Tim Ackermann

I'm guessing that was "using" lol

But... why?
(all the verbs, for that matter)

Dr Manhattan lonely on mars

Another constitutional law conference, another occasion on which I’m the only scholar to cite a comic book

LLMs are nothing more than models of the distribution of the word forms in their training data, with weights modified by post-training to produce somewhat different distributions. Unless your use case requires a model of a distribution of word forms in text, indeed, they suck and aren't useful.

From Ukraine to Iran, Hacking Security Cameras Is Now Part of War’s ‘Playbook’ New research shows hundreds of attempts by apparent Iranian state hackers to hijack consumer-grade cameras, timed to missile and drone strikes. Israel, Russia, and Ukraine have also adopted this trick...

Hacking internet-connected civilian security cameras for recon has become a standard operating procedure of modern warfare. First for Russia and Ukraine, now for Israel and Iran.

Your insecure internet-of-things surveillance system is now their targeting system.

www.wired.com/story/from-u...

Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom Meta accused of "concealing the facts" about smart glass users' privacy.

Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

Movies trained us!
bsky.app/profile/boul...

Fake LastPass support email threads try to steal vault passwords Password management software provider LastPass is warning users of a phishing campaign targeting its users with fake unauthorized account access alerts.

Pretty standard #phishing attack method. NEVER click links in an email you weren't expecting. Better to go to your own bookmark in your browser to access the site that claims you need to act.

Fake LastPass support email threads try to steal vault passwords www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

This does a good job of explaining -- even to a non-programmer like me -- why AI/LLM coding is actually less efficient

Who else sees what you see in those Meta smart glasses?
www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...

Well, sure. That's just math.

"Skynet" pyramid logo in red, with "Cyberdine Systems Corporation" below. (Yes, there's typos in the name. Yes, I found it that way.)

New branding dropped too:

Just like PlayStation, Microsoft has filed a patent for an AI helper that'll play games for you Microsoft has filed a patent application detailing an AI helper that can temporarily take over an Xbox session and play a game for you.

I'm struggling to think of a more pointless human endeavor than "paying for an AI that will play your video games for you," but apparently the absurdity of tangible reality has finally exceeded my wildest imaginings.

RIP to those reporting on Nacogdoches County TX or Natchitoches Parish LA

Ooh, the other post reminded me - maybe Gamma World.

Me too, I think. Went with a friend to the local community college to play games.

TBF, Austin is nearly four hours away from Denton. And I went to UT too, but am now in the DFW area.
I'm a bit that way with Wisconsin now even though I grew up there. I didn't drive around the state (myself) as a kid, then I moved away.

Yep, about 40 miles north.

Truckdash?

This does a good job of explaining -- even to a non-programmer like me -- why AI/LLM coding is actually less efficient

With junior folks you can fire the ones who lie and make crap up. Basically cut your time losses. These GPT applications *inherently lie* and *inherently make things up* it’s not a bug, it’s how they work.

You are basically saying “wouldn’t it be helpful to have a rough draft full of lies and inaccuracies and then go back and edit them out?”

And it is almost never faster. In most professions we get this with entry level folks. They are a net time loss. But we are investing in their development.

@gokp.bsky.social @badlawyerpod.bsky.social

Lol, somebody had to do this!
Looking forward to an ep on the trial

Motors & rotors, people!

The blog post on this recovered silent movie is very good. And if the director's name sounds familiar, he's got one very well-known sequence:

The blog post on this recovered silent movie is very good. And if the director's name sounds familiar, he's got one very well-known sequence:

Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's

"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot"

HELL. YES.

It's incredible that we uncover the oldest film about a robot and it's about a construct turning on its creator

The Butlerian Jihad remains undefeated as a moral philosophy