Notices by Kevin Riggle (kevinriggle@ioc.exchange)

“You can’t have a take on this if you weren’t using the latest tools last week!” Buddy I _HAVE A DAY JOB_

“You’re six months behind! You’re missing out!” No, buddy, I’m a cybersecurity consultant and not a moron

@iris_meredith @jalcine @anildash It’s cultish behavior. Salvation is at hand! If you refuse the Machine God you face eternal doom! Don’t you want to be saved?

I am flatly uninterested in letting an LLM execute arbitrary code as my user account on my laptop and maybe even sudo to root are you people fucking nuts

@molly0xfff Somehow I’m less worried that “AI” might destroy the world than that there seem to be people out there intent on destroying the world, and using LLMs as one of their many tools with which to do so

“If, as they say, AI tools are going to get better quickly, then let them do so and trust that smart people will pick them up and use them.” From @anildash
https://www.anildash.com/2025/04/19/ai-first-is-the-new-return-to-office/

“If you think your workers and colleagues are too stupid to recognize good tools that will help them do their jobs better, then... you are a bad leader and should step down. Because you've created a broken culture.”

It occurs to me that “the purpose of the system is what it does” and “the intent of the system is what it does” are subtly different statements and tightly intertwined but very often conflated and it could be productive to disentangle them a little bit

@ariadne my inability to tell whether any text I enter into text box or command line on my computer will get sent to another computer is drubbing be fucking nuts

@amydentata always has been

@amydentata I often say that a lot of safety engineering is laundering the principles of intersectional queer feminism for a mostly cis straight white male audience, and the haters can be referred to chapter 13 of Prof. Leveson’s book

http://sunnyday.mit.edu/safer-world.pdf

@silvermoon82 @inthehands @KimPerales I have something even worse for you: DOGE either directly compromised by or actively in league with Russian foreign intelligence

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

@skinnylatte I am told that the way one gives a penguin an MRI is one puts it in a traffic cone

@futurebird @psentee @wroong We’ve spent billions of dollars and finally made computers worse at math

@skinnylatte there’s a really awesome biriyani place in Santa Clara. Golkonda.

@inthehands @dpiponi Oh that is in fact the book on my bookshelf which I had been meaning to get to, well then

@inthehands @dpiponi it occurs to me that some of the L-systems playing I’ve wanted to do might be easier in a turtle framework

"What I'm asking [us] to do is build a better world for [ourselves], for everyone around us, and for all other life on the planet—and as a SIDE EFFECT we will deal with #climate change! And as a SIDE EFFECT we will deal with physical pollution!" –@debcha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8riA6Mk5gU

@whitequark Russia

@lzg @igb i mean, it’s probably lying, the little shit, but man I would love to know how much classified-looking information you can get out of it