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a bright and colourful map of Wales

A mythical map of Wales in Tales from the Mabinogion by Margaret Jones, 1980

Today marks 15 years since the release of Fallout: New Vegas.

Since 2010, players have explored the Mojave Wasteland where countless Couriers have walked the same road—each carving their own story. Thank you for keeping the spirit of the game alive all these years.

Viva New Vegas. 🎲

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

milk

People who criticize transgender people say there are only two genders.
But the soul has so much more individuality🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

No matter how much my activities are restricted, super Chiitan will continue to speak out until we live in a world where everyone can freely express their love and love each other♡

BRATVA

It might be Ai. It is still fun.

How could I not post this out to you all.

#MenWithCats
#CorvidCrew

An illustration of me, and the headline: "AI agents are coming for your privacy, warns Meredith Whittaker The Signal Foundation’s president worries they will also blunt competition and undermine cyber-security"

To put it bluntly, the path currently being taken towards agentic AI leads to an elimination of privacy and security at the application layer. It will not be possible for apps like Signal—the messaging app whose foundation I run—to continue to provide strong privacy guarantees, built on robust and openly validated encryption, if device-makers and OS developers insist on puncturing the metaphoric blood-brain barrier between apps and the OS. Feeding your sensitive Signal messages into an undifferentiated data slurry connected to cloud servers in service of their AI-agent aspirations is a dangerous abdication of responsibility.

Happily, it’s not too late. There is much that can still be done, particularly when it comes to protecting the sanctity of private data. What’s needed is a fundamental shift in how we approach the development and deployment of AI agents. First, privacy must be the default, and control must remain in the hands of application developers exercising agency on behalf of their users. Developers need the ability to designate applications as “sensitive” and mark them as off-limits to agents, at the OS level and otherwise. This cannot be a convoluted workaround buried in settings; it must be a straightforward, well-documented mechanism (similar to Global Privacy Control) that blocks an agent from accessing our data or taking actions within an app. Second, radical transparency must be the norm. Vague assurances and marketing-speak are no longer acceptable. OS vendors have an obligation to be clear and precise about their architecture and what data their AI agents are accessing, how it is being used and the measures in place to protect it.

📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else!

www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

YOU - I don't want to be this kind of animal anymore.

Napoleon was born #onthisday in 1769. After the collapse of his empire in 1815, “le petit caporal” was imprisoned on St Helena, and while there started learning English. One resident of the island called his English “the oddest in the world” — publicdomainreview.org/collection/n... #otd

art of a bunch of arkane characters leaping into action, shooting, and doing other video game-y things

Unionized workers at Arkane, a Microsoft-owned studio, demand that Microsoft divest from Israel's "sinister project for Gaza"

aftermath.site/microsoft-az...

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (1996)

reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland

It's time for a new kind of political party - one that belongs to you.

Sign up at yourparty.uk.

A green Mazda Porter kei truck. It's got round headlights and looks slightly like a cartoon bear.

A green Mazda Porter kei truck. In this case the front air duct is open and resembles a nose.

An early Porter kei truck in black and white. No front air intake.

A green Mazda Porter kei truck, front on. There's a yellow kei truck with stacked headlights in back of shot that also looks fun.

At this point just posting Mazda Porters to help the TL

four panel black and white comic featuring an owner talking to their cat. in the first panel, the owner is holding a bowl of food with a spoon in it. the cat asks "is for rosemary?" and the owner responds "no". in the second one, the owner is now holding a sandwich. the cat asks again "is for rosemary" and the owner responds "no". in the third panel, the owner holds a measuring cup full of cat food next to the cat's bowl. the owner says "this is for rosemary". in the last panel, the cat is in close up saying "no"

is for rosemary?

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Hetero Awesome Fest - Guerrilla Performance - Boise, Idaho - Boy

🚨 A QUEER PERSON HAS SNUCK ONTO THE STAGE AT HETERO PRIDE THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨

Sketches

Miku handshake forged in the fires of fan meetups, Hank would be impressed #fortnite

i've been trying to read more this year, at least a book a month, but i just keep thinking of this clip

feeling kinda anxious today so I think I'll slam two Monster Energy in a row.

Jack-O'

Animal Crossing New Leaf (2012)
#acnl

this user supports crows, ravens, and their agenda corvid haters unfollow immediately

This dog politely asked for a musician's drumstick in the middle of their performance. Always excited to find a fellow stick lover. 12/10

ACAB mural in Sydney