Duane Gran

@duanegran@infosec.exchange
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infosec, geek, he/him, socialist. I write about technology and culture. Occasionally I do so with wit.
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Duane Gran1d ago

A set of AI prompts we don’t need, but might more accurately mimic human interactions:

- In your answer, be sure to mansplain it to me
- Interject some subtle racist or sexist phrasing that is tangential to the topic at hand
- Find a way to link your answer to blame or praise the current President, even if the correlation is absurd

Duane GranJun 29
Doing a Google search on PST to EST time zone conversion and wondering if the algorithm is sick of having me ask and saying mean stuff behind my back.
Duane GranJun 27
If you work at the Department of Education, please rename your loan database as “DEI records” so that some DOGE asshole deletes it.
Duane GranJun 27
Don’t take anything too seriously I write on social media for the next 12 hours. I’m going through it, and trying to suppress thoughts, but I may fail.
Duane GranJun 26
Once saw a convention pin that said “awkward, but nice” and never felt more empathy for a brief statement in my life.
Duane GranJun 24
Listening to Type O Negative tonight. This was some really fucked up stuff and explains some things, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. Disturbed musicians give us so much context.
Duane GranJun 23

So now and again my kids use a web browser where I’m logged in with YouTube. I like to think I mind what they are doing, but I’m not perfect.

Evidently someone saying “like and smash that follow button” works on them.

I’m following hundreds of bullshit channels now. Fixing this today.

Duane GranJun 23

I have had some brilliant success using AI systems with unstructured text, but oddly enough the most frustrating experience I’ve had is with structured spreadsheets. It fails, badly.

For reference I’m working with copilot. My prompt game for sure can improve, but it is a joke. I’m rather specific and reasonable and it can do under 25% of what I ask for.

Duane GranJun 23

Tough evening, not specifically because of me. Trying to help someone I love to work through the feeling of not feeling loved enough.

“I loved you”, is the hardest past tense.

Today trying to help a teenager in my family process the bad stuff. We all suck at this stuff.

I’m giving up on, gradually, on the ideal of having answers. I have more useful question, I think.

Asking questions around self worth and boundaries. Asking for better love, because why not? We all trying to manage the risk of that penetrating past tense.

Duane GranJun 22

The two classic errors in heteronormative relationships I see are the following:

1) He will change. The belief that some offensive and typically nonnegotiable issue will somehow resolve later. As a result she hates him because he didn’t change and he probably doesn’t even know he was expected to change. He just feels hated.

2) She will never change. At some point, her life goals and relationship may change, sometimes as a result of years of devotion to family service and awakening. A guy can seem shocked at this, assuming she will always have the same interests or needs.

I’m frankly a lousy expert on any of this. I try to be loving, but fail often at it, but these are the pivot points I’ve seen. Maybe recognizing the signs is helpful. It hasn’t been too helpful for me though.