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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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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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Mini of the month - Tanks for the memories Entry 5 by @grumpykiltpin.bsky.social Made From Girders #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth
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Lord give me the arrogance of a tax exile who feels the right to comment on the tax policies and general running of a country who you have deprived of billions by registering yourself in Monaco
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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.
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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Excellent essay from Cory Doctorow, but beware, it might make you extremely angry for this early on a Sunday morning. pluralistic.net/2026/07/24/s...
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We have a new 'could be worse' cartoon :) www.facebook.com/CouldBeWorse...
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