Trump fired his Iran Expert. Surprise!!  

#JD20260317 #JDLinkBlog
– full JDLinkBlog thread: https://todon.eu/@jd/116243524069939894

'Actually, the guy who was the point person for Iran at the White House and was fired by the Trump Administration after being Loomered wrote EXACTLY that warning 4 days before the war started. The article was titled “Why Iran Will Escalate.” But who needs experts… '

text: https://x.com/ilangoldenberg/status/2033678324959220174
Screenshot tweet & video https://x.com/Acyn/status/2033644340443304443

#Iran #USA #Israel #EndlessWar #IranWar
#UKpol #USpol #EUpol #Palestine all for #Israel
#Epstein #EpsteinWars

I'm so glad im not starting out in programming / webdev now.

Feels like im being slowly coaxed into using some ai or another from fucking every angle.

It seems to be all about "be as productive as possible as it will make you a more valuable resource for your comapny".

Like, fuck how it affects you to outsource creativity to a machine and just being a glorified child minder.

Its fucking depressing and is just a glaring result of capitalism squeezing everything it can at the expense of us.

The notion of a broken clock being sometimes right is based on a gross misunderstanding of what information is.

A clock that always shows the same time is never right, even in the moments of the day when the time happens to be what it shows, because you don't gain any information about what time it is by looking at the clock.

This reasoning also applies to chatbots. If you can't tell whether what you have been given is useful information unless you alreay know the information, then you haven't been given useful information.

When I started in security, one of the prevailing attitudes was "The weakest link in the chain will always be the human."

I would like to thank every LLM provider and startup for changing this paradigm by introducing a much weaker link in the chain.

Before AI, I felt like I could review PRs and, based on whose code I was reviewing, I could be more trusting and casual with my review, since I knew they usually wrote good code and paid attention to details. Now, with AI, no one pays attention to details, so I have to deeply scrutinize every PR, which takes twice or 3x the effort.

AI agents almost always add things that aren’t necessary, or they follow anti-patterns based on the surrounding legacy code context.

Irish Data Protection Commission was asked today in Committee: have you ever taken a GDPR decision on Google?
Answer... No.

Ireland is responsible for supervising Google's data use across the whole EU. It has produced Zero decisions.

Hundreds of "amicable resolutions" but no actual Article 60 final decisions at all.

The European Commission should be examining Ireland not just on tax but on data and child safety online.

re @claudeai

I've identified industrial-scale copyright violations on my content by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, X, and more.

These companies created thousands of crawlers incorporating the text of all my blog posts, open source code, and books into their paid AI models to profit exorbitantly.