Notices by Jeremy Kahn (trochee@dair-community.social)

This guy spent the day on the beach -- then had a bath.

Now he is so, so tired that he's not even snoring

#DogsOfMastodon

@mhoye sand was a mistake

Bill Watterson had easily thirty years of foresight not gifted to, say, the entire tech world

@JustRosy

This is incredibly rude and holier-than-thou and you should be ashamed of yourself. Introducing youth to programming is (1) not necessarily the role of a parent & (2) @futurebird 's literal job

Even if it weren't their job, wanting it to be easier is a legit complaint to an audience of tech-obsessed lefty nerds

And you shouldn't suggest that they should *give up their children for adoption* because they have a different opinion than you about the approachability of tech

@wmd

@JustRosy

Seriously, there is something WRONG about your disproportionate level of response

Get some therapy; don't work it out here

@futurebird @wmd

"First They Came For" is the Ur-prototype "I didn't think the leopards would eat *my* face" commentary

h/t @PallasRiot @SallyStrange

https://social.treehouse.systems/@PallasRiot/113897427182870416

My kid has discovered a website that lets you play against the LLMs in an ESP-like "turing test"

Pretty sure they're giving somebody free training data

but on the other hand the kids are all right; the 12 year olds are using tween shibboleths to signal their common humanity

@johl @researchfairy

I've heard a similar joke

"I don't see what's so special about this Shakespeare fellow; he's simply taken a bunch of well known cliches and strung them together into plays"

@jwz

related question: the raven on his shoulder is either Huginn (mind) or Muninn (will)

WHERE'S THE OTHER ONE AND WHAT IS IT DOING WHILE WE'RE OVER HERE

@jef

@threatresearch @jwz @jef

That's not Huginn or Muninn; IIRC its name is Matthew

apparently Microsoft released a redteaming tool for attacking LLMs

... and it uses another LLM internally to save work, which is a Choice

https://azure.github.io/PyRIT/

@mhoye ha; that's not the _only_ oligarch style but there's at least one that comes to mind

(Two, if Jack Dorsey is still considered an oligarch)

@paninid

I don't think he has *interest* in reading shit.

He has modeled his universe around what he wants — subservient lackeys do all the work for him and never talk back
@n_dimension

Currently remembering this morning

that developers in tech (like me) are discouraged from reading USPTO archives

because we might get caught stealing an idea

Even as the companies suck everything off the Internet into the maws of the LLMs

@futurebird this difference feels important

If social media is
— a low-grade private vice that we choose to indulge in —

then objecting to changes to the feed algorithm is like whinging about changes to the "extra ball" mechanics of your favorite pinball machine

But if the "social medium" is true to its etymology — a space for performing a society —

that objection is closer to raising concerns about a head shop opening next to a playground

This is such clowntown stuff, holy shit

https://bsky.app/profile/karenattiah.bsky.social/post/3letty2t4ik2c

In the face of an incoming wall of mask-off murderous, rapacious intent, @JuliusGoat goes gracefully — and lengthily, using small words to avoid scaring off with jargon — from a cold, dissecting rage to a thoughtful, wounded glimmer of hope

Has echoes of A People's History, Joe Hill, Stonewall, Woody Guthrie, Wounded Knee, Letter from A Birmingham Jail, the scourging of the moneylenders, and Friedrich & Karl's Manifesto'

A System Built to Eat People Never Stops Eating
https://www.the-reframe.com/a-system-built-to-eat-people-never-stops-eating/

Christmas present from my son: a book of Lost Words

This one in particular seems useful in the era of the generalized pre-trained transformer

@ntnsndr
In my experience:
> editing
... maybe, sometimes, if it's things like spell-check
> checking that what you're about to turn in actually fulfills the assignment
... not so much, not in my experience

@xgranade @davidgerard oh wow what a bunch of rationalist TESCREAL weirdos