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Crowd embraces dragon sculpture with drum in center at opening for new dragon boat mural
#photo #photography #ithaca #mural

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[…] and I opened the case (politely examined by the guards of the Palace at four stages of my approach to the Red Hall) that held my ansible and some pictures. The pictures—films, photos, paintings, actives, and some cubes—were a little gallery of Man: people of Hain, Chiffewar, and the Cetians, of S and Terra and Alterra, of the Utter-mosts, Kapteyn, Ollul, Four-Taurus, Rokanan, Ensbo, Cime, Gde and Sheashel Haven … The king glanced at a couple without interest. “What’s this?”
“A person from Cime, a female.” I had to use the word that Gethenians would apply only to a person in the culminant phase of kemmer [a cyclical period of heightened sexual activity during which secondary gender characteristics emerge], the alternative being their word for a female animal.
“Permanently?”
“Yes.”
He dropped the cube and stood swinging from foot to foot, staring at me or a little past me, the firelight shifting on his face. “They’re all like that—like you?”
This was the hurdle I could not lower for them. They must, in the end, learn to take it in their stride.
“Yes. Gethenian sexual physiology, so far as we yet know, is unique among human beings.”
“So all of them, out on these other planets, are in permanent kemmer? A society of perverts? So Lord Tibe put it; I thought he was joking. Well, it may be the fact, but it’s a disgusting idea, Mr. Ai, and I don’t see why human beings here on earth should want or tolerate any dealings with creatures so monstrously different. […]”
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(Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness)

Went to Whiteley Woods yesterday. There is a pond next to the new housing development where a lot of dragonflies were happy to pose for photographs.
#photography #nature #dragonfly

Did you buy a beanie from REI recently?
The Department of Homeland Security might be looking for you.
New court filings allege that Homeland Security Investigations agents subpoenaed the outdoor retailer in March,
requesting the transaction information for “all persons” in the greater Minneapolis–St. Paul area who had purchased a specific type of dark green beanie from the company since 2024.
REI did not respond to questions about whether it had complied with the requ…

ICE Wants to Know Everyone Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 Years
Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March.

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at the vision fest at abrons arts center, leading off with marshall allen (102?!!) & all-stars including william parker, andrew cyrille, dm hotep, & darius jones, flowing through the outer darkness. then, trae crudup & co. with a powerful milford graves tribute, heartbeat thunder & glitched vocals. #nyc #jazz

But seriously, this is a major LLM failure mode: following the _form_ of what everyone else does without any actual embedding of _why_. Bigger models will tend to have more of that information at hand embedded, but in a lot of domains, what we see is general reasoning-by-analogy and some raw data, not the actual subtle latent expertise that the status quo embeds.
So there be dragons.

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the latest on how Washington is taking giant steps to address AI security, along with other critical infosec developments you should know, including
--White House AI testing framework arrives, but key details remain secret,
--Congress probes OpenAI incident as calls for stronger AI oversight grow,
--China's open AI push fuels geopolitical debate,
--Banks press ahead with AI agents,
--US eyes China data center tech ban,
--Apple renews legal fight over UK encryption demands,
--Telegram mysteriously disappears from Apple's App Store,
--Malware can hijack Google passkeys,
--N-able warns of active attacks exploiting N-central flaw,
--Samsung pulls smart TV apps that turned homes into proxy networks,
--River Bank says stolen ransomware data was deleted by attackers,
--Congress moves to extend lifetime identity protection for OPM victims,
--AI now powers most cybercrime in Africa,
--State CISOs report falling confidence amid rising AI threats,
--AI agent security startup Zenity raises $125m in Series C,
--Visa buys BioCatch in $2.4b AI fraud defense play,
--Stop being an AI "meat proxy,"
--ICE's expanding digital dragnet raises alarms,
--FBI agent accused of stealing seized cryptocurrency
https://www.metacurity.com/ai-watch-ai-security-moves-to-washingtons-center-stage/