Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

Judge Lewis Kaplan had just a few short words to share with the jury moments after they issued a $83.3 million verdict against Donald Trump in the defamation case brought by E. Jean Carroll. It was advice on how to stay safe.

“My advice to you is that you never disclose that you were on this jury,” Kaplan said.

That's the sort of thing that happens in a mob trial.

As threatened, I've started making hypermasculine* clothing designs (*with unexpected slogans).

https://webbed-briefs.teemill.com/collection/new

Please choose from the two contemporary design styles for your wifi hardware: “rounded soft box with white light” and “satanic death cult blood sacrifice altar”

"The work must continue"

#Precursor #pixelart #gamedev #indiegame

The folks DeSantis crushed on his road to nowhere (Will Bunch Newsletter)
“DeSantis’ 2024 presidential campaign will be remembered as nothing more than a punchline. But the American carnage he imposed on everyday people to make himself feel big will stain the red clay of the Florida peninsula for many years to come.”

#DeSantis #2024election #FloridaPolitics #TransgenderHealthcare

https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/ron-desantis-florida-ouray-county-plaindealer-trump-press-freedom-20240123.html

“AI researchers found that widely used safety training techniques failed to remove malicious behavior from large language models — and one technique even backfired, teaching the AI to recognize its triggers and better hide its bad behavior from the researchers.”

Poisoned AI went rogue during training and couldn't be taught to behave again in 'legitimately scary' study
https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/legitimately-scary-anthropic-ai-poisoned-rogue-evil-couldnt-be-taught-how-to-behave-again

Research pre-print:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05566

I'm not saying there's no such thing as software bloat (there is) but the reason that your computer magically always seems to use 80-90% of the ram no matter how much ram you install is that the computer understands empty ram doesn't do anything but ram being used to cache files makes your user experience much faster

this is a good thing! if your computer stopped doing this everything would suddenly feel very sluggish and stuttery!

something gives me the sneaking suspicion there's been some controversy over spelling at the #Wikipedia article on Beetlejuice

The thing about #tech #layoffs that people who haven’t been through it often don’t understand is that morale never recovers. The employees who remain will never have the same relationship with that company, bosses or peers.

Watching people you respect pack their stuff and crying on the phone with their spouses is something that never goes away. When I survived a layoff in my 20s I became a “do exactly what the ticket says” person. I stopped suggesting ideas, providing feedback, believing anything a manager told me.

If you are a company considering layoffs, especially a profitable company, you should approach it as “this department will have 100% turnover”. The second I got another job offer I left that company and six months later nobody who had been there at the time of layoffs remained.

I’ve seen that pattern play out multiple times.

I saw this online somewhere and I just had to recreate it. This is my coding happy place.

I can’t speak to other countries but the US literally elected a rapist as president (potentially twice) and is banning abortion in multiple states along with other anti-women policies.

This trend is like the ground being wet after it has rained.

Real story here is that a passenger got paranoid and caused himself and all his fellow passengers unnecessary delay. With knock on effects, no doubt.
Good work fella!
https://www.unilad.com/news/us-news/virgin-atlantic-flight-canceled-missing-bolts-wing-777642-20240123