@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-04-02 09:21:35
Imagine:
You are these parent of an adorable 4-year-old kid. They have made a toy airplane out of spare cardboard. Sadly, during play the wing has fallen off. You, a wise parent, produce a piece of duct tape and tape it back on. Your kid asks: "but what if the tape breaks, or the other wing falls off?" Dutifully, and with a completely serious manner, you duct tape the other wing, and then with a sharpie you write "Please DO NOT fall off!" on each wing. "There," you say, now the wings will not fall off. "
Your child happily returns to their play.
Imagine:
You are boarding a Boeing airplane for an intercontinental flight. Just the other day you were reading news about the emergency exit door falling off a Boeing airplane during flight. Thankfully nobody was injured in that incident, but a passenger could have been sucked out the gap and killed. As you walk down the aisle towards your seat at the back, you notice that around the emergency exit door of this plane, there are some scratch marks. It looks like it might not be 100% seated in place. You see several rolls worth of duct tape slapped onto the gaps between the door and the frame. In sharpie, someone has written "Please DO NOT fall off!" on the duct tape.
This is a post about #Agentic #AI.
To clarify: there are a host of reasons why using Claude Code is unethical in the first place, besides the fact that its a danger to its users. These make it unethical to use it even for a child's-toy-like application. But the source code we've just witnessed in the recent leak is *exactly* this level of "engineering." If you see an app that claims to be "programmed with AI" and it has any possibility of failing in a way that could harm you (for example, if it connects to the internet, meaning that poor programming could allow hackers to take over the device you run it on), my advice is: "Do not use it and warn your friends and family."
P.S. yes, this advice does apply to Microsoft Widows at this point, although that can be a tougher bullet to bite.
@johnleonard@mastodon.social2026-03-02 13:41:48
Rebuilding public trust in AI requires meaningful citizen engagement, transparent governance, and robust legislation. Technology itself is not the problem. The issue is that few people trust institutions to deploy it wisely and for their benefit. This makes the first step to answer the following question: What’s it in for me?
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-03-01 12:33:05
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-02 15:19:15
Democratic leaders were outspoken during the massive US military buildup in the Middle East,
⭐️decrying his unwillingness to engage with Congress and lack of long-term strategy for Iran.
🔸They noted that it was Trump, during his first term, who shredded Barack Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran.
Once the US and Israeli military struck on Saturday, the sharpest voices accused the president of riding roughshod over the constitution.
Senator Bernie
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2026-03-02 19:23:13
University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center confirms data leak following ransomware attack https://therecord.media/university-of-hawaii-ransomware-data-breach
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.social2026-02-02 06:29:13
Selber im Landtag ständig blau machen, aber von anderen fordern:
* 1h unbezahlte Mehrarbeit
* 1 Karenztag bei Krankschreibung
* weniger Teilzeit
* Abschaffung telefonische Krankschreibung
* Abbau Rente mit 63
Genau mein Humor!
https://www.zeit.de/p…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-28 11:31:15
Cinema operators are relieved Paramount won WBD due to its support for theatrical releases, but skeptical about its plans to increase output and sustain windows (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/warner-bros-s…
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2026-02-26 00:30:04
Urban Demons VII 👻
城市鬼魂 VII 👻
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400 Plus, expired 1993
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@UP8@mastodon.social2026-02-02 01:36:39
I think a Winterberry Holly surrounded by a few falling snow flakes
#photo #photography #berries #red
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-02-25 20:07:07
As the "last falangista*" dies, fascism is again on the rise.
Just an example from Manchester.
In the nearby parliamentary constituency, a candidate with connections to race pseudoscience organisations, with Nazi pedigree, could win a crucial by-election.
*Falange= Franco's fascist party.
Muere a los 93 años el golpista Antonio Tejero, brazo ejecutor del 23F
