this is going to end up banal but what a world it would have been if the people who YOLO'd consumer LLMs with the pitch "this can automate the boring shit you don't want to do" had a definition of "boring shit" that was "set up AWS creds" instead of "art, music, socializing, raising children"

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 7h ago

I actually configure AWS correctly now due to embedded chatbots

Superintelligence Breaks Out Of Sandbox

mr. TIM@timkellogg.me · 8h ago

Shocking! www.axios.com/2026/08/05/g...

i think this is likely very good Demis never wanted Gemini and this gives him an off-ramp without a demotion. Google needed a big change for Gemini, they get it we win because now Jeff and Sanjay can talk freely more, and they’re both super cool

Starting to see "they don't deserve good faith" reactions to this and the problem I have with that is we have examples of actual good faith negotiations that landed tens of millions of investment into local communities and, in at least one instance, residents responded by voting everyone out.

Jeremy Diamond ☕️@dmnd.me · 21h ago

First, and most importantly, anti-data center folks refuse to believe data center developers and tech companies engage in good faith. They have staked out a purely reactionary position. Negotiation is useless. Just reject everything by default. They're playing this as Always Defect.

demis moving from ceo to chief scientist, @jeffdean.bsky.social starting his own company so, uh, complete gdm rotation i think

fundamentally it's a large body of text that's increasingly in real-time and that you need reasonably-high-signal low-noise information about and huh it's the same problem as a social media automod

AI Cybersecurity 101: How Sandboxes Work

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

for openai to mess up sandboxing this badly indicates openai didn't take the issue seriously, which you expect because they don't take anything seriously for anthropic to mess it up is rank incompetence

confirm

Benny Six-Cats@teeveeben.bsky.social · 22h ago

Hey guys, Perez Hilton performed self-harm and may have attempted a suicide on TikTok and screenshots are flying around, so if you are sensitive, go put "Perez Hilton" in your mutes right now.

a friendly disagreement about about whether or not "Ganbatte!" is good for LLM performance

people are pointing out that this is obviously antisemitic, and it is, but one notes that this is sort of the natural endpoint of building your entire political identity around cultural criticism.

Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago

i don't think the occupation is driven or even backstopped by EDM, no

Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago

a new contestant has entered FelonyBench: the UK government! www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...

Soviet cadets of the Medical Corps practicing shooting, 1980.

Monument to the Conquerors of Space, (1977), Dzhezkazgan, Kazakh SSR. Artist: L. Pak, Architect: K. Turlybaev, Sculptor: N. Andreev

Gastown isn't a place. It's a people.

I hope one day I can be as confident and as lacking of any sense of subtly as kojima

this sucks so much that it is possible aoc is about to get ratio'd on bluesky, a thing which i would have bet you was impossible before seeing this post

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d ago

There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.

when chomsky dies i am going to foia his fbi file and i will give you 2:1 odds he is an fbi informant

what manner of contracts and penalties for breach are considered valid and enforceable is fundamentally arbitrary, and people reason their way to thinking those with outcomes they like are valid and those with outcomes they dislike are invalid

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 2d ago

if you can form a collective arrangement to sell potato chips,you can form a collective arrangement to sell labor. the libertarian objection to unions is nothing more than chauvinism for capital.

if you are doing the laser eyes meme, what do different colors of choice for the laser eyes convey?

i hadn't checked a while and i was feeling bad about the quality of content but no this is still worth running

USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST@blockedforthispost.bsky.social · last wk.

are you british

current solution to people spamming the blocked bot is that instead of doing any manual work about who is allowed to get posted by it whatsoever i am adding a cooldown to how often the same person can get it

the weird feeling when you realize that jimothy is, like, your neighborhood raccoon, and you can just go for a walk if you can figure out which street he's on

im sorry for saying bluesky was illiterate i had twenty people prove they cannot read on the other platform today

fast post to the effect of "some dissociative symptoms are probably neurological injuries stemming from anesthesia" segyges.github.io/posts/dissoc...

Dissociation as Neurological Injury

A hypothesis connecting childhood surgical anesthesia, NMDA-system injury, and long-term dissociative symptoms

segyges.github.io

Literally. www.wired.com/story/openai...

OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Comes Down to Human Error

If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies.

wired.com

Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 6d ago

this week I learned that the singularity is when a human being fails to air gap hacking software (either accidentally due to incompetence or intentionally for marketing and media exploitation purposes)

wondering how much of behavior in ai as a field is downstream of the fact that you routinely do absurdly grandiose things like "compile every C function ever written" and your sense of scope and scale kind of break

Just tried to look up the Ordovician jawless fish with the funny face and these are the things I searched for and got nothing because it was spelled SO wrong: -sacombabsis -sacombibabsis -sacobibastis The correct answer was: -sacabambaspis