Researchers question Anthropic claim that AI-assisted attack was 90% autonomous - Ars Technica:
“Why do the models give these attackers what they want 90% of the time but the rest of us have to deal with ass-kissing, stonewalling, and acid trips?”
Can someone pass this along to Hank Green? Because he has gone full AI-doomer.
These cranberry things are so damn good. I want a barrel of them that I can dunk my head into and eat like a ravenous horse.
Spike Lee explains why he shows Black and Puerto Rican unity in his films - TheGrio:
“Black people and Puerto Rican intermarried, man,” Spike Lee recalled. “It’s like, it was all love.”
I come from a Newyorican family. The Black community welcomed Puerto Ricans when no one else would. I love Spike Lee for always giving us a spot in his films, even and especially now.
Every morning, I step outside and within 30-seconds or so my crow friends fly up to the fence and patiently wait for me to serve them peanuts.
One crow always lands first. His name is Gus. Then, Marcelo, Phil, Caroline, etc. (I haven’t named the all yet).
After four months of feeding a murder of crows, they finally left me my first gift— the tip of a corn cob, placed on my patio where I leave their peanuts. Life is good.
Threads targets podcasters with new features:
Meta explained it’s interested in the podcast community because it sees the potential in becoming the de facto place for people to talk about shows and engage with creators.
Wow, sounds like the beginnings of the same strategy that almost killed news blogs. If TechCrunch is only willing to repeat Meta’s press releases, and not contextualize the claims with Meta’s past behavior, what’s the point of reporting?
Hot take: I miss the MacbookPro Touch Bar. I love my M1, and having my function keys back, but I keep looking for that Touch Bar in a lot of my casual workflows.
Can’t we have both??
Shout out to Clipse for their 5 Grammy nominations, including Best Hip-Hop Album, and Album of The Year.
I’m so happy. Let God Sort’em Out was such a fantastic album and an unexpected dose of my younger years.
OpenAI Made a $12 Billion Loss Last Quarter, Microsoft Results Indicate:
The figure was up 490% from a year earlier and implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, which would mark one of the largest single quarter losses for a tech company in history.
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What if life is just an alien slowly turning up a distort-reality-dial until one of us is like: wait a minute
Wild turkeys appear in my dad’s neighborhood every year around Thanksgiving. They have chased me many times. They know.
Okay I need to share my workout smoothie with yall because I think it’s pretty good:
- Spinach
- Almond Milk
- Water
- Chia seeds and flax seeds
- Frozen berry mix (and frozen cherries)
- Protein powder
- Greek yogurt
- Cocoa powder
- A little Splenda
It’s pretty, pretty, pretty good.
Nancy Pelosi will retire after historic 20-term career in Congress:
The 85-year-old Democrat will be remembered for her bruising style and her willingness to take on all foes, most recently President Donald Trump, with whom she still regularly trades insults.
She will be remembered for overstaying her welcome, obstructing the progressive movement, her unnecessary feud with AOC, and padding her stock portfolio. Goodbye Ms. Pelosi.
Mangione, Mamdani and the Media - Ken Klippenstein:
editorial board statement acknowledged former Governor Andrew Cuomo’s “shortcomings” — including his resignation over allegations of sexual harassment from 11 women — before concluding that Cuomo was the best candidate.
The New York Times, ladies and gentlemen.
The quiet rollout of Cop Cities across the US meets a growing resistance | Waging Nonviolence:
Activists and scholars have said that Cop Cities are replicated after Israel’s own Cop City, “Little Gaza,” where they “battle-test” violence against Palestinians. This would be an expansion of already existing police training exchange programs that many U.S. states and cities have with Israel.
There’s a reason younger activists aren’t participating in #NoKings. It’s because they’re fighting things like the largest expansion of militarized police in our country’s history- an issue largely ignored by liberals.
People are starting to discover the Scary Movie franchise. And I just want to submit my favorite line in the whole series.
The image does not justice. Regina Hall’s delivery is so damn funny.
Bill Gates makes a stunning claim about climate change | CNN Business:
Climate change is not going to wipe out humanity, he argued, and past efforts that strive for achieving zero carbon emissions have made real progress.
I’m sure this has nothing to do with the energy-guzzling data centers Microsoft is building.
Holy shit. This is my mom’s collection of undeveloped disposable cameras, some dating back to 1998. Should I try to get them developed? I doubt all of them would work, but maybe some?
#Photography
Every five years or so, I get me a new pair of New Balance 997s (Made in USA). I still have my old pairs and I just decided I’m going to write in marker on the soles all the countries and cities I walked in with them.
Here’s my new ones! I bought them hoping they see as much of the world as the others. A we
Because a lot of people have observed, it’s a lot of white people at these rallies. Where’s everybody else? Where are the black people, the Latino people.
The same people who blamed Black and Latino voters for Trump, who openly said Latino culture is sexist, are now wondering where are the Black and Latino protesters.
#NoKings #ICE
Man Stores AI-Generated ‘Robot Porn' on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets:
the man told investigators he felt his bosses spied on him too much and that the interrogation over the porn snafu was akin to the “Spanish Inquisition."
Why are robots fucking on your computer? What is this? The Spanish Inquisition? Lololol
Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones:
The new attack, named Pixnapping by the team of academic researchers who devised it, requires a victim to first install a malicious app on an Android phone or tablet. The app, which requires no system permissions, can then effectively read data that any other installed app displays on the screen.
Tying our phone numbers to every account we make eas a horrible idea.
#Android
how can we (re)teach the importance of privacy? | ava’s blog:
Nowadays though, sharing data freely with all kinds of actors, mostly companies, promises you fame and money - even information around debt, mental health, or a very messy house that people historically would rather die than share.
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