A week after she went into the hospital, Eevee is home. In the first half-hour being home, she ate, ran up and down stairs, used her scratcher enthusiastically, and comfort-nursed her favorite blanket. She lived and is gonna keep living ❤️
Brad Ackerman
@brada.bsky.social
Snooping email for fun and profit. Mostly cat pictures by volume. He/him.
Given His Holiness is about to undergo lung surgery, this is probably a smart call.
We’re looking for Marylanders and Virginians with finance, legal, or fundraising chops to help round out the GGWash Commons board. Please circulate with people who could be a fit — or nominate yourself!
Greater Greater Washington@ggwash.org · 19h agoGGWash Commons, the 501(c)(3) sister organization of GGWash, is looking for a few new board members. Could that be you?
Oh FFS!! Stop regurgitating press releases from AI companies and taking their claims as gospel!! Validate their claims! Yes IoT devices are insecure but can they run an AI model? Probably no. Do they retain persistence? No. Will criminals use AI models over current scripts, e.g. Mirai? No.
RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · yesterdayAnthropic has said its experiments suggested small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to self-replicate on commercial Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, such as smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes.
New Jersey: Tell your state senators to oppose S3236, support S293 instead. Permanent DST costs lives and business. Permanent Standard Time instead is best for safety and economy. There’s a hearing this Thursday in State Government!
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Adequately prepared deposition witness: Yes.
Dr. Jim Getz@jimgetz.bsky.social · 2y agoInterviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Assyriologist: Du[ring] grad sch[ool] I [took?] a position ... [13 lines illegible] ... now.
Me thinking about those poor Russian oil refineries and data centers today:
Look, I'm not trying to be unsympathetic to the politicians in the article. But non-pols get these threats daily. Woman got doxxed and their kids threatened for disclosing they were harassed by a serial predator. I got an artisanal hand-written death threat mailed to my apartment. Deal with it.
Reconstructionist@unavaleable.bsky.social · 3d ago"Your fault, you deserve it." is some crazy work
When Anthropic's software—designed, programmed, prompted, and activated by humans working for Anthropic—does stuff the humans failed to predict, stop saying the software has "gone rogue.” The software does not have agency. Only the humans do.
You know what I'm going to say: do not watch video of someone being killed for any reason if you don't absolutely have to, and if you do *genuinely* have to, ie for reporting, use every psychological mitigation technique possible: synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/803314.html
Captcha Check
synecdochic.dreamwidth.org
Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 5d agoI wonder if people who think they want to see this will watch it and then realize they didn’t actually want to see it.
AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure in Leaked Documents Financial Times reveals that OpenAI’s annualized revenue is roughly $20 billion lower than previously expected: https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-financial-bubble-openai-billions-failure
i rebooted minesweeper as a AAA shooter. loot boxes coming soon minesweeper.mikelacher.com
Why don’t we just put an AI in the Omelas Hole? #anthropic #claude #ai #skynet
Yay art show!! I just opened up preorders for my latest enamel pin collection, Chaos at the Cat Show! I think this is going to be the most popular design as pin choices come in.. chaos-at-the-cat-show-enamel-pin-collection.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
Ian's one of the most legit, genuine humans out there, who truly takes care of those around them. Let's get them the help they need.
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 6d agoI feel terrible asking this, but my debit card got stolen and I don’t currently have the funds in my account to cover some upcoming payments while I sort the dispute out with the bank. If anyone could help spot me, I would really appreciate that! V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater
Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
The YIMBY moment on the right is over. But putting data centres or pipelines in YOUR backyard... can't do that fast enough!
Kevin Wilson@kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 6d agoI know federal conservatives and Alberta UCP are Not The Same, but remember the whole bit about defeating gatekeepers vis a vis housing? Yeah.
Match on the apps? Propose a shelter dog skip day! It’s the cheapest possible date, but your prospective paramour will be impressed by what a kind and noble soul you are. You will absolutely get laid. Also the dog will be very happy.
yesssss more pics of your clingy girl cats!!! yessssssss!!! (here’s mine)
My Judaica publisher told me rabbis keep filling his Talmud margins so I asked how many margins he has and he said he just goes to print and adds wider margins afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding whitespace to rabbis and then his printer started crying.
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
