I just noticed that Forgejo 11 LTS is out now. It’s time to upgrade my older v7 LTS setup!
Released Wonk v0.8.0
I just pushed Policy Wonk v.0.8.0.
There are no code changes, just dependency updates and other cleanups. Now requires Python 3.9+, the oldest supported version. Migrated from poetry=>uv, black/flake/pylint=>ruff. Fixed minor typing deprecations.
Send help, can’t move, besieged by wildcats.
Happy Mother’s Day to anyone who’s ever been Mom!
In March, Waltz came under scrutiny after he put together a Signal chat and mistakenly included The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, disclosing discussions with top national security officials about plans for a military strike on Houthi targets in Yemen.
Part of being a security adviser is being, you know, competent at security.
Down the liminal line.
The new office’s view is quite nice.
My camera can’t capture the glowing orangey-pinks and violets of these flowering bushes on the sidewalk.
Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users:
This is utterly despicable. “Scientists” perform human research on unconsenting persons, and reported that they successfully persuaded some people to change their views by lying to them with AIs.
Did they contact all those people later to explain that they’d been lied to? Or are they still wandering around with their changed opinions, persuading their friends, and voting?
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Screenshot your LinkedIn app home screen.
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Make a web page with that background.
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Add a link at the top to display the QR code of your choice.
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Add a link to that on your home screen.
Voila. Now you can make anyone at any tech conference open the QR code of your choosing. “Hey, let’s be buddies!”