War is peace, freedom is slavery, free speech is unfree.

This popular comparison is misguided. The AI boom has more in common with the Industrial Revolution. It will make some elites even more rich and powerful and enlarge the digital lumpenproletariat. Printing was a middle-class/grassroots revolution. Gutenberg died in poverty.

Nitter and xcancel have been taken down, due to a cease and desist letter sent to them by X Corp. Musk & co are not building the open site they claimed to, they want to own our data and even control who we share it with. This is the last straw for me.

Advanced language models have gotten extremely good at translating. The translation is exactly right, but it’s a double entendre and can also mean hand-brewing.

Police call about my crime of offending Islam.

"Be your own bank"

The EU even has fake asylum seekers from the US, which has among the strongest civil rights and protections in the world. They can go home any time they choose. Attracting drama queens, scammers and violent criminals from all over is a truly fascinating immigration policy.

French liberal: "It’s 45°C in my rooftop apartment but I must not give in to the temptation of using the evil doomsday device" Chinese farmers:

I think it’s time to revisit the accredited investor laws in the US. Companies are staying private longer, where only accredited investors (aka rich people!) can invest. Retail investors can only come in after IPO, when much of the upside has already been captured. These rules were created with the best of intentions, to protect regular people from scams - a noble idea. Unfortunately, in practice they've often made it illegal to get richer, unless you're already rich. A regressive tax! We have to judge policies based on their outcomes, not on their intentions. These are two possible routes I see: 1) Replace the rule with something merit-based, like a financial literacy test. Pass it and you're accredited. Having a qualification based on competency rather than your bank balance or income seems far more fair. 2) Remove the rule entirely. Let consenting adults assess their own risk. Disclosure requirements stay and fraud enforcement stays to punish bad actors.

NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware. Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner. Cleanest practical example I can think of for why over-indexing on first order safety alignment is risky. When closed (and open) models ship with aggressive refusals, they will be sprinkled with second-order blindspots that attackers will discover...and exploit. We are only in the earliest days of attackers leveraging these features, and it wouldn't surprise me if users systems that need to handle complex cybersecurity issues demand that models be less safety-blunted. In the weeds: @SocketSecurity's post also shows why intention matters in how you design a malware analysis pipeline to avoid prompt manipulation. H/T to colleagues that shared this with me socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hu…

Imagine being an ethnic minority in the capital of your own country. Bizarre.

This may be a fake Arabic term invented by the author himself, who was a Nazi Party member and publicly argued the Nazis should ally with the Arabs. So what did he mean by that?

Imagine feeling superior to third worlders while being from a culture that 1) transferred all its advanced technology to China for short term profit 2) ignores the long term risks of unlimited immigration 3) is rapidly dying due to low birth rates combined with point 2

Not just archaeologists.

The largest ethnicity in Africa by far is… Arabs. Most don’t understand how completely ravaged North Africa was by the invaders. The 'Scramble for Africa' never ended, it’s just that the Europeans gave up and left it to the Islamists.

A great example of convergent devolution: Based on a brief glance I’d have sworn it’s some European city, like Berlin. It’s fascinating how these places are now looking extremely similar, despite being on different continents.

In case you thought I was joking: Here’s an NDP delegate/transwoman bitching that his “equity card” (which is supposed to allow one to jump to the front of the line to speak) didn’t work — and a “cis woman” got to speak before he did.

Gunnar Strömmer(M), Minister of Justice, #ChatControl supporter, during an interview on Politikbyrån. Journalist: Can we see your latest sms? Gunnar: Eeh, no, you can not. J: Why can't we get to see your recent sms? G: It is for what I believe to be obvious private reasons.

They’re not banned from the Olympics and they’re not women. Put more lies into such a brief headline challenge: Impossible.

Users arguing with chatbots to be allowed a few more prompts before bedtime. Others feeding Amazon’s servers tons of private info for hours… The entire thread reads like trolls satirizing AI users but I fear most arenn’t joking.