Nick Stenning
@nickstenning.bsky.social
Infrastructure, humans, production operations, security. Oh, and dogs.
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nope. anthropic made a dataset including fake emails implying a nonexistent engineer was having an affair and the chatbot emitted words related to words from those fake emails implying a fictitious affair. then a bunch of dipshit frauds at anthropic made the home alone face and ran around the house.
An Amazon-backed AI model tried to blackmail engineers who threatened to shut it down, a safety report revealed
In tests, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 would resort to "extremely harmful actions" to preserve its own existence
In tests, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 would resort to "extremely harmful actions" to preserve its own existence
Amazon-Backed AI Model Would Try To Blackmail Engineers Who Threatened To Take It Offline
In tests, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 would resort to "extremely harmful actions" to preserve its own existence, a safety report revealed.
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May 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
nope. anthropic made a dataset including fake emails implying a nonexistent engineer was having an affair and the chatbot emitted words related to words from those fake emails implying a fictitious affair. then a bunch of dipshit frauds at anthropic made the home alone face and ran around the house.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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I will allow Empire State Of Mind played unironically now
November 5, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I will allow Empire State Of Mind played unironically now
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As you celebrate Mamdani’s victory, I want to take in that it was not a victory for the Democratic Party. He won in spite of the party.
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
As you celebrate Mamdani’s victory, I want to take in that it was not a victory for the Democratic Party. He won in spite of the party.
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Watching Mamdani's victory speech, I'm struck by his—and his campaign's—unabashed vision of the US as an immigrant society, a culture built from the ground up from diversity. It is a complete rejection and reversal of the search for a white-washed homogeneity that the political right projects.
November 5, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Watching Mamdani's victory speech, I'm struck by his—and his campaign's—unabashed vision of the US as an immigrant society, a culture built from the ground up from diversity. It is a complete rejection and reversal of the search for a white-washed homogeneity that the political right projects.
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
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pitching a movie in which J. R. R. Tolkien arises from the dead to take academically-coded revenge on the techbros and MAGAs who continue to grotesquely misunderstand his work
October 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
pitching a movie in which J. R. R. Tolkien arises from the dead to take academically-coded revenge on the techbros and MAGAs who continue to grotesquely misunderstand his work
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Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
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A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48.
Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.
Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.
September 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48.
Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.
Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.
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Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.
September 20, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.
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this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
September 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
Worse for who? OpenAI? Users? Society at large?
The cure is likely to be worse than the disease.
Why OpenAI’s solution to AI hallucinations would kill ChatGPT tomorrow
The cure is likely to be worse than the disease.
tcnv.link
September 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Worse for who? OpenAI? Users? Society at large?
We think of you fondly every year, Michael/@mihi_tr. You might be gone, but you’re still a role model. ❤️
September 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
We think of you fondly every year, Michael/@mihi_tr. You might be gone, but you’re still a role model. ❤️
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oh well, onward and upward
![REPORTER: Mr. President, my condolences to you, Sir. My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. [unintelligible]
How are you holding up over the last day and a half, Sir?
TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks? They've just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they ve been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years. And it's gonna be a beauty. Absolutely magnificent construction. We just started, so it'll get done very nicely.
And it will be one of the best anywhere in the world, actually.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cfy5rgqvohpdqxgu2geb5u2b/bafkreig42mujsiyxozvq3kiayszu47dbk6zds3icm5bwu34twt3d7vbo2q@jpeg)
September 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
oh well, onward and upward
If there was any doubt that I was a Serious Engineer doing Serious Engineering, I would like you all to know that I've just completed the multi-week rollout, affecting thousands of nodes, of... a shell while loop that spends most of its time sleeping.
September 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
If there was any doubt that I was a Serious Engineer doing Serious Engineering, I would like you all to know that I've just completed the multi-week rollout, affecting thousands of nodes, of... a shell while loop that spends most of its time sleeping.
Snowy egret friend!
September 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Snowy egret friend!
Dear urban planners, I am begging you to understand that this is not what a creek looks like.
September 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Dear urban planners, I am begging you to understand that this is not what a creek looks like.
say what you like about america but damn if the sausage patty isn’t one of the greatest breakfast food items anywhere
September 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
say what you like about america but damn if the sausage patty isn’t one of the greatest breakfast food items anywhere
We’ve been waiting an awfully long time for anyone in the NYT Opinion section to not be an utter coward. Finally.
September 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
We’ve been waiting an awfully long time for anyone in the NYT Opinion section to not be an utter coward. Finally.
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I’m sorry, “the vice president’s mother was a drug addict so we’re allowed to just extrajudicially murder anyone we vaguely handwave as being part of a cartel” is a real argument people are making? in public? under their own names?
Uwu but hawwv you considered the epistemological standpoint of da vice president, including his twauma
September 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I’m sorry, “the vice president’s mother was a drug addict so we’re allowed to just extrajudicially murder anyone we vaguely handwave as being part of a cartel” is a real argument people are making? in public? under their own names?
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just an ongoing embarrassment that this barely sentient meathead is secretary of defense
Hegseth: "Maximum lethality -- not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're gonna raise up warriors. Not just defenders."
September 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
just an ongoing embarrassment that this barely sentient meathead is secretary of defense
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Fascism is an aesthetic movement for people with no sense of aesthetics.
My god the kerning on "U.S. Department of War" is itself send-them-to-the-Hague-worthy.
September 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Fascism is an aesthetic movement for people with no sense of aesthetics.
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'The findings add weight to a growing body of evidence that beavers may be acting as ecosystem engineers, reshaping waterways in ways that benefit not just their own survival, but that of entire landscapes.'
How Canada's buck-toothed national emblem could help fight wildfires | CBC News
New research out of the western U.S. suggests dams and ponds built by beavers can slow floods, store water and even create green firebreaks in wildfire-prone landscapes.
www.cbc.ca
August 31, 2025 at 12:28 PM
'The findings add weight to a growing body of evidence that beavers may be acting as ecosystem engineers, reshaping waterways in ways that benefit not just their own survival, but that of entire landscapes.'
if we do ever create intelligent machines this bunch of silicon vallley chucklefucks will have utterly burned the term “AI” so we’ll have to come up with a new one
August 31, 2025 at 5:08 AM
if we do ever create intelligent machines this bunch of silicon vallley chucklefucks will have utterly burned the term “AI” so we’ll have to come up with a new one
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Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
August 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it