Bron

Software developer.
Retired: gunner, goalie and smartphone R&D guy.
Power user of the Interwebs 😄

[Bron @Bron4444]

@patersonjeff @CanucksArmy Does Judd Brackett return to Vancouver as an AGM?

[Bron @Bron4444]

@RegalSKK @the_engi_nerd Oh yeah! Cyber attacks are very indirect fire 😅

Back in the 1980s and early 90s, the artillery was one of the few places that you'd find combat arms guys using computers in the field at the small unit level... but those days are over.

[Bron @Bron4444]

@the_engi_nerd 💯
and aren't the Marines still part of the navy?

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Part of the Kremlin's desperate ongoing operations to install a Russian puppet government in Armenia is to transport 100,000 Armenian citizens that currently live in Russia back home to vote. This is estimated to cost around $50,000,000.

[Bron @Bron4444]

@SadClubCommish @DhaliwalSports Fragmentation and price hikes are two of the streaming problems. Another big problem is that some of streaming apps / platforms are buggy. #Sportsnet has chronic buffering problems and often blocks #Canucks because they think I'm in Alberta. 🙄

[Institute for the Study of War @TheStudyofWar]

NEW: SPECIAL REPORT | Ukraine is actively challenging the positional character of the war that has dominated the battlefield since 2023. Russian battlefield gains are approaching net zero while Ukrainian forces are setting conditions potentially to break out of positional warfare by reintroducing limited elements of mechanized maneuver at the tactical level.

Ukraine has re-secured an overall drone advantage and fielded systems capable of disrupting Russian forces throughout their operational depth in support of planned Ukrainian offensive or defensive ground operations. Neither Russia nor Ukraine is able to conduct operational maneuver yet, however.

Ukraine’s success in blunting Russian advances and reversing Russian gains in some sectors of the line, in tandem with Ukraine’s limited reintroduction of elements of tactical mechanized maneuver may nevertheless mark the beginning of a new phase of the war.

Combat in Ukraine will likely become less positional and feature more tactical maneuver until Russia’s innovation cycle renders Ukraine’s current operational concepts ineffective. Ukraine likely has a unique and time-constrained opportunity to exploit its current initiative while Russian forces remain vulnerable.

Ukraine’s partners should expand their support to these Ukrainian efforts at a moment when Russia is reeling from both battlefield setbacks and Ukraine’s deep strike campaign with the aim of forcing Russian President Vladimir Putin to reevaluate his approach to this conflict.

[aly кішка! ✙ @mexic0la_]

Dude where’s my czar

[Bron @Bron4444]

@Jordan44_ @agentofascent @FriedgeHNIC Stanley Cup wins in Carolina and Pittsburgh. Three cups not good enough for you? 😂

[Bron @Bron4444]

"Android was sold to us as an open platform. Now Google wants every developer to register and submit ID just to let you install their apps. Don't let them rug-pull 3 billion users."
https://t.co/kJbKvlCyXl @AlteredDeal #KeepAndroidOpen

[Bron @Bron4444]

@HockeyAgent1 C'mon, weren't you already an unofficial Canucks AGM at one time with Zadorov, Kuzmenko, and others in Vancouver? 🙂
PS: that TV interview while getting an IV screams "culture" 😙

[Bron @Bron4444]

@WeaponScientist $54.6 billion 🫠

[Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD @DrTechlash]

Bill Maher's monologue recycles classic fearmongering by anthropomorphizing current LLMs as conscious beings that "want" to "live," blackmail humans, or "fight back." That's nonsense. Models like GPT and Claude generate outputs based on patterns in the training data, the immediate prompt, and the context. There is no inner life or "self" to protect.

The evidence is far weaker than the monologue suggests. Any appearance of "self-preservation" comes from prompted role-play or contrived, heavily engineered lab scenarios. Engineered stunts are being sold as evidence of sentient rebellion.

As Prof. Melanie Mitchell, a computer scientist at the Santa Fe Institute, put it: "The best thing we can do is real, fundamental science. We need to study AI systems with rigorous research methods, not improv games."

Real AI challenges do exist. But claiming today's models are plotting against us relies on exaggerations, misinterpretations, and emotional manipulation. We can summarize this clip as manufactured panic.

I'm hoping Bill will bring other experts to balance this, he usually does.

[BIoke Quebecois @BlokeQuebecois]

Notice the parallel to Ukraine: ultimately nothing threatens authoritarian regimes more than the undeniable proof they always (always!) fail their people.

[Stephen Taylor @stephen_taylor]

The trillion dollar mistake.

[Bron @Bron4444]

@WeaponScientist Choice of the word "Trippy" there: 👍😄

[Bron @Bron4444]

@patersonjeff And devalue the already too long regular season further? And it will soon be longer. If your team isn't in playoff position after 84 games, too bad so sad.

[Andrew Orlowski @AndrewOrlowski]

This smells bogus. Blaming the workers for "sabotage" shifts the blame for a poor product onto the users. There's also an implicit threat: you will agree that 2+2=5 or you're next in line.

The plain truth is, almost nobody wants to use this turkey.

[Bron @Bron4444]

@BlokeQuebecois Semi-believable: a much smaller Canada is rumoured to have had the world's third largest navy by the end of WW2.

Today it's a struggle to build a couple of passenger ferries 😅

[Bron @Bron4444]

@the_engi_nerd Nope @the_engi_nerd
You have a sad, lazy, ignorant and typical ageist take. Bet you don't know who Dave Plummer is, and have too much hubris-copium in your veins to appreciate what he says
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Bron @Bron4444]

@patersonjeff @GoldenKnights Maybe, next season, the new head coach of the Canucks will be Torts?!? 🤣