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Stef Pause

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Freelance slacker geek who should probably get a real job. Sometimes on a boat. I will fav your cat pic

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Linda Holmes@lindaholmes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I personally think not safe to remain in any personal relationship with anyone who is using LLMs to analyze your relationship, make conclusions about your motives, or determine how to treat you. I think this is beyond red flag—it should be an immediate dealbreaker.

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.) This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

Doe had broken up with the user in 2024, and he used ChatGPT to process the split, according to emails and communications cited in the lawsuit. Rather than push back on his one-sided account, it repeatedly cast him as rational and wronged, and her as manipulative and unstable. He then took these AI-generated conclusions off the screen and into the real world, using them to stalk and harass her. This manifested in several AI-generated, clinical-looking psychological reports that he distributed to her family, friends, and employer.
Rob Bowley@robbowley.net · 4mo ago

The first independent review of Mythos cyber capabilities I've seen. The UK's AI Security Institute - an independent government body - appears to have got their hands on Mythos and published their findings. 1/7 🧵

Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview’s cyber capabilities | AISI Work

We conducted cyber evaluations of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and found continued improvement in capture-the-flag (CTF) challenges and significant improvement on multi-step cyber-attack simulati...

aisi.gov.uk

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This kind of thing at Substack (including their Nazi problem and trans hate problem) are why my newsletter is at Ghost.org and always has been. Andrew Tate is a spectacularly vile human being accused of numerous violent crimes against women and hugely corrosive for young male minds.

kottke.org@kottke.org · 4mo ago

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

a screenshot of the "New Bestsellers" list from Substack, with Andrew Tate in the #1 position
kottke.org@kottke.org · 4mo ago

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

a screenshot of the "New Bestsellers" list from Substack, with Andrew Tate in the #1 position
Stef Pause@pause.im · 4mo ago

The press release, linking the open letter, is here: www.aclu.org/press-releas...

ACLU and 75 Organizations Sound Alarm on Meta’s Plan to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Ray-Ban and Oakley Eyeglasses | American Civil Liberties Union

Open letter signed by scores of nonprofits warns that the glasses pose an unacceptable threat to our right to privacy and must be cancelled

aclu.org

Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · 4mo ago

More than *70* orgs are warning Meta that integrating facial recognition into smart glasses is a terrible, dangerous idea. Five years from now, when the consequences are abundantly clear and prevalent, people will point at this warning (as has happened with Meta and Big Tech, time and time again):

Minna Ålander 🌻@alanderminna.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The problem is that this US administration thinks negotiating means that they can dictate their conditions and then the other side has to take it or leave it. But diplomacy isn’t a real estate deal where wins and losses can be measured in dollars

Jon B. Wolfsthal@jonatomic.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Diplomacy can work if you 1) let it 2) have realistic goals 3) are creative and flexible and 4) prepare 5) create leverage. Trump team has done little of this. Almost none. So more war is likely. As is a nuclear Iran when all is done.

Ethan Marcotte@ethanmarcotte.com · 4mo ago

If you’re looking for a good thing to contribute to right now — and maybe especially if you use words to make sense of the world — I’ll just say that @unbreaking.org is a tremendous group of people. And we could use your help.

Erin Kissane@kissane.myatproto.social · 4mo ago

If you are a person who—like us—just cannot leave this alone, we could use your help on the Immigration team, which handles a much higher volume than any other team. We keep things chill in our Slack for quality of life, but underneath, we're all running on fury. unbreaking.org/how-to-help/

Erin Kissane@kissane.myatproto.social · 4mo ago

“Even more troublingly, other researchers say, the fake papers were then cited in peer-reviewed literature. Osmanovic Thunström says this suggests that some researchers are relying on AI-generated references without reading the underlying papers.”

John Rogers@johnrogers.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sarah Hörst@planetdr.bsky.social · 4mo ago

One of the problems with people not sharing things with attribution, AI etc is that we (rightly) don’t trust things that are real. This picture is making the rounds today and I’ve seen multiple ppl say it is fake. It isn’t!!!! www.nasa.gov/solar-system...

From a Million Miles Away, NASA Camera Shows Moon Crossing Face of Earth - NASA

A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a unique view of the moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth

nasa.gov

zeynep tufekci@zey.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The AP is reporting that Sharif University in Tehran has been bombed. This is Maryam Mirzakhani’s alma mater — the first woman to win a Fields Medal in math, and only one of two so far. The university is also a leading center of opposition to the government. apnews.com/video/ict-bu...

ICT building at Tehran's Sharif University of Technology reduced to rubble after more US-Israeli strikes

An airstrike hit Monday an information and communication technology building at Tehran's Sharif University of Technology, a professor there said.

apnews.com

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 4mo ago

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
WeRateDogs@weratedogs.com · 4mo ago

This is proof that sometimes you never know how good things can get, and even then, they can sometimes get even better. 13/10 for all (TT: matiastapia2409)