Mostly codswallop. Eng@MSFT Az Specialized Supercomputing. All opinions are Frank’s, (🐶). IAM Observer, Severn Freewheelers Bloodbiker. Basic Dad.
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Shit user story: As a burnout, I want to be asked frequently when things will be finished, so that the things take less time.
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It’s been more than 20 yrs since I flew United because I had a bad experience but I didn’t have a choice for my current trip back from SF to London. Easily the best flight I’ve had in years.
Found out that I’m ‘eligible’ for the MSFT voluntary exit during a business flight to SF. Weird to go from feeling excited about what we might accomplish to perhaps being gone after Christmas.
Just missed my son’s Oncology appointment at John Radcliffe Hospital this morning due to parking despite being 45 mins early.
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“Hello and welcome to Newsnight. Tonight, we’re joined by Faiza Shaheen, director of Tax Justice UK. Faiza is an economist and a Visiting Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics. Faiza’s previous roles include Program Head for the Inequality and Exclusion Grand Challenge of the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, Director of the Centre for Labour and Social Studies, Head of Inequality and Sustainable Development at Save the Children, and Senior Researcher at the New Economics Foundation. Faiza holds a PhD and MSc from the University of Manchester and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from St John’s College, Oxford University.
She is the author of a range of materials and publications covering the most salient social and economic debates of our times, including inequality, austerity, immigration, and social mobility. Faiza has over 15 years of experience researching the trends and consequences of inequality, as well as designing policies and campaigns to address the causes of inequality and exclusion. Her book, ‘Know your place: How society sets us up to fail and what we can do about it’ was published in July 2023 by Simon & Schuster.
To speak over her, we’ve invited Winston Marshall, a podcaster and former member of Mumford and Sons.
We hope you enjoy the programme.”
"If you want to lift up the poor, you have to create wealth."
"How's that going?"
Podcaster and former Mumford & Sons member Winston Marshall discusses taxes with economist and Green Party supporter Faiza Shaheen.
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I’m still constantly amazed by ability of LLMs to get nuance and metaphor. I’m working on some azure service innards and needed an elevated priv. Co-pilot wanted me to downgrade after a step
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“Send me to fight the redcoats”
Fuck it, lean in to it. Let’s just offer him a place at the next army boxing championship, and watch some dude from 3 PARA take his greasy fucking head off.
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Richard E Grant #CelebrityTraitors
ALT “I’ve outed myself as a traitor by mistake” on Withnail and I in the rain
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The Norwegian Consumer Council made a video about enshittification and got 2.5M views and 168K likes on IG. (If the style feels familiar, it was created by NewsLab, the same advertising agency that made the brilliant Visit Oslo video from a few years back.)
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new post: the senior engineer death spiral
sunilpai.dev/posts/the-senio…
a friend just started a big job and asked for some advice. so I braindumped a monologue about a super common failure mode I see with engineers and posted it here, hope it helps whoever it can.
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I would actually challenge the idea that the cases mentioned in this report "show us where AI misuse is headed." I think it's more accurate to say that they show us the cases that 1) Anthropic's framework identified, and 2) were chosen as featured cases. It's dangerous to ignore the very likely possibility that AI misuse is headed somewhere that you aren't even looking.
We're publishing our most detailed threat intelligence report to date.
It covers how people tried to misuse Claude—for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, biology, and building weapons—and how we found and stopped them.
We disrupted every operation in the report, and used the lessons from them to strengthen our safeguards. Where appropriate, we also shared what we found with authorities and other AI companies.
These cases are not typical: we’re highlighting some of the most sophisticated misuse we’ve seen. But they’re especially important to discuss, because they show us where AI misuse is headed, where our safeguards work, and where they need to improve.
We’re publishing this report so others can spot the same activity on their own platforms, and so we can give the public a clearer view of how emerging threats develop.
Read the report: anthropic.com/threat-intelli…
