Alfredo Cruz

Instagram chief says he does not believe people can get clinically addicted to social media Adam Mosseri, the head of Meta’s Instagram, testified during a landmark social media trial in Los Angeles that he disagrees people can be addicted to social media platforms.

Then you are a moron...
Oh wait let me rephrase that in your IT jargon: "People can get dangerously engaged"
🙄
apnews.com/article/inst...

Pentagon-FAA dispute over lasers to thwart cartel drones led to airspace closure, AP sources say The sudden closure of airspace around El Paso, Texas, by the Federal Aviation Administration stemmed from the Pentagon’s plan to test a laser for shooting down Mexican cartel drones.

First they said: We closed the airspace because Mexican drug cartels drones violated the airspace, the threat has been neutralized (as they love to say).
Now: "hmm err.. no.. we wanted to try a new tech to shoot them down.. a laser, it was just.. we can't coordinate" LOL
apnews.com/live/faa-el-...

The New Fabio Is Claude

“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” God this is bleak

Should we be worried by the expiration of the New START Treaty?
Probably not, it is not like we don’t have enough world wide nuclear bombs.
If a new race emerge, it only means we can achieve obliteration quicker than before.

Trump said: Cuba is next.
And we are just sitting here watching world-wide unpopular, unloved, decadent criminals asphyxiate our friend. Shame on us!

Hence this is a moment where we ask: What The Actual Fuck?
Some Mexican journalist and experts had voiced their surprise and disappointment. I'm neither.
To me this is a surprise, yes, but not so much.
What would you expect from a president that planned to rely on "Near-shoring" for economy growth?

Cuba and Mexico had been life long friends. A maxim I grew up with, no matter what, no matter the presidential chair, Mexico will be there for Cuba. This maxim survived presidents and various international pressures. It was an indisputable truth. One should expect to be in a so-called leftist gov.

Trump threaten: Any country that sends oil to Cuba will face economic sanctions.
Mexico, my country, will not send oil to Cuba.
Nowadays this fits the normal "Trump stunt" schema: Threat - Wait for Reaction - Adjust Threat.
But for some of us that have a little, little memory, this is a WTAF moment.

I "undusted" one of my old friends: CGR. A software I wrote when I started in Computational Geometry.
I wrote a bit about why it came to be.
A main development axis was no 3rd party libraries besides the OS and the compiler.
alfredocarlon.site/index.html#CGR

P1 Debat | Boykotter du varer fra USA? | Lyt som podcast | DR LYD Lyt som podcast her på DR LYD. Skal vi boykotte varer fra USA? Er du klar til at droppe din IPhone, din Cola, McDonalds, dine Nike-sko? Og hvad med Google, Microsoft og datalagring? Har vi et alterna...

Et skæv forhold er altid en farlig situation.
Det er rigtigt for personlige forhold eller internationele forhold.
Jeg synes i dags P1 Debat er en god start.
Kort svar: Ja, men det bliever svær og lidt om lidt
Jeg vil gerne hjælpe i mit fag.
www.dr.dk/lyd/p1/p1-de...
(grammar corrections welcome! 😊)

Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS Even well-known services with millions of users are exposing sensitive data.

Sign-in links are handy and should be "secure"!.
After reading this, my self-implemented password-less service running on my 5 euros a month virtual server seems like state-of-the-art in comparison and it was my "bare minimum" work 🤣
What are these people thinking?

arstechnica.com/security/202...

Wow! så fint min personligt rekord er cirka 500 m på 12C. 😂🤣

Som comp. sci. nyder jeg godt af autoriteten til at give AI skylden for ting vi selv har forårsaget.

Ikke Trump 😅😂

Jeg vil gerne meget at være der!!
(grammar checks welcome ☺️)

The Internet didn't build itself; we built it.
If we want better AI models, we need better training data.
To get better massive training data, we need better Internet content.
To get a better Internet content, we need a healthier society.

I posted this on LinkedIn, I wanted to share it here.

However, let us not forget that, with our "Internet data trained" AI models, we are being forced to look at ourselves in a mirror that, many times, enhances a reflection we have conveniently decided to bury; a reflection that scares us.

If you create and create and create mixed colors over and over and over again, and all seem to have a Red component, what can you conclude?
As biases in AI models came to light for the general public, experts' debates often focused on the implications of using these tools for society.

Moreover, our own pleasantness concept may not agree at all with the underlying pleasantness of the training set.

Remember a famous Time article about OpenAI hiring Kenyans to make ChatGPT 'less toxic' from 2 or 3 years ago?

Each time you give the model a prompt (a series of draws in our example), the model gives you a response (a magical mixed color).
We do not know the characteristics of the training data (base colors' pleasantness), but we may know some of the base colors (academic, formal, humorous, sexist, racist).

If all the mixed colors seem to have a 'red touch' (whatever that means), you could conclude that Red must have a high probability.

What does this mental exercise have to do with Grok and corporate AI in general?
It is an oversimplification of how dominant AI models work:

Once you mix colors, you cannot separate them, so you cannot determine the components.
If you are allowed to create as many mixed colors as you wish, but do not know Pp. Would you be able to make "good" guesses about Pp?

The unit is magical; it will refill with its color once it is inside the Main urn.
You cannot peek inside the Mixing urn, nor see which color you draw from the Main urn. Colors are drawn following Pp.
The Mixing urn will give the color resulting from mixing all the colors.

Imagine you throw "magical" 1-unit colors into an opaque Main urn.
You also have a second opaque urn that we will call "Mixing urn".
Each time you draw a color from the Main urn, you empty its contents into the Mixing urn and then return the empty unit into the Main urn.

To see why this was foreseeable, let's run a quick mental exercise.
Imagine you have 10 colors: C1, C2,..., C10.
Each color has the 'pleasantness' property. Ck.pleasantness is a number that reflects how pleasant Ck is.
Assume the pleasantnesses (what a word) make a probability function, call it Pp.

It is not bad to say "I told you so"
Sometimes I'm surprised by how experts react to developments that were bound to happen. Frankly, I feel the reactions are signs of self-censorship that harm everyone.
I'm referring to the latest AI misuse trend: the abuse of women by deep-fakes requested to Grok.

YouTube video by The White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, Jan. 7, 2026

Press Conference: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqzh...
Reuters Greenland (stats): www.reuters.com/graphics/GRE...
Gabriela Jiménez Telegram (spanish): t.me/rpnit

But guess what? there are TONs and TONs of natural resources in Greenland that, I'm sure the USA would love to "liberate". And as we already saw, Trump's USA care for international law a lot less than it care for its own.
Sources on the next post:

There are tons of radars to detect ICBMs (a.k.a really big missiles). The USA will not deploy an ICBM base on Greenland, it would be the reverse of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. If Russia/China launches ICBMs in the first place or as a response... well... shame on us.

"has already began marketing Venezuelan crude oil... for the benefit of the USA"
I forgot to quote this was all possible (according to her) because "This was a deal ... made by the president".

We must not kid ourselves, Greenland is as secure as it is going to get: