Posts by abucci@buc.ci
(DIR) Post #B5KUafKxfyWnoxq8v2 by abucci@buc.ci
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run A data center project in Sanford, Maine---a town over from me---is affected by this statewide ban. A scummy Republican state representative revealed some details of the proposed project publicly in an attempt to derail this ban. I guess his thinking was that the proposal was so massive it would somehow impress people into agreeing to it. Apparently that didn't work.“This is an historically large economic investment opportunity for Sanford, and one that I think is really needed,” Sen. Matthew Harrington, R-York, said in a telephone interview Wednesday. He was first to disclose the parameters of the project last week, in an attempt to derail a proposed two-year moratorium on data centers under discussion at the Energy and Utilities Committee. He said the project represents 100 long-term jobs and is “well on track to happen.”From https://sanfordspringvalenews.com/company-eyes-sanford-site-for-data-center/Harrington had anti-trans language in his campaign flyers last election, just to give you a sense of how nice a guy he is (/s).
(DIR) Post #B5M7hdQBHvBHHDYUoC by abucci@buc.ci
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@ngaylinn@tech.lgbtThe academic literature has amassive discoverability problem.No it doesn't---you're doing the discovery! That's what a scholar is and does, and why we need them.You sometimes can't know something is connected to your work till you find the thing and notice it's connected. It's a bit like how you can read a book again and get different things from it than you did the previous times you read it. This not a mechanically or technologically solvable problem, because it's not a problem at all: it's baked into how human life works.
(DIR) Post #B5MDZN2AvlyxrRllOS by abucci@buc.ci
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@ngaylinn@tech.lgbt That I agree with wholeheartedly. Collectively we could certainly do a better job at making information and knowledge available to everyone. I'm glad you don't accept the status quo in that respect!
(DIR) Post #B5Nucnl8Vvr2nsdrPM by abucci@buc.ci
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My wife found a baby tick yesterday. They'reeeee hereeeee.#maine #ticks
(DIR) Post #B5O9UB6ZqOgFup16GW by abucci@buc.ci
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I thought the Ronan Farrow/Andrew Marantz New Yorker article on OpenAI and Sam Altman in particular reveals many important details and helps settle several speculations (e.g. about what happened when Altman was briefly fired from OpenAI). The overall portrayal of Altman as frankly a compulsive liar is much needed.However, like many Farrow and Marantz seem to take the so-called "existential risk" framing of AI seriously. I really wish people would stop doing that. In this case it makes the article feel incoherent in places.This technology by itself does not pose a unique risk. It's the people, organizations, and governments around it, and their behavior with respect to it, that generate risk. Treating the technology alone as uniquely existentially risky provides cover for a wide variety of bad actors to both continue doing their work as well as to shrug and say "oops" if something goes catastrophically wrong or if smaller harms accumulate into intolerably large ones. The very framing provides an accountability shield, which by my read contradicts what Farrow himself suggests is needed, namely more accountability. I take this from this article, his previous work, and comments he makes in interviews (e.g., this one with Decoder.We need to stop catastrophizing. It's thought and action terminating.#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #OpenAI #SamAltman #RonanFarrow #AndrewMarantz #NewYorker #xrisk #ExistentialRisk #AISafety
(DIR) Post #B5UQU9pPSJxE7mK2lM by abucci@buc.ci
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io They're really aping prediction markets in articles like this? That's quite a choice.
(DIR) Post #B5V74IYof8ovhuTc80 by abucci@buc.ci
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run If you liked CDOs wait'll you try C3DOs
(DIR) Post #B5V7yzJmsULmXBTkCu by abucci@buc.ci
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@tante@tldr.nettime.org Agentake
(DIR) Post #B5WIRb6DCCH0WBMyMy by abucci@buc.ci
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One of the things I'm finding stunning about the Vercel breach is how many people are saying "I had $VERY_LARGE_NUMBER of OAuth apps authorized to my $VERY_IMPORTANT_ACCOUNT and had to go through them all". I have like 2 OAuth apps authorized on any account that matters to me, and I review them fairly regularly and remove ones I don't use or don't remember. I also never accept "allow all" for any app. Apparently I'm weird in this way? I just feel like not doing this is akin to using "password" for all your passwords.#tech #dev #security #cybersecurity #InfoSec #Vercel #breach #OAuth #AI
(DIR) Post #B5WMP6kZSfbnd6Jcyu by abucci@buc.ci
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It's hilarious (*) that "JSON prompting" is a thing and AI people say "prompt engineering is dead; you should be JSON prompting".You mean to say it's more effective to use a structured syntax to instruct the computer to do what you want? That's amazing! But I feel like I've heard that somewhere before? 🤔💡 I wonder whether having a process that rewrites the JSON you enter into other JSON according to some rules---also expressed in JSON of course---would be helpful sometimes? We could call it "JSON programming", maybe.#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #LLM #Claude #PromptEngineering #JSONPrompting #ComputerScience(*) Hilarious in the facepalm sort of way.
