Flutterby™! (short)

Anthropic IPO warns its AI could blackmail people, become sentient, end humanity.

Who will be eaten first? was supposed to be parody.

I have never wanted to stand up and cheer for John Hanania, but his closing statement... nicely dropped that knife in and twisted.

I'm still hell yeah for Kevin McDonnell, but appreciate that John pointed out those things.

I am amazed at the candidates talking about hard communication with council. I say "hi" to most of the council members regularly, I run across them all the time. Where are the people who are having trouble feeling heard hanging out?

Alan LaPierre isn't smart enough to know that he's calling for more traffic even as he's saying he's for less of it.

Yay for Brent Newell for calling bullshit on the 11 stories thing. "We deserve better discourse".

Go Janice: "I really encourage all candidates to read the general plan."

Hope some calls bullshit on the PHA...

Shelina Moreda coming out strong for increasing homelessness. Yay for Karen Nau calling bullshit (kindly) on her.

Yay for Eric Vasquez taking it to the next level.

At the Petaluma Women's Club for the candidates forum. There are definitely varying levels of preparation on display here.

This is reinforcing my previous opinions.

We found the criminal immigrants. Brazil’s Flávio Bolsonaro and family will get US visas after election loss, State Department says.

Oh this is fascinating: The SCP Foundation is a shared fiction universe in which people have written over 30 million words about an organization focused on containing and studying supernatural and paranormal entities. These stories have been, of course, ingested by LLMs.

If you somehow end up in that area of the embedding vector space, the LLM will happily guide you around it as though it's real.

Kinda reminds me of when I read Umberto Eco and Robert Anton Wilson at the same time...

Futurism: Tech Industry Figures Suddenly Very Concerned That AI Use Is Leading to Psychotic Episodes

Via Elf Sternberg. Further down in that thread, he notes:

It's just genuinely weird that an entire website about theoretical and supernatural cognitotoxins has become, thanks to mad alchemists, an essential ingredients in making actual cognitotoxins.

Nova Scotia woman refused to comply with phone scammer, so would-be fraudster swatted her house

“It appears to be a level of retribution by the fraudsters in this case,” said Staff Sgt. Marc Rose, commander of Colchester District RCMP.

“[It appears] they did this to cause her harm and pain and distress by having the police respond to her residence all because she didn’t follow the original instructions on the phone."