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‪maia arson crimew 🏴‬ ‪@crimew.gay‬

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members?

I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

Via ‪Chester Christmas‬ ‪@imemptyplshalp.bsky.social‬

Oh of fucking course Larry Summers, Sam Harris, and Stephen Pinker are on here. The unholy Trinity of people considered smart despite being wrong about literally everything they've ever written.

But, yeah, it's got strong overlap with the Epstein files list, and has all the hallmarks of being a vibe-coded React thing. Of course the list of names hardcoded in source could be a red herring of some sort...

jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny@neuromatch.social

only amateurs "pay for tokens," i'm out here using the free models, aka putting a prompt in any issue in any github repository and labeling it with "good first issue" and waiting for the people with full-auto openclaw agents to randomly open pull requests against it

Commodore Callback flip phone: Welcome to the Internot. A Sailfish based flip-phone that doesn't run social media apps, by design.

Via so many places, but 1, 2, 3, 4.

Interview with FFMPEG enthusiast (YouTube video). From the comments:

You know that FFMPEG supports h265 hardware accelerated encoding with Radeon cards on Linux? I mean I couldn't get it to work but FFMPEG supports it.

Very dry, very droll. Via.

I kinda hate "accent", because it's anthropomorphizing, but Model Tell: Every AI writes with an accent is interesting, as is the ensuing MeFi thread. Especially the model generation similarities.

aeva @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place

you ever think about how buildings also kinda function as population density bar graphs

So that I can find it in the future, grab a video frame at a particular time with:

ffmpeg -ss 12:34.5 -i video.MOV -frames:v 1 -q:v 2 output.jpg

A Scottish Post: The New Election Threat: Disinformation Inside the Answer. Via.

Looks like the source of this is from: Demos: Electoral Hallucinations: Safeguarding UK elections in the world of LLMs and AI chatbots

Our snapshot testing on March 27th 2026 found that - across ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Grok, and Replika - just over a third (34.1%) of responses to questions about the Scottish elections contained factual errors (109 of 320 total responses). To break down these inaccurate responses, 8.75% (28 of 320) were entirely inaccurate and 25.3% were partly accurate but with errors (81 of 320). Partly factual responses could be particularly misleading as their errors were sometimes much harder to spot.

Lynn Cavanah: A brief history of the establishment of international standard pitch a=440 hertz (PDF)

Via this Reddit thread on tuning your guitar at 432 vs 440.

We see this a lot in arguments about

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 ‪@maxdubler.com‬

The Lead Paint Theory of Anti Gentrification holds that activists can prevent displacement and preserve housing affordability by preserving neighborhood disamenities and blocking investment in quality of life improvements like parks, bike lanes, and libraries. It does not work.

is quoting Sam Gould ‪@form67.bsky.social‬

I attended an urban infrastructure panel where a UC Berkeley professor argued that libraries were gentrification. I am really struggling to see how this is different from a Republican position of denying knowledge, tools, and technology to low income, disadvantaged neighborhoods.

And has a screenshot of a tweet from X user @AllisonB916 “rent controller OG”:

Taking down freeways in some situations would open the community to gentrification—what protects the community is the damn freeway.

I noted that Audiveris has some sketchy malware/crypto/whatever scammer campted out on the .com, Bartosz Golaszewski points out that someone is doing similar to libgiopod.

Via.

Paddy Duke @paddyduke@mastodon.social

@aral From “Think outside the box!” to “The box will now handle all the thinking for you. Please insert a coin into the box.”

The PrimeTime: I Think They Are Lying To You (YouTube video) is... well... nothing you don't already know, and it's video form, but it showed up in a Slack channel this morning, and it's about Boris Cherny of Anthropic bragging about how he doesn't even prompt Claude any more, he just... something... and code comes out, contrasting that with how long it's taking Anthropic to release fixes to obvious and horrible Claude Code usability issues. So maybe coding is a solved problem, but debugging isn't?

In reading through Mike Bowler: The case for real collaboration I realized that I don't think I've ever worked on a team large enough to do "pair programming" in the manner that it was originally envisioned.

But it's worth a read through.

Snort: Sam Wilkinson: Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated.

Australian Privacy Commissioner orders American Express Australia Limited to compensate complainant following interference in privacy. It takes a couple of clicks to get to the actual report, but it's summarized by Dissent Doe :cupofcoffee: @PogoWasRight@infosec.exchange (who also links to a paywalled news report):

American Express ordered to fix security gaps after a customer complained about improper employee access.

It seems that a customer reported a privacy concern and fought AmEx for 4 years to get them to implement stronger access controls or monitoring of employee access to data.

Now, the AU govt has ordered AmEx to rectify security flaws in five of its data systems to guard against “insider threats” and to restrict employee access to specific customer information to protect vulnerable and high-profile customers.

From reading through the report, this was a stalking/domestic abuse violation, and AmEx didn't even have access logging, and lacked policy for any sort of reaction to stalking.

Thought we'd found a place for this final SFBABC.org bench, went and talked with someone tending the space and discovered that they were delicately managing relationships with the two property owners, and didn't want to introduce a bench to that.

So we're back to the two playgrounds that feel kinda like a slap in the face of Parks & Rec, or finding another space. Anyone in Petaluma got suggestions for a public space that could use a bench?