Fauxil Fox

question card: Are you going to post to twitter again at some point?

An illustration of a rubber dog floating among the clouds looking upwards at clear blue skies.

nah.
1. It's run by a fascist.
2. It's designed to anger you. Have you seen how people talk to other people on there!? I'd really rather not.
3. I'm well aware I could keep posting there and get 'numbers' but what's the point!? Have some personal morals. I know it's hard in the modern day, but try.

The lack of differentiation between trusted and untrusted state and input is endlessly devilish in trying to secure this technology. It completely violates all security paradigms we've tried to enforce for coming on half a century

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more ebi tie happy #fursuitfriday lol

Keeping him out of trouble….🦁🐾🔒

Lazy doggo for #WetsuitWednesday

Squeaky guests are the best kind of guest!

Although he did almost break his neck on my slippery floors 😬

#rubberfur with @vulcanriverwolf.bsky.social

Touched one of my older wetsuits again today
Still feels great to wear 😇

Being School Mascot Socks by NaughtyCatNick Commission for differus. . Most of the characters in this I made up, but there is one little anonymous cameo. I'd otherwise like to ...

Reminds me of www.furaffinity.net/view/29197473/

A few more straps and I’ll be all yours!

Bewhiskered 2026: Whisker World Arcade April 2nd - 5th, 2026 at the Durham Convention Center in Durham, NC

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I’LL NEVER FORGIVE THEM’ Vegas-based tech observer Ed Zitron on the empty hype of AI, clueless tech lords, and what he thinks of Las Vegas By Lissa Townsend Rodgers have heard about artificial intelligence and how it’s In 2025, even those who can barely operate a cell phone going to shape the future. But while many are excited about the promise, tech journalist and podcaster Ed Zitron is suspicious of the hype. “All of these companies are claiming that large language models, OpenAI, ChatGPT, and the like, is the next big thing,” he says. “The problem is, the actual efficacy, the actual abilities of these programs, have been the same for about two years now. These companies keep growing, their stock valuations keep going up. But it’s not coming from any AI sales.” Born in England, Zitron attended college in Pennsylvania and settled in Las Vegas, where he founded a public relations company. In 2020, he began the “Where’s Your Ed At” news- letter, a caustic, clever examination of the ways we’re failed by the tech that’s supposed to improve our lives. Last year, he began the award-winning Better Offline podcast, which has featured guests from former FTC chair Lina Khan to MIT economist Daron Acemoglu to comedian Andy Richter. Zitron spoke to Desert Companion about the AI bubble, the business idiot, and the honesty of Las Vegas. Here’s an edited version of that conversation. What were your early experiences with technology? I was the dumbest kid in private school and did not have friends. So tech really was my lifeline. ... I was fascinated by the fact that you could connect with people all over the world, that you could play games with them. I was actually a games journalist at 16, one of the first people to cover online gaming, MMORPGs like World of Warcraft, in England. Yeah, tech was a big part of my childhood. Is that why you’re so vexed by what’s happening to technology? It’s personal? Absolutely. I hate these bastards. I’ll never forgive them for what they’ve done…

complete nonsense. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, claimed that 50 percent of white-collar jobs will be gone in the next one to five years. Complete nonsense based on nothing. … The AI bubble is a hysterical event where these com- panies pretend — and straight-up lie — about what their products can do in the hopes that they can keep boosting their stock valuations. So, you’ve got all of these compa- nies, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and the like, spending hundreds of billions of dollars in capital expen- ditures to build these massive data centers and filling them full of these GPUs sold by one company, Nvidia. But no one’s making any money. In fact, these things are extremely unprofitable. OpenAI in 2024 spent $9 billion to lose $5 billion. Imagine if you or I did that. Would we be able to get more money out of the bank? Of course not. So how are they getting away with it? I have this grander theory called the business idiot. I believe our economy and the large structures behind it, the people in power, are completely disconnected from any kind of production or understanding of their customers. Not just MBAs, also the middle managers that you hate — the people that don’t seem to do anything, but always seem busy. They’re like the people inside the cave that Plato talked about. They see the shadows: “Oh, AI’s big now!” And I think you’re seeing a war between the business idiots and those of us who actually do the work. I’ve heard so many stories about bosses telling people to use AI. Why don’t the bosses use it, if AI is so good? Because it doesn’t work. The main paradigm all of this is built on is large language models. They are probabilistic, which means that they generate the next thing based on how likely it’s the right one. So if you ask it for an image of a cat, these things don’t have con- sciousness. It says, “I’ve been asked for a picture of a cat; based on my training data, this is the thing that approximates cat.” And it’s pretty good at guessing, but it d…

I got interviewed by KNPR, the local Vegas NPR affiliate, and they put the interview in their Desert Companion magazine. I'll post the web version when it's out

Guess what foxes birthday it is today!!!

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The council of rubber critters will see you now

📸: @finiarel.bsky.social

Thinking about plush suits....... Specifically, layering one with rubber 🥵🥵

Just imagining how good having your rubber all taut feels.

Get squeezed? Omgfhfff....
Over inflated a bit? Mmmfhfhfhahhfs....
Get your air displaced to the rest of your body? Aakdhhdduushxhu....

We're made to cuddle, and ***gosh*** our bodies make us love it~

The nice thing about being in your 30s (with a partner in his 30s, and kink friends mostly in their 30s) is that group sex almost always starts and ends at a reasonable hour.

Finished an embroidery gift for @hearthfox.bsky.social

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Upside down. Attached paws and sock wetsuit. Ninja hood and blindfold. The best feeling ever.

HOW COOL IS THIS? Researchers have developed a DENTAL FLOSS that can DELIVER vaccines THROUGH the gums, a method that could one day offer a NEEDLE-FREE alternative for vaccination. This approach effectively stimulated immunity AND provided FULL protection against a lethal strain of influenza. 🧪🧵⬇️

The drivers licenses leaked today from the tea app have been uploaded to a searchable map.... this may be the worst PIl leak I've ever seen lol

Schemes to validate adults and their IDs are possible but they will NOT be run by those capable. All private data exposure is itself a breach already.

Deal.

more evidence for “a bunch of AI cultists dismantled large parts of the federal government because they believed that their LLMs were intelligent and could do the work better” thesis

In a post on X, Altman noted that OpenAl had built more safeguards, warnings, and mitigations into this model than any of its predecessors. "We don't know exactly what the impacts are going to be," he continued, adding that "we think it's important ... that people adopt these tools carefully and slowly." This was a notable rhetorical departure from the unfettered hype that typically emanates from Silicon Valley. It was underscored by a warning from cybersecurity researcher Rachel Tobac, who suggested that users avoid the model for now: "Let experts work out the integration issues and build in safeguards before you cause a data breach, leak your sensitive photos, post client personal data, or worse," she wrote on X. Indeed, OpenAl's own system card for the model noted an accuracy rate below 95 percent across two common benchmarks intended to evaluate the model's propensity for hallucination. OpenAl also noted that the model might, for instance, buy the wrong product or leak private data online-two risks the company is trying to mitigate by training the model to ask users for confirmation before doing anything. In internal tests, however, the company noted that ChatGPT correctly confirmed its actions with the user only 91 percent of the time. OpenAl told The Verge that the model's ability to perform financial transactions has been restricted "for now." Despite these factors, OpenAl is still releasing the product into the "wild," according to Altman, so that it can "begin learning from contact with reality."

we really have no idea what our product might do, though it seems like a safe bet it will disobey and immiserate you. anyway we are releasing it today. good luck every body!