Imbolc
@eob.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
I work in tech, working on #AI #alignment of #personalized applications to make sure they avoid #privacy and #safety harms
Opinions here are strictly my own — I’m not […]
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A quite astounding revelation from a surprisingly modern-looking infographic from 165 years ago
It shows the fraction of people enslaved in each county in the 1860 census
In some counties 9 in 10 people were human chattel
The Mississippi River oozed a dark stain of human suffering
It shows the fraction of people enslaved in each county in the 1860 census
In some counties 9 in 10 people were human chattel
The Mississippi River oozed a dark stain of human suffering
December 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
A quite astounding revelation from a surprisingly modern-looking infographic from 165 years ago
It shows the fraction of people enslaved in each county in the 1860 census
In some counties 9 in 10 people were human chattel
The Mississippi River oozed a dark stain of human suffering
It shows the fraction of people enslaved in each county in the 1860 census
In some counties 9 in 10 people were human chattel
The Mississippi River oozed a dark stain of human suffering
My favorite #weather app is #Ventusky, both for local weather and to see global patterns
And today I discovered this interesting map layer which shows what altitude is at freezing temperature
Note the pattern in Europe of the zero line, where the maritime […]
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And today I discovered this interesting map layer which shows what altitude is at freezing temperature
Note the pattern in Europe of the zero line, where the maritime […]
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December 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
My favorite #weather app is #Ventusky, both for local weather and to see global patterns
And today I discovered this interesting map layer which shows what altitude is at freezing temperature
Note the pattern in Europe of the zero line, where the maritime […]
[Original post on social.coop]
And today I discovered this interesting map layer which shows what altitude is at freezing temperature
Note the pattern in Europe of the zero line, where the maritime […]
[Original post on social.coop]
We already have an example of unaligned AI causing great societal damage…
The social feeds of the latest decade were driven by the previous generation of AI
And we know the damage the feeds did
The current generation of AI is many orders of magnitude more powerful
(and also much less understood)
The social feeds of the latest decade were driven by the previous generation of AI
And we know the damage the feeds did
The current generation of AI is many orders of magnitude more powerful
(and also much less understood)
December 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
We already have an example of unaligned AI causing great societal damage…
The social feeds of the latest decade were driven by the previous generation of AI
And we know the damage the feeds did
The current generation of AI is many orders of magnitude more powerful
(and also much less understood)
The social feeds of the latest decade were driven by the previous generation of AI
And we know the damage the feeds did
The current generation of AI is many orders of magnitude more powerful
(and also much less understood)
"U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members… - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as…content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others." […]
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social.coop
December 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
"U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members… - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as…content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others." […]
太空数据中心行不通
Datacenters in space aren''t going to work (taranis.ie)
11-29 ↑ 104 HN Points
taranis.ie
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
To help protect your #privacy against Stingray interception of your cellphone communication
Turn off 2G
2G is an obsolete, non-encrypted mode that Stingrays exploits
This is easy to do on Android (search for "2G" in Settings)
It's inconvenient on iOS tho: the […]
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Turn off 2G
2G is an obsolete, non-encrypted mode that Stingrays exploits
This is easy to do on Android (search for "2G" in Settings)
It's inconvenient on iOS tho: the […]
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November 9, 2025 at 5:29 AM
To help protect your #privacy against Stingray interception of your cellphone communication
Turn off 2G
2G is an obsolete, non-encrypted mode that Stingrays exploits
This is easy to do on Android (search for "2G" in Settings)
It's inconvenient on iOS tho: the […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Turn off 2G
2G is an obsolete, non-encrypted mode that Stingrays exploits
This is easy to do on Android (search for "2G" in Settings)
It's inconvenient on iOS tho: the […]
[Original post on social.coop]
With a United Ireland vote possible, we should turn the page on our old symbols and create new symbols that everyone on the Island can rally around.
Here’s a concept:
St. Patrick's Blue + two gold stars representing the two main traditions united, with a nod to the EU flag.
What do you think? […]
Here’s a concept:
St. Patrick's Blue + two gold stars representing the two main traditions united, with a nod to the EU flag.
What do you think? […]
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social.coop
November 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
With a United Ireland vote possible, we should turn the page on our old symbols and create new symbols that everyone on the Island can rally around.
