Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD

Can a Chatbot Be Conscious? Claude 4 and the Limits of AI Understanding A conversation with Anthropic’s chatbot raises questions about how AI talks about awareness.

"A conversation with Anthropic’s chatbot [Claude] raises questions about how AI talks about awareness." | Scientific American www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

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There are very few tools like a chainsaw; irreplaceable

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Hope they keep their resolve on this one...

All San Diego Comic-Con Trailers: ***** - IT: Welcome To Derry (2025) Bill Skarsgård **REMOVED Due To Copyright Claims** 0:01 - WAR OF THE WORLDS (2025) Prime Video 1:55 - PREDATOR: BADLANDS… All Comic-Con Movie Trailers (2025) Official

Predator Badlands looks cool af "All Comic-Con Movie Trailers (2025) Official" - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UnR...

Heh, this sounds like fun: Meals & Megabytes, Tech Tasters, Digital Dish, The Helpings Project, Community Clicks, Neighborly Net, The Silver Servers, Connect & Chow, Pixel Plates, Support & Supper

check out @ChefReactions' video about @_MealsOnWheels and feeding seniors. Makes me think all of us of the familial tech support persuasion could volunteer, feed people AND make sure they can do tech stuff confidently and safely. Sort of a geek squad for seniors with snacks.

THIS is what kinda shit yall need to worry about when it comes to the archive.

Ha, I did not notice in the slightest!

This is a must. listen. Could not be a more lucid discussion

We're thinking of good drag queen/king names this evening over cocktails; "Tequila Mockingbird" is the clear winner so far

Belgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order (Update) * TorrentFreak A Belgian court ordered intermediaries to block access to major shadow libraries, including the Internet Archive's Open Library.

Belgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order (Update) * TorrentFreak torrentfreak.com/belgium-targ...

Following my Washington Post report on Eric Michaud's secret partnership in a crypto-recovery business with fallen hacker hero Morgan Marquis-Boire, Michaud joins him as one of five people permanently banned from #DefCon. defcon.org/html/links/d...

Jury Says Tesla Was Partly to Blame for Fatal Crash Lawyers for the family of a woman struck and killed by a Tesla sedan in 2019 argued that the company’s Autopilot software should have avoided the crash.

Jury finds Tesla Autopilot software 33% responsible for fatal 2019 crash www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...

Provided to YouTube by Columbia/Legacy Hymn To Friday · Oscar Brown, Jr. Between Heaven and Hell ℗ Originally released 1962. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment Released on:… Hymn To Friday

freaking classic: "Hymn To Friday" Oscar Brown, Jr youtube.com/watch?v=Cwvk...

Internet exchange points are critical, but ignored : Italian operator calls for lawmakers to wake up to the critical role played by peering

"Internet exchange points are ignored, vulnerable, and absent from infrastructure protection plans" www.theregister.com/2025/07/31/i...

Kids Online Safety Act will silence LGBTQ voices www.washingtonblade.com/2025/07/31/o...

Broken building

L.F.T. - No Covenent [ Osàre! Editions 003 ] youtube.com/watch?v=W12E...

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Justice is best served cold. Because if it were served warm, it would be justwater. 🧊🧊🧊 (a #badjoke from a dear colleague )

Canada’s Bill C-2 Opens The Floodgates To U.S. Surveillance The Canadian government is preparing to give away Canadians’ digital lives—to U.S. police, to the Donald Trump administration, and possibly to foreign spy agencies. Bill C-2, the so-called Strong B…

"Canada’s Bill C-2 Opens The Floodgates To U.S. Surveillance" Techdirt www.techdirt.com/2025/07/30/c...

Starmer defends Online Safety Act as `child protection´ Rules introduced under the Act on July 25 require online platforms to take steps to prevent children accessing harmful content.

The introduction of age-verification in the UK this weekend appears to be an unmitigated disaster. Anyone accessing socials now has to upload ID, scan their face or otherwise verify. The outrage is widespread and everyone is just finding workarounds.

The government has gone into defense.

Psychedelic af Illustration of an eye

"Reverberation (Doubt)" by the 13th Floor Elevators (1966) youtube.com/watch?v=9C0V...

When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History | Quanta Magazine Researchers in “natural language processing” tried to tame human language. Then came the transformer.

"When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field [NLP]: An Oral History" Quanta Magazine www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt...

Dang, I should have went to physical therapy months ago

AI Bunnies on Trampoline Causing Crisis of Confidence on TikTok People failing to identify a video of adorable bunnies as AI slop has sparked worries that many more people could fall for online scams.

Bunnygate catastrophe currently occurring on TikTok www.404media.co/ai-bunnies-o...

Definitely seen raccoons on trampolines on IG www.instagram.com/reel/DMidypT... CC @rosiejt62.bsky.social @jasonkoebler.bsky.social

Shaping the Digital Future: Understanding the Internet Governance Forum (IGF)  | Internet Society Foundation In today’s world, nearly every aspect of our lives—from communication and commerce to education and healthcare—is shaped by the Internet. But who ensures that the Internet remains open, secure, and…

proud of our support for IGF and the national and regional IGFs. What's IGF?: "Shaping the Digital Future: Understanding the Internet Governance Forum (IGF)" Internet Society Foundation www.isocfoundation.org/2025/07/shap...

A document announcing the "Fourth ITU-T X.509 Day (2025) event" on September 5, 2025, from 13:00 to 16:00 (Geneva time). It details ITU-T X.509 as a foundational standard for public key infrastructure and digital certificates, outlining its history and applications. The event's objectives include reviewing X.509 progress, assessing post-quantum cryptography readiness, exploring decentralized PKI, discussing cross-border digital identity, strengthening AI trust, showcasing real-world adoption, and identifying future directions.

TIL that the ITU has an annual "X.509 Day", wheeee www.itu.int/md/T25-TSB-C...