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Yeah, IIRC the main “breach” happened during Covid as a result of the disruption caused by the pandemic, it’s not something whose root cause can be blamed so easily on Trump. There was a program operating down in Panama to prevent the fly from spreading up through the narrow isthmus there by releasing sterile males and the supply chain disruptions broke it for a year or two, resulting in the flies getting through to Mexico where it’s a lot harder to eradicate them.

Trump’s cuts and chaos sure haven’t helped the situation, though, and with dedicated effort it might have been possible to turn back the tide before now.

The best part of DS9’s Section 31 was that Section 31 knew they were the bad guys too.

Being anti-AI makes one an outcast? Come visit the Fediverse or Reddit bubbles and say a few things favorable to AI and see how that goes.

Jorge Gutierrez just backed out of making a TV series using AI because of threats against his wife and child. Spare me the victim narrative.

I set up an image generation AI on my computer and it just sat there not generating pictures of anything, until I told it what I wanted it to generate. Then it generated that.

The article itself is so lacking in substance that it’s hard to even say it’s misleading. The part that seems to be about “AI is too expensive” reads:

Fortune, citing The Verge, said that Microsoft steered engineers away from Anthropic’s Claude Code and over to GitHub Copilot CLI, even though access to Claude Code was opened only about six months ago.

Which isn’t “AI is too expensive”, it’s “our in-house AI was cheaper than Anthropic’s service.”

And the whole rest of the article is just the usual vague “not everyone finds AI useful for everything” and “water usage? Power grids?” And “by 2030 there’ll be a lot more tokens used than today” (which seems contrary to the headline, but whatever).

Looks like it was already on a long-term decline, AI just threw it off a cliff. It was likely ripe for an alternative.

Perhaps if one wanted to, one could set up the cryptographic wallet with a “smart contract” built into it that lets you use more sophisticated controls - keys that only allow small amounts of money to be taken out, backup keys that can lock the wallet down if keys are compromised, and so forth. Since you’d be the one who assigns the smart contract to your wallet you’d still be the one ultimately in control of it. And, ultimately, you’d be the one to take responsibility since the money is under your own control this way.

In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m describing Ethereum. This is what cryptocurrency is for. It’s what it’s been for for a decade already, eighteen years if you go back to the start with Bitcoin, but most people just think “Monkey jpeg NFTs and ponzi schemes, scam!” And dismiss it.

Guess that leaves everyone at the mercy of the banks for managing money. Oh well, maybe someday someone will invent this thing that we’ve had all along.

Add a cryptographic layer so that only a computer with access to the private key could issue transactions from that keys wallet.

It’d be nice if there was a way to store and transfer money electronically without any sort of central organization to grant or withhold permission.

Then all of the above would have been the correct answer.

But you didn’t, did you? I can tell. You’ve got that “emissive display” vibe to you.

Trick question! They are all squares filled with pixels on a computer monitor, they emit light! The correct answer was “none of the above.”

I’ve identified a bot account.

Then comes the matter of payment – Gawiser filed a “writ of execution” (another $240 in court fees) just yesterday, which would allow Texas law enforcement to seize and sell off enough of Tesla’s property as would be required to pay the judgment against them. If it comes to that, we hope he brings cameras.

This is the bit I always look forward to.

My favourite was the time the Bank of America refused to pay a fine of $2500 that was issued by a small-claims court, so the court ordered a bailiff to go to a local branch and just take stuff until they had enough to sell off to cover it. Since they couldn’t take the cash (it technically wasn’t the bank’s, they were just holding on to it for depositors) they were wheeling out desks and chairs and whatnot until the bank manager hurriedly wrote a check.

That’s part of what determines military effectiveness.

But they only just took their mask off, how can you ask them to slam it back on so quickly after?

It’s where a lot of the pirate sites have found refuge from the Western copyright cartels. It’s not necessarily a government-affiliated site just because it’s got an .ru domain.

I did a quick deep dive into this story, and basically: the incident seems to have happened, it’s still under investigation, and the 3rd Army Corps does indeed have right-wing roots.

But at the same time, it’s just one incident. An army’s a big organization with lots of people, there’s always going to be at least a few monsters in there. I’m not seeing anything to suggest that this is a systematic thing. And refusing to comment on something where there’s an ongoing investigation doesn’t seem unreasonable to me either.

It’s common for propaganda to latch on to specific incidents that match the narrative they’re after and display them as if they were representative of the general case. The fact that this seems to have nothing to do with the subject of the news story this thread is about beyond the very generic “3rd Army” connection suggests to me that this was likely intended as that.

If this thread were about that incident, sure, it’s a bad thing worthy of discussion. This thread is not about that, though, and jumping in out of nowhere with “but look, bad Ukrainians!” Looks pretty disingenuous.

That “thought” thing that you applied to the situation, Donald doesn’t do that part.

Not without hanging herself.

Immediately after the big announcements about Mythos there were followups by other teams that were able to find most of the same vulnerabilities with other existing models. I think the main takeaway there was that it’s just a matter of actually looking. Anthropic’s advantage may have been in the framework that let them do so in industrial-scale quantity rather than the cleverness of the particular model they used.

This sort of security scan is still new and important to pay attention to, but it’s not something that’s unique to Anthropic or that can be kept “contained.” Shades of how GPT-2 was considered “too dangerous to release” back when it first appeared. Comical in hindsight, and impossible to prevent anyway.

A while back a friend of mine told me that Trump had “crossed a line” with his blasphemous Jesus image, and I quietly privately gritted my teeth. Seriously, that’s a line? He was never a Trump supporter to begin with but this was worse than all the child rape and the ruination he’s bringing to the world?

Same thing here. If US conservatives decide to turn on the Israelis over this, sure, I’ll be happy they turned on them. But that this is the thing that does it, and not all the genocide and apartheid and whatnot, that doesn’t exactly put them in my good books.