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Andrew Plumb 🇨🇦3d ago

File under: Cautionary tails from the future-present…

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/anthropic-blames-dystopian-sci-fi-for-training-ai-models-to-act-evil/

Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act “evil”

But training on "synthetic stories" that model good AI behavior can help.

Ars Technica

Andrew Plumb 🇨🇦May 1

That’s more like it! https://www.core77.com/posts/143963/Industrial-Design-Student-Work-A-Repairable-Washing-Machine

Industrial Design Student Work: A Repairable Washing Machine - Core77

From the "Design for Disassembly" class at the Institute of Industrial Design

Core77

Andrew Plumb 🇨🇦Apr 8

Sharing just because.

https://youtu.be/WQI4syGj1pk?si=bokfF7WQF_m-7Ve5

Angine de Poitrine - Sherpa (chiptune / commodore 64 cover - SID6581)

YouTube

Andrew Plumb 🇨🇦Apr 3

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@kitten_tech/116339824033708744

Interesting. The text is there, in bold even!

Andrew Plumb 🇨🇦Mar 29

Chris Mackay 🇨🇦Mar 29

Toothless bureaucracy harmlessly gums another corporation https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/oxford-bluberry-producer-mislabelled-product-country-of-origin-9.7145011

Oxford Frozen Foods fined $10K for mislabelling blueberries as Canadian | CBC News

Nova Scotia-based Oxford Frozen Foods has been fined $10,000 for mislabelling its blueberries as Canadian at a time when more consumers are looking to buy local in grocery stores.

CBC

Andrew Plumb 🇨🇦Mar 29

Ken Shirriff Mar 29

In 1967, IBM introduced the System/4 Pi line of aerospace computers, packing mainframe performance into a compact box. 4 Pi computers powered everything from military aircraft to the Space Shuttle to sonar systems on submarines. Thread...

Andrew Plumb 🇨🇦Mar 20

Steve Herman Mar 20

Weiss and Cibrowski announce they’re shutting down CBS News Radio, which has ~700 affiliated stations, on May 22. "Unfortunately, this decision means that all positions within the CBS News Radio team are being eliminated.”

Thus, the CBS Radio Network (b. 1927) will be terminated at the age of 99.

CBS Radio was the foundation of American broadcast journalism. Over five decades I filed hundreds of news reports for it and felt immense pride to have been on the same network as Murrow, Sevareid, Smith, Collingwood, Cronkite, Edwards, Trout, Townsend, Kuralt, Rather, Stahl, Knoller & Portnoy.

Andrew Plumb 🇨🇦Mar 19

adafruit Mar 19

Prusa’s “Open Community License” is neither open nor for the community... a lawyer explains why

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/19/prusas-open-community-license-is-neither-open-nor-for-the-community-a-lawyer-explains-why/

Andrew Plumb 🇨🇦Mar 15

Steve Troughton-Smith Mar 13

Before the 12" MacBook, before the 11" MacBook Air, there was the 9" ASUS Eee PC hackintosh, and there were a number of new-to-macOS developers in our community who learned how to develop for iPhone on this very setup, and started their careers from it.

The Eee PC 901 netbook was priced at, you guessed it, the same $599 as the brand-new incredibly-powerful MacBook Neo

Andrew Plumb 🇨🇦Mar 15

Stefan Edward Jones Mar 13

The way to Mount Doom is open for hobbits. The only thing prohibiting ring transport are 50,000 orcs, giant spiders, Nazgul patrolling the skies for eagles, and a giant malevolent flaming lidless eye, tirelessly casting its gaze here and there.