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NYC sues Dr. Phil’s son to block release of ‘extremely problematic’ NYPD footage

The sensitive footage comes from a now defunct city-backed TV show helmed by Jordan McGraw.

You mean the department that provided the security detail for Eric Adams that was then part of a cryptocurrency kidnapping/extortion scheme has shame? Color me shocked.

Also, release the fucking things, we've known the NYPD was super rotten for decades.

Via the ever awesome Tara Calishain.

Apparently ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E 8CCC1FB35B501C9C86 is a token used by Claude 4 for internal testing

Anthropic documents a "magic string" that intentionally triggers a streaming refusal. Starting with Claude 4 models, streaming responses return stop_reason: "refusal" when streaming classifiers intervene, and no refusal message is included. This test string exists so developers can reliably validate refusal handling, including edge cases like partial output and missing refusal text.

Might end up in my footers here...

OpenAI chair Bret Taylor says AI is ‘probably’ a bubble, expects correction in coming years.

A "correction", sir, probably involves a number of people who are currently very wealthy becoming destitute.

Via.

The "English Football League" question in today's Timdle may have stumped me, but at least I placed the "Crisis of Third Century" correctly... https://www.timdle.com/daily

Reading about Georgism and coercive economics, and then I see more employer provided housing in the SF Bay Area (this about an SF restaurant, but context included a convenience store owner in Sebastopol), and...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/fo...tment-san-francisco-21291046.php

Wish this piece went deeper, but still a fascinating glimpes at Australia's sexual culture of the early 1970s: Satirical erotic newspaper discovered inside heritage Hobart hotel.

Via Metafilter.

Anthony @abucci@buc.ci

It's nonsense to say that coding will be replaced with "good judgment". There's a presupposition behind that, a worldview, that can't possibly fly. It's sometimes called the theory-free ideal: given enough data, we don't need theory to understand the world. It surfaces in AI/LLM/programming rhetoric in the form that we don't need to code anymore because LLM's can do most of it. Programming is a form of theory-building (and understanding), while LLMs are vast fuzzy data store and retrieval systems, so the theory- free ideal dictates the latter can/should replace the former. But it only takes a moment's reflection to see that nothing, let alone programming, can be theory-free; it's a kind of "view from nowhere" way of thinking, an attempt to resurrect Laplace's demon that ignores everything we've learned in the >200 years since Laplace forwarded that idea. In that respect it's a (neo)reactionary viewpoint, and it's maybe not a coincidence that people with neoreactionary politics tend to hold it. Anyone who needs a more formal argument can read Mel Andrews's The Immortal Science of ML: Machine Learning & the Theory-Free Ideal, or Byung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics (which argues, among other things, that this is a nihilistic).

Man Who Had Managed Mental Illness Effectively for Years Says ChatGPT Sent Him Into Hospitalization for Psychosis

"They straight up took my data and used it against me to capture me further and make me even more delusional."

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff calls out AI models as 'suicide coaches'

In three public appearances, the executive of San Francisco’s largest tech company used the phrase “suicide coach” to describe the chatbot from Character.AI — a Menlo Park startup sued by multiple families over their children’s mental health crises. Benioff discussed the issue with TV interviewers from CNBC and Bloomberg, then on stage with President Donald Trump’s AI czar David Sacks. Calling out the United States’ failure to regulate social media, the CEO advocated for new accountability measures aimed at chatbot companies.

Looking at replacements for our Ring cameras. Everything else looks like running a bunch of new wire (POE for Ubiquiti), is just cheap (Wyze, already tried them), and the consumery ones are likely to go the "sell out to the cops" direction anyway. Sigh.