Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 1hThe Stop The Settlements Act would "prohibit anyone from importing any goods produced, wholly or in part, in any Israeli settlements or outposts in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) or Gaza" like the UK's recently announced ban. It would also impose a comprehensive sanctions regime. 16712
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Luis Villa @lu.is · 1hIt is both great that these passed and utterly damning that this is the best we could get. The last two in particular in any sane society would be ”never drive again” rather than debating how many points on a license or how long the suspension is. 6245
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 18hAnthropic may not have intended to write an excellent ad for GLM 5.3, but that's what they did. www.anthropic.com/research/glm... Unlike Mythos, I might actually have a chance at using GLM for defensive research. Anthropic didn't reply to any of my requests for Mythos access for use on OpenSSH.anthropic.comGLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilitiesGLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, but unlike other frontier models, it was released without meaningful safeguards to limit misuse. 518435
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 1hThis iteration of Gamergate means weirdos with mainstream platforms and followers will spread sensationalism, spew hate speech, threaten people, and speak fluent Edgelord with 2002 gamertag ass names and waifu avatars/ AI generated, de-uglified profile pics of themselves. 711018
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)A. Feder Cooper @afedercooper.bsky.social · 1hNot in the paper, but have run this for fun on the King James Bible (and yes, it lights up everywhere) Bible quotes also appear everywhere in our negative controls (we have to "decontaminate" them; these books often quote popular sources that are in the training data) 131
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 2hmy god. every Llama includes a copy of eight of the most "important" Western texts, 3 of which Rowling: Frankenstein Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Nineteen Eighty-Four On Liberty Pride and Prejudice The Great Gatsby 7264
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Luis Villa @lu.is · 2hThis research is important not just for the copyright nerds. It’s a great example of informed auditing to help society understand the implications of LLMs. Bluntly, governments should never use models that scholars like @afedercooper.bsky.social can’t audit. 1185
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 2hIs the concept of alignment fascist? Aligned to what? Human values? Sounds a bit like traditional family values in a trenchcoat. Who would be against "safety"? 5152
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3hMaybe time for those who don't experience this directly to return to this thread (which I posted when PTSD was being weaponized to relieve Graham Platner of responsibility for his actions). 6556175
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Idra Fallow @idrafallow.bsky.social · 3hWhen you hear a politician talking about saving small farms, just know that they do *not* mean the market gardener selling zucchini and corn at their roadside stand every Saturday. They mean a guy who inherited 500 acres and pays other people to work the land while he goes on hunting trips. 12911
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 14hOne of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here. 2739111031
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 29/09/2026If one man in that group text had gone to the administration, or the police, or anyone, he could have prevented or blunted the attack. But none of them did, and it's not because those seven were exceptionally bad. They were the baseline, and we've go to be better. 1212
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 24/09/2026some variation of this is what im expecting. jevon's paradox is going to push a ton of people who dont think of themselves as SWEs into weird hybrid pseudo-SWE roles, but the <p50 SWE who just writes java and doesn't bring any product or business insights to the table is turbo-fucked 51569
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 15haddendum: Opus 5.5 on medium solved a problem neither Fable 5.0 nor Opus 5 could: amd64 has fewer gp regs than arm64. it spills extra vars to stack. but transpiling amd64 to arm64 leaves perf on table if we don't use extra regs. how to *correctly* promote stack slots to registers, make no mistakes 3511
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15hThe White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.” 39462571725
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 20h"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 582771910
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Philip Bump @pbump.com · 16hGas prices are basically the only economic measure that people track on a near-daily basis. And right now they are significantly worse than when Biden was facing the 2022 midterms — and particularly in several states with close Senate elections. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar... 1141085
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 21hJoint statement from Senator David Shoebridge and Senator Steph Hodgins-May 68339116
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 16hcongrats @davidshoebridge.bsky.social on becoming Greens leader! 0100
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 20hThe Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet. 723968506
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 16hSome of you may recognize AF Post as Elon has repeatedly engaged with and boosted it, as well as the Arizona Republican Party and numerous other outlets and lawmakers still making X/Twitter their posting paradise. Hell, Rep. Abe Hamadeh should be asked by he follows Thompson's personal account IMO. 111520
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 16hThe person claiming to have doxed Jane Doe in the Cornell rape case is Aidan Thompson, a groyper nazi who runs "AF Post" which he took over from Ali Alexander (who also once faced sexual assault allegations of his own). Thompson described himself as a "rape expert" in his videos leading up to this. 4321145
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17hAnother thing about fraternities is that the hazing rituals where slightly older young men would physically, mentally emotionally and sometimes even sexually abuse slightly younger young men have always disturbed and upset me greatly. And it’s really telling that I’ve seen men defend those too 553123426
