Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 2hOooof. Not telling the client, who was convicted of murder, that ChatGPT may have fucked his case, because he's a Spanish speaker (!?!) just ups this from a terrible, sanction-worthy event to one where I hope this guy is disbarred. Inexcusable. 030
Reposted by Meta is the Torment NexusAndy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 14hToday, Hegseth announced: - F.O.R.T.R.E.S.S. America; basically FALLOUT. - Autonomous Warfare Command aka Autowarcom; basically SKYNET. - Project Meridian; basically WEILAND-YUTANI. 1123
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 3hFor them, interjecting would be awkward, because even though they were friends of mine, and knew me, they didn't want to accuse a fellow guy of acting like an asshole. He said/she said, etc. Or they just didn't want to speak up when it was obvious, because that would mean 'getting involved'. 010
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 3hIn my younger days, there were multiple times where my well-tuned 'this is not safe, and will probably escalate' alarm went off, and I left, rather than be assaulted. Sometimes, I'd even tell my male friends and colleagues exactly why. None of them ever asked, much less helped. 161
Reposted by Meta is the Torment NexusMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12hdo men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now 44081261197
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 12hThis will of course, continue to escalate until the US is basically Taliban-lite as far as women are concerned. This is what happens when we don't vote. Republicans win, and elect Supreme Court justices who roll back everyone's rights. 072
Reposted by Meta is the Torment NexusFelladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 30/09/2026everyone is so focused on what natural-language-to-code can do for industry but I'm most excited about what it can do for normal ordinary people "make a bespoke tool to help me be more organized about my hobby" can take billions of individualized forms and I think that's beautiful 271
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 30/09/2026I remember when that happened for me. There is something intoxicating and powerful when you go from 'man, I wish I could get the computer to do x' to magicking up some code and making the computer do x. It's a transformational switch. 010
Reposted by Meta is the Torment NexusMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.” 43566641821
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 29/09/2026Fun times. Even America.gov knows that Biden won the 2020 election. Also, if you want a wild ride, tell it to play minecraft 010
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 29/09/2026Had fun trying to get it to answer questions about how many immigrants ICE has murdered and how many six-year olds they detain in concentration camps. It wouldn't answer my questions about how many felonies Donald Trump was convicted of, or how many times he appeared in the Epstein files. Booo 021
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 29/09/2026Eh, hard to tell if this is Meta fuckery or a genuine degradation in iOS. Maybe a little of both? 010
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 29/09/2026I don't think there's any amount of advertising (subliminal or otherwise) that would allow the canonical example of a punchable face to run for office. Mark Zuckerberg is many things, but he is not likeable or charismatic and you need at least one of those things to run for office. 100
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 29/09/2026Yes. They've been fined repeatedly for over 10 years, but that doesn't change anything because a) Meta rarely pays fines, and b) fines are not a good mechanism to force behavioral change given a). What we need is Meta to not be in business anymore. Or Mark Zuckerberg in jail. 010
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 29/09/2026I was a little side-eye-y about 2 and six though. Those look like 'watched too much sci-fi' to me. 020
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 29/09/2026I'm sure Meta did the thing where the permissions were buried under a wall of other text, or otherwise not clear, and they're riding on the fact that people won't read and just allow all to everything. 0150
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 29/09/2026Or take out Mark Zuckerberg's enemies. Dystopian baby Yeti is a good name for it. 000
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 29/09/2026I'm waiting for 'Meta Muse sends subliminal messages to users via it's tomogachi to murder the enemies of Mark Zuckerberg'. Seems like it'll drop any day now. 110
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 29/09/2026Aaaaahhhh ... If I was in that position, I'd let curiosity get the best of me and ask about all the other examples that didn't make the cut. Also, if recreational drugs were involved. 110
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 29/09/2026That was not the comment I expected, and now I'm curious about what led to this observation. For science, obvs. 120
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 29/09/2026🙃🫠 There really needs to be an emoji for TFW you warn people that what they're doing is a terrible idea, they do it anyway, and then they're surprised/shocked/upset when they discover there are consequences for doing the bad thing. PS: Never trust Meta with anything, especially your data. 251
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 29/09/2026I'm sharing this because the comments are gold, and because this will probably enrage @eternalcatwar.bsky.social .... 110
Reposted by Meta is the Torment NexusLizard @lizardky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026theonion.com/creatively-t...theonion.comCreatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’BUENOS AIRES—After exhausting a significant amount of his intellectual energy in a series of company launches, a creatively tapped-out Peter Thiel announced Tuesday a new startup called “Frodo, But Ev... 0111
