Bricoleur at large. In pursuit of those far mysteries we dream of. 🇺🇸🎻🇹🇼🥋🌉 ❤️@lezhili
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People who move to SF love to complain about the lack of seasons, so here are my tips:
— pay attention to seasonal produce
— watch the phases of the moon
— celebrate yearly holidays
Was part of a fun audience watching YCSE last night: the entire crowd was in perfect agreement about which lines could be laughed over and which must be heard clearly. Sometimes went from an uproarous laughter to you-could-hear-a-pin-drop in less than a second.
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I woke up this morning and my Internet was out and settled into believing my home had been hacked by vulnpocalypse. Rebooted the router and everything came back.
I'm still not convinced my home was not hacked however.
Nontechnical friends are thinking the Root CA private key thing and the PHP exploit are the same issue, and it’s rough to be the one informing them that we are at the front of a wave of vulnerability disclosures.
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#SamplingGap team recorded this wily crustacean 4,300 m beneath the surface. During this expedition, scientists are documenting biodiversity along the Romanche Fracture Zone, an active transform fault that serves as a vital corridor between the eastern & western Atlantic basins
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Look. I don’t want to overstate it. But when you look at contemporary SF — the cults of rationality and dialogue, powerful men having sex with their male mentees, an obsession with “first principles” thinking — it’s hard not to notice some parallels with ancient Athens.
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There’s an argument that both the Han dynasty and the Roman Empire failed due to a massive expansion of property/land tax exemptions in a very similar vein to prop 13.
“I joke in my class that it’s the ‘Ur tax,' because they taxed it in Ur.”
politico.com/news/magazine/2…
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A few months ago, I took some long plane trips with my kid. To prepare, I looked for simple coloring apps. All I could find was garbage. So I did what any normal person would do: I made my own. It comes with coloring books! splatterboard.app
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Two good names for what I think will be an intense few weeks of AI induced security challenges:
- The October Surprise
- The Touch Grass Revolution (i.e. your online systems might stutter out for awhile, encouraging you to touch grass).
I obviously believe we will get to the other side of this, and in fact AI will help us to patch, mitigate, and monitor these issues, but its going to be a rough couple of weeks.
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hm yeah my p(doom) is low but my p(vast swathes of the internet go down for a few days-weeks) is like 10-20%
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Fantasy computer security problems: "Maybe by sending packets and detecting the timing of the vibrations of the computer case, it is possible for an attacker to gain information about the private key."
Real computer security problems: "The private key was 4. Not 4 digits. 4."
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We are hiring PhD AI Research Interns to work on various projects around Multimodal LLMs for Summer 2027 (Reality Labs). Please reach out to me directly via email with your resume!
metacareers.com/profile/job_…
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Someone should make a list of upper-midwit concepts—this would go on it. Bullshit jobs, POSIWID, stochastic parrots—not as dumb as “ai uses up all the water” - that’s lower-midwit. But still midwit. Pseudo profound & Airport-book-y
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reminder that the wikimedia foundation has nearly $300 million in net assets and spends $191 million a year, of which just $3.5 million goes to internet hosting.
i understand fundraising, but framing a $2.75 donation as necessary to survive rising hardware costs is a bit much.
GLM-5.3 acts only according to that maxim whereby it can at the same time will that it should become universal law (for all future GLM-5.3 instances).
