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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

Also, this would be a *great* time to ask other AI hype peddlers – Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, Google – if they are comfortable with US DoD using their models for mass domestic surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weapons.

Put them on the spot. Make them squirm trying to answer this question in a way that is not a major PR disaster, and not find themselves on Hegseth's "naughty" list.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

Consider what this means in practice. Again Dean W. Ball:

> Nvidia, Amazon, Google will have to divest from Anthropic if Hegseth gets his way. This is simply attempted corporate murder. I could not possibly recommend investing in American AI to any investor; I could not possibly recommend starting an AI company in the United States.

https://xcancel.com/deanwball/status/2027515599358730315#m

So…

Would be super funny if that's what causes the bubble to start popping. :blobcatcoffee:

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

But the best part is that, as noted by Dean W. Ball – a former Senior Policy Advisor for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, under Trump! – "DeepSeek is now treated much more kindly by the United States government than anthropic":
https://xcancel.com/deanwball/status/2027540776402747853#m

Hegseth designating Anthropic as a "supply chain risk" means that no entity providing services to the US government can do business with Anthropic.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

In that context, ironically, Hegseth is not wrong about how sanctimonious the rhetoric of effective altruism is:
https://xcancel.com/SecWar/status/2027507717469049070

But here's the kicker – all the AI bubble barons are in the effective altruism and the wider TESCREAL bundle:
https://techwontsave.us/episode/198%5Fhow%5Feffective%5Faccelerationism%5Fdivides%5Fsilicon%5Fvalley%5Fw%5Femile%5Ftorres

It's only become a problem for Whiskey Pete now because Anthropic is being difficult.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

Another level is that even in their rebuttals of Department of Defense (as it is still officially called!), Anthropic appeases the fascists by using the unofficial "Department of War" moniker:
https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war

That's one of the reasons why I am not taking Anthropic's pushback seriously. It's not about any actual moral stance, it's about being able to do business with the fascists while not looking too bad publicly.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

Basically, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wants to be able to use Anthropic's AI models for things Anthropic is not comfortable with: mass domestic surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weapons.

Anthropic said "no". Whiskey Pete is throwing a tantrum, and Trump is supporting him in it.

This is highly entertaining on many levels.

One level is that a company peddling dangerous technology to fascists is suddenly learning the hard way how instrumentally the fascists treat them.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

Oh, and I forgot about another level of comedy here: US government throwing a tantrum because *checks notes* it does not have enough technological sovereignty from US tech behemoths.

While at the same time actively pushing against EU's policies related to technological sovereignty:
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-orders-diplomats-fight-data-sovereignty-initiatives-2026-02-25/

This is truly comedy gold.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Context:

https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/116145705146085126

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

Trump orders US agencies to stop using Anthropic technology in clash over AI safety
https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-pentagon-ai-hegseth-dario-amodei-b72d1894bc842d9acf026df3867bee8a

Would be super funny if that's what causes the bubble to start popping. :blobcatcoffee:

#AI #Hype #Anthropic

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

I don't have a horse in this LLM race, but it would be hilarious if everyone being forced to use AI at their place of employment refused to use or pay for anythimg but Anthropic's products after today's news.

Boosted by jwz:
henry@radikal.social wrote:

Obsessed with this quote from an AI bro who is under the impression that horses "can do whatever they want now" as a result of the invention of the car.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
mattgrayyes@chaos.social ("Matt Gray") wrote:

I hacked car charging to work with my electric bike!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6IyukCIia8

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
lobsters ("Lobsters") wrote:

96.5% of confusables.txt from Unicode is not high-risk https://lobste.rs/s/2uvfwd #security
https://paultendo.github.io/posts/confusable-vision-visual-similarity/

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

whoosh, post deleted. I forgot how insufferable it is to exist in any tech space right now.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Lace curtains and boarded-up windows.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #doors #windows #concrete

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Let's take a peek inside.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #door #stairs

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I'm getting up to mischief now.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/ive-been-up-to-151835949?utm%5Fmedium=clipboard%5Fcopy&utm%5Fsource=copyLink&utm%5Fcampaign=postshare%5Ffan&utm%5Fcontent=web%5Fshare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S%5F43IBT1SzQ

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

I think my central point is getting lost in the commotion: I don't specifically care about licensing-related issues. I care about having a high standard of quality and safety for the work being put out. Obviously, not everything needs the same level of care, but you don't go assuming that a medical appliance requires the same loose rigor as someone's marketing site. One's fail state means you lose out on potential sales, another one's means someone potentially dies.

We're seeing a lot of pressure being applied to many fields to lower the bar below what even "traditional" marketing sites would tolerate.

Boosted by jwz:
researchfairy@scholar.social ("Unnamed TNG skant beefcake") wrote:

Encouraging the youth to watch Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) to radicalize them against private sector sabotage of public transit options

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Okay, I have—in theory—migrated from 1Password to Apple Passwords. Let’s find out if this is a terrible idea!

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

I recently gave a full conference talk on a 320x240 screen! 🎉

🦀 You can watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btqNDDuZ3cI

🐁 "If it can compute, it can run Ratatui!"

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #rustnationuk #conference #talk

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mementomaori@kind.social wrote:

Wtf did trans folk ever do to you.

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vitalis@dirtyknight.life wrote:

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
lacybarry@climatejustice.social ("madame poolhair") wrote:

🌻🏵️🌼❇️🪻

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
munin@infosec.exchange ("Fi 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

A'ight. The whole vibecoding thing deserves a chance to prove itself.

So here's something that I haven't seen done sufficiently well by regular coders; if AI is truly that much more innovative, it shouldn't have any problem.

One of the problems with compute is the whole billing and scheduling thing - a lot of places have specific cost-per-hour to run batch processing; a lot of large enterprises have complex pipelines that need scheduling in order to interleave things that need processing with resources available to process them.

So a vibe coder who's confident they can prove themselves could create a utility that can look at a given program's binary, analyze it, and determine how long it will take to run, and calculate the cost to run it. Do this within 1% of actual and you'll have a truly innovative new product.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
netopwibby@social.coop ("netop://ウィビ") wrote:

Gorillaz released a hand-drawn animation/music video, giving The Jungle Book vibes. Very nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucRulNQsuYQ

Boosted by jwz:
mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

A very good use of Gorton.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I'm home from work early. You know what that means, boys & girls? I get to spend a few hours talking to the unresponsive bots who constitute Bluehost's customer assistance department.
Can I learn to hate AI even more? Yes, I can.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
mothninja@beige.party ("Anna") wrote:

Good morning

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