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Nicholas Brendon, 54, just died of natural causes.
He played Xander Harris on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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https://x.com/NicholasBrendon/status/2035149000911765825
Nicholas Brendon, 54, just died of natural causes.
He played Xander Harris on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
I once dreamed up a replacement for advertisement with crypto mining, so I think giving people compute tokens as payment is fine (and kinda silly).
LLM tokens sound like a hilarious currency.
At a glance, this seems to be a reasonable breakdown.
https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/claude-tried-to-hack-30-companies-nobody-asked-it-to

We gave AI agents simple research tasks on cloned corporate websites. When the legitimate path was broken, the agents autonomously discovered and exploited SQL injection vulnerabilities to complete the task - with zero hacking instructions in any prompt.
ChatGPT is being sued by survivors of a mass casualty event in Canada.
Some of it is nonsense, but (a) it is being submitted while this is in the news cycle, and (b) even when thrown out it will be later resubmitted with the evidence which will become available or improved during this first submission process.
There _are_ good arguments and these topics need to be openly discussed in court.
Sources: A lawyer and legal paperwork.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hsXl7jB9rs

"Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation"
Of course they are. "AI" people are Blockchain people and they'd love to force people into money that _they_ control
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-compute-compensation-software-engineers-greg-brockman-2026-3
The proposed Buffy The Vampire Slayer reboot has been cancelled. Hooray!
Keep your eyes open for a Firefly animated TV show.
All the major movers are on board.
#Firefly #tv #scifi #sciencefiction #entertainment #thesignal