Steve Schwarzbek

Why yes, this is questionable opsec

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukrainian Presidential Office, in an interview with @MaxRTucker for The Times:

- While you were in military intelligence, the Kremlin has tried to assassinate you several times and now you are leading negotiations with the Russians. Are they still trying to kill you now?

- So, what?

- Is it still happening?

- This is absolutely normal.

- How can you trust the Russians if they are still trying to assassinate you?

- I don’t have to trust anyone. I have to achieve the result. And to achieve the result, any methods and forms of work are good.

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

Most who interact with an LLM such as @OpenAI or @claudeai treat their interaction as a conversation with an intelligent and friendly pseudo-human.

I do not.

Rather, I frame it as my guiding the exploration of a latent space.

Imagine that you stand at the door of a library. It's not only filled with books, it has waldos - remote manipulators - that you can use to command devices to go to and fro at command, even building things as so directed.

But I steadfastly know that while the lobby may be filled with the latest bright and shiny things, if I want to do anything but the most common and mundane, I must wander through the rooms and stacks of books. If I look closely, I'll will see many books out of place. Some will even have meaningless content as if written by a madman (and some of them probably were). There will also be huge gaps, for where I'd hoped to find information, I'd instead see cobwebs and the occasional dusty, torn scrap of paper.

Sometimes, there are hints as to where I should turn, but best knowing my context and needs, I'm the only one in place to know if those hints will lead me to something of value. If I'm not paying attention or am just plain lazy, they will lead me down paths that in the end are a complete waste of my time. The library does not care: it gets paid no matter what I do as long as I remain within its walls.

Mind you, I enjoy visiting that library: I often learn things and build things of value.

But I don't outsource my life there, for were I to do so, I know I'd become even more cognitively lazy.

[Donald Truck™ @TheDonTruck]

Good morning my muchachos, it'd be a darn shame if we tagged @bennyjohnson and @Timcast with the hashtag #PutinPaidYou all day today.

Show them the money trail.

#smokefleet

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

After randomly dropping crates of weapons into Iraq and expecting Iraqi Kurds to magically be the ground force for a war with Iran, Trump now claims the Kurds, whom he has repeatedly betrayed, “just take, take, take” and are disappointing for refusing to act as his mercenaries.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

This needs to be number 1, folks.
🎶Smoke Fl33t every day🎶
#smokefleet #smokefl33t

[Steve Schwarzbek @xwarzbek]

@TotalSeasons @WhiteHouse It looks like he's leaning on a walker

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Oops, we did a thing #smokefl33t

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. #smokefleet #smokefl33t

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

I’m considering having this as my profile!

I don’t smoke BTW! 🤣

We need more #smokefl33t people!

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

You've got your marching orders for today muchachos, RT #smokefl33t wherever you see it. Now go!

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

If you make my account as big as the Krassensteins I promise I won’t buy a Cybertruck, glaze for Marco Rubio, move out of the country or pull a Fetterman.

What I *will* do is share my top secret zucchini bread recipe. Think about it. Love, Mee Maw

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

👀

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

Sweet Pea

[Steve Schwarzbek @xwarzbek]

@UnrealBluegrass @RonFilipkowski D'Auschwitz? We'd have been part of the Axis

[Paula Poundstone @paulapoundstone]

Trump believes he's going to joinlty control the Strait of Hormuz with the Ayatollah, because they did so well in that three legged race at The Palm Beach County Fair last year.

[Marc Polymeropoulos @Mpolymer]

Had a great chat with a Syrian immigrant to the US yesterday morning, who was my uber driver on way to the @MSNOWNews DC studio. I told him I lived in Syria previously. I mentioned "Faruq's" shawarma shop in Malki, and he went crazy. Best shawarma anywhere in the world, we agreed! He said that when he was young, years ago prior to leaving Damascus, he used to go in front of the US embassy in Abu Rumaneh and literally look up and talk to the American flag. Prayed that he could come to the US. Said he did it all the time, night after night. I was stunned. The same flag I used to look at walking home from work, silhouette in the night sky, and hoping that it meant something to the Syrian people, who back then lived in a terribly repressive regime. So this story from my uber driver, man, it got to me. America stood for something very real to him. Political and economic liberalism, in a world where in many places, that doesn't exist. The Syrian driver ended our chat (I had tears in my eyes) with a great final thought. He said that in America, you can scream and yell at Trump, with no sanction. Or praise and love him too. He loved that about our country. He didn't tell me who he supposed politically, because to him, it didn't matter. Some times you need to hear stories like this one to give you hope.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Hey do you guys remember that one time when Trump was a coward and avoided the military but then puts out his picture from military school to pretend like he’s some hardened warrior with a 1000 yard stare but really he’s a big coward who is scared of everything and he smells bad and wears makeup all the time because of how manly he is?

I do

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

There is considerable evidence that demonstrates large language models bring value; there also exists considerable evidence that – when applied without human oversight or an ethical framework - large language models are excellent generators of dangerous bullshit at scale.

I find the same to be true of generative coding assistants: they greatly accelerate the generation of disposable code, but at the same time they introduce a dangerous and seductive amount of sloppy legacy that, if left unattended to fester, are a cognitive and economic ticking time bomb