Imagine interviewing someone for a job at your workplace and after asking them to explain something relevant to the job they are applying for, they answer "If you hire me then I can give you a full explanation" It's pretty ludicrous that this is the apparent norm when confirming nominees...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 13h ago

MURRAY: The Trump admin falsely labeled birth control as abortion. Do you agree that an IUD is an abortifacient? OVERTON: If confirmed, I'll be fully briefed M: That's not an answer. The prospect of an FDA commissioner who doesn't know that birth control isn't an abortion is deeply alarming O: 😊

I think this picturing is inadequate to the technical reality, and explaining why might help to clarify why I have different intuitions about what's going on.

Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · last mo.

My mental model of the machine is that it encodes a map/surface of a bunch of known thoughts and emits encodings describing the surface nearest to the prompt. This isn't nothing, it's not trivial and the surface is not something humans have collectively accessed before creating this machine.

I imagine the constant glazing & agreeability some llms will perform is kind of what's like to be a rich/powerful person that has surrounded themself with yes-men. Personally, the experience gets exhausting.

Is there a betting market for whether he falls asleep or not?

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Such heartbreaking cruelty. These people really are evil.

Mike Hixenbaugh@mikehixenbaugh.com · 7mo ago

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

An interesting read - www.noemamag.com/gpts-very-in... Definitely expresses some thoughts I've had on the subject, particularly with regards to the "stochastic parrot" or "just next word prediction" memetic arguments

GPT’s Very Inhuman Mind | NOEMA

Like Narcissus and his reflection, too many AI researchers are searching for the essence of intelligence when it doesn’t exist.

noemamag.com

Abuser mentality - "look what you are making me do"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11mo ago

Mike Johnson: "I don't like being mad Mike. I want to be happy Mike. I want to be the happy warrior. But I am so upset about all this. God bless America."

arxiv.org/abs/2507.13758 "LRMs are consistently more susceptible to RTB [reasoning theater bias] than general-purpose LLMs" Basically - they are susceptible to flawed arguments that nonetheless present as logical. Honestly, sounds like a lot of people in the world right now...

Reasoning Models Can be Easily Hacked by Fake Reasoning Bias

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) like DeepSeek-R1 and o1 are increasingly used as automated evaluators, raising critical questions about their vulnerability to the aesthetics of reasoning in LLM-as-a-jud...

arxiv.org

Case in point - the horrible tragedy unfolding now. We ignore reality at our own peril. Sadly, even the inevitable misery that follows from trying to pretend like truth is something you control is not enough to wake some people up. A truth I did not fully appreciate until covid

Chris Lentini@lentinic.bsky.social · last yr.

It's a kind of subjectivism or even solipsism, I guess. All that matters is having the power to impose your truth on the world. An inherently fragile / dead-ended way of living. Ultimately reality asserts itself - COVID / natural disaster / etc - with pain and misery sure to follow

I'm so fucking sick of this shit.

One of these days, some asynchronous UI layout update is going to cause someone to click "launch all the nukes" when they really meant to click "destroy all the nukes"

Convinced the laws of conservation are wrong. How else to explain the endless supply of snot produced by my nose? Checkmate physicists.

So many emotionally impactful moments in this episode. Definitely one of my top episodes of all time for any show.

Max the comics guy who does comics about comics@waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · last yr.

Show a moment from TV/film that broke your heart.

ICE agents are torturing a green card holder from New Hampshire, his mother says www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

Rewatching Voyager, and boy that Tuvix episode... Is kind of fucked up

"They're just kids" Okay, then why are they being allowed to rampage through sensitive government systems? "They are smart capable professionals" Okay, then why shouldn't they be subject to the same scrutiny and oversight as any other person wielding this much power? You can't have it both ways

The issue, IMO, with all the "we'll work with Trump/RFK/etc on housing/spending/whatever" - it cedes the initiative and leadership to them, legitimizing them. Now you aren't the one with the good ideas, they are; you are just along for the ride.

Looking forward to the inevitable gritty Popeye movie

NPR@npr.org · 2y ago

The copyrights of thousands of 20th-century films, books, compositions and sound recordings expire on Jan. 1, making them free for anyone to share and adapt. Here are some of the highlights.

"Reportedly, the company also was struggling to set up more CarePod kiosks, which four employees said cost more than $1 million each, and the kiosks that were open occasionally trapped patients inside." 0_0

SF 'AI doctor's office' company, once worth $1B, abruptly shuts down

Forward, a San Francisco health technology company once valued at $1 billion, is shutting down after failing to popularize its CarePod "AI doctor’s office."

sfgate.com

Real Michael Scott energy from Russia here.

Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Don't hold your breath Putin

theregister.com

Have to say, seeing "Pro-Life SF" or whatever on the list of opponents to a proposition is a strong argument in favor of me voting *for* the proposition.

I think a lot of the angst about e.g. Liz Cheney endorsing Harris is that usually endorsement = exchange of favors, i.e. she gets some policy concession. The issue I think is that here the concession == this candidate (Harris) promises not to round her up in some targeted attack on political foes

I would love to see Trump asked about repealing the 19th Amendment. I think if you framed it the right way you could get him to express openness to it. Play his instincts - can't admit ignorance (so nothing about what it is) and pandering (so like "many supporters think it was a mistake")

"The danger of censorship..." This mfer's running mate is the one that was just talking about prosecuting people who criticize the Supreme Court.

Lolz at the human driver angrily honking at the Waymo for not turning on a red light at a no turn on red intersection.

Nice to see this place growing.

I'm sorry, wtf is this "debate" that would have happened and what exactly would that have entailed? What a fucking asshole

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 2y ago

BTW JD Vance did a lengthy on-stage interview with All-In Podcast today, and among other things reaffirmed that had he been veep four years ago he would not have certified the results. “I would have asked the states to submit alternative slates of electors and let the country have the debate.”

Battlestar Galactica (2004)

Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈@kennedy.northsky.social · 2y ago

Southwest Airlines was spared from today's CrowdStrike catastrophe that grounded or delayed hundreds of flights because they run on Windows 3.1... ...an operating system whose last update was November 8, 1993...

So, judges shouldn't defer to federal agencies rulemaking, but the President is basically god-king. If the President tells a federal agency to say "fuck the courts, go enforce that rule" does the universe then implode?

There was a guy at SF pride shooting people with a super soaker filled with gasoline. Be careful out there. :-(