My corporate overlord made me take a new AI phishing awareness training, and overall it wasn't terrible, but it suddenly sprang on me that it wanted me to turn on the microphone and interact out loud with some sort of toy simulated scam call. This made me INCREDIBLY uncomfortable. Not sure if […]

@Rairii just for you, here is someone in the Analects of Confucius saying they need a group of "six, seven boys" to hold a party of sufficient mirth

Here is a translation note I wrote just now while working on the Annals of Yanzi, because it's informative on its own: “Three thousand servants, three girlfriends and four ministers” isn’t necessarily meant to be taken as those exact numbers, but can stand for “a few thousand, a few, several” […]

Two things: 1) those “Dobby’s Grave” headlines were ragebait that vastly exaggerated the issue. You are not immune to propaganda meant to get you yelling at Kids These Days as if they’re the problem 2) “read another book” I have an explicitly trans-positive suggestion […]

I got attacked by the dreaded Hugs Monster in a dark hallway and my husband had to come to my rescue I’m still under siege. The Hugs Monster has tried to smother me four times since I started this post.

A boy who is waiting to see some hardcore classic Fire Emblem action

I am here to report that Odin just startled himself by accidentally slamming his enormous rear end into the furniture while trying to sit. He looked truly perplexed

Came across some code which is subjected to a complexity analysis tool; the tool, called "lizard", has a specific annotation you can add in a comment to request it skip a function, which results in a rather alarming line of code without knowing that context: // #​​​lizard forgives

there's a new German Shepherd puppy in the building named Ace. The plan is to slowly acclimate Ace to Odin so that he knows Odin also just lives here and nobody needs to be protected from him They've yet to make nose contact, but Odin was a very good boy about sitting still and wagging his tail […]

me: Odin, hold still, mommy needs to purge these filthy impurities from you for your own good me: oh my gods it's true, I've become my mother

Odin has no idea how many nightmares I have about something happening to him. He doesn’t know what it means when mommy gets out of bed early in the morning just to find him and pet him, but he wags his tail.

The Local Homeless Guy offered Odin a paper cup of water. His tongue barely even fit, but Odin was overwhelmed with joy to be offered a gift by a friend

I was surprised to see a single shining star in the night sky and reflected about how one of the few true downsides to living in the Netherlands is how you can go months without seeing the stars. In the summer it's too bright, and in the winter it's too clouded.

BOPCORM FOR ODIN

thinking about how much I love my tiny baby, Odin, who is so very small and in need of my protection

I just recalled the interesting tidbit that the idea of writing "(he/him)" and "(she/her)" was invented many thousands of years ago by the Sumerians, who often used written symbols you weren't meant to pronounce out loud to help you visually parse the structure of cuneiform, and this included […]

Photo taken while lying down in my bed to explain why I am still awake past my bedtime Someone has a case of the midnight cuddles…

Odin got spotted by a gaggle of daycare children walking to the park, and in a very Dutch approach, their chaperone let them come over to pet him Odin rolled around and was a very good boy, but I did have to tell one of the kids to knock it off because he found a big stick and started waving it […]

O! The profound spiritual satisfaction of finally having a good, sturdy hole puncher with the 9.5mm spacing I wanted, that can cut cleanly through thicker paper, and they even sell it in cute colors The brand is KW-Trio, they have boring colors too, and it’s like ten bucks on Ali Express

just had a random flashback of some American Lifestyle Trauma I lived in the suburbs of Boston before I moved to the Netherlands. It had gotten vastly more crowded in recent years with absolutely horrifically inadequate urban planning to compensate. I worked in this huge cluster of office […]

"this dialogue freely chooses to be useless, but I know how to trick the computer into telling me what friggin' process has a friggin' file handle open on my friggin' e-reader" "well frigg me, I guess"

Rhyming translation of the little song of an unlucky woman in the Book of Han: [context: there is a succession dispute over two princes with different mothers, because the son with less rank is considered a stronger leader. The mother with more power, the Empress Dowager, is abusing the other […]

I wish there weren't a far-right extremist manly-man statue avatar philosopher who calls himself Bronze Age Pervert, because it makes it a lot harder for me, someone intensely interested in the lives of women, children, minorities and queers in ancient cultures, to proudly call myself a Bronze […]

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a third lab would like to announce that they, too, ran an AI model against a hacking capability benchmark while it had a real internet connection and they, too, were astonished to find out that it was attacking real people and organizations with the real internet connection that they gave it […]

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]