Watch your step coming out this door at the old Eugene Steam Plant. That first step is a doozy.

Sunrise today

Anthropic warns AI models could soon copy themselves across home devices

If you or I were publicly announcing our intent to build this sort of destructive hacking tool, we’d be in jail.

The super-rich are like everyone else, except that they have no morals and no accountability.

(Though of course this also plays into Anthropic’s preferred narrative of “wow, this stuff is dangerous, better help us put up a regulatory moat to keep out competition.”)

In the wake of the Starbucks announcement I would like it to be known that I am not buying Chipotle either.

If you’re a podcast/audiobooks listener, avoid the Shokz OpenRun Pro 2. Horrible chirping (compression?) artifacts in the pauses between words. A complete disappointment after years of using Shokz products. Time to switch to a cheap knockoff brand.

Inside of a flower...there's a Groucho Marx joke lurking there somewhere.

Trump defends Russia diesel deal after bipartisan pushback: ‘I made the right choice’

So now AMERICA FIRST includes sending money to a brutal repressive regime that (among other things) aids the Iranians in targeting the American military. Got it.

Three weeks before the election Trump and his stooges decide to publicize a xenophobic immigration investigation against a sitting member of Congress.

I hate to think what bullshit he’s saving for the last week.