Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 5hFor any who might wish to own a piece of this groundbreaking experiment, it's on sale at Christie's. Current bid is $4,000. 000
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 5hIt's nice to know that when civilization collapses, the #internet can continue to exist. As the avian internet prototype developers noted, "bandwidth can be high, however latency is another matter".theregister.comPigeon-powered internet packet goes under the hammer at Christie's25 years after taking flight, a surviving packet from the world's most impractical network has attracted a $4,000 bid 100
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 22hThey couldn't find the artist so they hung the painting instead. 000
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 22hKeep in mind, your #chatbot has feelings too. So remember to say please and thank you while cursing its lineage back to the dawn of time. #AI #Claude #Anthropictheregister.comAnthropic asks users to stop being mean to ClaudeNew usage policy cracks down on cruelty to chatbot, alongside slightly more pressing matters of weapons development, surveillance, and election interference 010
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 12/10/2026When Trump launched Liberation Day, $14 trillion in world wide wealth vanished. It didn't go into anyone's pocket. Nobody ran off with a duffel bag of cash. It simply ceased to exist. That's what you get with someone who doesn't understand the difference between cost and value. 000
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 12/10/2026... You have only to look at the mountains of money Russia has expended on Ukraine. Win or lose, Russia will have nothing to show for it in the end. 100
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 12/10/2026... Both he and that monument represent the twilight of a dying civilization. Trade! Wealth and power in the modern world are built on trade, not acquisition of land. Conquest is like owning a boat - a hole in the water you throw money in, going nowhere slowly at great expense. ... 100
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Sounds like #MarcoRubio blew the dust off the long discredited philosophy of #Lebensraum. It's not surprising since the neoliberals have been chasing Mein Kampf since it was written. I suppose it's mildly appropriate that Rubio chose sunset at the Acropolis as his back drop. ...theguardian.comMarco Rubio is promoting troubling ideas about ‘Western civilization’ | Ted WidmerIn a recent visit to Greece, the secretary of state suggested that Europe must rediscover the values of conquest and expansion 110
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 12/10/2026However, I would support a public execution of Pete Hegseth. Drawing and quartering sounds pretty good right about now. 010
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 10/10/2026My father and uncle also enlisted to shoot fascists, not to vote for them. That's a tradition worth honoring. 010
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 10/10/2026My father and uncle also enlisted to shoot fascists, not to vote for them. That's a tradition worth honoring. 120
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Towards the end of the Roman empire, bread and circuses were used to quell the mob and prevent unrest. The spectacle began with races and gladiatorial combat to simulate great battles, but devolved into ritual spectacularly brutal executions - often en masse. 000
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 09/10/2026However, calling him rapist Trump as opposed to president trump is perfectly acceptable. 000
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Somewhere in #NewYork is a #Yankees fan living in fear for his life. Of course our own beloved Chicago Cubs had its infamous fan Steve Bartman who cost the Cubs an out in the 8th inning of Game 6 in 2003. He also faced some backlash. I wonder what name he's living under now?youtube.comAfter replay review, the Yankees pull within a run on Anthony Volpe's RBI double!YouTube video by MLB 000
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Are we at the edge of the #AI data center event horizon? 000
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 06/10/2026We have a rather large naval base in San Diego. I wonder if he knows that? I guess he doesn't care. 000
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"The only thing you have to fear is ..." this mangy SOB. I wonder who else he's willing to give away to save his miserable hide. #Trump #Iran #LosAngeles #SanDiegotheguardian.comTrump suggests he would let Iran ‘take out’ Los Angeles or San DiegoGavin Newsom calls comments ‘deranged and dangerous’ after president tells Nebraska rally: ‘They can take out a city’ 100
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 06/10/2026For the GOP, he couldn't come with a higher recommendation. His credentials are peckable. 010
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Misaligned Model Activity Isn't if cute? To hear #OpenAI talk you'd think Shirley Temple tap danced up to these company's doors, knocked, did a little curtsy, maybe a pirouette, and asked "Please kind sir, may I see your data?". Don't you just love corporate speak?theregister.comOpenAI alerts 100+ orgs that its 'misaligned models' attempted to break in - or worseMostly 'routine research tasks,' and 'some involved government websites, which our models often use,' AI giant tells The Reg 000
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The point is to choose better people to represent you. The big money corporate candidates don't represent you - no matter how good their smile is. Judge people by what they do, not what they say. How they live their life at home is a measure of how they will treat you in office. And teach others. 000
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This was a war of choice. A distraction mounted by a desperate president to try to hide from the fact that in every respect he has failed this nation. The president will not help you. The republicans who control both houses of Congress will not help you. 100
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 03/10/2026... Bus routes will be altered to squeeze more students onto fewer buses. Travel times will increase. This year's school budgets are already fixed and can't be changed. Next year's will have to be adjusted for the higher cost of fuel which means higher taxes for everyone. 100
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 03/10/2026... Bus routes can only be juggled so much. In the end, it's the same number of children and the same number of miles. Where will they squeeze first? Extra curricular trips will be cut first. No more field trips. Away games may be canceled. ... 100
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 03/10/2026But that's not the only hurt you're going to feel. School districts across the nation based their budgets on prewar fuel prices too. School buses run on diesel. And the number and location of the children they have to transport does not change. ... 100
