Rob Herman @sitnaltax@schelling.pt

take me down to parallax city where the back moves slow and the front moves quickly

"With AI, now any idiot can write malware!"

As a security researcher, I can assure you that idiots have been writing malware for quite some time.

"stroustrup" sounds like a legacy C string function that has been proven to have 3 different memory safety issues

So close

Satya Nadella cements his entry in the CEO hall of fame by spotting OpenAI early and locking down access to its fruit for use in Office and Bing.

FTC is worried about Activision which is gaming’s past when Microsoft is locking down the future of AI.

https://www.semafor.com/article/01/09/2023/microsoft-eyes-10-billion-bet-on-chatgpt

type of guy who reads every "type of guy" tweet thinking "ha, at least i'm not that guy"

(this tweet brought to you by gödel's incompleteness theorem)

The Turing Test is obsolete because we’ve run out of questions that are both clever enough that a smart computer can’t answer them but still easy enough for a dumb human to figure out.

CAPTCHA is also obsolete. We’ve lost the arms race.

I'm radically anti-capitalist, obviously, but I don't believe that abolishing #capitalism is necessary to prevent #climate change. It's just a politically convenient soundbite that people repeat. In reality, capitalism has averted major #ecological disasters in the past (remember the ozone layer? Acid rain?), and there's no good reason to think it can't avert this one.

And it's not like progress towards solving climate change hasn't been made under capitalism.

Ope, seems we’re down a pope! We need some new ones so her you go ALL MY FOLLOWERS ARE POPES NOW AND THERES NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT #HailEris #AllHailDiscordia

Tonight I decided to add candy eyes to our chocolate-dipped strawberries, only to learn that when it comes to desserts there is a very, very fine line between “whimsical” and “cursed”

Welcome to Mastodon! It's a laid back place. But here's a few simple rules you must follow:

1. Make an account on every fediverse server and create a unique introduction post for each one.

2. Put a content warning on any post that is tangentially related to the Irish Potato Famine.

3. Always use the hashtag #icomeinpeace. Otherwise, we will assume you are hostile.

4. When browsing Mastodon, remove your socks. It is customary.

5. Tell five of your friends to join. Yes, it's a pyramid scheme.

“Booty call” and “butt dial” has been offered up as an example of where the literal meaning of two phrases is the same but the implied meaning is very different (denotative vs connotative meanings).

Today a coffee mug gave me another example: “dad bod” and “father figure”

#linguistics #wordplay

I uninstalled the Twitter app today. It’s just gotten too tedious for me between the random changes to the app and most content (including mine) being complaining about Elon Musk.

Currently planning to back to reddit for reading news and will use Mastodon for sharing ideas.

Family: *starts fighting*

Me, *sobbing*: Can we please not do this now, during Honda's Biggest Sale of the Year?

Things we didn't do:
- Start the fire
- Shoot the deputy
- Steal the cookies from the cookie jar

Things we did:
- Tried to fight it
- Shot the sheriff
- Put the sham in the shama-lama-ding-dong

Things we will do:
- Survive
- Rock you
- Walk 500 miles
- Walk 500 more

Things we won't do:
- Get fooled again
- Back down
- That

Things we will never do:
- Give you up
- Let you down
- Run around
- Desert you

(Oops:
- I did it again)

Up until very recently, if there was something important going on anywhere in the world, it was virtually certain to be in my Twitter feed. Not just RTs of media reports, but discussion, etc. That just doesn't seem to be true any more over there. And it's not here yet.