Going T. Maine

@going_to_maine
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The color of \n a website \n cats and scanners \n –why kneel? (#metafilter, #mefite, he/him, etc.)

Be kind, while there is still time

Irasutoya, Japan's popular free clip art library, has released its latest creation in honor of the United States President, Donald Trump. It's a clever play on TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) and the Japanese word タコ for octopus, which also means "idiot."
Artificial "Entertainment" Intelligence
just last night i woke from some unconscionable dream
it's just sitting there, marinating. Anticipation
I have yet to see One Battle After Another, but I don’t know that it’ll match it.
Still think the movie I’ve seen so far this year that was most relevant to the current moment was A Useful Ghost

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An "AI" company saying "we have this super magic new model that is so powerful that we cannot release it" is just marketing. It's the old OpenAI scam.
Anthropic needs to keep the hype going to ride it to the IPO. That's all this is.
It's so cool that anthropic is setting up a double-sided protection racket where it will profit from the massive token burn of attackers and defenders with a tool specifically designed to generate exploits and their only observable mitigation is a clientside system prompt that sternly warns the LLM to be good and not do malware
https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/
Claude Mythos Preview \ red.anthropic.com

i don't see enough people with one of the best tool improvements i've ever made for reverse engineering, so i had to write a blog post about it!

https://simonomi.dev/blog/color-code-your-bytes/

your hex editor should color-code bytes