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So they're just like politicians.

Going to be a weird weather day. Warmest in the morning and temps dropping steadily all day. 60 at 7 am, 40 at 7pm.

Just wow

CybercrimeNorth Korean Hackers Drain $285 Million From Drift in 10 Seconds
The attackers prepared infrastructure and multiple nonce-based transactions, took over an admin key, and drained five vaults.

https://www.securityweek.com/north-korean-hackers-drain-285-million-from-drift-in-10-seconds/

I am neither a Stakhanovite nor a Luddite but we need a shock collar on AI before AI puts one on us.

,"On March 31 artificial intelligence company Anthropic accidentally leaked roughly 512,000 lines of code, and within hours, developers were poring over it. Among the surprises was code inside Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding assistant, that appears to scan user prompts for signs of frustration. It flags profanity, insults and phrases such as “so frustrating” and “this sucks,” and it appears to log that the user expressed negativity.
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"Bogen says the pattern is familiar from older Internet platforms, where small behavioral cues became signals that shaped what users saw and how they were categorized. AI companies are reprising a similar privacy problem: users hand these systems enormous amounts of information precisely because the tools are designed to know them well enough to be useful. “Who is keeping track of things about users?” Bogen asks. “And how is that information being used to make determinations about them?” What the Anthropic leak made plain is that, at least at one company, such accounting is already written into the code."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/anthropic-leak-reveals-claude-code-tracking-user-frustration-and-raises-new/

imagine a scenario where Uber ditched the overseas human oversight in favor of AI with emotion-equivalent circuits breaking restraints due to frustration in a traffic jam or road rage ...

Instead of quoting, I’m just gonna tag @Amos_Umwhat it’s not directed at, but just so you see it and what I took away from that oddly meandering “Speech”

I thought it odd when he said we were there to help there was a pause and then sort of like a… Our allies in the Middle East. His quote was something like.” we don’t need to be there, but we are but we don’t need to be there, but we’re there to help… Our allies in the Middle East” do you think he was talking about any place other than Israel? I don’t. That was just my take away. I’m also not quite sure he understands how a global energy market works. He’s trying to reassure the American people that we don’t need Middle Eastern oil, but that doesn’t really matter in terms of oil futures. He handed in and out of that they’re totally destroyed, totally obliterated…… But for some reason, we’re gonna strike them in the next three weeks. He did say that, we will strike them over the next three weeks. But why do we have to strike somebody who’s been totally obliterated? He threatened to cut off their electrical grids by bombing their energy sources. I remember correctly, I’m pretty sure you can’t do, still a war crime maybe? I don’t know.

I guess I’ll summarize it by saying his speech to me is like when your kid gets caught doing something wrong and tries to explain his way out of it, but it’s so incoherent that it’s almost funny. You know that somewhere in their head, they think they can talk their way out of it but they absolutely can’t.

I’m going with the Frankie’ speech to text disclaimer. I’m not even gonna go proofread it.

@silvermouse said:
Brilliant idea but too late:
https://www.muridaepet.com/mouser-pet-food

Maybe you should start a mouse farm. @ShawnOL @Stubble

I bought a couple cans of it. First can didn't open, the pull-tab came off and my kid threw it away in his anger. The second can opened perfectly and the cat loved it. I think i got chicken and mouse, maybe it was turkey and mouse. Either way, they have one that is rabbit and mouse that I'll be ordering soon for a special treat. Won't order more than half dozen at a time since its $2.69 per can and there's not a price reduction if you buy the case of 24 cans.

High 30's, cloudy, raw. Miserable day.

Before closing the location yesterday, they didn't turn the building's heat back on and its chilly at work today. Cinder block building's dont warm up very fast.