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Just looked up a Unicode character, and when I came back to the tab of course it was displaying one of those "your Mac has forty gazillion viruses" fake Norton malware pages. Let's not mince words: When you build a web page that requires JavaScript, you are working in concert with malware vendors

The whole class of Microsoft Copilot as an environment for self-replicating worms sure is making me think about humans and memes a lot.

Counter: We must ensure that this technology falls into furry hands.

Another conversation which... the AI psychosis is real, and I can't push back too hard without getting a reaction, but I am astounded at how much money is apparently being spent in the hopes that inserting LLMs into something will be more cost effective than simple tweaks to process.

Holy crap. Apple signing keys, and the management structure and user interface around them. That is all.

Looked into the details of "The Reality Network", and suddenly had the uncomfortable realization that WASM means that every one of those "checking to see if you're a human" pauses could be stealing compute for proof-of-work (like ads likely already are). JavaScript was a mistake.

If anything, this number is low because our bar for what qualifies is way way too high.

It's good to know that it's not just the MAGAts here in agriculture for recreational drugs (wine) country...

Okay, let's try here: Is anyone the SF Bay Area interested in a late '90s Endless Pool? Comes with gas heater, spa and pool pump (one of those is recently replaced), hydraulic agitator pump. There's a few thousand bucks in a new liner and installation, but if you're a project oriented person HMU!

The irony of a "no politics" sign in a bike shop. Anyway, if anyone's got a favorite bike shop that still stocks parts for us analog bike riders, I'm open to suggestions.

What have we wrought?

Whatever happened to Google search? I'm trying to find if Emily Wilson has written anything on "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou", and the "AI" summary is sending me down links that, of course, don't say what the summary claims. But even the Google excerpts are just bogus now.

Happy 39th Anniversary of Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...

Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video) (4K Remaster)YouTube video by Rick Astleywww.youtube.com

Just ran across the word "mechanthropomorphism" in Peter F Hamilton's "Pandora's Star", and I like it and the concept a lot.

A picture of my new like button. The video of it in action is at youtube.com/shorts/V8Zh6...

Some days it's scrap wood to excise the ideas from my brain... Anyway, we have a post next to our driveway that's no longer used for anything, but I like it, so I built something to encourage people to like this post... youtube.com/shorts/V8Zh6...

In the same way that we need to approach anthropomorphizing language for AIs, we need to address those using language that suggests empathy for Trump.

I will pay good money for an Android app that lets me set up multiple queues (ie: today I feel like listening to this sub-genre of non-fiction), and lets me categorize podcasts, especially so that I can say "listened to this, didn't like" without it cluttering my inbox.

The creator of PowerShell, for all its faults, observed that command lines have artifacts that can be communicated. GUIs don't.

I'm getting strong Chuck Tingle vibes...