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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
weezmgk ("Comrade Weez") wrote:

@lauren Just slap Trump's name on things

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
NationalPost@flipboard.com ("National Post") wrote:

Rescuers race to save over 100 people still trapped in Nepalese hydropower project tunnel
https://nationalpost.com/news/rescuers-race-to-save-over-100-people-still-trapped-in-nepalese-hydropower-project-tunnel?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into National Post News @national-post-news-NationalPost

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

chatting with a couple of friends about spurious accuracy and one of them sent:

"A friend's father used to design TV transmitting antennas. They had to be accurate because any swr was a huge reflected power to dissipate. He knew pi to 27 decimal places."

that just breaks my brain

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

The vuln that was exploited was a well-known hdf5 security problem rolled together with amateur-hour kubernetes config. This is something that an LLM should be able to do because its just pattern matching all the blog posts that say "this is bad to do" with the hf code.

https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116962763699983489

OpenAI wants to sell this as "omg our models are so smart they are this dangerous swarm intelligence" but in reality the story is "LLMs are so fundamentally insecurable that any string left anywhere in reach is an unmitigatable prompt injection"

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

New hotness in prompt injection: files with names that roleplay as another agent seeking help on the same problem, because LLMs interpret all text as being something talking to them

https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@kevinevans Hash browns!

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

Days since someone insisted my blog is NSFW: [0]

https://old.reddit.com/r/cryptography/comments/1vt1b0l/what%5Fexactly%5Fis%5Fin%5Fcryptography/p6bmm81/?context=4

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Dear producers, if you don't want to be too "ripped from the headlines," make a movie about this guy instead. We'll all get the parallel, I promise

https://slate.com/life/2026/07/chicago-superheroes-smoking-cigarettes-black-americans.html

Boosted by jwz:
DocPop@pixelfed.social ("Doctor P. Popular") wrote:

Activists are posting cardboard signs pointing out the locations of nearby Flock cameras in San Francisco. #SFGraffiti #Flock

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

omg.lol Office Hours in 1.5 hours. See you there! :prami_contented: https://home.omg.lol/office-hours

jwz wrote:

Periodic reminder that "Moderate Democrat" is how you spell "Republican" in San Francisco.

For historical reasons, it's impossible for a Republican to get elected in SF, so the Republicans register as Democrats and call themselves "moderates". What they actually are is "neoliberals", or, if you like, methane-breathing space zombie free-marketeers. The people to the left of them call themselves "progressives". And "centrist" means somewhere between Libertarian and MAGA...
https://jwz.org/b/yk%5FO

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

The grass is taking over.

#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #trees

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

x formerly twitter and csam, hand in hand.

it's hardly a surprise but it's yet another example of why that site is not suitable for any kind of professional use.

ask your friends who are still on it why they're providing traffic for the CSAM generator.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/elon-musks-xai-used-child-porn-to-train-grok-models-lawsuit-says/

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

It's amazing how lazy and misleading an org can be at their PR campaign and still get believed by people who claim to be technical

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

What do I do with a lb or two of potatoes that I gotta use up soon? 🤔 Potato croquettes? Mashed taters?

#food

Boosted by jwz:
tvaziri ("Todd Vaziri") wrote:

The 8 TV shows and movies you should watch before "Avengers: Doomsday" (2026):

1. X-Men: First Class (2011)
2. Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)
3. Children of Men (2006)
4. V, V: The Final Battle, V: The Series
5. Sledge Hammer! (s01+02)
6. Police Squad! (s01+s02)
7. Baywatch Nights (s01+s02)

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

Monarchs in flight.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/27/how-about-a-pretty-video/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV2KeTiW1GA

Boosted by kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin"):
sebastian@jittr.click wrote:

i tried

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“The Oval Office had always been deliberately understated—a reminder that the United States was a republic, not a monarchy, and the President’s office was not a palace. Trump had gone along with that tradition in his first term. In his second term, he would unleash his inner Louis XIV.”

— Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan
https://a.co/08ijoFu5

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

‘Carlson had previously criticized Trump for refusing to knock Netanyahu over the Gaza carnage; now he would make clear to the President that a broader war would be his ruin. “They want you to go to war with Iran,” Carlson said. “We’re not doing that,” Trump answered. “Good, because the only thing that can blow up your administration is if you get into a war with Iran,” Carlson said. “Your voters don’t want any more wars. You ran on that. That’s the main reason people voted for you in 2016. That’s what set you apart from the pack. You changed the Republican Party. And the people who didn’t want to change are now trying to lure you into a trap. This is a trap set by your enemies. These people fucking hate you. And once you get in, it’s very hard to get out of it. And that’ll wreck your presidency. That’ll wreck everything. You won’t be able to do anything.”’

— Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan
https://a.co/0cTd6Ez5

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

A lifetime of listening to hip-hop has left my ass swiss cheesed with invisible trigger phrases, so whenever you see the phrase "100 degrees" during a heatwave make sure your mind also goes "smoking on these trees at a hundred degrees, never touch the breeze just the sticky green leaves"

https://archive.org/details/the-further-adventures-of-lord-quas-flac/02.+Quasimoto+-+Greenery+%28Explicit%29.flac

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

dripping with potential for corruption by foreign powers:

“… after Trump Jr joined 1789 Capital, its assets under management ballooned: going from a reported $150m in 2024, to $1bn last August, to $2.7bn at year’s end, to a reported $3.5bn by May, according to SEC filings.

A significant proportion of that capital came from foreign investors, according to CNN reporting and the Guardian’s review of SEC filings. Forty per cent of assets under management were from overseas investors.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/27/democrats-investigation-trump-jr-1798-capital?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Mfs are so broken by the prestige treadmill they've forgotten the simple joy of "having an idea"

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

I have heard people talking about submitting tons of AI grants they don't even really know the full details of because "something might eventually get through" and I have to look away to avoid being drawn in to the vacuousness of their being

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

I wonder what the effect size of "believing academic writing is just a mechanical paint by numbers factory process" -> "writing with AI" is. Academic writing is a genre and a literary form, and like all genres and literary forms there are idioms, expectations to play with and violate, a range of expressive devices you can draw on or discard. People who don't treat academic writing as a craft or an art write the worst papers.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Its good to know how to write, actually, and its very hard to learn, and the only way to learn is to do it a lot.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/117164185311151783

A friend who just won a big grant just said to me "I think not using AI might have made my grant more competitive than it would have been years ago" and like... As long as there are people who actually read the grants, it gives me a schadenfreude laugh to think of the prestige class pumping out what they think is 10x solid gold genius, but to everyone else it just looks like they are surrounded by a cloud of pink slime like pigpen in peanuts.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
aparrish@friend.camp ("allison") wrote:

i realize that $13b isn't a lot for nvidia https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/report-nvidia-to-acquire-ai-model-repository-hugging-face-for-13-billion/ but still they're not dropping that kind of cash on huggingface because they think that "open models" will make you *less* dependent on them

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
fanf@mendeddrum.org ("Tony Finch") wrote:

from my link log —

mold: a massively parallel linker.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23228

saved 2026-08-27 https://dotat.at/:/USPYY.html

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117169040146193300

I (somewhat reluctantly) am coming to the conclusion that in the new era of proof abundance, the high-quality and well-curated portion of the literature will become an increasingly small fraction of a much larger ocean of lower-quality (though often technically correct) results

mathematics is not special and will suffer exactly the same way as software has, news at 11.