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Catholic, Husband, Dad, Hacker, Packet Hacking Village
I do security stuff at places...

[T @0xTony]

When a man is at the mercy of his own feelings, he misinterprets the most innocent actions, always ready to believe the worst; whereas your peaceable man sees good everywhere; at peace in himself, he isn't suspicious of others. - Thomas à Kempis

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true:

— As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable.

— Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.)

— A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused.

— In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.”

— In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety.

— In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community.

— The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority.

— Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.

[Intel Pro Max Ultra @IntelProMUltra]

Some takeaways from the server and PC OEMs recently:
🗄️Server
1. For general purpose servers and certain AI server, like NVL-8, CPU attach opportunities, customers still appear to prefer Intel Xeon.

2. Server CPU procurement is no longer a lead-time issue. It is allocation and price renegotiation. OEMs can seldom order CPUs nowadays, the hyperscalers / customers will negotiate with Intel / AMD directly.

3. Intel appears to be facing more severe CPU supply tightness than AMD, with server CPUs being the most constrained.

4. A special server or dense-compute design using large numbers of Lunar Lake, with Memory on Package, appears to be a potential workaround for server CPU and DRAM supply constraints.

💻PC
1. Rising CPU and DRAM prices are creating cost pressure for OEMs, but OEMs also seem able to pass these costs on to end customers.

2. High-end new notebook programs appear to be primarily based on Intel CPUs (or Intel CPU has more designs and SKU optionality), with OEMs citing Intel’s advantages in power efficiency and battery life versus AMD.

3. Intel 18A notebook design activity appears broad, spanning both high-end and lower-price segments. The presence of Wildcat Lake-based notebooks priced around US$699 suggests that 18A is not merely a premium showcase platform.

4. There were also no obvious delivery issues observed in Intel 18A CPU. This is a positive signal for Intel’s 18A client ramp, although actual shipment volume will still need to be verified over time.

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

Over 100 Canadian churches were burned over this hoax. Over 30 were completely destroyed. All over a lie.

[T @0xTony]

@Joeinblack Still praying for you every day.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

Man, you could practically hear the collective groan in every newsroom across America.

For about 12 glorious hours, the San Diego mosque shooting was absolute catnip for cable news. Two teenage white boys attack a mosque, three innocent people dead ... the “right-wing domestic terrorism” script wrote itself. Chyrons blazing, panels booked, every anti-MAGA hack already sharpening their knives.

Then the manifesto dropped.

And everything went dead quiet.

Turns out Cain Clark and Caleb Vazquez weren’t exactly card-carrying conservatives. These two pathetic Jew-obsessed incel weirdos titled their murder diary “Sons of Tarrant” and filled it with deranged pages of “IT’S THE JEWS” on endless repeat. They weren’t right-wing, weren’t MAGA, weren’t Trump fans ... nah, they proudly called themselves Third Positionists who worshipped Nationalist Socialism and Eco Fascism.

One was autistic and marinating in online poison. The other got force-fed mandatory “ethnic studies” classes that spent the first two weeks hammering “whiteness” and “white privilege” until he started hating himself and his own mixed-race family.

Oh, and the system had been warned for over a year: FBI knew about Vazquez, 5150 psych hold, gun seizure attempt, the works. Mom was blowing up police phones for two straight hours while short-staffed cops treated it like a runaway kid case.

But once the full, messy, politically inconvenient picture hit the internet?

The 24/7 coverage didn’t just slow down. It died.

Nothing kills a beautiful partisan morality play faster than facts that refuse to cooperate. The media isn’t in the truth business ... they’re in the narrative enforcement business. And this one didn’t confirm shit.
(article below)

[T @0xTony]

@acloudofsaints @DrShayPhD Its sad to see so much vitriol in some that they cannot recognize truth (the Popes message) when they see it; they are blinded.

[Jennie Taer @JennieSTaer]

ICE just dropped a major fraud bombshell involving 10,000 foreign students “who claim to be working for highly suspect employers” as part of the federal government’s Operational Practical Training program.

Here’s what they found…
-Empty buildings and locked doors where hundreds of foreign students are supposed to be working

-Multiple employers claiming the same address, where none of them actually have a lease

-Small homes listed as worksites for hundreds of foreign students, where no employees are present. And when someone answers the door, they claim to have no knowledge of the business.

-Some of the employers claim to have offshore HR personnel

-Employers having tax liens, civil law suit collections and breaches of contract

[T @0xTony]

Hello Pastor, I would encourage you to dig a little bit into a slight detail? (not sure, just making an assumption) There is no "Roman" church or "Roman" doctrine but the Catholic Church and Catholic doctrine. Within the Catholic Church there is the Latin Tradition (which is what I think you may be referring to) but that is looking at the Catholic Church through a narrow lens. There are 23 Eastern Catholic Churches "sui iuris", who are autonomous and in full communion with the Catholic Church, many of which developed and grew independently:
West Syrian (Antiochene) Tradition - Maronite Church, Syriac Catholic Church, Syro-Malankara Catholic Church.
Byzantine (Constantinopolitan) Tradition - Albanian Greek Catholic Church, Belarusian Greek Catholic Church, Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church, Byzantine Church of Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, Greek Byzantine Catholic Church, Hungarian Greek Catholic Church, Italo-Albanian Church, Macedonian Greek Catholic Church, Melkite Greek Catholic Church, Romanian Greek Catholic Church, Russian Catholic Church, Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church, Slovak Greek Catholic Church, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Alexandrian Tradition - Coptic Catholic Church, Eritrean Catholic Church, Ethiopian Catholic Church
East Syrian (Chaldean) Tradition - Chaldean Catholic Church, Syro-Malabar Church
Armenian Tradition - Armenian Catholic Church
All of these apostolic churches are part of the Catholic Church and share the same doctrines, including that of the Eucharist which was shared prior. If in your research, you are only examining the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church (which you may not, an assumption on my part), then from the outside, it is easy to think it might have strayed. But the unity across all the Churches under the Catholic Church shows that it has not. Or at least challenge such arguments even more.