Here’s a concept:
St. Patrick's Blue + two gold stars representing the two main traditions united, with a nod to the EU flag.
What do you think? […]
Here’s a concept:
St. Patrick's Blue + two gold stars representing the two main traditions united, with a nod to the EU flag.
What do you think? […]
This physics paper is simultaneously the most interesting and entertaining paper I've read in a while
Part 3 made me literally laugh out loud
physics/0110060] Trialogue on the number of fundamental constants [https://share.google/7T2CYIfA0KG0xZfJC
Part 3 made me literally laugh out loud
physics/0110060] Trialogue on the number of fundamental constants [https://share.google/7T2CYIfA0KG0xZfJC
October 16, 2025 at 5:27 AM
This physics paper is simultaneously the most interesting and entertaining paper I've read in a while
Part 3 made me literally laugh out loud
physics/0110060] Trialogue on the number of fundamental constants [https://share.google/7T2CYIfA0KG0xZfJC
Part 3 made me literally laugh out loud
physics/0110060] Trialogue on the number of fundamental constants [https://share.google/7T2CYIfA0KG0xZfJC
The recent "Odd Lots" episode, "How a Trade War With China Could Become a Hot War," is a critical listen
It moves beyond typical economic analysis to model the escalatory pathways from trade disputes to kinetic warfare
The historical parallels drawn, not just to the American Revolution but […]
It moves beyond typical economic analysis to model the escalatory pathways from trade disputes to kinetic warfare
The historical parallels drawn, not just to the American Revolution but […]
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social.coop
July 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The recent "Odd Lots" episode, "How a Trade War With China Could Become a Hot War," is a critical listen
It moves beyond typical economic analysis to model the escalatory pathways from trade disputes to kinetic warfare
The historical parallels drawn, not just to the American Revolution but […]
It moves beyond typical economic analysis to model the escalatory pathways from trade disputes to kinetic warfare
The historical parallels drawn, not just to the American Revolution but […]
"A skeletal 18-month-old Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq is the lead picture for the Guardian, which reports on Israeli attacks on aid hubs and worsening starvation in Gaza. Palestinian Faiza Abdul Rahman, who is "constantly dizzy" from lack of food says: "We […]
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July 24, 2025 at 3:58 AM
"A skeletal 18-month-old Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq is the lead picture for the Guardian, which reports on Israeli attacks on aid hubs and worsening starvation in Gaza. Palestinian Faiza Abdul Rahman, who is "constantly dizzy" from lack of food says: "We […]
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If you want to know the truth about AI then read the comments in this thread from @mimsical
TL:DR large language models (LLMs) were a big breakthrough and are an incredibly useful tool for searching and summarization, but the language fluency of their chatbot frontends fools us into thinking […]
TL:DR large language models (LLMs) were a big breakthrough and are an incredibly useful tool for searching and summarization, but the language fluency of their chatbot frontends fools us into thinking […]
July 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
If you want to know the truth about AI then read the comments in this thread from @mimsical
TL:DR large language models (LLMs) were a big breakthrough and are an incredibly useful tool for searching and summarization, but the language fluency of their chatbot frontends fools us into thinking […]
TL:DR large language models (LLMs) were a big breakthrough and are an incredibly useful tool for searching and summarization, but the language fluency of their chatbot frontends fools us into thinking […]
It's troubling that police are using generative AI to produce legally significant text like police reports, given the known risks of bias and hallucination
What's worse is when there's no audit trail or any kind of transparency to prove the claimed "officer-in-the-loop" […]
What's worse is when there's no audit trail or any kind of transparency to prove the claimed "officer-in-the-loop" […]
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social.coop
July 12, 2025 at 1:06 AM
It's troubling that police are using generative AI to produce legally significant text like police reports, given the known risks of bias and hallucination
What's worse is when there's no audit trail or any kind of transparency to prove the claimed "officer-in-the-loop" […]
What's worse is when there's no audit trail or any kind of transparency to prove the claimed "officer-in-the-loop" […]
Astounding imagery of how far ahead China is in solar
even as the U.S. is now undoing its own clean energy initiatives in a national self-sabotaging, rolling-coal fuck-you […]
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even as the U.S. is now undoing its own clean energy initiatives in a national self-sabotaging, rolling-coal fuck-you […]
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July 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Astounding imagery of how far ahead China is in solar
even as the U.S. is now undoing its own clean energy initiatives in a national self-sabotaging, rolling-coal fuck-you […]