(DIR) Post #B5WOp9inEirmHa24I4 by abucci@buc.ci
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I often wonder how much of this absurdity reflects a failure of computer science education to convey to students what exactly computer science is about. In my (admittedly biased) view, someone who understood what computer science is would immediately recognize "JSON prompting" as "impoverished computer programming of an unreliable machine". If you understand your theory, a bunch of unavoidable consequences follow from that simple observation. You save yourself a lot of time, trouble, and uncertainty, and can even forecast the future!#ComputerScience #ComputerScienceEducation
(DIR) Post #B5WQmxWVokJDmQMtd2 by abucci@buc.ci
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I just spent a solid 5 minutes confused about why my noise-cancelling headphones were not cancelling noise before realizing they were turned off.
(DIR) Post #B5WovXjtRw1DJmFlgm by abucci@buc.ci
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A typical reply to this on #LinkedIn : "I can't parse your layer cake of sarcasm but I use AI to _________"
(DIR) Post #B5WtYyw8fBjwmQ2gS0 by abucci@buc.ci
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run @Sibshops@mastodon.online Is there fusion in there.
(DIR) Post #B5YOuMs6A1supZn2Zs by abucci@buc.ci
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In broad strokes, these are some of the main elements of the Muskist regime of accumulation. Fuse with the state by becoming a monopoly provider for essential functions. Concentrate production while prioritizing resilience, independence, and control. Sell technology for national and individual self-reliance in a hostile world filled with racialized others. Accelerate digitization to make everything programmable, including and especially the human brain....This is the other side of the Muskist mode of regulation: a vision not of shared prosperity but of violence. The fan contract for those inside the walls of a fortified West, and expulsion for those marked as illegitimate. After both the models of Fordist industrialism and post-Fordist outsourcing and globalization have receded, Muskism holds out the prospect of a purified community of survivors....In many ways, the ICE incursion was Muskism in action: heavily armed agents equipped with data analytics dashboards and facial-recognition software, using high technology to purge those migrants deemed out of place and punish their “woke” enablers.From Muskism As Fordism#USPol #WorldPol #geopolitics #Musk #Muskism #Fordism
(DIR) Post #B5YP4YKGQeLNFeowaG by abucci@buc.ci
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Musk and his colleagues have the good fortune of living in a moment when there is no structural actor capable of challenging their dominance. The working class has virtually ceased to exist as an organized force. Absent pressure from below, political parties themselves offer no meaningful opposition to Muskism. The effect is paradoxical. On the one hand, the lives of capitalists are made easier when they can intensify the exploitation of their workers and purchase influence in politics with little resistance. But it also means they have no incentive to restrain their most antisocial impulses or consider the long-term consequences of their actions.Muskism typifies this tendency: if Fordism and post-Fordism were both, in different ways, organized to secure social peace, Muskism is oriented toward social war. The relative thinness of the Muskist mode of regulation is symptomatic: the working-class antagonist is so weak, the social war so asymmetric, that there is no need for a negotiated peace. At the moment, the strategy seems to be working.#USPol #WorldPol #geopolitics #Musk #Muskism #Fordism
(DIR) Post #B5dLcSJtpwVcRbMQDo by abucci@buc.ci
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Looks like governor Janet Mills vetoed the Maine data center moratorium that recently passed the Maine legislature. Extremely disappointing, and out of step with what's increasingly looking like a winning electoral strategy. Very few people want data centers. They destroy neighborhoods, don't create good jobs, and don't bring wealth into a community. They raise electricity rates 50-100%, possibly more in the long term.https://www.bangordailynews.com/2026/04/24/politics/janet-mills-vetoes-maine-data-center-ban/#Maine #DataCenters #NoAI
(DIR) Post #B5eZuQeAOBUaz4GTE8 by abucci@buc.ci
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The typical webapp login process for me is anywhere from 5 to 7 steps, and I'd say I give up about 5-10% of the time after the 2nd CAPTCHA. I can't imagine this is good for anybody, and it almost surely does not reduce abuse either. Just a swirling dark pattern feeding on itself. Everyone likes to ape post-9/11 airport "security" for some reason.#tech #dev #SecurityTheater #DarkPatterns #UI #UX #security
(DIR) Post #B5eacMDQE4eVywhZj6 by abucci@buc.ci
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@randomgeek@masto.hackers.town @hipsterelectron@circumstances.run Putting aside whether or not passkeys are a good idea, such patterns make me suspicious. That's a nudge: they make the usual login flow painful, and make the passkey flow as easy as possible, because the latter is what they prefer you do. I inevitably put my guard up whenever I notice a nudge, and start asking questions about why I'm being coaxed down this particular flow.
(DIR) Post #B5gevjaYL0ZY6hw6BU by abucci@buc.ci
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I profoundly dislike Discord and I wish people would stop pushing me there. The UX is poor for such a widely-used service.