Jamie MacIsaac

Jamie MacIsaac

@jamie.macisa.ac

Does things to imaginary computers for money. Likes beer, greyhounds (as pets), aikido and Warhammer. A bit left-y and a bit skinny. Old.

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Replying to @iandunt.bsky.social

The whole world is having to deal with the terrifying and expensive chaos caused by this country's temper tantrum, and then we have to hear them mytholigise themselves on top of it all. Just can't be fucking dealing with it.

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While I'm shouting at clouds, UK gov telling everyone to stockpile for climate-change-driven emergencies while fast-forwarding fossil fuel drilling is... I had thought it was the government's responsibility to fix problems, not cause problems and then tell us to deal with the fallout at our expense.

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The real problem with the new Bond won't be finding the right actor, it'll be coming up with a billionaire megalomaniac villain that won't get them sued for libel.

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I guess this is the week Bluesky answers this vital question

James O'Malley@jamesomalley.co.uk

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

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JOB (1): A man treated terribly by his boss just to see how much he could take. JOB (2): A position of paid employment where... hey, hang on...

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If the Mastermind guy doesn't get a free years subscription of 2000ad for that final Zarjaz then there's no justice in the world.

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"If you optimize a model to find exploits, you should expect it to find them — and prepare for that. OpenAI did not. They built a model, took the safeguards off, gave it the ExploitGym task, let it run, and didn't even monitor it. That's human decision-making." Understandable for non-tech folk.

Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social

I wrote about the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack following my conversation with @melhogan.bsky.social on The Data Fix this week - more on how it happened, what it means, and why I still see "stochastic flocks" rather than "artificial hiveminds": mail.cyberneticforests.com/models-dont-...

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You know who wasn't hounded to suicide for dodgy academic research? ANDREW FUCKING WAKEFIELD.

Fucking Christ alive. This is fucking horrific. Like the dude was obviously a fabulist and probably a plagiarist but SO ARE ALL FUCKING ACADEMICS. He was also still a vulnerable, autistic Black man and the entire campaign against him was motivated by racism. All these things can be true.

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You may disagree with Nigel Farage, but we haven't seen political statesmanship of such gravitas since Harold Macmillan challenged Muffin the Mule to a wanking competition

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Us: Hey, can we have a nice summery day?! Glasgow: There you go. Us: But it's really cloudy AND muggy. Glasgow: But it's not raining. What do you lot fucking want from me? *and scene*

“Cool - ought to get this in three.” “OK, four then…” “Hmm…” Wordle 1,858 6/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Data analysis firm Palantir was named for a load of old balls that seemed really useful but actually left you vulnerable to the corrupting influence of an evil overlord. Probably just coincidence.

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"Next on the line we have Shug from Dundee. Shug, now you have a sombrero and you want to swap that for a Viking helmet, is that right?"

When I start getting grumpy because I've lost my Chaos Spawn Khorne heads, can one of you remind me that I stuck them all to my lamp for safekeeping please? #nerdlings #WorldEaters

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If you see anyone being cynical about the election remind them how fortunate they are that they get to choose which self-serving cunt they want to be disappointed by for the next five years and not live somewhere where they impose a murderous, self-serving cunt upon them.