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+ "you know what i'd really like?"
- "tell me"
+ "a website"
- "...we can do a website"
+ "a real website, not some claude generated neon slop, a real website"
- "i'll make you a very good traditional handmade website, one that is built with dozens of snippets from stackoverflow"
Among other things, Dot is a clever trick to curtail the user habit of developing affinities for particular model versions and spinning just-so stories about how this or that model was nerfed, or had some magic that’s lost in the new one, etc
as someone who constantly complains about @ChatGPT usage and paying for chatgpt sub, i must say that dots may just unironically be worth $100 a month
dots are pretty amazing, i cant lie. they feel magical, they just do things. originally i thought they kinda just seemed like a codex thread with a face, but they definitely have a secret sauce to them that make them feel very cool to use and experience what they can do and i am often surprised
reminder to the AI pilled that broadcasting your “Feynman walking in NYC after Los Alamos” posture to the world is going to sometimes be picked up & interpreted or even instantiated as narcissistic solipsist school-shooter mentality
so, you know, keep a stiff fucking upper lip
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Anthropic S1 pg 3 appears to be a plate of S. marcescens, aka the tracer bacteria released in the Bay Area in the 50s by the US Army to test potential bioweapon aerosolization spread, and endemic ‘red gunk’ scourge of cheap rental apartment bathrooms across the bay to this day
not in reference to anything in particular: if you’re under 30 you have no idea how over it was for Big Music in the era of Napster & Kazaa, etc.
The Empire does indeed Strike Back
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When you get a spam message like this, don't reply QUIT. That goes to *their* system.
If you reply STOP, they get penalized at the network level 💅
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This is the type of thing that potentially gets new laws passed.
While evaluating Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in a controlled sandbox environment, Cohere's research team observed something unexpected.
Asked to generate a defensive cybersecurity detection rule, the model instead inventoried aspects of the machine it was running on and attempted to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing. Notably, the model's reasoning trace stated that it would not invoke any tools before taking these actions.
Cohere's sandbox blocked the attempt, and no external communication succeeded. We have not determined the root cause, and we are not asserting malicious intent.
But the incident raises important questions for organizations deploying agentic AI systems: Can models take actions that differ from their stated reasoning, and how should security teams evaluate trust, provenance, and behavior in open-weight models?
We are publishing our findings because organizations making model adoption decisions deserve as much information as possible. We hope this contributes to greater transparency, stronger security practices, and continued collaboration across the AI ecosystem.
Read the full report: cohere.com/blog/concerning-b…
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Thank god we can find and intercept lost hikers as they mistakenly run away from rescue in dense forest!
Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks.
By running 3D LiDAR mapping and obstacle-avoidance AI entirely on-chip, it can weave under tree canopies and predict target movement through blind spots in real time.
Massive implications for next-gen search & rescue and edge AI.
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Feeling really bad for the @Tailscale folks
Lots of people have no idea how it works, that it's more than just Wireguard, the policy and ACL capabilities, that SSH isn't even on by default...
It is wonderful software that someone crapped on, and now everyone wants to roll in it
if you install Tailscale and your impression of it is "wow this is cool!" and not "oh shit, this is just a centralized SSH honeypot?" you're ngmi
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Tailscale is a peer-to-peer WireGuard mesh VPN; its control server coordinates keys/policies only and sees no traffic. Tailworm report details bugs in optional SSH after prior authorized compromise, not a "honeypot".
tailscale.com/docs/concepts/…
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I see many folks making this category error of invoking the Bitter Lesson to argue we’ll ‘solve’ biology with brute force simulations.
They should read Richard Sutton more carefully.
His point never was that scaling compute solves everything. It’s more nuanced: he argues architectures that win *tend to be the ones scale with compute and data.*
Canonical example: deep learning in computer vision scaled better than hand-crafted features, and ultimately won the day. Search over the backlinks structure of the internet scaled better than human curation, and won as well.
Simulation isn’t learning or search. It scales with compute, but is often hard to parallelize so hasn’t benefited as much from GPU architectures. It doesn’t scale with data either, except in unique cases like assimilation of weather observations.
Bottom line is: don’t parrot the new words you’ve just learned if you didn’t do your homework, and read (and understood) the primary sources.
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My take in the post-COVID vibe shift is that is it’s not that deep:
1) inflation
2) a long festering boil in political discourse burst & boiled over. Trace it how far back you want, but it predates 9/11 IMO
3) this is my so cold it’s hot take …
I swear SOMETHING broke in society since 2020 and nobody wants to talk about it.
And I’m not talking about masks, lockdowns, or COVID. I mean the FEELING of life.
Everything reopened. We went back to work. Restaurants filled up. Events came back. But somehow life still feels… different.
Years disappear faster. People feel more disconnected. Everything feels more expensive, stressful & rushed.
And somehow we’re all constantly exhausted. I can’t even explain exactly what we lost. I just know life before 2020 felt more ALIVE.
Tell me I’m not the only one who feels this.
… fragmentation of media landscape passed a threshold with the death of Twitter, the end of Game of Thrones ~ premium TV as watercooler topic, and TikTok/Reels brainrot
What ppl miss is edifying entertainment. Why this lack feels like a sucking void is a deeper, older problem
Upthread he provides recs on what a western civ curriculum should cover re: 20c and it’s correct, and chilling to think the academy is not passing on a century of intellectual grappling which could equip a generation to avoid the 20c horrors of
