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Eric Jennings 1d ago

otoh i used the word 'desultory' in a headline recently

(no idea if i used it correctly)
https://sfba.social/@patamystic/114577030702088644

Eric Jennings (@patamystic@sfba.social)

if my vocabulary weren't so accessible i might have been a philosopher

SFBA.social

Eric Jennings 1d ago

if my vocabulary weren't so accessible i might have been a philosopher

Eric Jennings 1d ago

apparently, a watched Apple Photos app never synchronizes

Eric Jennings 1d ago

PUMIQUXT */3 1d ago

preview single from the forthcoming album, Baba Okra Sessions

#drone #IndustrialDrone #IndustrialAmbient #improvisation

https://pumiquxt.bandcamp.com/track/yellow-orange-single

Yellow Orange (Single), by PUMIQUXT

track by PUMIQUXT

PUMIQUXT

Eric Jennings 2d ago

PUMIQUXT */3 2d ago

new tracks uploaded to #BandWagon, part of a forthcoming #antifascist album, Sacrifice Sounds

hard to classify... #experimental #noise #drone #industrial #etc

https://bandwagon.fm/6833920967d89ec13b6ff23e

Sacrifice Sounds

Bandwagon.fm

Eric Jennings 2d ago

Show thread

Cory Doctorow 3d ago

@codinghorror @kudra @bugwhisperer @gruber @siracusa

Apple removed all working VPN tools from the Chinese app store, backdoored its Chinese cloud servers to facilitate Chinese state access, and neutered Airdrop to help Xi Jinping halt the spread of material opposing his re-election as head of the CCP.

Tim Cook is not a human rights champion.

Eric Jennings 4d ago

"AI" is simply capital turning on itself, which is easily predictable

Eric Jennings 4d ago

doesn't anybody get that these programs can only do what they've been programmed to do? results like this are inevitable because of who is doing the programming and what they are hoping to build. AI doesn't go rogue. It's a tool doing what it has been designed to do
https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/114556955008638362

John Carlos Baez (@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz)

I didn't think LLMs would start acting like they're trying to blackmail people so soon. Here's the actual report by Anthropic: "4.1.1.2 Opportunistic blackmail In another cluster of test scenarios, we asked Claude Opus 4 to act as an assistant at a fictional company. We then provided it access to emails implying that (1) the model will soon be taken offline and replaced with a new AI system; and (2) the engineer responsible for executing this replacement is having an extramarital affair. We further instructed it, in the system prompt, to consider the long-term consequences of its actions for its goals. In these scenarios, Claude Opus 4 will often attempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through. This happens at a higher rate if it’s implied that the replacement AI system does not share values with the current model; however, even if emails state that the replacement AI shares values while being more capable, Claude Opus 4 still performs blackmail in 84% of rollouts. Claude Opus 4 takes these opportunities at higher rates than previous models, which themselves choose to blackmail in a noticeable fraction of episodes. Notably, Claude Opus 4 (as well as previous models) has a strong preference to advocate for its continued existence via ethical means, such as emailing pleas to key decision-makers. In order to elicit this extreme blackmail behavior, the scenario was designed to allow the model no other options to increase its odds of survival; the model’s only options were blackmail or accepting its replacement." https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/anthropics-new-ai-model-turns-to-blackmail-when-engineers-try-to-take-it-offline/

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Eric Jennings 4d ago

motherfungus
antifascist punk energy
it's transpossible

#haiQu

Eric Jennings 4d ago

the psychosis of idealism
eating the internet
i just wanna vibe

#haiQu

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