[Tim Rice @TimRiceDC]

Hard to overstate how insane this @MaryMargOlohan exclusive is.

A Biden DOJ lawyer texted a colleague that he would "like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit."

That lawyer, Joseph Cooney, is now running for Congress.

https://t.co/R0adt8xTrv

[Michael Sebastian @HonorAndDaring]

Unlike most Catholics on X, I am not a formally trained theologian, but I think this might be a bigger moral issue than the US enforcing immigration law.

[T @0xTony]

@painterinoue

[Orson Scott Card @orsonscottcard]

“Why have people fallen in love with a system that exploits them?”

All systems and societies are created by the decisions, efforts, and contributions of the members. Some may benefit without contributing. Some who contribute may not receive the hoped-for benefits. But if the society is more or less stable, then everybody benefits from its existence, since the alternative — having no system or order in society — harms almost everyone. Even oppressive systems may be better than anarchy or chaos.

Seeking to alter, modify, or improve society may sometimes result in change, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. Simply fighting against the existing order with no replacement plan only rarely results in improvement for anyone. The American Revolution was designed to remove England as overlord, but the rebels wanted a stable replacement system to maintain order without interruption. Hence, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, and the continuation of state governments with elected leaders. People with property held on to their property.

But the French Revolution was spontaneous and undeclared; radicals of a certain stripe proclaimed themselves the bosses and got enough soldiers to agree that they could be called a government. But they were murderous and vengeful and demolished the institutions — the system — that had maintained order, however unfairly. The new system collapsed as a heroic strongman emerged to become dictator --i.e., a replacement king. Napoleon defeated invading enemies and then invaded them back, ostensibly for the revolutionary ideals. But he led a generation of young Frenchmen to be slaughtered or starved and frozen in a pointless Russian campaign and those who replaced him tried to restore the previous order. But the instability in France lasted through the first and second republics and on into the third, and one might argue that it was Nazi occupation and the Gaullist government that restored a more or less stable system to France. Chaos is less satisfying and less prosperous than order.

So a system, call it good or bad, is built by its participants and generally is better than no system at all. It can be said that all systems exploit the contributors, and benefit many noncontributing parasites. I can think of no example from history that benefits all contributors and excludes all parasites. The continuation of good order requires the compliance or cooperation of almost all, even those who feel under-served by the system, because if the system falls without a sturdy replacent ready, the resulting chaos is worse for everyone, and worst for those already vulnerable and weak.

So to call the contributors exploited and call all defense of the status quo “propaganda” is to advocate for destruction and anarchy, which hurts worst those least benefitted by the system as it was. The destroyers, however, don't care — they are poised to take control locally, mafia style, or, in other words, feudally, or else make accommodation with whatever strong man emerges on top.

Every utopia I've ever heard of that promises to benefit rather than exploit the contributors turns out to be gamed by power-seekers, who develop, usually through an eventual monopoly of violence, a new system which is only rarely an improvement. So to those who berate and seek to bring down the current system really ought to present their plan for a new system clearly, or, if they have no plan, shut up until they do.

[T @0xTony]

@BishopBarron @TheFP Hello Bishop, Why is the article locked behind a paywall / free trial with required registration? I would hope your guidance would be offered to your flock without price? Maybe I am missing something????
Thank you and God bless!

[T @0xTony]

Agreed. And at the councils they had a criteria for acceptance. While some were well understood they did go through up to 100 or so documents discerning those divinely inspired and those which were not and some that were frauds. This was about 300 years later that they were doing this work. It was by their authority the books were included in the Bible we have still today.

[T @0xTony]

@jb_61820 @Rblv73 Ok, thank you for the clarification. Was that the only criteria used by the Catholic Church in the two councils when they decided on the cannon of the New Testament?

[T @0xTony]

@jb_61820 @Rblv73 Can you please clarify what you mean by "belonging to the apostles"?

[T @0xTony]

@tlhrcatholic @kmtran95 Because they are human and are not always in clerical garb for the many things they need to do: working out, painting, mowing, on vacation, etc... the important thing is they listen for the call and they drop what ever it is they are doing and go. God bless our priests!

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

In a ​new paper​, researchers argue that:

“a primary cause of the rise in mental disorders [in youth] is a decline over decades in opportunities for children and teens to play, roam, and engage in other activities independent of direct oversight and control by adults.”

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Friends, something that is becoming increasingly a concern of mine is the prevalence of explicit Marxism in the rhetoric and practice of certain leaders on the Left in America. 

I invite you to consider my thoughts on the subject here: https://t.co/2VBGg1Sp6t