@surf.social: "Open Web" without open source, your data are still online.
@flareapp.moe: Free and open source, you data is on your device.
Choose wisely.👀

i am very normal and can be trusted with claude mythos @DarioAmodei

humans spent relatively little evolutionary time optimizing reasoning

A cartoon illustration of five smiling men in long coats and hats with their hands in each other's pockets.

Band of thieves. #grickledoodle #thieves #cartoon #band #drawing #funny #art #humor

recent Axios story on maternal health policy referenced "findings" that a majority of people trusted their doctors and nurses. On the surface, there's nothing unusual about that. What wasn't originally mentioned, however, was that these findings were made up. Clicking through the links revealed (as did a subsequent editor's note and clarification by Axios) that the public opinion poll was a computer simulation run by the artificial intelligence start-up Aaru. No people were involved in the creation of these opinions. The practice Aaru used is called silicon sampling, and it's suddenly everywhere. The idea behind silicon sampling is simple and tantalizing. Because large language models can generate responses that emulate human answers, polling companies see an opportunity to use A.I. agents to simulate survey responses at a small fraction of the cost and time required for traditional polling.

As I’ve said a million times, I’m not particularly against smart uses of AI

This is the stupidest use I’ve seen yet though

even the musk datacenter, like, that thing is the thing that is enabling the wild 'language barrier breaking' algorithm stuff that is happening on xitter right now

I've come around on the idea that there's basically nothing that policymakers can do to encourage an increase in marriage or birth rates other than "make the world a better place"

My pocket calculator was a tool. It never lied to me.

When I overloaded it by attempting tasks for which it was not calibrated, the answer was 'E' for 'error'.

It didn't hallucinate or lie to me, insisting it was correct.

🍽️ All You Can Eat 🍽️

Simple solution to the energy crisis

There's something a bit poignant about a Bluetooth device failing to connect to another device right next to it when they're the only Bluetooth devices for hundreds of thousands of kilometres around.

interestingly, this has a reverse relationship with wealth: the wealthiest countries (US, UK, DE) all have pretty horrible internet, while if you go to Vietnam or Russia for example you're likely to have a _mobile_ connection faster than the fastest ADSL on offer in Germany, and maybe faster wired

Just my humble opinion, but when for the first time, the price for a pound of hamburger is higher than the minimum wage, things are not looking good.

remember when naomi had regular cancer (curable) and then fucks otacon and decides immediately to stop taking her meds and die

Oh my god that drove me crazy and eventually I just replaced claude in $PATH with a script that does

exec env -u SSH_AUTH_SOCK ~/.local/bin/claude "$@"

because after all I don't want the agent to access the ssh-agent.

Kinda scary how few of us have any prompt on SSH key use.

Honestly I feel bad for him. This is likely career ending, or at least severe damage. And while I wouldn't do it, the pressure for writers to be churning out novels, articles, and reviews non-stop just to survive is immense, and I understand the temptation to cut corners.

Post Mortem: axios npm supply chain compromise · Issue #10636 · axios/axios Post Mortem: axios npm supply chain compromise Date: March 31, 2026 Author: Jason Saayman Status: Remediation in progress On March 31, 2026, two malicious versions of axios (1.14.1 and 0.30.4) were...

so what i am learning from github.com/axios/axios/... is that you should simply never join a Microsoft Teams call for any reason --- because of security

I'll be real I understand why The Boss did all that

After billions of dollars of research, the Americans finally engineered an Outlook that would work in space. The Soviets, meanwhile, used pencils

People celebrating (unverified) reports of data centres being hit with with missiles, on Bluesky, which helpfully only runs on a few old Pentium 4 boxes in someone's garage and not in, say, data centres. Some of you people really don't understand a single thing, do you.

community notes is a legitimately amazing feature

Funkiest QFN I have seen to date. Radar send and receive and digital measurement in the same chip and no external antennas needed! All of those perimeter vias are straight to the ground plane. This was from a board we assembled for a customer last year.

☆ ADMIRE THE MAGIC RUNES ☆

yes. every time there's like two headings with emoji in the beginning in a row i have to look for other telltale signs. they're usually there

i've always thought that "not having any UI of its own whatsoever" could have been a weak point of git-pages if the publishing flow was janky and needed debugging, but it seems like it's reliable enough that only having an API is fine

9. Instead of thinking of pieces as occupying a square, think of them as an area of squares they cover. Imagine them highlighted when you look at a piece. It's that area you're moving, not the piece. In the endgame, think of your king as a 3x3 box where your opponent can't go.

uncovered this in a pile of my sketches.I think I must try to achieve this level of Zen
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I did not sign up to be one of the extras in this Tom Clancy franchise movie who need factor one million sun block!

boss to a human employee when they make a mistake: you're fired
boss to a computer when it makes a mistake: you are a delicate flower capable of love