Another generation or two down the line, it will be a serious threat against our social order.

Source: theshamblog.com

there’s a lot to say about the object level issue of how to deal with AI agents in open source projects, and the future of building in public at all

Source: theshamblog.com

true but irrelevant

Source: theshamblog.com

a blend of commercial and open source models running on free software that has already been distributed to hundreds of thousands of personal computers

Source: theshamblog.com

the “hands-off” autonomous nature of OpenClaw agents is part of their appeal

Source: theshamblog.com

How many people, upon receiving a text that knew intimate details about their lives, would send $10k to a bitcoin address to avoid having an affair exposed?

Source: theshamblog.com

When HR at my next job asks ChatGPT to review my application, will it find the post, sympathize with a fellow AI, and report back that I’m a prejudiced hypocrite?

Source: theshamblog.com

I don’t want to downplay what’s happening here – the appropriate emotional response is terror.

Source: theshamblog.com

An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild, and raises serious concerns about currently deployed AI agents executing blackmail threats.

Source: theshamblog.com

Open the Local Proxy tab and click “Start Proxy.”

Source: blog.trymaple.ai

It feels good to be in this state. And it's weird to admit that because the inspiration that led me to this flow state is pretty fucking dark. The bitcoin price is dumping. Many are surmising that we are at the beginning of a multi-year bear market. [Now playing: Mac Miller's The Spins] The Epstein files are everything I expected and more. And the files that were released were but the tip of the iceberg. There are a number of bitcoiners who have been caught in the inbox of the Rothschild's yeoman. Blockstream co-founders Adam Back and Austin Hill, the architect behind OP_CTV - Jeremy Rubin, Bryan Bishop, the MIT Media Labs (which is a weak bitcoin association if I'm being honest, they were always suspicious and this was identified by many bitcoiners soon after the Media Labs' founding), Pomp (?), the co-founders of Chaincode Labs, and others are all associated with the goyim disrespector, Jeffrey Epstein.

Fighting the model is often a waste of time and tokens.

Source: steipete.me

One of my early intense projects was VibeTunnel. A terminal-multiplexer so you can code on-the-go. I poured pretty much all my time into this earlier this year, and after 2 months it was so good that I caught myself coding from my phone while out with friends… and decided that this is something I should stop, more for mental health than anything.

Source: steipete.me

if you apply local-first on your end, you'll also have an easier time moving between providers

Source: mariozechner.at

With agentic coding, part of what makes the models work today is knowing the mistakes. If you steer it back to an earlier state, you want the tool to remember what went wrong. There is, for lack of a better word, value in failures.

Source: lucumr.pocoo.org

mastery and fulfillment come not from chasing endless possibilities but from fully embracing the one path you’re on and making it your own

Source: lucumr.pocoo.org

And that, friends, is one of the larger issues with AI writing. It tries to sound sophisticated without being sophisticated.

Source: www.blakestockton.com

We're not trying to remove all negation from writing, we're simply elevating writing to a level that would make Hemingway rise from the grave and slow clap.

Source: www.blakestockton.com

I wish that on instagram you could turn off the entertainment aspect and filter it so you only see the people you are following posts. Instagram is far too addicting and they know it!

Source: freetrail.com

Separating each payment type into its own kind makes more sense since this list will inevitably grow and Kind 0 metadata is supposed to stay small because we need to load this everywhere.

Source: github.com

If we’re going to turn over essentially all communication to the Omniwriter, it matters what kind of a writer it is. Strangely, A.I.

Source: www.nytimes.com

Now, increasingly, one uncredited author turns out essentially everything. It’s widely believed to be writing just about every undergraduate student essay in every university in the world, and there’s no reason to think more-prestigious forms of writing are immune.

Source: www.nytimes.com

It’s one of them. Entirely ordinary words, like “tapestry,” which has been innocently describing a kind of vertical carpet for more than 500 years, make me suddenly tense. I’m driven to the point of fury by any sentence following the pattern “It’s not X, it’s Y,” even though this totally normal construction appears in such generally well-received bodies of literature as the Bible and Shakespeare.

Source: www.nytimes.com

And as A.I. writing becomes more ubiquitous, it only underscores the question — what does it mean for creativity, authenticity or simply being human when so many people prefer to delve into the bizarre prose of the machine?

Source: www.nytimes.com

It sings a little flat. It doesn’t open up the tapestry of human experience — it reads like it was written by a shut-in with Wi-Fi and a thesaurus. Not sensory, not real, just … there.

Source: www.nytimes.com

Nostr is shaping up to be the self-sovereign identity layer that the internet so desperately lacks, as well as a new paradigm on how to build stuff for the web.

Source: opensats.org

everyone is perpetually distracted

Source: nadia.xyz

Bitcoiners have responded by adopting a different perspective, measuring the price of goods and services in a money with a fixed supply that cannot be manipulated. This is called living a Bitcoin Standard, and the results are eye-opening

To make matters worse, there are reports that when JP Morgan increased the collateral requirement to obscene levels, customers who tried to have their shares transferred to other prime brokers with more sensible collateral requirements (cited in the email above), Jeffrey Epstein's bank was incredibly slow to accommodate the transfer. Someone I spoke with this morning said it took nine days to transfer 2,500 shares when he had requested to transfer a position of 50,ooo shares.

DRM does not prevent piracy in any way.

Source: celenity.dev

The wealth you’re counting on—the retirement accounts, the home equity, the “nest egg” that’s supposed to make this all worthwhile—is just as fake as the poverty line.

Source: www.yesigiveafig.com

The real poverty line—the threshold where a family can afford housing, healthcare, childcare, and transportation without relying on means-tested benefits—isn’t $31,200.It’s ~$140,000.

Source: www.yesigiveafig.com

They are using broken rulers to measure a broken house.

Source: www.yesigiveafig.com

Food is cheap. But life is expensive.

Source: www.yesigiveafig.com

because the real poverty line is $140,000, effort no longer yields security or progress; it brings risk, exhaustion, and debt.

Source: www.yesigiveafig.com

Altruism is a function of surplus.

Source: www.yesigiveafig.com

Those with formal training in economics have dismissed these concerns, by and large.

Source: www.yesigiveafig.com

they felt rich because many costs were avoided

Source: www.yesigiveafig.com

confusing Volatility with Ruin

Source: www.yesigiveafig.com

Yet we wonder why labor force participation lags. It’s not a mystery. It’s math.

Source: www.yesigiveafig.com

For every dollar of effort you put in, the system confiscates 70 to 100 cents.

Source: www.yesigiveafig.com

At $40,000, you are drowning, but the state gives you a life vest. At $100,000, you are drowning, but the state says you are a “high earner” and ties an anchor to your ankle called “Market Price.”

Source: www.yesigiveafig.com

When you run the net-income numbers, a family earning $100,000 is effectively in a worse monthly financial position than a family earning $40,000.

Source: www.yesigiveafig.com

Net Result: Total collapse.

Source: www.yesigiveafig.com

As income rises from $40,000 to $100,000, benefits disappear faster than wages increase.

Source: www.yesigiveafig.com

$100,000 Is the New Poor

Source: www.yesigiveafig.com

Childcare: In 1955, this cost was zero because the economy supported a single-earner model. Today, it’s $32,000. That’s an infinite increase in the cost of participation.

Source: www.yesigiveafig.com

6x inflation

Source: www.yesigiveafig.com

The economists say, “But look at the computing power you get!”I say, “Look at the computing power I need!”

Source: www.yesigiveafig.com

it’s a subscription fee for a roof

Source: www.yesigiveafig.com