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17hA truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system 11766431257
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Honeycomb @honeycomb.io · 29/09/2026Today, we released a series of new features including AI Ecosystem, which provides a fleet-wide view of your AI agents’ performance and cost. We also launched 12 Canvas MCP Connectors to offer even more context beyond your telemetry data. See our announcement: www.honeycomb.io/blog/honeyco... 041
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Ivy @poisonivy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i don't know what has to be said before people stop being bamboozled by aella's reality distortion field 1273
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 17hI also like this explanation, i.e. they simply forget women’s sports exist when they don’t need them as a cudgel against trans people, because actually “it never occurred to a single one of us that a man would go to a women’s basketball game” is an even more stunning self-own 142173
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"The U.S. and Russian teams also removed a provision requiring that humans review military targets developed by AI before a strike..." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...washingtonpost.comU.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pactThe two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre... 115933557
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18hTonight, 47 Senators supported my resolution to get accountability for the 9 Americans killed on the West Bank & for Palestinians who face injustices daily. That's more support than we've ever had in this fight. Republicans blocked us, but we won't stop until we get justice. 271847377
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 20hretatrutide is going to change so many lives for the better 1836351
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 29/09/2026Your SLOs and telemetry are working. Now leadership wants to know why the observability bill went up. My last session was about designing SLOs that mean something. This week's Masterclass is about the bill that follows, and most of it comes down to inefficient sampling. 1112
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 22hI reported vulnerabilities to the Linux kernel and OpenZFS assisted by GLM-5.2. Anthropic's cyber program and refusal responses are detrimental to global information security. Defenders depend on GLM because they can't depend on Anthropic. 022846
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23hSCOTUS’s shadow docket strikes again. Third-country removals are back on, using a policy that two federal courts have now ruled is unlawful. 10389196
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)✨ Sparkle Monica ✨ @monicacarmean.bsky.social · 23hI assume this is because I personally emailed Lanae to eat shit on this topic last year. 3529
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In addition to age of consent activism, Jeffrey Epstein supplicant Thomas K. Hubbard also wanted to fund “The Autogynephilia Project,” a longtime dream of chaser J. Michael Bailey. My profile of Hubbard in reply. www.chron.com/politics/art...chron.comFormer UT professor sought money from Jeffrey Epstein FoundationHe sought $10K-$20K to cover the costs of a campus rape policy event. 26816
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You don't really need to know what a bond is. An easier way to think about it is just: "the cost of mortgages, corporate debt, and government debt all went up, and stock prices are being pulled down". That's what the interest rates mean. The broader economic implications follow from that. 0103
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 29/09/2026This thing where everyone is convinced that all tech workers are hyper libertarians has got to stop. It's one of the most liberal+left leaning workforce demographics in America. 41108
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news. 211285415
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026you know it's going great when even INC., basically pseudo-journalistic fan-fiction for MBAs, starts ragging on your shiny new productinc.comMeta’s New Muse AI Agent Read My Private Messages. I Never Asked It ToPermission isn't the same and what a user actually expects your AI product will do with their personal information. 513324
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Dan Animal @dananimal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yeah I've seen a lot of self styled Australian 'computer knowers' down playing that it's more Aus public service ICT incompetence. This is full on box pwning with side dishes. 021
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 29/09/2026they created files on the server and accessed config, they didn't just guess URLs to download non-sensitive data that should have been public in the first place. omfg 26216
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026With alt text. I yelled 1297123
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hey, remember when engineering fields (all of them) took pride in precision, rigorous testing, safety standards, sufficient margins for error, etc? Yeah, that was nice. www.404media.co/these-tech-w... >>404media.coThese Tech Workers Made ChatGPT Drive a Toyota CorollaThe team used frontier LLMs with no prior training data navigate a simple parking lot course. 813636
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Ivy @poisonivy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026men have this new thing where when you call them out on being pieces of shit they say you're 'emotionally blackmailing' them 713914
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...nytimes.comCouple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76. 291745566
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 29/09/2026If a person has a big platform, they have a responsibility to behave in a way that minimizes the harm that platform can do. They need to disavow the bad behavior when they see it, and not participate. Not doing so is irresponsible and harmful. 110510
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026So don't be disabled or have a family. Wilson really leaning into the "Just don't be poor" vibe he reeks of. 46327126
Reposted by Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 29/09/2026the problem is everyone is just looking at the pile of cash burn and capex, and no one is actually just asking the question of "can you show your models are profitable to serve, and how quick is the payback from inference, on training, and what's the depreciation of the models in weeks or months?" 2251