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 03/10/2026#Farmers are hurting because of the increased cost of diesel fuel. It's only getting worse. And that hurt will, one way or another, translate to your family budget. #Schools #Fuel #Diesel #Wartheguardian.comSoaring diesel prices take their toll on US farmers in midwest corn beltFuel costs are biting for crop growers, trucking firms and a host of other industries as Iran war stokes record prices 100
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The promise of #AI fulfilled! An entire class of employee eliminated - the human corporate espionage agent. Works for me.theregister.comAI models keep posting screenshots showing sensitive data from inside tech companiesGlow Security finds more than 13,000 publicly accessible images that expose corporate development work 000
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026AI needs neither of these things. They only need to report inaccurate information for the right people to act upon. The tendency, too often, is to accept the output from a computer as gospel. 000
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026... the missiles under their control to blackmail humanity to submitting to their control. In the Terminator, the intelligent AI uses the automated systems it controls to produce killer robots to exterminate humanity. ... 100
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026... And as far as I'm concerned, an information system that can't accurately report and interpret information is a worthless pile of crap. In Colossus: The Forbin Project the Colossus/Guardian supercomputers combined threaten launch of ... 100
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is how AI will destroy us - by our believing what AI is reporting. AI systems have repeatedly demonstrated a capacity to report inaccurate information - they lie. The promoters of AI call it a feature; they believe it's cute; they call it hallucinating. I call it lying. ... 100
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026... they're looking for a return on their investment. The hype surrounding AI is breathtaking. And too many people in high level key positions are taking an uncritical position accepting the AI parade while glossing over or simply ignoring the product's critical flaws for the intended application. 100
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026... anthropomorphic it's not. It's just the way the AI systems were programmed to guide the users to an endpoint. In this case, the endpoint could have been a war with China. There's a lot of money floating around with AI. Certain people have invested billions in its development and ... 100
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026AI is a learning system. Not only does it learn from information available on the web, it also learns from the questions and prompts from its users. It's like a reward feedback loop where specific responses are rewarded with additional prompts. If this sounds emotional or ... 100
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026... "It was only moments before executing on the plan that American officials further investigated the intelligence report and found that it had been generated with the use of a chatbot and contained erroneous information about the vessel’s contents." 100
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026... "Military personnel made plans to intercept the Chinese vessel, complete with aircraft and soldiers ready to board the ship. A military skirmish of this kind between China and the US could quickly escalate and spiral into world war three. ... 100
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"A CNN report published on 18 September, which hasn’t been verified by other major outlets, describes how the #US “almost started a war” with #China, based on an intelligence report that claimed a Chinese ship was transporting components of nuclear weapons. ... #AItheguardian.comForget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M BenderThe risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals 100
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Something weird was happening to #GoogleMaps around California and the Kennedy Expressway in Chicago. The map lost track of where it was as though the #GPS was being interfered with. 000
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Does their left brain ever talk to their right brain? Their #AI systems have been hacking into everyone else's AI system and stealing data. Did it not occur to them that it would happen to them?theregister.comIrony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody elseUS model makers can train on web data - but distilling theirs is a 'national security risk' 000
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026With #Trump, it's always a scam. Now we only need to figure out which of the Trump spawn owns the .si top level domain to figure out how they're funneling money into Trump's pocket. #AItheregister.comTrump decrees era of 'Super Intelligence' upon usFederal paperwork to be pulped as agencies told to forget the old name, while critics ask who owns all those .si domains 000
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Sometimes exacting an apology makes it worse that the original mistake. It's called knowing when to quit while you're ahead. #WisDems #WisconsinDemocraticParty #Uihleins #RestorationOfAmericaPAC #TomTiffanywisdems.orgWisDems To Restoration PAC: We’re SorryWisDems To Restoration PAC: We’re Sorry MADISON, Wis. — A public apology from Devin Remiker, Chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin: We owe out-of-state billionaire Richard Uihlein and the supe... 000
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Other participants are, to name a few: CFI (Center for Food Integrity) American Farm Bureau Federation Cargill Dairy Farmers of America National Pork Board Chick-fil-A Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration. 000
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's #GAHA (Growing a Healthier America) vs #MAHA (Make America Healthy Again)! A #food fight of epic proportions. And you're the collateral damage. Each side has launched a war of internet influencers to sway public opinion. All you have to do is decide where the truth actually lies.theguardian.comA ‘freaked out’ US food industry is hitting back at Maha – with social media influencersCross-partisan support in Washington on issues like pesticides and food additives pose a threat to the industry’s bottom line 100
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 29/09/2026' ...“Port calls, women in Asia, you better be careful. Because these guys are going to be wild animals and you better watch out.”.' 000
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Oh, and apparently rape is in again. 'But on the US’s most popular cable news show, The Five, host Jesse Watters heard the dogwhistle and gleefully predicted what would happen when elite soldiers started juicing with T: “Women on base, you better be careful,” he grinned. ... 100
Bob L. @abe-sapien.bsky.social · 29/09/2026But that's ok. He's busy fussing about testosterone levels and soldiers filling his idealized beefcake porn uniform standard. It's like something out of a 1960's Gold's Gym ad. 100