Andreas Flierl

So nice to see this out! > The five core principles – honesty, Scrupulousness, transparency, independence and responsibility – remain unchanged. www.nwo.nl/en/news/revi... Image from: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Dr. Gladys West's complex calculations & computer modeling laid the vital foundation for the creation of GPS. Her data analysis culminated in an incredibly accurate, detailed mathematical model of the Earth's true shape, known as a geoid. 🧵 She was born #OTD in 1930. #WomenInSTEM

"now I can just STEAL from this genius concept artist, Mike McArthur!!!"

The answer to so many questions of "why?" is - very unfortunately - simply "money".

wanted to write about this, but found it simpler to draw it instead

Defender PSA: 1. Today’s macOS update from Apple does NOT appear to remove the compromised eMudhra intermediates from /etc/ssl/cert.pem, as far as I can tell 2. Today’s macOS update from Apples DOES clobber manual changes to /etc/ssl/cert.pem and so you will need to reapply them

Not only is this a terrible thing to say about your coworkers, it also throws the whole concept of creative collaboration into the garbage. When I go back and forth with someone like @einzbern.bsky.social on a concept or piece of art, the final result winds up better because it has both of us in it.

I don’t want to be mean, but I’m struggling to find the motivation to go through work the person who submitted it couldn’t even be bothered to write themselves.

Efficient should mean something we can run on a computer. This is less mathematically formalizable than we’d like to admit.

When they tell us "there is no alternative," what they mean is "stop trying to think of alternatives." To imagine radically is to move beyond the helplessness of prediction: a radical imagination dares to insist that history is what we make, not what happens to us.

I am minded once again of the principle that if a company has to force its employees to use a tool, that tool is probably not fit for purpose

Eek!

just like the fossil fuel industry and CCS, the most fun response is to say "Okay: your product is dangerous. So we're banning data centres, taxing LLM products and encouraging institutional bans on chatbots". And watch them scream with wide eyes

Pretty much every movement like this is student-led. This is why authoritarians always crack down on students.

not only does this report confirm morbidly wealthy shitbags are massively inflating AI firms' value/import but it also explodes the lie that "AI makes us more efficient"

While we discuss with colleagues in academia about the ethics of using AI, trying to choose the right tone in order to avoid shattering what little remains of their spine with statements a bit too strongly worded, this is what they’re actually contributing to in the real world.

Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner that’s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the “punishment” is built in

I wonder how it will give working class men influence by replacing their jobs. But as always nobody cares as long as it hurts someone you hate.

Or maybe don’t do that. Do the ethical thing instead: your job.

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My current I guess coldest AI take is that LLMs, agents, etc biggest trick is persuading people that it does something they couldn't do themselves while in practical terms being limited to being precisely as reliable as they are competent to assess and ensure.

First, automation is not what you think! No system which is automated has within it machines or processes that require no human oversight. Automation is actually not what you seem to think if you think the OP statements. It may be time to engage with psychological research in this area!

have you heard about ssh. that shit is wild. literally remote code execution after providing a random number

Besides the black cats I draw most often, I also draw birds from time to time. I love their lightness and lively movement, and capturing both with lines. #shouxinsketch #petart #animalart #illustrationartists #pet #sketch #sketchdaily

Thank you, Razer Naga software, for warning me about low power *after* the connection dropped out.

Looking for game devs who have been directly inspired by anything BioWare for my next video. I suspect the public likely doesn’t quite realize the extent of their influence on the industry, so I’d really like to highlight that. If you are one such game devs, pls reply to this post!

it’s like if the Jurassic Park raptor distribution company also sells you raptor fences

A stronger reminder that no the SS were not all hanged, only a tiny amount of the Nazi leadership was hanged and most got away without punishment. Many people in the SS would live long lives, stay in high society and business. This is one of the failures of denazification we are still dealing with.

“I want my Wednesday back” blog.luitjes.it/posts/i-want... > But to the AI security vendors who promoted this as THE GATES OF HELL WILL OPEN YOU HAVE TO PATCH WITHIN 15 MINUTES OR DIE? I want my Wednesday back.

Buried at the end of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's NYT interview: the single most terrible yet somehow confusingly appropriate metaphor for fossil-fuelled AI I have ever seen ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...

The conclusion is NOT "we need to debias LLMs" Besides that it's impossible, it also detracts from the point, which is: We shouldn't use machines to offload of the very cognition that is constitutive of the work to be done & supercharge existing inequities and injustices in the process. 🧵

“Severe heat killed more than 50,000 people in European cities and towns this summer, according to peer-reviewed estimates released by scientists in London on Friday.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/c...

Capitalism is fundamentally incapable of protecting human safety and wellbeing, #2024943: www.latitudemedia.com/news/catalys...

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...