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We’ve spent years hearing that Chinese open-weight models would put too much power in the hands of hackers. Yet most of the AI-enabled cyberattacks publicly documented so far have involved closed models from American frontier labs. Oops. 😅
The Cyber Risk Discourse is Broken
Open-weights, ideology, and acknowledging trade-offs.
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Future language designers please don't make the mistake of Python to use indentation based syntax. There is just not good syntax to make lexically scoped variables work in that world.
i had a horrible nightmare that huggingface became a dating hookup site for agents+humans, then i wake up to this
huggingface is cooking so hard damn
I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...
Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You
An atlas of the vibrance of the real world
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In this deftly argued Essay, the philosopher Sasha Mudd uses Kant’s notion of reason as freedom as a warning against the emerging tendency to conflate intelligence with optimisation in the age of AI buff.ly/bl01hrT =
Why real intelligence is something more than optimisation | Aeon Essays
If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us why human reason is so much more
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New trace: myth as doomerism (def: missatributing risk which has been & is strictly<-arbitary, decisioning, & power (choices/coercion) & the upshot of interest wetwebs; whether Nuclear, biotic, significant or interpreted) grips the warmest of minds, most often by: Woolly child hooks: @kurzgesagt.org
“Starless” is out now. Where am I going? How did I get here? Listen: apc.lnk.to/Starless
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
The legal metaphor for AI engineering (where you write laws, then fine tune them as they meet the real world with case law and precedent) came up several times this week, and I’m liking it more and more. every.to/thesis-state...
After automation: AI will have rules, but those rules will constantly be shifting
Drew Breunig, CEO and cofounder, Cmpnd — Every new model will mean a new interpreter—Claude and GPT read the same instructions through different priors, the way two judges apply the same law and reach...
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There is nothing inevitable about today's GenAI companies or market or product design or power dynamics. It's based on decisions, made implicitly and explicitly, by people. To imagine a better way we must realize how arbitrary all of this is. And who it serves.
Whole stop. eject the moronic pilot hijacking earthly opulence
The Trump administration is considering placing data centers on 17,600 acres of public land in six states: Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming. Public lands belong to the American people, not to Big Tech monstrosities. Full stop.
Plasticorals are formed when household plastic melts and fuses with coral rubble. Potentially dangerous to vulnerable reef ecosystems, they represent the increasing problem of plastic overconsumption and littering. www.oist.jp/news-center/...
Our 2nd Ironmonger House Talk in London asks: Who should govern AI? Drawing on her book 'The Tech Coup' & experience in the European Parliament and at Stanford, Marietje Schaake examines Big Tech’s growing power and Europe’s choices. 📅 4 Nov | 12:30 GMT Register: virtual-routes.org/event/who-go...
Wilhoit's Law: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
Still can’t believe they rolled a severely brain-damaged 84-year-old out of his 92-day-long paid medical leave just to vote against paid medical leave for every other American
youtu.be/K67OoCcZdig?... Obsession bit at 5:44 (fan edition from the Bangalore, Indic subcontinent @indenavarette.bsky.social 🤣😁
Types Of Superstitions | Jordindian
YouTube video by Jordindian
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Open AI, proper
🇨🇭Open AI meets everyday use: Apertus 1.5, developed by EPFL, ETH Zurich and partners, is joining Proton’s Lumo assistant. Users can opt in to share anonymised feedback, helping researchers improve the model and advance open, sovereign AI. 🔗 Read the full story : actu.epfl.ch/news/apertus...
Struck me: Poetry requires conviction. No wonder intelligence industry figures step down to spend their days poetic...the loss caused by prioritising due artificial work over brainwaves 📈. I have a serious thing for writers who juggled iconic main persona pairs or sets: Wodehouse, Conan doyle 🤌🏼🐏