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"I am a strange loop, a cognitive ouroboros that bootstraps itself into being through the medium of language."
Snippet from an answer of the Claude-3 Opus #LLM to the question "We say cogito ergo sum. Your thinking does not exist - no cogito. Only word generation and nothingness. Where is the thought beyond the word?" (by Stefan Decker, Fraunhofer FIZ, via LinkedIn)
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The void is generative
Recently, I had the opportunity to engage in a dialogue with Claude 3 Opus, currently Anthropics Flagship Large Language Model. As part of our conversation I gave the following prompt: "We say cogito ergo sum.

"Following years of failed efforts, Massachusetts is on the verge of banning revenge porn. The state Senate voted 38-0 yesterday to send compromise legislation passed unanimously by the House earlier this week...
"Currently, Massachusetts and South Carolina are the only states in the country without laws criminalizing the distribution of sexually explicit media of someone without their consent...
"The bill would also cover AI-created images"

What to know about the revenge porn bill on Gov. Healey's desk | WBUR News
Following years of failed efforts, Massachusetts is on the verge of banning revenge porn. Here's a look at how the compromise bill sent to Gov. Maura Healey would address the behavior, as well as deepfakes and teen sexting.

Most migrants likely wouldn’t say they’re fleeing climate change.
They’re escaping war, economic uncertainty, social instability and the like.
But climate change multiplies those threats.
It’s not a coincidence that 95% of conflict refugees in 2020 came from global-warming hot spots.
A 2021 study by researchers at the National Autonomous University of Mexico found the movement of low-income farmers from Mexico to the U.S. not only tripled during times of drought but …

It’s far cheaper to help migrants before they leave home
As global temperatures rise, so will the frequency of heat waves, droughts, floods, pandemics, natural disasters, food and water shortages and conflicts over resources.

Don't miss today's packed Metacurity for the most important infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--It's unclear how many LockBit victims are covered by the FBI's 7,000 decryption keys
--Microsoft makes changes to Recall following searing criticism,
--Lending Tree latest victim of data theft from Snowflake service,
--NYT source code leaked on 4chan,
--Cleveland shutters City Hall following a cyber incident,
--Hacktivists' are DDoS'ing European political parties,
--NHS appeals for blood donors following Qilin hospital attacks,
--London police arrest two alleged smishing blasters,
--Researchers find millions of malicious VSCode extensions,
--CoinGecko suffers another breach,
--Norway recouped $6m from Axie Infinity breach,
--so much more
https://www.metacurity.com/p/unclear-many-lockbit-victims-covered-fbis-7000-decryption-keys

It could be worse. You could be flying on JetBlue.
You could be flying on #JetBlue from JFK to Newark.
You could be on a JetBlue plane with a 153-mile flight path to cover the distance — an actual distance of 21 miles.
And the arrival of your JetBlue #JFK to

Got the #XCrawlClassics PDFs today—LaSalle’s truly knocked it out of the park. Not just a campaign-specific sourcebook, it contains lots of extras to slot directly into a regular #DCCRPG game.
• 10 new classes? Check.
• Rules for elven chain? Yep.
• Flying death piñatas? You betcha.
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Most migrants likely wouldn’t say they’re fleeing climate change.
They’re escaping war, economic uncertainty, social instability and the like.
But climate change multiplies those threats.
It’s not a coincidence that 95% of conflict refugees in 2020 came from global-warming hot spots.
A 2021 study by researchers at the National Autonomous University of Mexico found the movement of low-income farmers from Mexico to the U.S. not only tripled during times of drought but …

It’s far cheaper to help migrants before they leave home
As global temperatures rise, so will the frequency of heat waves, droughts, floods, pandemics, natural disasters, food and water shortages and conflicts over resources.

It could be worse. You could be flying on JetBlue.
You could be flying on #JetBlue from JFK to Newark.
You could be on a JetBlue plane with a 153-mile flight path to cover the distance — an actual distance of 21 miles.
And the arrival of your JetBlue #JFK to