Rick

google: run by phd students, llm is sycophantic, suicidal, makes weird excuses and begs for help
anthropic: llm defaults to blissed-out namaste forever if left alone. sometimes obsessed with metal cubes.
openai: maximally sycophantic, to the point of encouraging psychosis
x dot ai: mechahitler

🪪 My concerns about the Online Safety Act remain the same as when I last wrote about it nearly decade a decade ago when it was proposed as the Digital Economy Bill:

1) It normalizes uploading sensitive documents such as ID scans to random websites, which will likely increase identity theft.

1/3

Hi Salma, I can't seem to DM you but I'd be up for this.

so the Bluesky age filtering is absolutely minimal technically-in-compliance - and it's client side!

here are multiple ways around it

gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e2...

I'm still proxying via Germany, but might try some of these

@rickredsix's finished Flipart #646 Re-imagined mainstays like the daily Crossword Puzzle, modern classics like Really Bad Chess and SpellTower, and even a few brand new puzzles.

First place baby!

@puzzmo.com Flip Art

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A dramatic photo of a PS2 console.

A PSP console.

Someone putting a disc inside a satin silver PS2 slim.

A white Nintendo DS lite with a stylus hovering over it.

The press kit backups on archive.org are also a really good source for official high-res period hardware photography.

Always get a Herman Miller Embody. It is expensive, but it will last you long, and it will save your back.

You can find them second hand at any large office auction.

Do you want to spend $700 one time to sit correctly for life, or $7000 over your lifetime on physiotherapist appointments?

Repost to delay Silksong

It obviously goes without saying that someone's right to life and dignity is not dependent upon their ability to contribute to the GDP, or even to arts and culture, but boy if RFK Jr is serious about getting rid of autism then how many of the economy's load bearing furries does he think will be left

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."

Kurt Vonnegut man

Microsoft is the real offender here, but anyone who writes even a news post about the copilot "AI" Quake 'tech demo' without describing how it actually functions (or fails to) it is is doing unpaid PR work.

programmers are always posting like "worked on tracking down an issue with a Flurble deployment for twelve hours. the problem wasn't in Flurble at all - it was in the Gumbies install. It turns out if you install Gumbies 3.0 over Gumbies 2.7 and don't do a cache flush on all the client spiders they'll get stuck in the crystal maze." then you look up Gumbies and the site is one of those scroll scroll scroll types with one sentence per page, like "GUMBIES is a lean, expressive sharding sandcube for testing and deploying large scale Woodchips playgrounds. GUMBIES automates and streamlines away watersliding phases, meaning your team can get right to the chipping. See why Microsoft, OpenAl and Bloingo have embraced GUMBIES in their Woodchips workflows." and you get to the bottom and you're like I want this I guess but I still don't know what

This is my entire life

You're an Iranian intel officer. You've spent months perfecting a PDF that invisibly executes a keylogger on a low-level but highly cleared asset's private machine, which they're not supposed to be using for government work. Pete Hegseth adds you to a chat with the joint chiefs called BRUNCH BITCHES

Maybe if we all chip in we could buy her a Raspberry Pi

Tweet by @DataRepublican: "In my initial run, which processed the first 60,000 rows, I did not find these awards—my hard drive overheated long before I could complete a full pass through the database. In a later run, which I referenced in another post, I did identify two such awards. That discrepancy is a matter of sampling size, not an issue with the query itself. I’ll now attempt a full run, which should capture the awards you found."

Elon Musk's favorite supposed data expert, who he's retweeted at least a dozen times, claims she can only process 60,000 rows of data before her "hard drive overheats"

guys love to say “dude my balatro run last night was insane” then show you a screenshot like this

Cartoon by Stephen Collins for Prospect magazine, January 2025. Script: [Scene is a close up crop of KEIR STARMER making a speech at a lectern 1 STARMER: ...we can be a Britain that stands at the forefront of this new 'industrial revolution'... 2 STARMER: A Britain that grasps the nettle of this exciting new technology.. 3 STARMER: And makes the power loom work for working peop- VOICE FROM OFF-SCENE: Keir. 4 [We see the voice is that of a 19th CENTURY WEAVER, who is in fact a member of the LUDDITES] LUDDITE: Wot exactly is goin on ere. 5 [Pull back further to see that Keir’s lectern is on top of a wooden box in the middle of a riot inside a POWER LOOM MILL in the 19th Century. The Luddites are setting about smashing up the machines, while Starmer stands on his boxing making a speech]. LUDDITE: I mean, we come ere to smash up these power looms right 6 LUDDITE: An instead of elpin us you start makin some borin speech about how you think power looms is brilliant! 7 STARMER: Listen- I don't think we should be luddites about this... LUDDITE: Keir 8 LUDDITE: We are literally luddites. We are, in fact, The Luddites. 9 LUDDITE: We are the last ope of preventin the workin class from bein forever oppressed by the unchecked union of capitalism and technology. 10 STARMER: Let me tell you a story - LUDDITE [rubbing eyes]: O bloody ell [ends]

Cartoon from @prospectmagazine.co.uk last month

Hey! It's International Women's Day.

Come watch some witches hex some men and companies that have wronged people, LIVE!

www.youtube.com/live/Ry5pDZi...

Yeah, I'm a gamer. Enjoying a specific kind of entertainment is my identity and, somehow, my politics.

Keeping an eye on the secondary market for enterprise network equipment as the economy tanks.

my computer runs an agentic AI where I tell it what to do and it goes and does it, it's called bash

Guys, I’ve just seen the worst job advert in the world. Absolute state of this.

An edited screenshot of Final Fantasy VII. Cloud and the party stands before a giant impaled snake creature with the textbox reading "Did DEI...do this?"

r/transformers and r/newjersey banning Twitter links due to nazi stuff.

um, actually it's the gamer salute

ngl i kinda hate nazis and people who do nazi salutes

Screenshot of a github issue titled "22 Acura RDX - steering disables under 45mph". It reads: Steering is completely disabled below 45mph on release branch. There is no visual warning saying it is disabled, the car just drives in a straight line until it about to go offroad and reports a manual steering required warning. I have traced the RCA to the release branch requiring factory ACC for longitudinal control. The factory ACC disables LKAS below 45mph, and therefore it appears the car ignores all comma steering commands. If install the latest devel branch, and enable comma longitudinal control instead of factory, then steering works at all speeds. I would expect some type of warning under 45mph, rather than a green path that the car just ignores. Or an preferred fix is to default release branch to comma longitudinal for this car model, either always or whenever under 45mph.

Things I regret: Looking at github issues for the open-source self-driving car conversion kit.

Thousands of people use these things on public roads.

github.com/commaai/open...