Robert Atkins

@ratkins.net

I miss Usenet. Torching tokens at Comply365, ex Pivotal Labs.

*Anthropic Mythos 5 could be doing a perp walk in handcuffs, good thing he doesn't have hands and feet He does live in Big Data Centers though, which could now be classified as "hacker criminal dens" and hugely-expensive sinks-of-iniquity

What do you get when you mix climate change, logistics, and fossil fuels, and a war? A Bluesky thread on the convergence between summer drought in Europe, a dam in the Netherlands, Germany's reliance on a single river, and why the US still has to care about climate change. Settle in. (1/11)

The one thing I really disagree with here is “The AIs will exceed humans in taste and intuition.” I think “taste” is the one thing models up until now have been _worst_ at, and I don’t see that getting better nearly as quickly as other capabilities.

#BruceSterling@bruces.bsky.social · yesterday

"This works until the AIs have blasted so deep into the deductive closure of mathlib that the distance from elementary mathematics to the frontier exceeds what any human can hope to learn in their lifetime, no matter how narrow their focus." *It's Stanford-Ketamine borretti.me/article/math...

Teams, specifically, does not understand the assignment. Or maybe I’m naive in thinking the assignment is “IRC with SOC2 compliance” rather than, “something just plausible enough to include with MS365 so accounting can argue ‘we have Slack at home’ and not spend any extra money.”

The reason people hate corporate email so much is because it’s used so badly—three million message long email chains with dozens of people, presented by Outlook in an absurdly complex way.

Echo the Australian magpie annoying a tuxedo cat named Gilbert in Thames, New Zealand. The pair are known to be friends, though the magpie is often described as an annoying sibling that frequently pushes limits. They are part of a group called "Tuxedoes Unite" located in Karangahake, New Zealand.

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

Chart showing solar panel exports from China (the main solar panel maker by a long shot) growing steadily & mightily from 2018 through 2026, then spiking by almost 2x in March 2026.

As a single man in my 50s with no children I cannot say this in public, but the best sound in the world is young children playing outside. The squeals of delight as they are totally lost in a moment with no other cares is just amazing & something you never get from an adult.

*Nobody in the history of human bombing has ever said, "Well, we got bombed, so the veil has fallen from my eyes now. Wow, me, grandma and the kids really deserved this. We totally had this bomb-campaign coming. I'm grateful to be set straight"