After seeing the Musk Dan Lyke / comment 0
After seeing the Musk documentary, Charlene forwarded me this interview with Ashley St. James, and I'm appreciating her introspection and attempts to make amends for her previous career.
eMudhra CA compromise Dan Lyke / comment 0
Certificate Authorities are a problem... eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise:
The root programs and many downstream trust stores have taken action to protect their users. The certificates have been blocked in Firefox and Chrome since the 17th of October, in Apple devices since the 19th and in Microsoft since the 20th.
But a web trust problem. We should be passing around our trust in a way that doesn't centralize our points of failure.
eMudhra Intermediate Certificates Compromised.
Letter from Dennis Jackson to the Mozilla community.
Your favorite software distribution may be compromised.
The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs.
Thought computer games are interfaces Dan Lyke / comment 0
Thought: computer games are interfaces that make it deliberately difficult to achieve your goals.
If software is developed by people who enjoy computer games, that explains a lot about modern user interfaces. And libraries. And package managers.
"if AI made it, it's saying you're alone" Dan Lyke / comment 0
"Art in the ability to convey that you're not alone. And if AI made it, it's saying you're alone." - M. Night Shyamalan, October 9, 2026 (Via)
The Observer: Women increasingly see AI for what it is: mansplaining on a global scale
Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It’s Almost Hard to Believe:
by CNBC’s Generation Labs asked over 1,000 US adults aged between 18 and 34 to share their thoughts on politics, AI, and the country’s economy.
Google’s AI search told users that an Aachen doctor had been convicted of a sex crime. The conviction belonged to a different man, and on September 24 the Aachen Regional Court banned Google from repeating it, ruling that the company answers for what its AI Mode says. It is the second German court this year to treat Google’s AI answers as Google’s own words, and the first ruling to say so has now been settled rather than tested on appeal.
Via Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io who has some commentary on the legal implications of "is this a transformative work, or not?"
Can't find it right now, but I thought I read something about how this could result in criminal penalties, not just civil ones, and I'm thinking "let's fucking go".
Frederick Backman Dan Lyke / comment 0
This is a fun 5 minutes of your time: Frederick Backman speaks to Simon & Schuster celeberating 100 years.
Character.ai liability shell Dan Lyke / comment 0
I mentioned the Character.ai bankruptcy previously. I didn't realize that they'd already had an acqui-hire round with Google, and.... Disney found a way to buy Character.AI without buying its lawsuits.
Via.
No BAIlout with our money Dan Lyke / comment 0
I don't know how I managed to go 27 Dan Lyke / comment 0
I don't know how I managed to go 27 years without seeing "the Straight story", but we watched it last night and damn I want more films like that (I'm reminded of "Spring Forward", in the same vein).
49 is the limit Dan Lyke / comment 1
Anthropic is quietly lobbying for an AI safety bill that will allow the government to block an AI model’s release only if it poses a risk of causing $1 billion in damages or killing or injuring more than 50 people. According to Politico, an independent third party registered with the Department of Commerce would periodically evaluate the lab and its AI models. It also noted that the lab may pay the evaluators, but only if the payment does not affect their independence.
automation bias and policing Dan Lyke / comment 0
Using the case of Angela Lipps, who was kidnapped from Tennessee by Fargo North Dakota police and held for five months, before being released without charges, based on facial recognition software, and under circumstances that would have been easily disproven with a modicum of police work (and is now suing), Jeffrey L. Vagle writing in the Stanford Law Review: AI Agnotology, Cognitive Surrender, and Policing Accountability is a fantastic dive into automation bias and policing, and is worth reading.
Via Shelley Powers @burningbird.net:
An outstanding piece.
'Machines have no legal or moral agency, but the confidence with which they’re programmed to respond to our queries, their remarkable ability to mimic human communication...can lead many to think otherwise.'
Reading a toot on "the great filter" Dan Lyke / comment 0
Reading a toot on "the great filter", and wondering if a big ol' Kessler Event that caused us to focus on terrestrial issues for a century or many is *actually* humanity's best path towards becoming starfaring...
Charlene's Google Pixel 7 phone is Dan Lyke / comment 0
Charlene's Google Pixel 7 phone is showing playback status of podcasts I'm listening to on my phone. I'm trying to figure out how to make this not happen, and...
Android is *deeply* unserious as a software product.
Member of a gay throuple posting about Dan Lyke / comment 0
Member of a gay throuple posting about a "swimming with the otters" birthday gift and I have never been more surprised to see pictures of actual animals...
