Patrick Tanguay

Claude Shannon - Wikipedia

I was today-years-old when I realised that Anthropic's Claude was likely named after Claude Shannon. D'oh! (Can't find an official confirmation though.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_...

Au lieu d'une belle courbe de croissance, ils ont décidé sans avertissement de partir sur une courbe "hockey stick." Innovateurs! 😅

3I/ATLAS Spraying Material as It Exits the Solar System Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS appears to have started spewing huge amounts of water and other organics into space.

I'm thinking protomolecule.
futurism.com/space/water-...

Not all that surprising, sadly.

Not good, not good at all.

Can it be called "caving" when the bro jumps in enthusiastically?

They don’t need a tool to assess where to drop a bomb when they have one that confidently confirms any location they choose. They don’t need autonomous drones to drop those bombs, they just need to give an order. So the human is just a conduit for the machine, which is just a conduit for the human.

They don't *need* AI to make these decisions. But they *want* AI to make these decisions. Because the tech gives them plausible deniability--something to blame (other than themselves) when things go wrong.

Collapse: A Framework for Understanding and Navigating the Decline of Industrial Civilisation Global industrial civilisation is collapsing and there is nothing we can do to prevent it.

'This is not a call to despair, but an invitation to understand the forces driving the process of collapse, and to explore how we might navigate the descent with integrity, purpose, and care for the living world.'
adrianlambert.substack.com/p/collapse-a... via @inevernu.bsky.social

Ah yes, I think it was @ftrain.bsky.social who said that.

I forget who said that Altman wants to be Steve Jobs but he's Steve Ballmer. More proof.

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

Si je comprend bien, c'est :
Dobson : 2
Gars que les Islanders savaient vouloir repêcher quand ils ont laissé partir Dobson : 2

😂

Designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk would:
1) bar the company from government contracts
2) bar any government contractor from using Claude
3) pressure other businesses to consider Claude insecure

Meanwhile, invoking the DPA would nationalize Claude, but now as a surveillance/murder tool

Invoking the Defense Production Act to force Anthropic to make a version of Claude that can conduct mass domestic surveillance and operate murderbots is psychotic

People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much.

stories like this will mention the AI "doomer narrative" (SkyNet will kill us all, often pushed by industry insiders), but not mention it pre-empts more realistic criticism (Grok's data center in Memphis is aiming its pollution directly at black people) the industry doesn't want to talk about

We have until March 6 to comment on whether there should be one million more satellites in orbit or thousands of mirrors that reflect light back at Earth Jesus Fucking H Christ on a Pogostick

Is AI the Paperclip? Scale at all costs.

'Look around. Are we not madly harvesting the world’s resources in a monomaniacal attempt to optimize artificial intelligence? Are we not trapped in an “AI maximizer” scenario?'
www.newcartographies.com/p/is-ai-the-... via @inevernu.bsky.social

Laser writing in glass for dense, fast and efficient archival data storage - Nature An optical archival storage technology based on femtosecond laser direct writing in glass addresses the practical demands of archival storage.

Project Silica is cool but asks a *lot* of those who read/decipher the archive: optical microscopy, a custom neural net, etc. If that knowledge gets lost - not at all a crazy thought for a 10,000-year archive! - you're hosed www.nature.com/articles/s41... (via @inevernu.bsky.social's Sentiers)

So, so, so, so tired of that fucking guy. Go surfing like a dweeb and leave us be.

CC Le serpent? 😂

You may be tempted to roll your eyes and say that this was obvious, but there is a substantive difference between pointing out there is a slippery slope and having solid evidence that Ring's CEO is planning to expand Search Party beyond lost pets. Kudos to 404 Media.

As of today, I'm getting proper curly quotes and apostrophes again. Sonnet 4.6. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Cette idée aussi de se crêper le Crinon

Welcome The Stranger YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office

This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors.

youtu.be/uoU9Img_B40

Jesus Facebook, I had low expectations, but … wow.

"en territoire suisse, à ne pas confondre avec le territoire neutre" 👏🏼

Thanks! While I have you "on the line," congrats on the launch of the consortium, looks fantastic!