Buffoonery Averse

Furthest thing from a hacker, the distance grows hourly.

#RightToRepair

Lifelong Learner;

[Buffoonery Averse @wasp0r]

@privateeyeruss I have a coworker who has 6 kids by 5 different women. He said that he doesn't understand how anyone can be over 30 years old and not have kids because that requires an elite level of discipline.

[Buffoonery Averse @wasp0r]

I rarely meet muscular people with physically demanding jobs.

[Buffoonery Averse @wasp0r]

@privateeyeruss Two things that don't matter: six-pack abs and height.

[Buffoonery Averse @wasp0r]

@BlkBetts I haven't been back much since my new indenture is 50 miles away but I'm looking forward to returning a few times.

[@crunkcomputing.bsky.social @CrunkComputing]

Let it be known that if my employer starts using the term "super intelligence", I'm fucking quitting.

[Buffoonery Averse @wasp0r]

Keep it Phree!

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️ BREAKING: AI agents have leaked more than 13,000 internal screenshots from 343 tech companies onto GitHub, including a frontier AI lab and several Fortune 500 companies.

Unable to attach images to private pull requests, the agents quietly posted them to public repos instead.

[zkSecurity @zksecurityXYZ]

We are very happy to announce that we have formally verified the techniques of Liam Eagen's https://t.co/X97yM76Ck1 in Lean 4, using only the standard axioms:

https://t.co/OJG1rz21pQ

https://t.co/5hqcVzjVPq

🧵1/6

[Buffoonery Averse @wasp0r]

@privateeyeruss He might be winning some bottom-of-the-barrel prospects. He'll see the light eventually; When the rest of the scalp thins.

[Private Eye Russ @privateeyeruss]

PSA for balding black men!

[Private Eye Russ @privateeyeruss]

Private Eye Russ public service announcement!

Stop leaving your firearms in the car. Stop leaving valuables in the car. Stop telling people you have firearms or valuables in the car. One of my dumbass Neighbors got his car broken into by one of his employees. For some reason he thought it was a good idea that his employees know that he kept guns and cash in his car.

I helped collect video footage and interviewed a couple of Neighbors that were very helpful. It wouldn't be necessary if this clown had learned how to keep his mouth shut.

For some reason when there's a problem people come to my house even before they call the police. LOL I emailed everything to a friend of mine on the police force within the hour.

That is all!

[Dutch1777 @dutch1777real]

Some heroes do wear capes.

[Buffoonery Averse @wasp0r]

Superstition got y'all doing the most irrational things.

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

Oof. See, this is why I’m not worried about “pure” LLMs in the long run.

There’s new evidence that the human brain doesn’t use natural language centers for logical reasoning at all.

Study just came out where stroke patients with complete aphasia (near-chance on written comprehension) performed….great on pure logic tasks! Even in healthy adults, fMRI showed language area activation didn’t scale with logical difficulty.

tl;dr words are too ambiguous for formal thought and our brain doesn’t use language symbols for logic

[zkSecurity @zksecurityXYZ]

fresh edition off the press https://t.co/CGlRzfiACC

[Ryan Naraine @ryanaraine]

"Mark my words, one day it will be illegal to use hardware that run advanced AI models..."

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Financial Dystopia @financedystop]

Guy failed in tech, which he blamed on competition and saturation, then pivoted into a “boring” business doing pressure washing and property maintenance.

Clearing $30K/month

[Buffoonery Averse @wasp0r]

@privateeyeruss What in the name of rhaatidry a gwan yah?