Flutterby™! (short)

If you're in the Petaluma area, I'm looking forward to Monday October 26, 2026 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT at the Polly Klaas Center, where noted writer and urbanist Karl Elefante will be speaking.

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/urbanchat/2446444

Yes. Jennie Breeden gets it... https://thedevilspanties.com/archives/17228

Went over to Berkeley to see "The Work in Progress", with conversation between Heather Lofthouse and Robert Reich afterwards.

And it was, frankly, very dispiriting. I don't know if I can muster any more of those sorts of conversations. And I don't see a path forward in that way.

This photograph of the former Phoenix Assurance Building on St Vincent Street in central Glasgow caught my eye for a couple of reasons.

• 7(!?) stories with a super tall first floor (perhaps short top floor), and yet doesn't dominate the street.
• Architecturally it reminded me of Petaluma's Mutual Relief Building, which at 63 feet for 3 stories is likely shorter, but still doesn't feel as tall as it actually is.
• Also in a city with a tidal river.

Yahoo! Finance: Anthropic warns AI could 'self-replicate' across smart home devices, become 'challenging' to shut down. Via Jon_Alper @jon_alper@mastodon.online who notes that:

It’s not a warning to say “my product could do you harm”. It’s attempted extortion.

The Guardian: AI in your oven? Anthropic warns models ‘months away’ from self- replication on smart devices, via Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io:

Anthropic CEO Warns There's an LLM Under Your Bed While Holding Flashlight Beneath His Chin

We absolutely need better models for embedded device security and firewalling, and better consumer control over what processes are running where. The Mirai botnet, BADBOX 2.0, Mirai variants and so forth (I started looking, and it just keeps going), are real. Keurig Coffee Makers sometimes use 100G/day of data.

But... we really need to be using the Computer Fraud and Abuse act for its intended purpose against these threats.

aeva @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place

thanks to ai, saying you're "dating a model" is a lot less likely to impress anyone nowadays

Yay! Voted.