Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

One of the things that really fucking annoys me about AI is that people *do not understand it* (on purpose, bc these companies want it that way) and they assume it’s as reliable as the computers they’ve been using their whole life when it’s actually about as reliable as your least capable intern

Would be interesting to compare the results on more recent models - but this problem won’t go away. LLMs are always going to be extrapolating from what has already, and often, been thought, which is why they aren’t windows to the future but anchors to the past.

Clicktatorship.

What’s the concentration of microplastics that I need to have to start failing the “Are you a robot” questions?

@louiestowell.bsky.social my daughter is devouring your Loki books in Spanish. Any idea when/if the translation of the 4th book will be out? Is there any way to keep track?

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

The fact a *single* Amazon full-time employee requires SNAP benefits should be a crime. The fact Amazon is the largest employer of SNAP recipients is a disgrace. Jeff Bezos shouldnt be that rich; he should be in jail.

EFF has submitted an amicus brief to Ecuador’s Constitutional Court challenging the constitutionality of the Ley Orgánica de Inteligencia and its implementing regulation, the General Regulation of the LOI. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI.

All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work.

For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

New tech is emerging all the time and while many devices are making our lives easier, there are also plenty gadgets that miss the mark. EFF’s Cindy Cohn judged the “Worst in Show” at #CES2025.

My 6 year old has started the year writing a list of “new year’s revolutions”. I love the title, but the contents are things other people in the family should do.

In an incredibly un-shocking twist, the same people who vehemently oppose gun licenses on grounds of privacy against government databases are kept in one by gun sellers, which is then sold in the open.

6yr old trying to make fun of a classmate: “he has huge balls!”
Wife: “saying someone has big balls is often a compliment not an insult”
Him: “Then, mommy, you have huge balls!”

Stories usually start with “once upon a time” but in my house they start with “I’ll tell you if you promise I won’t get in trouble”

Honored to write the Rolling Stone obituary for the worst American of the post-World War II era. Rot in piss

Millions of kids design games on Roblox.

But the company pays in Robux, and doesn't let you cash out until you hit 30,000. That should be $300, but after the company cut it's just $105.

So kids are being underpaid, while the CEO took $232 million last year.