Flutterby™! (short)

I hate that Apple has decided that Terminal is just gonna suck and you've gotta use iTerm2 if you want to access the command line.

Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought Evelina Fedorenko, Steven T. Piantadosi & Edward A. F. Gibson. (PDF), from Nature

Why Nature will not allow the use of generative AI in images and video. Interestingly, though:

For now, Nature is allowing the inclusion of text that has been produced with the assistance of generative AI, providing this is done with appropriate caveats (see go.nature.com/3cbrjbb). The use of such large language model (LLM) tools needs to be documented in a paper’s methods or acknowledgements section, and we expect authors to provide sources for all data, including those generated with the assistance of AI. Furthermore, no LLM tool will be accepted as an author on a research paper.

Which seems to be at odds with a lot of their reasoning over AI images.

Say you want to buy music from someone signed to one of the big labels: is there a place other than Amazon to buy a DRM-free download that doesn't require installing an app?

As Neal Stephenson foretold in The Diamond Age: AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches

PromptArmor: Google Antigravity Exfiltrates Data

An indirect prompt injection in an implementation blog can manipulate Antigravity to invoke a malicious browser subagent in order to steal credentials and sensitive code from a user’s IDE.

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the site is called medium because nothing on it is ever rare or well done send toot