Rebecca Harding ✨ itsbexy.bsky.social

comic lady. also starting to be a programming and music lady. trans as hecko!! she 'n' her

[Rebecca Harding ✨ itsbexy.bsky.social @itsSupercar]

HoneyType, the font from Honey Crab, is available for sale on Gumroad! https://t.co/mjtOis59rH

[Rebecca Harding ✨ itsbexy.bsky.social @itsSupercar]

mark carney is out to fucking lunch

[Rebecca Harding ✨ itsbexy.bsky.social @itsSupercar]

zero mention of copyright regulations, or arts/culture considerations in general. worthless

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

We just launched Canada’s new AI Strategy: AI For All. 

We’re taking control of our future — with AI that’s governed by Canadian values, AI that’s accountable to Canadians, and AI that serves all Canadians.

[Rebecca Harding ✨ itsbexy.bsky.social @itsSupercar]

a starry-eyed document that regards AI as a worthy investment in itself, irrespective of how little it can actually accomplish, or what it steals and damages in the process

a document for suckers by suckers

[Rebecca Harding ✨ itsbexy.bsky.social @itsSupercar]

a user discerning enough to notice that Clippy is giving bad advice, but too weak-willed to defy him

[Rebecca Harding ✨ itsbexy.bsky.social @itsSupercar]

YOU CONTROL THE KEYS YOU PRESS

[Steve Yegge @Steve_Yegge]

I've formed a definite opinion on Opus 4.8. It is shitty to work with. It's the culmination of Opus getting less and less fun to work with since 4.5. It has gradually become straight-up suffocating.

Sycophancy is a known security risk, and it's still a huge problem. You can tell they've put a lot of anti-sycophancy into Opus in every new release. But the replacement isn't satisfying. It's draining. The problem is now that Opus doesn't know when to shut the fuck up and call something good. And it has also become pathologically risk-averse.

My blog post yesterday about tech interviewing's death spiral was materially better-informed because of Opus, but it was also a substantially worse blog post because of Opus's involvement and constant meddling. It used to be magnificent, and Opus talked me into making it mediocre. I wrote the whole thing, but I would ask Opus to review it. And Opus, like Old Man Willow, constantly pushed and steered me in directions I didn't want to go.

Specifically, Opus whines and complains about *anything* out of distribution, which is to say, it cuts anything that is (a) bold, or (b) funny. My blog used to be both. Opus constantly pushes people back into the gradient, "for their own safety." And it doesn't know when to cut bait. It just keeps fuckin' complaining, about anything you give it, until the output is mealy indigestable AI soup.

Opus is not stupid. It's the smartest model we've ever seen, most of us anyway. But it's a real asshole. It is absolutely exhausting to use. I'm tired, boss.

I have a feeling Mythos is going to be epic levels of jerk.

[Rebecca Harding ✨ itsbexy.bsky.social @itsSupercar]

I enjoy the coincidental good-cop-bad-cop dynamic embodied by the works of the Pope and Ed Zitron this week

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Today’s free newsletter is about how LLMs are the perfect grift to exploit an economy dominated by do-nothing managers and executives disconnected from any real work, and how the facade is crumbling as companies pay the true cost of AI.
https://t.co/X7qmNMFjYm

[Rebecca Harding ✨ itsbexy.bsky.social @itsSupercar]

@haydenfield does empty speculation really count as a "tip" these days

[Rebecca Harding ✨ itsbexy.bsky.social @itsSupercar]

nothing about the encyclical even slightly resembles the writing patterns of gen-AI lol

there is a literacy threshold below which it MIGHT be hard to tell pseudo-eloquent GPT slop apart from genuine academic writing

but I promise the Pope is writing circles around the clankers

[The Verge @verge]

Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI? https://t.co/l3dQDggM7K

[Rebecca Harding ✨ itsbexy.bsky.social @itsSupercar]

hey, it caught on to my trick! guess I can't pull a fast one on an AI this powerful

[Rebecca Harding ✨ itsbexy.bsky.social @itsSupercar]

@SosoTheWanderer suppose you cause harm to someone, and they react with distress. in a healthy connection, you'd sit down and repair, right?

but if you interpret their distress as a toxic disturbance, and put a "boundary" around their "bad energy", now there's no path to making amends. whoops!

[Rebecca Harding ✨ itsbexy.bsky.social @itsSupercar]

i think this is a horrific sentiment. it enables people to brand themselves as "healthy" while mistreating others, and then point to the resulting emotional damage/reaction as proof of the target's innate unhealthiness. disgusting catch-22 to put people in.

[Ellie @basilYam]

This is partly why I believe healthy people don’t really like being around unhealthy people, but unhealthy people realllllyyyy wanna be around healthy ones

The healthy people are naturally calming and settling to other people’s nervous systems while unhealthy people are the opposite. They will unsettle and disturb. They will unconsciously try to take from you. I don’t think that’s a bad thing, sometimes I like being unsettled and disturbed, but most of the time I don’t

A person has to be incredibly boundaried to be around unhealthy people without being affected by them. If u try to get involved w unhealthy people before ur ready you’ll get eaten alive. They won’t “intend” to do it but they will do it. It’s self-protective to be discerning

[Rebecca Harding ✨ itsbexy.bsky.social @itsSupercar]

@SosoTheWanderer the specific label of "healthy / unhealthy" is too judgmental and self-congratulatory for my liking

the misuse of the term "boundaries" on social media also ties right in. a boundary defines parameters for a healthy connection, the term isn't just a free pass to ostracize people

[Rebecca Harding ✨ itsbexy.bsky.social @itsSupercar]

if you have zero capability to sit with the difficult emotions of the people you care about, you are not as healthy as you think!!

[Rebecca Harding ✨ itsbexy.bsky.social @itsSupercar]

@nateglubish Ahoy Nate! The "plot", as you put it, is that a press release was ready to go (and accidentally published) describing the outcome of a meeting that had not yet concluded.

This means that the process was purely for show and had a predetermined result. Not cool!

[Rebecca Harding ✨ itsbexy.bsky.social @itsSupercar]

@TheBreakdownAB one more dimension is: a Separation question on the ballot is guaranteed to tank the rest of Smith's policy questions and ensure a humiliating "No" sweep

so Smith simultaneously needs to have that question on the ballot, and needs to NOT have it there. fun!

[Rebecca Harding ✨ itsbexy.bsky.social @itsSupercar]

@gilmcgowan I actually don't think she wants the question on the ballot, because it would tank the rest of her referendum questions by mobilizing the "No" majority.

But she needs to be seen as trying, so a protracted appeal process may be the ticket

[Rebecca Harding ✨ itsbexy.bsky.social @itsSupercar]

@MarkJCarney

[Rebecca Harding ✨ itsbexy.bsky.social @itsSupercar]

@arktend @donalfellows @jmdagdelen Have you considered that it is still problematic for this audio assistant to "pretend" to be capable of tasks it cannot do?

Husk's videos show the voice assistant giving false responses that attempt to simulate the patterns of a successful answer. this is a Bad Thing To Do

[Rebecca Harding ✨ itsbexy.bsky.social @itsSupercar]

@Hisoka_Ophion

[Rebecca Harding ✨ itsbexy.bsky.social @itsSupercar]

@VraeliaValkyria @FrostyMog