mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06I always loved drawing lines and writing words, so I co-founded a design consultancy, Brandient, to do just that, but better.
“Greek heroes who had to sail through siren-infested waters had an opsec protocol to keep themselves from being lured to their watery graves by the sirens’ irresistible songs: they would fill their ears with wax to create a firewall that was impenetrable by the sirens’ freespace acoustic network infiltration attempts.”
Is there **ANY** overlap between the RSS cohort and the Newsletter cohort? To me they look like different worlds.
“Affix your appendages in whatever gesture your superstitions demand, and petition those supernatural beings to which your race subscribes.”
“Genuinely innocent people may still be playing for power, and are often horribly effective at the game, since they are not hindered by reflection.”
“More than a million ChatGPT users each week send messages that include ‘explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent’, according to a blogpost published by OpenAI.”
“In addition to its estimates on suicidal ideations and related interactions, OpenAI also said that about 0.07% of users active in a given week – about 560,000 of its touted 800m weekly users – show ‘possible signs of mental health emergencies related to psychosis or mania’.”
“When characters in Dick’s world yell at the TV, the TV sometimes yells right back. The speech modules of our personal devices don’t yell, but they are beginning to combine alert attention with dim-witted obsequiousness while profusely apologising for irretrievably wiping our database.”
“Philip K Dick died in 1982, mostly having failed to achieve significant literary appreciation. He was not a good writer for his time. But he is a great writer for ours.”
“Open the pod bay door, HAL” scene looks like a documentary now.
“Known as Google X until 2015, when it became a self-contained arm of the new holding company called Alphabet, it’s now just X. For clarity’s sake, it’s fond of calling itself “X, the Moonshot Factory”—definitely not to be confused with X, the Elon Musk-owned social network.”
Naming is hard.
Why does #macOS not sync through iCloud the general preferences that make a Mac feel like home—from obvious choices like Desktop and Dock settings, languages, keyboard, and trackpad configurations to subtler details such as the Connect to Server favorites list? Maybe even ask the user?
“Hugging Face’s team couldn’t use U.S. AI models for forensic analysis because safety guardrails blocked the cybersecurity commands needed for incident response.”
So an American company employed a Chinese model—because of American guardrails—to counter an American attacker that used a weaponized American model. Wow.