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even as the U.S. is now undoing its own clean energy initiatives in a national self-sabotaging, rolling-coal fuck-you […]
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This is a really excellent overview of the privacy challenges that anyone building generative AI systems should consider
It's a good primer for anyone interested in this field
Barberá and Popa-Fabre, "Privacy and Data Protection Risks in Large Language Models (LLMs)" […]
It's a good primer for anyone interested in this field
Barberá and Popa-Fabre, "Privacy and Data Protection Risks in Large Language Models (LLMs)" […]
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social.coop
July 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This is a really excellent overview of the privacy challenges that anyone building generative AI systems should consider
It's a good primer for anyone interested in this field
Barberá and Popa-Fabre, "Privacy and Data Protection Risks in Large Language Models (LLMs)" […]
It's a good primer for anyone interested in this field
Barberá and Popa-Fabre, "Privacy and Data Protection Risks in Large Language Models (LLMs)" […]
Hey, if anyone will be looking for someone with a technical background to work on privacy or AI safety later this year, I might be available for a new gig starting around October
I’m a computer scientist by background, with a history of managing engineering teams in compliance, privacy, trust […]
I’m a computer scientist by background, with a history of managing engineering teams in compliance, privacy, trust […]
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social.coop
June 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Hey, if anyone will be looking for someone with a technical background to work on privacy or AI safety later this year, I might be available for a new gig starting around October
I’m a computer scientist by background, with a history of managing engineering teams in compliance, privacy, trust […]
I’m a computer scientist by background, with a history of managing engineering teams in compliance, privacy, trust […]
Meta was caught red-handed using its Facebook app to eavesdrops on your browser sessions even if you had taken privacy precautions such as using incognito mode
https://localmess.github.io/
https://localmess.github.io/
Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android
localmess.github.io
June 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Meta was caught red-handed using its Facebook app to eavesdrops on your browser sessions even if you had taken privacy precautions such as using incognito mode
https://localmess.github.io/
https://localmess.github.io/
Oh great. Now all personal data the the US government knows about us will be collected by Palantir, the Blackwater of tech
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html
May 31, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Oh great. Now all personal data the the US government knows about us will be collected by Palantir, the Blackwater of tech
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html
Concerning that the Republican in the US Congress want to prevent AI regulations by the states
If the example of privacy regulation is anything to go by, the only hope of any reasonable AI regulations in the US is from the states […]
If the example of privacy regulation is anything to go by, the only hope of any reasonable AI regulations in the US is from the states […]
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social.coop
May 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Concerning that the Republican in the US Congress want to prevent AI regulations by the states
If the example of privacy regulation is anything to go by, the only hope of any reasonable AI regulations in the US is from the states […]
If the example of privacy regulation is anything to go by, the only hope of any reasonable AI regulations in the US is from the states […]
From Florida, comes some good news for privacy…
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/09/florida-bill-requiring-encryption-backdoors-for-social-media-accounts-has-failed/
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/09/florida-bill-requiring-encryption-backdoors-for-social-media-accounts-has-failed/
techcrunch.com
May 10, 2025 at 4:14 AM
From Florida, comes some good news for privacy…
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/09/florida-bill-requiring-encryption-backdoors-for-social-media-accounts-has-failed/
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/09/florida-bill-requiring-encryption-backdoors-for-social-media-accounts-has-failed/
This is insane
A judge allowed a post-mortem, AI-generated video to influence a sentencing decision
"It was the first time in Arizona judicial history — and possibly nationwide — that AI has been used to create a deceased victim’s own impact statement."
There is no way to know whether this […]
A judge allowed a post-mortem, AI-generated video to influence a sentencing decision
"It was the first time in Arizona judicial history — and possibly nationwide — that AI has been used to create a deceased victim’s own impact statement."
There is no way to know whether this […]
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social.coop
May 6, 2025 at 6:01 AM
This is insane
A judge allowed a post-mortem, AI-generated video to influence a sentencing decision
"It was the first time in Arizona judicial history — and possibly nationwide — that AI has been used to create a deceased victim’s own impact statement."
