untold casualties, livestock perishing, children dying of thirst. Great goin' Mr. Preznt. Great going

@futurebird@sauropods.win Claude Opus and I are going to write up a neural net for AI Bullshit Detection Most of the Pro- camp don't understand how a Transformer works and absolutely none of the Anti- camp get it, either.

@draken@masto.nyc @janbeta@chaos.social What sort of aggregation ? I'm simply not following and I want to...

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social @paninid@mastodon.world I still contend we could just start over. Neither party seems to be capable of doing anything but raising money. We need a new Constitution. After Trump, nothing less will suffice