bg picture: an internet pseudo-random number generator (Sōtatsu cat rolling dice).
avatar: a no rickshaws road sign. This is a no rick(shaw)-rolling zone.
I ended up here by working in tech to pay off my student loans. Mostly sysadmin and infosec info on this account. I think I need multiple accounts for all the content I want to explore.
Trying to keep SN ratio high w/o becoming a reply guy. Or maybe this is like my Sent Mail folder so I remember things...
I hate unpredictable automation.
And, unremarkable toots will autodelete.
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Hat Tip to The Register,
“Lumai detailed its optical inference accelerator, which uses light, rather than electrons, to perform the matrix multiplication operations at the heart of most machine learning workloads using a fraction of the power of a purely digital architecture.”
https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/03/inference_is_giving_ai_chip/
Optical computing technology continues to advance. Whatever your opinion on LLMs, IMHO you have to understand the technology(s) before criticizing it. I compare this to the time when DSPs and math coprocessors were separate chips.
I met a lot of good people from Hampshire. This is sad news. We need free thinkers more than ever. #hampshire #hampshirecollege
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/14/hampshire-college-massachusetts-closure
(edit: add longer hashtag)
Today I Learned that there are still 1940s designed jets flying critical missions. A WB-57 monitored Artemis II's descent. #til #wb57
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin/General_Dynamics_RB-57F_Canberra
How #AI is impacting the mental health of _everyone_ is not getting enough discussion, and I also don't know what we do about it. While AIs may be able to help us get more done faster, that increased productivity may not be sustainable and does not come as a reduction in either stress or anxiety. As I suspect this is impacting many of us, whether we acknowledge them or keep them buried, it is important for leaders to acknowledge this and talk about it so that people don’t feel alone with their fears.
I wrote up a longer post talking through some of my personal perspective and observations on how AI and LLMs are impacting us and how different people are reacting to this revolution.
https://erik.nygren.org/2026-ai-and-mental-health.html
(I'll also thread it in here. 1/5)
How AI is impacting the mental health of everyone is not getting enough discussion, and I also don't know what we do about it. While AIs may be able to help us get more done faster, that increased productivity may not be sustainable and does not come as a reduction …
Here’s a news story from Feb 2023 to provide context if you are wondering why some object to being forced to use id.me.
#IDme #IRS
https://cyberscoop.com/irs-facial-recognition-identity-privacy/
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If you (like me) are wondering who operates id.me, the identity service used by the IRS, it’s a private company (LLC) based in the US.
#IDme #IRS
The domain ‘id.me’ is registered with GoDaddy and uses CloudFlare authoritatve nameservers.
The main site uses DigiCert issued certificates.
The ‘.me’ top level domain (TLD) is the country code for Montenegro. Wikipedia has more info on it,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.me
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Information Is Beautiful
Systems Approach
Erik Nygren 
