walking mirage

@wolf.observer

gregarious canid. also an elk sometimes. i go by "wolf." they/them

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

maybe it makes more sense to think of an LLM itself, that is, the underlying thing that generates responses from input, not the interface sitting on top of it that massages that input, as something closer to a genome or DNA, than as a brain.

Volunteer Nick Spends time w our famous Morty. Hasn't he grown to be the most confident boy?!? Confident enough to be a sneaky little thief 😅🤣😂 Your donations helped buy his special treats (canned cat/dog food,sardines, and canned salmon). Look at that happy boyo 😍

lol Google is putting the "pro mode" that makes their AI mode less likely to lie to users behind a paywall more expensive than the $99/year "AI Plus" plan, previously known as the 2TB Google One plan. What are they smoking over there

Bluesky's Head of Trust and Safety handed his block list to a bot. 1,271 people blocked in eleven days. He says it never looks at who you are. Blocks are public, so I checked. Trans people were blocked at 2.5× the odds of everyone else, for posts of the same harshness. 🧵

Title card reading "Who the autoblocker blocked". Three figures: 1,271 accounts blocked in eleven days, against twelve in the two years before. 46% of the readable bulk-loaded accounts had never replied to, quoted or mentioned him this year. 2.5× the odds of being blocked for a trans-identified account, against others who wrote equally harsh posts. Below, a quote from Aaron Rodericks, 1 Oct 2026: "These do not factor in your bio or your identity. I have zero clue who you are."