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I can't overstate this. NASA's use of pounds and cubic feet in its outreach efforts does not come across to science-literate people, inside or outside the US, as a sign that the country is a badass superpower that can do what it likes and ignore everyone else.
Instead it suggests that the US is a provincial nation of dungaree-wearing banjo players.
This six part series (link goes to the first part), written by a former core Azure engineer, is mind-boggling. Microsoft sounds like a dysfunctional company whose software is dangerously unreliable
(I mean, more so than it has been historically)
https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion
A bit of a wrinkle for pescetarians there.
Whether animals are self-aware has important implications for our approaches to both animal cognition and animal welfare. A landmark moment in animal cognition research was when great apes passed the mark-test and demonstrated mirror self-recognition (MSR). Animals that pass the mark-test are capable of visually self-recognising and considered to be self-aware. Other taxa, including a fish, the cleaner wrasse (cleaner fish: Labroides dimidiatus) have also now passed the mark-test, forcing a rethink of the mental and neurological requirements for MSR. Previous research has largely focused on which species can pass the mark-test, rather than the processes underlying MSR. Here, we marked mirror-naïve cleaner fish with an ecologically relevant mark resembling an ectoparasite and then undertook detailed behavioural observations after exposure to a mirror. We found that cleaner fish achieve MSR rapidly, implying self-awareness prior to mirror exposure. By observing the exact timing of MSR in individuals, we could also report previously undocumented differences in pre- and post-MSR behaviours, including post-MSR exploratory behaviour of the mirror’s reflective properties. We find remarkable parallels between the processing of MSR in humans and cleaner fish, suggesting that some aspects of self-awareness are conserved across animal taxa.
There used to be a time when building out a botnet required *some* work – writing exploits, taking over devices, obscuring the purpose of the executable, etc.
Not any more!
Instead of "malware", call it an "AI agent" and people will just happily install it on their devices with full root privileges!
https://github.com/jgamblin/OpenClawCVEs/
Bam! RCE by asking nicely.
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Wow.
“French senator blasts Trump cabinet, calls White House a “circus”, links Epstein files to global chaos”
“A Turkish proverb says 'When a clown settles in a palace, he does not become king, it is the palace that becomes a circus," said Malhuret.”
“This is how the world now sees the American president: as a pedophile desperately exploiting his role as commander-in-chief to obscure the fact that he preyed on children with his long-time pal Jeffrey Epstein”
RE: https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/116345730533077431
OpenAI hired the OpenClaw guy, with Sam Altman declaring him a "genius with a lot of amazing ideas," in case you were wondering about the AGI company's ability to evaluate intelligence.
ok, quick follow-up screenshots to show that:
Those behind browsergate.eu and fairlinked.eu are in fact the same people behind "Teamfluence", the scraper/automation/etc addon company listed as bringing the lawsuit against LinkedIn
Teamfluence was also the company mentioned and (poorly) redacted in the legal docs browsergate.eu offers up with the quotes from a LinkedIn engineer
So basically, Teamfluence was scraping data from LinkedIn, got blocked for it, and now are trying to get this trumped-up campaign going to [checks notes] try to be able to automate scraping vacuuming up peoples' LinkedIn data again. I'm no fan of Microsoft or LinkedIn, but the purpose of their detection methods here seem to be preventing addons like Teamfluence which harm both them and LinkedIn's users
(note: I was drafting this last night, but was looking for more info still - credit to William O'Connell on bsky for discovering and posting the screenshot of the court document that is now the 4th screenshot in this post)
A photo of my dog Panko every day https://imgur.com/a/E9bZ6sX
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He still materially thinks he's on The Apprentice, and firing people is what drives ratings. Why would government be any different?
Well, I just came out of an intensive three day hack session and it appears I made a thing:
I'm not saying it's a gaming calculator, but it's damned useful for running the numbers in that kind of game. I guess most people scratch that itch with a spreadsheet, but my programmer brain obviously feels much more at home with a text editor and a bit of syntax, and that's what this is. A spreadsheet for nerds.
It's a pure client side web app, built on top of MathJS, so it does units, functions, trigonometry, matrices, etc out of the box, and CodeMirror, which reminds me I have to put the Emacs keymap in.
No React, no Tailwind, no slop, just carefully hand crafted browser tech and enough CSS to make you ill. Works on Firefox and Chromium and almost certainly not Safari. Please enjoy.
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Panko