It’s only a matter of time until in-band encoding of exceptional values (such as “*” to mean various things other than an ordinary password hash) is recognised as being as great a liability as nullable pointers (the original “billion-dollar mistake”). (And one could indeed consider naïve pointer types as a subset of in-band exceptional values.)

Britain is a country that put a man on the sex offenders’ register for fondling his bicycle in his locked hotel room, which cleaning staff happened to enter while he was doing so. There, any sexual proclivity that’s not designated safely normal is considered potentially dangerous and proscribed, just in case. (After all, can you prove that someone who gets aroused by bizarre things you and I and the justices of the High Court cannot imagine as erotic won’t escalate from that to committing horrific crimes?)

Rewriting, or marshalling swarms of slop-extruding bots to accrete an impressive-looking, notionally working mockup?

Surely an epic memelord like Musk would be all over it being 420.

The repository is built entirely using LLMs, with no human-written code. The drawing and interaction code is ported from Blender’s sources, and the behavior is checked by tests: C, Python, Rust and JavaScript suites, the tkinter side-by-side programs and the GPU parity test.

Hard pass.

Makes sense. It’s either that or wood, and wood can splinter.

That sounds very concerning

Once you get past the cute framing (“pineapple on pizza: you either love it or hate it, but know Italians see it as an affront, right?”), this looks like a stalking horse to legitimise the idea of “religious freedom” rights, like those of pharmacists to refuse to sell birth control.

Once you get past the cute framing (“pineapple on pizza: you either love it or hate it, but know Italians see it as an affront, right?”), this looks like a stalking horse to legitimise the idea of “religious freedom” rights, like those of pharmacists to refuse to sell birth control.

A vibeslop reworking of this.

Were her statements written by AI again?

Nature is efficient, and he is only as smart as someone with effectively infinite means needs to be.

They say he crossed over land to Argentina and had a plane waiting there to take him to the US, but bailed on the last part (at least with that particular plane) when the plot was revealed.

Maybe he and Netanyahu can be golf buddies

Once again, super-strong zombies. Death is not a superpower.

An actual rocket from the crypt

If you can imagine fucking in it, it’s a fursona.

They’d be sent up as indentured servants, as that would be many people’s only way of survival in perma-austerity. Those who got close to putting away enough company-store credits for the voyage back would find their oxygen bills algorithmically surge-priced upwards.

Mark Zuckerberg: “You are like a little baby”

The idea that Latin is the language of magic sounds like some Victorian bowdlerisation, entrenching the public school system that trained the administrative classes of the British Empire as having not only worldly but esoteric significance, and/or fetishisations of that era by those too conservative to look beyond. Before, they would use (actual and/or made-up) Hebrew or Arabic (orientalism, IKR?), or actual constructed languages or pastiches thereof occultists believed existed and had magical significance, like John Dee’s Enochian.

I would imagine that, if magic in the spell-casting sense existed, it would be in an ancient language the last of whose speakers died unfathomably long ago. Perhaps imperfect fragments had been passed down for millennia like script-kiddie sploits, gradually degrading with each transcription; perhaps, every so often, some sensitive soul would get a dream-revelation of long-lost parts of it. It would not be a language adjacent to the corridors of power, and would not be Latin, Classical Greek, Sanskrit or anything with worldly prestige (perhaps the scions of wealth would learn something supposed to be it at Eton, or the well-connected in sufficiently advanced Masonic initiations, but these would be either completely made up or else so mangled that they may as well be). Perhaps there’d be some of the old language in what linguists speculatively call Proto-Indo-European, though it may have died out long before this; surviving remnants of lost language groups like Basque would be more likely to have fragments of it, though even that would be grasping at straws. Though some would say that it somehow lives on in, of all places, the chaotic and insalubrious creoles, argots and cryptolects of the most wretched slums, travelling among the hidden networks of superstitions, resistance movements and informal economies in ways that would have kept H. P. Lovecraft awake.