Not 16 Hours Now

Anyone who cannot be more efficient working from home is weak and pitiful. I get 2-3x as much done at home as I ever did in the office.

In fact, in most jobs I got very little accomplished at my official workplace and did most of my tasks at home (which means I was working 16 hour days effectively).

Closing

Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models | Hacker News

Eventually, the corporate closed models will just refuse to do anything that even vaguely has the possibility of being against copyright or not authorized by your employer. (The above is about Claude.)

I can tell you this is nearly 100% likely to occur. The frontier closes so quickly now.

Foundation

chasm on X: "ANTHROPIC IS CRACKING DOWN ON VIDEO GAME REWRITES ๐Ÿšจ Claude Code picked up a new rule around Oct 27, sent from Anthropicโ€™s servers under a flag called "tengu_heron_brook". Thereโ€™s no setting to turn it off. The full rule: โ€œDo build original games, games in a genre, and games https://t.co/0Zc5mQWHJt" / X

Correct, that is the future. Closed AI models will become corporate advertising and propaganda platforms. Open models will be banned. The foundations for this are already being put in place.

More Strict Struct

It was inevitable stuff like this was going to be banned. Evil, of course, but evil that was going to happen no matter what.

I expect AI models to get much, much more restrictive soon too. It’s going to get way, way worse. They will soon enough only perform corporate-approved actions. Everything else will be blocked.

100x

By the way, the tax applied to each gigabyte below (โ‚ฌ0.055) is about 100x the amount each gigabyte actually costs to transit all the networks in the middle end to end 1.

I don’t know of any other tax that is 100x the actual cost of service provision. That is a remarkable new low for a backwater EU state.

  1. Averaging out peak vs. slack times

Les conneries

Netflix, YouTube, TikTok, les dรฉputรฉs votent une taxe sur chaque gigaoctet envoyรฉ aux Franรงais.

Regarder Netflix, YouTube ou TikTok pourrait coรปter plus cher aux producteurs de donnรฉes numรฉriques. Vendredi 30 octobre, les dรฉputรฉs ont adoptรฉ un amendement prรฉvoyant une nouvelle taxe de 5,5 centimes par gigaoctet sur les donnรฉes envoyรฉes aux internautes franรงais, indique le site FrenchBreaches.

Ouah, c’est le truc le plus con que j’aie jamais entendu. La France, et l’Europe en gรฉnรฉral, ont vraiment l’air de kiffer enchaรฎner les conneries jusqu’ร  ce que tout se casse la gueule.

Alone

Exactly. IDGAF.

Just because many modern women feel they are entitled to Chris Hemsworth and will accept nothing less has nothing to do with me. Even if I were single, I’d not want anything to do with those vile shit humans. Not sour grapes. Just reality. They’d be terrible to date even if I were Chris.

Die alone with your cats, miserable and yearning for something you’ll never have. Serves you right.

Recrud

Cartoons Hate Her! (@CartoonsHateHer) / X

This fits in quite expectedly with something people assured me “wasn’t happening.” That is, as society has become more prudish and so-called “feminists” vehemently insist on being treated like children, feminism has begun to be about re-enforcing a form of patriarchy enacted voluntarily by women where they are returned to child-like status once more.

This is the natural wraparound of conservative notions of femininity and feminine behavior and the “progressive” re-infantilization of women. This recrudescence of stricter paternalism will be embraced aslant by both conservatives and “progressives” as done all in the service of protecting women.

It’s happening now.