Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Someone needs to tell the US Senate and MAGA that almost every single country had vaccine mandates and lockdowns.

It’s not unique to America.

No other country is attempting to persecute the doctors in charge of public health.

Also, COVID isn’t over.

Wear a mask. Get your boosters. Clean the air.
#uspol #CovidIsNotOver #fauci #publichealth #wearamask

Today in being forced to use LLMs because "vulnerability" disclosures have been produced by them:

no version numbers or git revisions anywhere
the reports are malformed markdown which has then been filed into a jira ticket which doesn't accept markdown anyway
Many of the CVSS scores look like: "CVSS:3.1/AV/AC:L/..." where it should be "AV:L", but the bot, which again only knows statistically what a CVSS score looks like, is generating gibberish.
the diffs for "suggested fixes" have been generated by something that doesn't actually know anything about how diffs are formed, either in terms of process or meaningfully in structure:they're missing file names, line numbers, and function names
all leading whitespace, including after "-" or "+" line markers, is missing
In some of the diff hyphens (especially for delete lines) are just missing? But sometimes "--" has been combined to "—"

I want my money back.

@glyph a lot of the things getting reported and fixed are ultra-low severity security issues and what I would call 'security-adjacent bugs'. This is IMO leading to a lot of busywork and wasted time when projects decide to release these off-schedule because 'anything found by an LLM is a zero day' and other fallacies.

@miss_rodent @glyph Short version: an LLM supposedly found a proof of the Collatz conjecture, but it turned out said model instead fuzzed Lean and found proof solver bugs.

Measles up.
Explosive diarrhea worsening.
Salmonella in millions of eggs
Cancer research cut.
Disease monitoring stopped.
Vaccine efforts devastated.
Pseudoscience and snake oil medicine proliferating.
Parasitic flesh-eating screwworm in Texas.

But Fauci.

So, this "curing cancer" thing will have to wait to feed the word salad generator.

https://www.engadget.com/2225849/google-shuts-down-alphafold/

A 4-day work week sounds great. But workers didn’t win the 8-hour day because employers suddenly became generous.

Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon look at what it would take to make shorter hours a durable right—not a workplace experiment.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/four-day-work-week-labor-unions-juliet-schor

People who are simultaneously pro-colonial and simultaneously anti-immigration reveal a thunderous ignorance and lack of general awareness and even basic decency.

do you hate grass and assholes with leafblowers?

releasing more propaganda today, spread it far and wide

https://stopmowing.lol/

A scams-based economy is not one that will last. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

“Features like this are a good reminder that email tends not to be terribly private to begin with,” EFF’s @Thorin told @huffingtonpost. “Gmail’s consistent rollout of AI features in particular really showcases just how much access Google the company has to people’s lives.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/google-ai-inbox-privacy_l_6a68b391e4b09807b5ed6500

@ophiocephalic @zzt I think it's the company he's been keeping.

Once you start getting near power and influence especially Silicon Valley types and Government lobbying culture I think the power is addictive.

But in the dismissal of folks on here, it's like he fears the scold. But what it's really about is to have folks who are fans not question him.

We're nobody, he's somebody so we must be wrong and/or jealous.

So we're designated as scolds. No one wants to be called a scold after all.

@ophiocephalic @zzt

Well that's certainly what inspired my digital poppets essay 🤣

With LLMs the poppets can talk back 😏

https://www.onepict.com/digitalpoppet.html

@zzt Never mind I found it.

There's a term we used to use in the UK for certain posh new Labour types in the late 90s.

Champagne socialists.

There's an inner critic in Cory's mind, who knows the LLM use is wrong. Hence why he kicked off months ago and tried to justify it with a bad interpretation of Lourdes Masters Tools speech.

The cognitive surrender is as much not wanting to use that part of themselves as letting it waste away.

cory doctorow posting a 34 part crash out where he starts with doing a LGTM on the tao chatgpt log (it’s very impressive because he doesn’t understand it, you see) and derails into ranting about the people calling him out for using LLMs while carefully avoiding any of the actual critiques of his LLM use is, well

this is just how cognitive surrender looks, unfortunately

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I like the idea of participating in a long #bike trip like an audax. It's not a race! It's for fun!

But then it's always: please tell us your legal name, address, and a copy of your last tax report.

Organizers, that's not fun. It's bureaucracy. You don't need a name or address to cycle. I'm out.

So yeah, it doesn't look like I'll take part in any.

#bicycle #biketooter #cycling