Mark

^ Yeah, tell me

Pentagon threatens to make Anthropic a pariah if it refuses to drop AI guardrails | CNN Business Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a Friday deadline to comply with demands to peel back safeguards on its AI model or risk losing a Pentagon contract.

jawboning meets the military industrial complex

Awww, fwends

Is that the cost of a PR boost on Twitter these days? Seems a bit pricey tbh

*changes name to ButThereIsOnChannel4*

Perhaps they think they're adding something, maybe they've found a new hobby?

30+ years making stuff online, prob be better off if I had a quid for every "why doesn't it do this one really niche thing that only I want?". ¯\(ツ)/¯

This post is the single best advert for the fact that proper local journalism matters.
If Jim’s team hadn’t put the pieces together quickly, this wouldn’t have been stopped.

That's excellent. Don't know why, but it made me think of parts of John Adams's Shaker Loops

Yup, reads like a rough sketch for a bad trailer to be made for a slightly worse film

*boops screen*

It's bad that there's a part of me thinking "they're not doing it hard enough", yeah?

Writing is mostly finding out what you think about something.

Love both of them. It always comes back to almost anything on In The Pines for me - just something about the sound of that on vinyl, like you can hear the space around them, like hearing the expanse and the air.

Bought Surfer Rosa the day it came out. Bought on cassette because I was about to drive somewhere and that was all I could play in the car. By the end of Bone Machine, I was parked up on the side of the road where I listened to the rest of the album before driving on. Astonishing record.

No link?

Drawing of the Trojan Horse

Who's the billionaire behind London’s biggest mass eviction? He's the London philanthropist who says he's committed to solving homelessness. So why is Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital rushing to make hundreds of Londoners homeless in the coming weeks?

London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

"It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart."

Clearly, not guaranteed though, is it? Now, what was your point again, Sam?

Old enough to remember the Western flirtation with all this nonsense in the 70s

They thrive on ignorance and dis/misinformation, essentially, reduces everyone to ignorance.

"De Rooij found that knowing an image is AI-generated negatively impacts how people process the work. This bias affects deep interpretation and even changes how viewers perceive basic visual features like color and brightness."

@shardcore.org - of interest?

Who TF let you borrow Michael Gove?

They can be useful tools for lots of things, but selling them at a utility level doesn't raise 5 quadsquillion in an investment round, so they get hyped and to justify the hype, they get thrown at a mass of things they are incapable of dealing with. Also - good job on this.

Could be worse

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So, just to recap, we have two random DOGE bros with basically no knowledge or experience in the humanities (and at least one of whom is a college dropout), who just went around terminating grants that had gone through a full grant application process by feeding in a list of culture war grievance terms, selecting out the grant titles based on the appearance of seemingly “woke” words, then asking ChatGPT “yo, tell me this is DEI” and then sending termination emails the next day from a private server and forging the director’s signature. This is what “government efficiency” looks like in practice: two guys with zero relevant experience, a keyword list built on culture war grievances, and a chatbot confidently spitting out 120-character verdicts on federal grants that went through actual review processes. The experts who might have explained what these grants actually do? Locked out. The director whose signature appeared on termination letters? Couldn’t tell you which grants got cut or w

Ever wondered how your grant got cancelled? No we know. Some college dropout asked ChatGPT "is it DEI/woke"?

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Use a random Yoko pronouncement

Laika were fantastic.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse...

They've been reading the giblets again, haven't they

We used a large language model to analyse 1.4m of Epstein’s emails to identify the most disturbing. It flagged numerous concerning conversations with individuals whose identities are redacted. Click t... TikTok video by The Economist

He can make this aotey go away www.tiktok.com/t/ZThVR2agG/

Not to be fussy, but the only way be can know for sure is if we get some corroborative lynx