There is no way to know whether this […]
A judge allowed a post-mortem, AI-generated video to influence a sentencing decision
"It was the first time in Arizona judicial history — and possibly nationwide — that AI has been used to create a deceased victim’s own impact statement."
There is no way to know whether this […]
Even if the developers of this library are fully trustworthy, a quick glance at this code revealed a few worrying things from a security pound of view
Wired: "Security Researchers Warn a Widely Used Open Source Tool Poses a 'Persistent' Risk to the US" […]
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Wired: "Security Researchers Warn a Widely Used Open Source Tool Poses a 'Persistent' Risk to the US" […]
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![func bytesToStr(data []byte) string {
return *(*string) (unsafe. Pointer(&data))
}](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dceowgja24dflay2bx5okadu/bafkreibc54kl6vjznskygmjq4ryxvthoxvtzsmxy7wbwrz424yqfkdjjiu@jpeg)
May 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Even if the developers of this library are fully trustworthy, a quick glance at this code revealed a few worrying things from a security pound of view
Wired: "Security Researchers Warn a Widely Used Open Source Tool Poses a 'Persistent' Risk to the US" […]
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Wired: "Security Researchers Warn a Widely Used Open Source Tool Poses a 'Persistent' Risk to the US" […]
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Happy Beltane to those who celebrate
This in one of the 4 quarter days of the traditional Celtic solar calendar, each marking a points hallway eat between solstice and equinox
Winter
Imbolc - Bridgit's Day
Spring
Beltane - May Day
Summer
Lúnasa - Harvest
Autumn
Samhain - Halloween
Winter
This in one of the 4 quarter days of the traditional Celtic solar calendar, each marking a points hallway eat between solstice and equinox
Winter
Imbolc - Bridgit's Day
Spring
Beltane - May Day
Summer
Lúnasa - Harvest
Autumn
Samhain - Halloween
Winter
May 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Happy Beltane to those who celebrate
This in one of the 4 quarter days of the traditional Celtic solar calendar, each marking a points hallway eat between solstice and equinox
Winter
Imbolc - Bridgit's Day
Spring
Beltane - May Day
Summer
Lúnasa - Harvest
Autumn
Samhain - Halloween
Winter
This in one of the 4 quarter days of the traditional Celtic solar calendar, each marking a points hallway eat between solstice and equinox
Winter
Imbolc - Bridgit's Day
Spring
Beltane - May Day
Summer
Lúnasa - Harvest
Autumn
Samhain - Halloween
Winter
In a move reminiscent of communist-era Eastern European police states, the US administration is ignoring the Federal Privacy Act and combining all government data about everyone to create a "database of ruin"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/opinion/musk-doge-data-ai.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/opinion/musk-doge-data-ai.html
April 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
In a move reminiscent of communist-era Eastern European police states, the US administration is ignoring the Federal Privacy Act and combining all government data about everyone to create a "database of ruin"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/opinion/musk-doge-data-ai.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/opinion/musk-doge-data-ai.html
Yes, fighting crime is important, but taking away the privacy of all European is not the answer
https://www.politico.eu/article/encryption-crime-denmark-peter-hummelgaard-europe-privacy
https://www.politico.eu/article/encryption-crime-denmark-peter-hummelgaard-europe-privacy
April 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Yes, fighting crime is important, but taking away the privacy of all European is not the answer
https://www.politico.eu/article/encryption-crime-denmark-peter-hummelgaard-europe-privacy
https://www.politico.eu/article/encryption-crime-denmark-peter-hummelgaard-europe-privacy
Future superhuman AI worries people
But we already have superhumans: they are human groups acting collectively to achieve what no single human could
Will AI, trained on human output, do fundamentally more than collective humanity? Or will it just do it faster? 🤔
But we already have superhumans: they are human groups acting collectively to achieve what no single human could
Will AI, trained on human output, do fundamentally more than collective humanity? Or will it just do it faster? 🤔
April 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Future superhuman AI worries people
But we already have superhumans: they are human groups acting collectively to achieve what no single human could
Will AI, trained on human output, do fundamentally more than collective humanity? Or will it just do it faster? 🤔
But we already have superhumans: they are human groups acting collectively to achieve what no single human could
Will AI, trained on human output, do fundamentally more than collective humanity? Or will it just do it faster? 🤔