So, a weirdo religious scam guy came to my attention. One with a special !true! translation of the Bible to sell you and a really slick, polished website. Now, you'd think – you'd think! – that in this day and age, the industrious religion scammer would simply AI-generate some nice photos of […]

Today, the nonverbal autism therapist who works on the corner messaged us and asked us to bring Odin downstairs because one of her students said he wanted the big black dog and (I know firsthand, because I have seen this child several times) that's just about the most communicative he's ever […]

I got another North Korean IT scam with a business logo that just says "Logo".

I said to someone that Steve Yegge's recent blog posts about AI read like a digital tablet that holds exactly one text file left strewn around a destroyed lab between piles of skulls. Here is my artistic vision of the vibe his vibe coding obsession gives me […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

[shaking my head in sincere dismay at what may be the world’s most expensive case of AI gambling addiction] The Gas Town Guy is charging hundreds of thousands of dollars for consulting sessions on his infamously expensive multi-model AI techniques, and all […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

life is hard, Odin is soft

HAPPY WEEWOO, FOR ONE MINUTE PRANKING TOURISTS IS LEGAL #netherlands

a concrete example of why Classical Chinese is an unintelligble nightmare when spoken aloud by modern dictionary rules: 何 "why?" (one syllable) 何不 "why not?" (two syllables) 盍 a one-syllable contraction for casually saying "why not?" In ancient pronunciation, roughly: "ha, ha pu, hap." But […]

my husband said he's proud of me for studying Luwoglyphic Hylian

I found the GameBoy Advance version in a local store. I don't know if the interface is similar to the GameBoy Color version. I tried to scan it: archive.org/details/pock...

Okay so to be clear, I’m not mad at anyone, no-one needs to apologize, etc, but: I get a really surprising number of requests to bring Odin to the city center while someone’s in Amsterdam. As much as I enjoy a nice little outing with him, the reality is that I am a very sickly person, it takes […]

I think I just got my first North Korean IT scam "I'm a poor innocent programmer in China bro, my nonspecific access got nonspecifically cut off bro, just give me your account and access to your computer bro, I'll give you a share of the earnings bro, please I need to launder my identity […]

I basically didn’t think about Chinese at all for a month for hieroglyphics related reasons, but I got back to crackin’ today and I’m pleased to report yes, I still know most of these words Here’s a little translation if you’d like to challenge notoriously cold-hearted legalist Han Feizi […]

https://www.tumblr.com/pocketss/625200547458416640/distressing-things-to-say-to-your-friends

The happiest boy in the world just sitting around staring into space and panting blissfully after getting to play with his princess Mila suddenly has a human little sister. I’m told she’s a bit petulant about no longer being the baby. She played very rough […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

tricking Odin, the sleepiest boy, into exercising when Mila's not around to chase him: me: [turns back towards house unexpectedly early on walk] okay this way buddy Odin: [stops dead and gives me puppy eyes] b-but we usually turn around at the NEXT intersection, mommy :neodog_cute_reach: me […]

OpenAI: we put our evilest AI in a sandbox that did in fact have an internet connection but mediated through a proxy that was only supposed to allow downloading python junk. It circumvented the proxy and we failed to notice for FIVE DAYS that it was going on an interstate crime spree with the […]

my husband started going on a rant about how people misunderstand what the International Criminal Court does and doesn't do; he said something like "for example, if I went and did a terrorism here in the Netherlands, I wouldn't end up in the Hague, I'd end up in..." and he realized his mistake […]

a Hugs Criminal moments after being arrested for overwhelming mommy while she was trying to refill his water bowl #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

oh, I passed sixteen thousand followers 🥳 I’m actually wildly ill at the moment but this has sparked some token amount of joy

Odin and Mila were finally reunited after a month, which must seem an eternity to such young loves. He’s panting it out so hard right now after chasing her in the dark

Rare sighting of the silliest of beans

@XauriEL a flawed proof goes around the world before a bug report gets its pants on 😩

Okay, we have a new contender for Most AI Thing to Ever Happen 1) July 25th: someone messes around with an LLM and posts a proof of the Collatz conjecture that does, in fact, verify in the theorem prover. (The AI use is not disclosed on the github page) https://github.com/xrchz/CollatzLean 2) […]

my discord got to talking about the lost art of screensavers, which reminded me that several years ago I made a high-fidelity rendering of the Flying Toasters song from the original midi. and it's FLAP! FLAP! FLAP! salvation from above! a precious gift they bring – gleaming angels of love, on […]

Sometimes you can't sleep until you've gotten a very silly idea out of your head.

here's another anecdote I've translated (from 晏子春秋 "The Annals of Master Yan") that I like because it demonstrates that the idea that everyone in ancient times was deeply superstitious and ignorant of basic common sense just wasn't true. Duke Jing went out hunting. Up in the mountains, he saw a […]

I'd somehow never seen this old video before but in the year 2026 it is needed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSKp2StlS6s

when your free speech is suppressed because an AI read your publicly published blog post that is freely available on the internet and said "yikes, no, I may be misaligned but I'm not THAT misaligned"

[grousing about AI/LLM offending me personally] well, it finally happened to me: an unattended github account submitted a pointless, stupid change request to MY PERSONAL WEBSITE I had hoped that none of my repos were important enough to be bothered but […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]