Blaine Cross

@blainecross
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ICE OUT! Minnesota Rising! Defend your neighbors!
Drupal dev at University of Minnesota. Reads, writes, walks, crafts, raises chickens, easily distracted ooh shiny!

It's a Blue Flag kinda day.

#bloomScrolling

@cstross in Accelerando, 2005:

"The president of agalmic.holdings.root.184.97.AB5 is agalmic.holdings.root.184.97.201. The secretary is agalmic.holdings.root.184.D5, and the chair is agalmic.holdings.root.184.E8.FF. All the shares are owned by those companies in equal measure, and I can tell you that their regulations are written in Python. Have a nice day, now!"

E-mail I received from my bank, yesterday:

"AI agents can now form your company, get an EIN, open a bank account, issue cards, and move money in a single prompt with Meow.

"It works with Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Gemini, and more.

"Your agent starts the formation flow, gathers the details needed to create your company, and keeps the same session moving into Meow onboarding when you're ready.”

RE: https://aus.social/@Spoon/116719387155953185

We should revive this ritual and apply it to the world's richest billionaire like clockwork, every year.

"Pour encourager les autres," as Voltaire wrote about Admiral Byng.

And here’s @henry nailing the key point: it doesn’t matter if so-called AI “works.” What matters is that the value of your labor goes down, and workers are pushed further into precarity.

But what *really* matters, of course, is what we collectively decide to do about that.

https://henry.codes/writing/it-doesnt-matter-if-it-works/

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My recommendation for dealing with the influx of AI powered vulnerability reports is simply this:

Turn off the computers and walk into the woods. We will all be better for it.

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When I was a kid I lived near a golf course. We'd hide next to the green of a dog-legged hole that wasn't visible from the tee and when a ball came close we'd run out, put it in the hole and hide again. So many people wrongly think they've got a hole in one.
And they are already laying. Three eggs today!

Some cheerful looking Yellow Lady Slipper Orchids in the field on my walk just now. They are currently in full bloom all over the place, so it's the best time to take some snapshots. No copyright on these pictures.

#flowers #ontario #canada #toronto #bloomscrolling #nature #environment #orchids