Sage Anastasi

this post deserves to be presented to you by having an index card moved down word by word with photos taken of your face after every new reveal

A bipedal red fox paints a rainbow across the sky. They have a determined look on their face. To the right of the rainbow are segments of text from newspaper articles about grim news for LGBTQIA+ folks, especially trans folks. On the left, there are flowers on the ground, with butterflies flittering about. The discouraging words are illegible faint smudges. Artist: BriarhideIllust

Persist against all odds

Help, my Claude code instances have unionized

What a remarkable statement. Both true and chilling.

"It is clear that the sum of US policy choices amount to mortality worse than a COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing, year after year" @gavinyamey.bsky.social

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As long as the FBI jumps through the right hoops in Switzerland, yes, they can get whatever data Proton has on you. You agreed to that when you signed up for your account there.

Branded. Vending machines. Of Tobacco pouches. Hey, at least Palantir has a brand and they're proud of it: "Disgusting tech. Disgusting policies. Disgusting vibes." 👏👏👏

The internet is borderless and free but your ass is parked in the jurisdiction of someone's courts.

The cyberlibertarianists have been trying to wish this away for like four decades without success.

The downfall of so many libertarian efforts - cyber- and otherwise - can be summed up by their failure to understand the fundamental truth of the first line of a John Donne poem:

No man is an Iland, intire of itselfe

"British female track and field athletes are being asked to cover the cost of their own £185 sex tests if they want to compete internationally"

A tax on women courtesy of the Gender Critical.

You know feminism /s 🙄

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Oh noooo

How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Meta sued over AI smart glasses' privacy concerns, after workers reviewed nudity, sex, and other footage | TechCrunch Lawyers say Meta's marketing materials promised privacy and user control over sharing footage. But an investigation found that subcontractors are reviewing footage from customers' glasses.

That escalated quickly.

Denzel Washington-Starring ‘Hannibal’ Biopic —Directed by Antoine Fuqua —Set to Start Production in June for Netflix — World of Reel Antoine Fuqua’s Netflix-backed biopic of the legendary Carthaginian general is shooting soon. Furthermore, the DP is Robert Richardson, a three-time Oscar-winning cinematographer

Well, I do have one piece of amazing news today in the midst of *gestures to world* and that is that this will one day exist and I will one day teach with it. 🐘 ⚔️ www.worldofreel.com/blog/2026/3/...

A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best

Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

Username expired @rune@sound-city.dk @dysfun @cthos @davidgerard I think one of the tangible difference (not sure it is exactly from december, I don't use LLMs) is that "agentic" models exploded the quantity, not quality, factor of LLMs. Developers can now make the LLM run many more sequential queries without having to interact with the model and review the code, so the LLM can make something eventually "work" before the developer has to review anything and at that point there is so much code it overwhelms the human ability to review all the small details and identify the problems in the code. End result seems to be that confidence in the model output sky rockets and they then spend all their extra time trying to convince everyone else that they aren't in the middle of some kind of psychosis.

why the vibe coding addicts are getting even more rabid, a hypothesis

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Very much fits the "everything is gambling" hypothesis, too

If you can't possibly track what your agents are doing and are just checking to see whether the results worked out, you're basically playing a gacha without the actual game stapled to it

Soooo much stuff from the USA claims it was the "least polarised" in the 1950s

You know, when Black people couldn't vote

One reason why it is worth taking with a *massive* grain of salt both journalism and academic work hand-wringing about polarisation coming out of the US.

Of course every country has some degree of it, but in the list of countries one nested post down, the US is a huge, Manichean outlier.

i love "get to know this new, somehow even weirder and worse asshole" hour. we used to do it all the time during trump 1 so this is kind of nostalgic

"by injecting a prompt into a GitHub issue title, which an AI triage bot read, interpreted as an instruction, and executed"
sorry folks now you got to sanitise your inputs in case there are words

would be cool if we had some sort of, i dunno, nimbler platform to more quickly create flu vaccines that match circulating strains, someone should look into that

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Even funnier given the following image and today's news.

No doubt in my mind that LLMs have trained on cautionary distopian SciFi and use that to output distopian AI reality. It's not sentience by a long shot, it's just a very dumb irony of where we are at right now.

I do love that a small handful of humans are like, “You will NOT go extinct. Not on my watch!”

While kākāpō are all like, “Hey, watch me! I’m adorable and TERRIBLE at keeping myself alive! *stumbles around* Whoa… *loses balance* whoaaaaa… ok, I think I’m good… Nope… Not good, catch me!”

Science job cuts ‘erode sector capacity’ More cuts at BSI are proceeding without a clear strategy, says scientists association.

Another 86 (!) scientists gone. These were voluntary redundancies, but very hard to not assume it's because they find it hard to see a future for their work in the current AoNZ science system.

I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes:

Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.