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 28/09/2026I feel like every time I see the phrase 'stochastic parrot' in relation to LLMs, it's the equivalent of people saying 'like yelling fire in a crowded theater' or 'possession is 9/10ths of the law'. It's a lazy way to indicate that the speaker doesn't know, and doesn't really want to learn. 020
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 28/09/2026Unlike a human, Claude has access to and can quickly assess the existing state of the art/proofs/lemmas and other papers, and then just go to town testing all the potential theories until Lean (the verification language) compiles. That's how these theorems are resolved. 031
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 28/09/2026The reason LLMs do better than a ML-based proof assistant, is that they're not just solving the math as such. The utility is that between the mathemetician end the model, they're also clarifying assumptions made by the author of the paper that are not always as self-evident as the author assumed. 151
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 28/09/2026Been derived. There's literally nothing to 'parrot'. prove2.me/users/33e693... 140
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 28/09/2026My husband has been using Claude to derive Lean proofs of existing papers. The reason the stochastic parrot line is old and tired, is because it's not an accurate representation of what these models do. You can't parrot something that hasn't been done yet, and these types of proofs have not yet 151
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 28/09/2026The states that settled on Meta's terms should be ashamed. Meanwhile, New Mexico over here doing it right. 061
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 28/09/2026'NOOO...DON'T EAT MY FACE!' Trump voters scream as the leopards begin to gnaw away in delight. 030
Reposted by Meta is the Torment NexusMuseum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026 7842125
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 28/09/2026Reason #2,657,398 why you should just say no to Meta. Especially their AI agent, but really, NEVER TRUST META. 0101
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 28/09/2026Yeah, though I'm going to be really sad if the ending is where we land as a society. 010
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 27/09/2026Oh he looks so forlorn! What a pitiful baby. The only cure is snuggles and scritches, obviously. 030
Reposted by Meta is the Torment NexusCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWaycnyti.msDid Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work. 892117867
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 27/09/2026I really hope that they keep the worst one, and when the administration eventually changes, every single admin official, Trump, his kids, Stephen Miller, and all 22k ICE agents are sent there to serve out their sentences. 000
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 27/09/2026This is truth. Even if there is work, there's still no reason not to pet. At least by cat logic. 010
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 27/09/2026static.klipy.comSad Cat Face Close-UpAlt: Sad Cat Face Close-Up. Tiny kitten crying. 010
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 27/09/2026The only question I have is, did you remove the drawer to make space for him, or did he fit himself in there and you discovered it by removing the drawer? I've done both, so... 000
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 27/09/2026This (along with the iced-coffee discourse) makes me think of the opening chapter in @jmberger.com's Optimal, where the main character was in a heated debate with the online about two different brands of watch. And how the whole debate was designed to keep people distracted. 252
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 27/09/2026Oh that would be leuk! Maybe a little older than eight though 🤣 110
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 27/09/2026How long have you lived here? Also does Dutch ever get easier? :D 110
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 27/09/2026I don't know exactly why it's different here, but it's nice -- gezellige. And I'm a little sad for all the other kids who don't get to live this way. 180
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 27/09/2026less anxious (and, as a result, more well-behaved on average). I think about my brother's and my friend's kids, almost entirely isolated, glued to screens indoors, with activites mediated by schedules, cars, and streets that are too busy to play on, and neighbors too unfamiliar to interact with. 150
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 27/09/2026I often wonder what it would have been like to be a kid growing up here. I'm sure it's not roses and puppies for everyone, but the kids that I've met do genuinely seem happier. They have autonomy, without being thrust into it by necessity. Parents seem hands-off by design. And it makes the kids 150
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 27/09/2026Entrepreneurism feels like a normal part of childhood, in a way that it never really did anywhere else we've lived. It's transactional, but it's also unbelievably wholesome. I suspect the bold little girl and her friends will be back, and I'll need to find new chores for them. Any ideas? 260
Meta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 27/09/2026But the trio of kids here is not unusual. We've had many interactions like this. A boy of eleven came over in July. For 100 EUR, he took care of pavers out in our front, and did an amazing, professional job. There are kids selling eggs, or kids doing charity collection. 130
