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The Pentagon is big mad that Anthropic didn't allow Claude to do mass surveillance or killing. Anthropic has updated their scaling policy afterwards, they claim this is because they will be left behind otherwise.

Turns out the guy is a hypocrite, and has violated several laws himself harassing his victims with mocking images, and telling them to commit suicide (and worse). Louis is asking us to reinforce his complaints to the NY/CA bar. It's definitely worth a watch

Tonight, millions of people will go to bed and whisper to an AI companion. But what are we giving up when we fall in love with machines? Sextech expert Bryony Cole offers three questions to ask yourself if you’re already intimate with AI, laying out a playbook for synthetic companionship that doesn’t hide you from the messiness of human life — but prepares you for it instead.

A Veratasium video on the XZ utils hack with a into on the history of linux

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43503581

In case, for some reason, anyone believes the Smithsonian has giant skeletons they’re hiding.

tl/dw:
A barrel (bbl, short for blue barrel) is 42 US gallons, because the Standard Oil Company used blue-colored barrels of that size in the 19th century. The standard was actually 40 gallons, but they added 2 to account for spillage and leakage.
The US gallon comes from a cylindrical wine gallon with depth 6 inches and diameter 7 inches.
It’s defined as being 231 cubic inches. Which only works out if you use 22/7 as the value for π.

Curvature is measured in "dogleg severity", measuring tapes are divided into tenths of feet, and the unit for power depends on which part of the oil rig you're standing on. And it gets worse from there…

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