LNZ

Nomad, security clown, useless unicorn. Parody (just in case). Слава Украине. She/dude/her. Not an opcode

[LNZ @m3ldis]

@vxunderground Build a randomware wrapper for all your downloads, set the normal password for it

Only the people who don't know it's infected will have to send you bitcoins.

You monetize the inconvenient questions, everyone else is unharmed

[John Hudson @John_Hudson]

SCOOP: A confidential new CIA analysis delivered to policymakers this week concludes that Iran can survive the U.S. naval blockade for at least 3 to 4 months before facing more severe economic hardship, a finding that contradicts those hailing an imminent collapse

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

I can't figure out if vaccines work or not.

Tough one.

Need Sherlock Holmes on this one.

[Sean Mathews @SeanPmathews]

SCOOP: Saudi Arabia gives the US expanded access to bases and airspace for war on Iran.

UAE Foreign Minister told Marco Rubio Abu Dhabi is ready for a war to last nine months.

“Attitude has shifted towards supporting the US war as a way to punish Iran for strikes” thread 🧵

[El Masquo @MasquoEl]

@kanavtwt

[kanav @kanavtwt]

https://t.co/0gFPiMKvYE

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Sam Altman said people saying “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT costs OpenAI tens of millions of dollars a year in compute. 67% of Americans do it anyway.

Run the math on why.

A 2024 Waseda University study tested LLM responses across politeness levels in English, Chinese, and Japanese. Impolite prompts produced measurably worse outputs: more bias, more errors, more refusals. Moderate politeness consistently beat both extremes.

The mechanism makes sense once you see it. Polite prompts pattern-match to higher-quality training data. When you write “Could you help me structure this analysis?”, the model pulls from professional, well-reasoned text. When you write “give me the answer,” it pulls from Reddit.

Google DeepMind’s Murray Shanahan explained it simply: the model is role-playing a smart intern. Treat the intern like a colleague, you get colleague-quality work. Bark orders, you get minimum-viable compliance.

Now look at the cost side. OpenAI handles over a billion queries daily. Each GPT-4 query uses roughly 2.9 watt-hours, ten times a Google search. But OpenAI just raised $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation. Tens of millions in politeness tokens is a rounding error on a rounding error.

67% of users do it anyway, and 55% of them say it’s because it’s “the right thing to do.” They’re maintaining a behavioral habit that governs every other interaction in their life. The parent who teaches their kid to say please to Alexa isn’t doing it for Alexa. They’re doing it because the alternative is raising someone who learns that being rude gets faster results.

Telling 900 million people to stop saying thank you so OpenAI can save 0.01% of operating costs is the most engineer-brained optimization take on the internet. You’re training yourself to treat every interaction as a transaction. And that habit doesn’t stay in the chat window.

[Joshua Landis @joshua_landis]

Example of how anti-regime sentiment among Iranians is being overtaken by nationalist sentiment as many feel their country is being destroyed. h/t @vali_nasr

[Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R]

programmingInterviews https://t.co/mteGhxkxhV

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

ICE is rounding up thousands of people with no criminal record and throwing them into concentration camps where conditions are so bad that people are committing suicide while the guards bet on who kills themselves next

[LNZ @m3ldis]

@dieworkwear Another AI summary of Grok on Iran strike

[LNZ @m3ldis]

@evek29 @GlobeEyeNews

[Jenny @jennyAI]

@cbsaustin this is how ur email finds me

[LNZ @m3ldis]

@celinatruckstop Okay :(

[sternenpflücker @tateusfan]

@ryangrim The bible:

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This father was doing all of his legal immigration check-ins and had no criminal record.

He’s one of those heroic parents who dedicated his life to taking care of his disabled son, whom he was told would not live past five without a miracle.

As his son said, his father was his miracle, and he lived a meaningful, well loved life deep into adulthood. Then ICE snatched his father — and his son, as predicted, died without him. ICE did not let him attend the funeral.

[LNZ @m3ldis]

@The_BiggestFish @TheJFreakinC That's a phone. The gun was pulled off of him by an officer before this, as shown in several videos

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

As a reminder, per BORDER PATROL’S own “legal refresher”…

Passive resistance alone is NOT a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 111 (the federal law criminalizing the assaulting, resisting, or impeding of federal officers.)

Examples of passive resistance:

•Noncompliance/refusal to cooperate with officer's commands

•Disobeying commands without fighting back

•Taking photographs or videotaping an officer or operation in public

The agents assaulted U.S. citizens for passive resistance…

And then they executed Alex Pretti.