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

@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

@davidgerard

oh, I never managed to visit!

I regret never exercising my schadenfreude in person

[longtermism] throws around big numbers to get you to do a divide-by-zero in your moral reasoning, resulting in absurd conclusions
-- @ireneista

(what a sharp summary of that whole line of nonsense; matches my reaction to it when first exposed)

https://adhd.irenes.space/@ireneista/statuses/01JF6BGHABCTKZK5JB3WM115XW

@2something @xgranade

Let's not forget their inverses, lest it become a web semiring

Have just stuck my kid and six of their friends in an escape room — I swear they asked for it

But now I get a few minutes to breathe on the outside

Smart kid parenting problems, though — not sure I'll get the whole sixty minutes to breathe

Honestly, the part I'm the most proud of

is that this cis 12 year-old boy

invited 4 girls to his escape room party of 7

One plays bass in his band (and starred in the play), and another plays keyboards in the band too.

The other two were in the play too

one of *them* is his engineering bestie from science class, who showed up wearing a baseball cap saying "SPACE: it's kind of a big deal"

The kids are all right, & they are SO MUCH LESS hung up on performing gender than us Gen Xers

My kid made this off the same template and I'm kind of in awe of the meta-joke powers at play in this twelve year old's head

@xgranade

I mean, _which_ Discourse

I'm a nope on several

@hipsterelectron @aud @cthos

We _already_ have this problem

Much easier to generate bullshit than to refute it; it's 2nd law of thermodynamics all the way down